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It's a story we've seen a thousand times before and, unless you are watching it in a true 3D theatre, the effects just don't live on past that experience. It's worth a watch, but I don't feel the need to ever see it again.

The movie completely misses its opportunity at making any statement on the importance of beauty and nature because it used CGI to portray magic in the plants and animals which is the very anti-thesis of the natural kingdom. This plot isn't just over-used and simplistic but in the sci-fi context established where the "hero" is nearly powerless, literally put in a wheelchair (goodbye subtlety), and relies on expensive technology to use a sort of biological robot to impersonate a Navi. Through this technology, they can track and record anything and everything he is saying and doing but somehow no one pulls the plug when he gives his employers attitude and does the exact opposite he was hired to do. The actors were clearly told to overact and ham it up. The old army "general" has freakin' scars over one of his eyes and "hates tree hugers"... Saturday morning cartoon much? Everything "Sci-Fi" in this movie falls completely apart if you even begin to give them a thought. Infinite water coming from flying mountains? The humans have the power to control technology from infinite distances with zero lag... and they man their war robots for no reason? Unobtainium? Really?

The overly preachy and thinly veiled assault on all materials required to make society has a key flaw that made me hate it. It's a cartoon with some people in it. I was expecting something real but no, it's a CARTOON.