Terrible disappointment of a film

Rating: 1/10 (31 December 2009)

There was no character balance in the entire movie. I was either blasted with quasi-save-the-rainforest sermons that will serve only to inspire those who are already green and environmentally conscience, or you were blasted with horrible stereo-typical characters that embody the ignorant evil of humanity. Because of this horrible imbalance, any characters I kind of liked at the beginning convinced me to hate them at the end. If you want a good movie with a good message about the environment and man's destruction, watch a Miyazaki film like Princess Mononoke or Ponyo, you're face will not be red from the preachy backhand of the message if you watch those films. I also thought that the 3D was supposed to be extremely good, if not groundbreaking, and it was mediocre at best, but maybe that was my local theater. The graphics were good, but to be honest, they were not as spectacular as people say. There were some beautiful environments, but that was art direction, not so much envelope-pushing graphical mastery. Also, the characters crossed the CGI valley horribly throughout the entire film. The Lord of the Rings was amazing and avoided this problem, and yet Avatar is supposed to have groundbreaking graphics. The best and most under-used part of the movie was the mechs, but I can't give the star a good rating because there was about ten minutes of awesome mech action.