Truly Lives Up To The Term "Classic"

Rating: 10/10 (21 December 2009)

Just as Star Wars, Terminator, Lord of Rings, and countless other Sci-Fi/Fantasy "classics" have done, Avatar takes a story which is indeed rather unoriginal and unimaginative and tells it in a way so convincingly *real* that it sweeps you away for the better part of 3 hours into a world where you set aside skepticism to do nothing more than truly *experience* the story Jim Cameron is trying to tell. Critics have called this "Dances With Wolves In Space", and it is indeed very similar plot wise, just as it shares similarities with Pocohontas, and, more recently, The Last Samurai, but just as Star Wars tells the same old tale of Good Vs. Evil, with the same archetypes and characters as an Arthurian legend in a way that truly captures the imagination, so too does Avatar take the idea of modern man moving in a much simpler past and tell it in a way that has never before been seen.
Go. See. This. Film.
If for no other reason than in 30 years, you will be able to tell your kids you saw it in the theater, just as your parents told you they saw "Gone With the Wind", "Citizen Kane", or "Star Wars" in the theater.