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Reviews Counted:195
Fresh:160
Rotten:35
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron's singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Dec 18, 2009 Wide
Synopsis: Avatar is the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn... [More]
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver
Director: James Cameron
Strike up the band. Light up the fireworks. Bake the cannoli. Yes, everything you heard about Avatar is true. James Cameron's epic fantasy trip is as wondrous and engrossing as his Titanic was over-praised and ultimately silly.
James Cameron, in his first feature film since "Titanic" in 1997, has the right to reclaim the title of King of the (Cinematic) World with this monumental epic.
And for the epic battle at the end, well let me just say it's as believable as the Ewoks beating the Empire at the end of Return of the Jedi.
This movie takes itself way too seriously; there are no cute or funny moments, no rah, rah, nothing. I didn't love this movie or hate it. It''s one big blurry pile of meh.
It stops being a story at all and is instead just a sheer, unmitigated visual and auditory experience, two hours and forty minutes of being exposed to a brand new world.
When James Cameron boasts about his latest macro-budgeted movie pushes the limits of cinema, he sounds like a politician bragging about a pork barrel project. Unlike elected officials, Cameron actually delivers.
The film gets the closest any has to fulfilling the 3-D format's fundamental mission of creating a new, immersive way of looking at movies.
A brilliant, visual extravaganza that's simultaneously thrilling, provocative and surprisingly moving. It's destined to become a sci-fi classic.
if it runs out of imagination and even some credibility when it comes to the plot, well, there is still enough on the screen to qualify as entertaining eye candy.
Pay attention to what James Cameron has done with his truly spectacular looking Avatar. This, my friends, is the right way to create a 3D film experience.
Oh, how far the mighty have fallen.
Pandora is so immersive, its native cultures so well realized that any fantasy novelists watching will surely weep from the world-building gauntlet thrown down. Top this!
The best picture of 2009, one of the best films of the decade and, really, one of the best movies I've ever seen.
a bold and imaginative vision brought low by a script that plays it very, very safe
Don't just see it. See it in 3D. See it in IMAX 3D. This presentation is easily one of the most spectacular things you will see on the big screen.
My expectations were more than satisfied by Avatar, a spectacular flight of fancy that has a strong enough story to keep up with and be enhanced by the OMG technology.
It's a remote-control movie experience, a high-tech "wish you were here" scribbled on a very expensive postcard.
Top CriticThis masterpiece is definitely one experience worth braving text a lot guy, talking teen girls and parents who can't be bothered to get a babysitter to see in the theater.
James Cameron's "Avatar" is the most amazing ... no, wait: the most staggeringly amazing, jaw-droppingly triple-awesome unbelievable movie ever made.
Hardwired for hyperbole, as sensational as it is ridiculous, Avatar is, simply, a feat of fearless imagination and audacity.
December 17, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Avatar Is Certified Fresh
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