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Avatar |  | Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana
Studio: Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 315
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Running Time: 162 Minutes
UPC: 024543656074
EAN: 0024543656074
ASIN: B00340UDGE
Release Date: April 22, 2010
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After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable about greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na'vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he's supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who'd like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na'vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron's complicated motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na'vi). The movie uses state-of-the-art 3D technology to plunge the viewer deep into Cameron's crazy toy box of planetary ecosystems and high-tech machinery. Maybe it's the fact that Cameron seems torn between his two loves--awesome destructive gizmos and flower-power message mongering--that makes Avatar's pursuit of its point ultimately uncertain. That, and the fact that Cameron's dialogue continues to clunk badly. If you're won over by the movie's trippy new world, the characters will be forgivable as broad, useful archetypes rather than standard-issue stereotypes, and you might be able to overlook the unsurprising central plot. (The overextended "take that, Michael Bay" final battle sequences could tax even Cameron enthusiasts, however.) It doesn't measure up to the hype (what could?) yet Avatar frequently hits a giddy delirium all its own. The film itself is our Pandora, a sensation-saturated universe only the movies could create. --Robert Horton
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 Best movie ever August 15, 2010
Sandra
A must see. Visually stunning especially on a big screen. Never seen anything like it before. Have heard some criticism over story line but ignore that and see it anyway because your eyes will have a treat. a must have for any movie collector or casual movie lover.
 ho hum July 30, 2010
pammysinn (bc, canada)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If given the opportunity to watch this in 3-d I am sure it was fabulous. The animation was really good even on a regular screen. However, that does not make a good story. Animation is just that without a good story to make it really worth watching.
 A visual treat best viewed in the theatres July 23, 2010
K. Galloway (Ontario, Canada)
This movie has so much to see that it's really best seen in the theatres. It's still really fun to watch on TV but with so much going on visually the bigger the screen the better. I love the Pocahontas comparisons that sprang up all over the internet in an effort to belittle this movie, and although I've never seen Pocahontas, it really just made me want to see it more.
Am I blue? July 21, 2010
bernie (Arlington, Texas)
After you dismiss all the superficial reviews for the movie as "I bought this for my granddaughter", "It came in a package that was only slightly chewed", "Blu-ray is the greatest, just look at all those pixels," "The producers hate America", "See the corporations are just money grubbers." and so forth, You can get down to why you buy movies and specifically this one as plot and presentation.
Basic story is that we found a new planet with a valuable mineral. We want that mineral at any cost. Therefore, we attempt communication and barter, if that does not work for some reason then it is coercion and displacement. One misplaced person is stuck in the middle of the decision and is torn between two ways of life and loyalty. Will his actions actually affect either way of life or is he just a pawn?
Now I know I have seen this whole movie before in animation but cannot seem to locate it. I was surprised and more so. Because it is one thing to follow a formula but another to downright copy another movie. There was no body substitution in the animated film. Yet that was the only real addition.
O.K. for the techocentric I only saw the Blu-ray 2D version. I think it was the 46" screen that made the impressive presentation. It almost looked 3D. In addition, the sound was all you would expect it to be.
For people that come to think of the DVD extras or Bonus as a relevant part of the package. Moreover, many times it is. You will be disappointed with the version I watched, as there was only a screen/bookmark section.
It's okay if you like war related movies July 20, 2010
Duchess (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I watched it with my husband and we both decided that the story was well put together (by that I mean the animation). Myself though, didn't like it as much as I'd have liked to, because it seems to me that most shows/movies these days on TV are based on war and war themes. This to me is just another scare tactic that this is always the way to solving all our problems and we/I don't particularly like that. It is not something I would watch too often, but if you like war related movies, you'd enjoy it.
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