The biggest problem this film has is it's narrative, which is surpassingly thin, even for a Hollywood film, and stratched out longer than it should have. Indeed, the films lengths are one of the worst things about it. As the story is so cliche and utterly familiar to anyone who has seen Fern Gully or Pocahontas we all know how it is going to end and there is not a single scene which the viewer could not see coming from a mile away. As far as the central themes of Environmentalism and Peace go, they are superficial and targetted at morons, it woul appear. The Na'Vi are peaceful... yet the go to war against the humans. The Na'Vi rever and respect the environment... but only because it turns out they have a legitimate scientific reason behind doing so, which benefits them. The lack of explaination on the films main elements (The whole reason the humans are on Pandora is handwaved away in a sentence), character development (When did Sigourney Weaver become a likable character? She was a total bitch. When thousands of Na'Vi die Jake feels sorry for himself but when she who insulted his diability and dead brother outright and often dies, he feels empowered to save Pandora? What?) and overall lack of sophisticated themes which could have been developed into a much more satisfying story based around the actual premise, ruin the film.
The film also looks awful. One can only wonder where the budget went when the film goes from real-looking humans, to clearly computer generated aliens (By the way, the aliens look just like people. But blue.)
Horrible.
I disliked Avatar for many reasons.
The biggest problem this film has is it's narrative, which is surpassingly thin, even for a Hollywood film, and stratched out longer than it should have. Indeed, the films lengths are one of the worst things about it. As the story is so cliche and utterly familiar to anyone who has seen Fern Gully or Pocahontas we all know how it is going to end and there is not a single scene which the viewer could not see coming from a mile away. As far as the central themes of Environmentalism and Peace go, they are superficial and targetted at morons, it woul appear. The Na'Vi are peaceful... yet the go to war against the humans. The Na'Vi rever and respect the environment... but only because it turns out they have a legitimate scientific reason behind doing so, which benefits them. The lack of explaination on the films main elements (The whole reason the humans are on Pandora is handwaved away in a sentence), character development (When did Sigourney Weaver become a likable character? She was a total bitch. When thousands of Na'Vi die Jake feels sorry for himself but when she who insulted his diability and dead brother outright and often dies, he feels empowered to save Pandora? What?) and overall lack of sophisticated themes which could have been developed into a much more satisfying story based around the actual premise, ruin the film.
The film also looks awful. One can only wonder where the budget went when the film goes from real-looking humans, to clearly computer generated aliens (By the way, the aliens look just like people. But blue.)