Outstanding Effects and Nothing More - A Modern Day Fern Gully

Rating: 3/10 (2 January 2010)

I was as excited about this movie as anybody else. Love James Cameron, love big blockbusters... Sadly, I was very, very disappointed. Granted, the visual effects are outstanding and brilliant. That's it. The storyline was completely predictable and unoriginal. I was bored out of my brain the whole time, and not even the outstanding effects could entice me into the lame plot of this film. Anyone who has ever seen the movie Fern Gully will see that this movie was one of identical storyline, just with added special effects and a (lame) touch of sci-fi. Sam Worthington was so bad with his accent and bad voice overs I was cringing in my seat. As a Cameron fan, I was extremely disappointed with this film. It relied only on effects and the importance of some creativity and originality in terms of storyline was forgotten. Sad, very sad. Then again, the whole vampire-meets-girl-oh-this-is-so-wrong-but-so-right saga is getting old... Insert: blue-person-meets-human-oh-this-is-so-wrong-but-so-right storyline... wow, it's a whole new genre... Not.