Not original but entertaining.

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2010)

The main point of this film was really just to be visually beautiful I think and it succeeds in doing this. I do not understand where people are coming from when they say that the CGI was bad. I have seen the film twice now (once with my friends, once with my family) and none of the people I have seen it with noticed anything glitchy or rushed with the CGI. The 3D works well. It was nice to watch a film in 3D that wasn't so in your face about it with things popping out of the screen every 5 seconds. Admittedly there are only a few times when you really noticed it e.g. when a character was falling down a gorge or something similar. Definitely lived up to its visual hype in my opinion.
The story is not original, we all know that, from watching the trailer you should have gathered that. One thing that I will say about the story though is that it is done well. If you went into this film expecting an original story (which you really shouldn't have done if you watched the trailer) then you were destined to be disappointed. But I put it to anyone who didn't like this film because of it's unoriginality that a film does not need to be original to be good and just because the story is unoriginal it doesn't mean it is bad.
Personally I thought the acting was great. I think that it is incredibly difficult to voice act well and I think that the actors in this film gave it a pretty darn good go considering the difficulty of not actually acting the scene. Zoe Saldana did an especially good job at putting a lot of emotion into her character in my opinion.
Plot holes, yes, there are some I admit it but seriously people saying that this film is bad because of floating mountains! C'mon people its science fiction stop puzzling over how the mountains shouldn't fly and just be entertained by the spectacle. As for people saying that the film is bad for giving a supposed commentary on the war in Iraq I think that you are reading way to into this film. Maybe James Cameron wanted to put some kind of message in the film but it is really quite easy to put to one side and in the meantime just enjoy an unoriginal story about humans and blue aliens.
In conclusion I would have to say that I enjoyed the film. It is not destined to be a film great such as other of James Cameron's films but still enjoyable. Bit long and the dialogue is a bit like 6 year olds talking but I found that I still left the cinema satisfied. I leave you with a parting thought, when you try to find plot holes in a film, you dwell on them, you think about them more and more and you eventually end up disliking a perfectly good, solid film.