An entertaining movie, especially on the giant IMAX
screen and a theater filled with kids impressed with 3D.  and trying to touch everything. A couple of times I confused people walking in the isle as being in the movie. I had not seen a 3D movie in years and was surprised how much better the viewing was this time around.

Sigourney Weaver and Sam Worthington

Sigourney Weaver and Sam Worthington

I wanted the script to go someplace, away from the typical story line, “Dances with Wolves” or “Tarzan” which continues a myth that I find disappointing. So technically I found the movie excellent in telling the same tired story, it takes a westerner to save another culture from extinction that’s caused by western culture. A review in i09 brings up the issues of race, genocide and aligns Avatar with District 9, whose story although the same as Avatar I liked it better.

See it (almost everyone will) and there is no new insight in the story line, white man with a white hat saves the world again. Alien in 3D, now that would have been something.

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