Avatar (12A)

Ok the story line was a bit predictable but the amazing scenary and action scenes were the best i've ever seen. imagine jurassic park meets the matrix - two great films but created with 2009's CGI!

Honestly. You movie buffs are a dull, tragic bunch. If you can't enjoy this movie for what it is - exciting escapism for a few hours then don't bother going to watch movies like this. Some films are meant for the big screens at the multiplex others for the smaller screens and smaller audiences. I'm capable of deciding which type of movie I fancy each visit to the cinema. Having regularly wasted 30 pounds and up on worth and bum numbing theatre productions and sat through many a torturous Kubrick and Bergman movies (at least half of them) a tenner spent on this hugely entertaining popcorn fodder was money well spent. Predictable and cliched - yes. Does that detract from the experience - no. Please people get over yourself. Applaud the man for having the guts to push the technological boundaries and creating a cinema event that can enjoyed by entire families for less than 50 quid the lot. You never know the kids might get a taste for it and start exploring the world of film and find themselves a couple of the watchable Kubrik / Bergman movies that will change their life.

I think this (and many comments) are a bit harsh. I never expected to go along to this and find cinema as a whole reinvented. I went along to see it progressed, and thats what I got. Yes, the story is run of the mill (but works), yes the 'spirit' part of the film was a bit wishy washy, but I don't go to see such a film for it's own version of the Ten Commandments (If i recall when 'The Force' was explained in more detail in Phantom Menace, it suddenly became amusing hockum). No this film is there to enterain for a couple of hours, and yes they probably could have shaved 15 or so minutes from it......I admit that much. I haven't seen the best film in my life, but I did see one of the most accomplished.

I've not read all the previous posts so please make allowance if comments do not seem original. I go to the cinema to be entertained and, on occasion, educated (or possibly mis-informed). I took my elder children, we really enjoyed it. Having just seen "Dances With Wolves" on TV the day before I may have been ready for a marine going native. I personally am not prepared to pan a movie purely on cost. I look at the cost to view it. I do not care if the imagery of the flying islands is unoriginal and I did not expect a taught every facial twitch psychological drama. It seems to me that a swathe of reviewers should have sufficienrt of the intelligence they use to berate the film to admit that they should have known it was not their type of film. We enjoyed the flight sequences, the flourescent flora and fauna. The skin effects sometimes veered towards a Beowulf standard but all in all 5 starts. If our locality suddenly installed a truly up to date projection system I'd pay again. As things are we will willingly watch it again when it comes round on disk or TV.

500 milion for THIS??? Are we that plain???

Flying rocks? He lost me right there. Some may say that the floating rocks are an imaginative idea, but that idea has already been thought up half a century ago by the great Belgian painter René Magritte in his very famous "Le Château des Pyrénées." Insulting for the year 2009.

There are chase scenes galore in this film, and the kiddies will be frightened, alright. Given all the "Star Wars" paraphernalia on show in "Avatar" a more appropriate title would have been "Tree Wars." But then "Star Wars" had a marvelous sense of humor, which is totally lacking in "Avatar."

Easily Cameron's worst movie!

Spoiler in 3rd paragraph. Wow..just wow. I didn't imagine James Cameron had fallen to such depths when it comes to sci-fi excellence. Let me state, for those of us who use more than our eyes when we see a movie, that Avatar is a hyped up conglomerate of things you've seen before, stupid one-liners, thin story, extreme predictability and borders on alien bestiality. The result is the most embarrassing movie I've seen all year. Take my advice, go watch the rainbow or some pretty pictures of flowers on the internet instead of seeing this movie, it's better use of your time. I left when the general smashed his way out of the falling, burning wreckage of his plane, in that machinesuit, just after he fought our blue hero on the wing. Absolulte rubbish.

I have to give it one star because of the cost. You don't spend that much money in 2009 on something that was written on a level teletubbies. The effects are useless if you are looking for something more. Also, Na'vi's anatomy is horrid! Also, the 6 legged creatures are a stupidity beyond comparison?????? Overall design of the creatures seems like generic 3D Max models from a stock collection.