“ Avatar is an overwhelming, immersive spectacle. The state-of-the-art 3D technology draws us in, but it is the vivid weirdness of Cameron’s luridly imagined tropical otherworld that keeps us fascinated.
“ Cameron is reaching for an epic with this movie: it has the sweep, if not the story. That may be enough to make him, if not King of the World once again, at least the master of this holiday season.
“ That lack of originality is not fatal, but the clunky dialogue very nearly is
“ this 3D, Sci-fi, action adventure in which a human joins forces with an alien race to prevent destruction of their planet by an invading earth force is a pleasure to the eye but jarring to the ear, its hackneyed plot and ridiculous dialogue transform what ought to be awe-inspiring and moving into something often unintentionally funny. But the pictorial pleasures outweigh the ridiculous.
“ If James Cameron’s storytelling abilities matched his soaring visual imagination he might have delivered the world a grand masterpiece in the long awaited Avatar.
