A feast for the eyes with very little substance

Rating: 8/10 (30 January 2010)

It is hard to enjoy a movie about the fight against greedy oppressors when the entire plot is based on cheap exploitation of the viewer's feelings. I agree it was a great experience, as the CGI were amazing, but the story made no more sense than a children's tale. Evil and stupid villains, pure hearted heroes that are equally mindless, peaceful nature loving folk (that always walk around armed to the teeth) that are to be saved by the hero, otherwise completely lost, etc.
I swear to you, one could make a film with the same script in some highschool, where the hero comes in a BMW and saves the day and gets the girl (only here it's a flying carnivore).
I also watched in 3D, but I was unimpressed. Basically, there are parts of the scene that are focused differently, getting that weird effect you see at "3D" cardboard pictures that you raise in children books. I can only assume that it was a movie like any other movie and then they worked on it to make it 3Dish.
Bottom line: as the script and the 3D experience both forced me to think of children's tales in children books, I can't say that I was really satisfied. After all, I am not a child anymore. But if you expect this to be true (and I was when I went to see the movie) you can enjoy it just like any other easy weekend movie and get immersed into the atmosphere of things.
As a side note (bottom lines and side notes... I am making a 3D review here!) I don't agree that Cameron does silly movies and I should have expected this. Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator all had some complex scripts behind them, even when we were drowning in special effects. Using such a plain plot for the movie is, in my personal view, inexcusable.
And as a funny note: this is a movie that you need glasses to see, about a guy that needs a computerized link to walk in order to connect through some weird external neural links in order to fly.