Ferngully meets Dances with Wolves

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2009)

If you have seen Ferngully and DWW, then you have the plot, except the characters in Avatar are even more one dimensional. Hackneyed stereotypes abound and Jean Claude Van Damme would be proud of the final death-match. However, the CGI gives it a 7/10. The Gaia of this new world is the wet dream of a tree-hugger on acid and the world's response to the evil corporate "white" intruders reminds me of the Raquel Welch/Steven Boyd movie "Fantastic Voyage". As a thoughtful science fiction movie, it is sorely deficient in logic. Spacefaring races that must kick out pallets of cobbled together explosives for the final scene...Hah.....they can cross the galaxy, but they have no smart weapons that we even have today, or orbital kinetic kill weapons....right. Unfortunately the politics of the movie were worn on its coat sleeve and that detracts as well. Hopefully, Cameron will license the technology to someone with a more original plot, with snappy dialog, or a political bent that won't be discerned by a 3 year old.