Avatar

It is finally here! James Cameron (director of Terminator 2 and Titanic) has been working on this "special project" for around 15 years now, waiting until the technology was just right to make his beloved film. He spent that time creating what his world would look like, making the language that would be used, and making his own "original" story from scratch. Well this is what he claims anyway. The story has actually been done a ton of times before. It goes with the plots of "Dances with Wolves" and "Pocahontas". One more movie that I realized today that this film is basically an incarnation Disney's animated movie "Atlantis" just with a different setting.

Avatar is about Jake, a man in a wheelchair, who gets the chance to be in a Avatar program on Pandora which is moon of an unknown planet. The setting is in the year 2154 and the humans are determined to gain the land of the natives(called Na'vi),which contains valuable minerals. The Avatar program allows Jake to be in the body of one of the 9-feet tall Na'vi and negotiate with the natives. From there, the story of Disney's Atlantis pretty much fills the rest of the story.

The graphics did look pretty good but they still looked unbelievable. When you are not focused on the movie you can really see how ridiculous a giant rhino-type creature looks with an unnecessary 6 legs. You can decide for yourselves whether the land of Pandora looks real or not. You may be asking "What format should I see this movie in?". My response would be to spend a little extra and see this in IMAX if anyone should choose to see it in theaters. James Cameron himself helped contribute to making the 3D technology and specifically for IMAX viewers. Cameron and his team helped out one another in making the film look good, but they did not do a very good job on working on the story.

As with any action movie, there is minor cussing throughout and also suggestive stuff. What I mean by stuff is the fact that the na'vi may be computer generated but still have clothing styles of Indian tribes (or Native Americans). Their necklaces barely cover their chest and their loincloths cover the bottom.

In my own opinion, see this movie if you are the type of person who wants to see movies like "2012" or you just want to see a movie for a fun purpose with no intention of a good plot, then go ahead and welcome yourself to Pandora, the home of the 9-foot tall naked blue alien monkeys who live on floating islands. As for me Avatar gets 3 stars, mostly due to the effects and cast selection of Sam Worthington (Terminator Salvation) as Jake.