Let yourself be ENTERTAINED

Rating: 8/10 (7 February 2010)

"Avatar" is one of the best entertaining movies ever. For sure, it is a showroom of the CGI effects and of the state-of-the-art filming techniques that finally allow to obtain realistic scenarios and characters for science fiction. I don't underestimate how precious this is, because the level of involvement of the spectator is directly proportional to the level of realism, in the case of science fiction. If you think you disagree with this, try TODAY to watch again episodes of '60s and '70 TV series... Though the plots were innovative and are still interesting, and even if we will love those characters forever (yes, I'm a Trekkie...), you can't deny that make-up, costumes, fake landscapes etc. are so terrible that you will not feel comfortable as you used to be...
Hidden in the ocean of praising reviews about "Avatar", I've seen a bunch of really disappointed ones. Because of the trivial plots and the cheesy dialogs. OK, I have to agree. There is nothing new on this side, and a lot of references to other movies/stories are easy to identify. But what if all of this was intentional? I mean: what's necessarily wrong in a plain, trivial plot, with stereotyped characters? Isn't it the usual way to convey basic concepts, as it happened in old-fashioned cartoons? Maybe James Cameron wanted to send a message to youngsters, using a language - the CGI, the 3D - they can appreciate. And the message is one we should not make irony on: we are in desperate need to learn some respect for our environment, and for every "alien" - literally for everyone who is "other" from us.
There would be so much I'd like to comment about, being a computer graphics lover. But I'll just stop here, with a very simple recommendation: don't go to see "Avatar" with intellectual expectations. There will be other movies to fulfill your need for complex plots, histrionic acting, witty lines. Just sit down and let yourself be transported to another world. Let yourself be entertained, which is something you should not feel bad about, once in a while.