It's an impossible but completely plausible and seductive world that invites your total immersion. Don't resist it; sink in and fly with it. All Cameron asks is that you open your eyes.
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12/14/09
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Avatar (2009)
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Reviews Counted:45
Fresh:41
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.8/10
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
Reviews for Avatar
Top CriticIt's a magnificent technical achievement, a movie of such vast scale and ambition that you have to watch it on the big screen.
12/14/09
There are visionary filmmakers - and then there's James Cameron, who pushes the envelope of what is possible on the screen every time he makes a film. He doesn't do it nearly often enough.
12/14/09
There is much in Avatar that is broadly drawn, clichéd even - but it is also these very things which might just earn it the status of a classic.
12/14/09
Though certainly not the pioneering experience it's been touted as, Avatar is an exciting, visually arresting, and occasionally powerful slab of Hollywood filmmaking driven by one of the industry's most committed, passionate, stand-alone creative forces.
12/13/09
Love and acceptance are at the heart of this megabuck megapic; while our hearts are opened by the Emotion Key, our eyes are dazzled by the visual spectacle, enhanced by remarkable 3D. An event of a film, a spectacle that allows us to live the fantasy.
12/13/09
Avatar is a richly symbolic, captivating and immense film which laces together some of the great mythical stories of mankind into a contempo action adventure fusing its sci fi genes with spiritual and ecological themes. And it pivots on romance
12/13/09
An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanic's box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors.
12/12/09
This is spectacle with soul, a film as unafraid to reference My Lei or the Trail of Tears as it is Edgar Rice Burroughs or Hayao Miyazaki
12/12/09
If I wanted to hear endless nonsense spewed from something good-looking, I'd watch The Tyra Banks Show.
12/12/09
A technical groundbreaker, if not a cinematic one, James Cameron's long-awaited return delivers on its promise to be a fully immersive, rousing spectacle.
12/12/09
Not since Dorothy's Kansas farmhouse landed in Oz - 70 years ago - and the screen transformed from black-and-white to color - has there been such a magical, revelatory moment as the emergence of the planet Pandora in IMAX 3-D.
12/12/09
James Cameron's long-awaited sci-fi epic is every bit as wondrous and imaginative as promised. Prepare to be amazed.
12/12/09
Avatar is part National Geographic TV special, part Guns 'n' Ammo bumper edition . . .
12/11/09
An amazing visual achievement, slightly hampered by routine narrative and cardboard characterizatons--Tim Grierson.
12/11/09
"Avatar" may well be a perfect film to desensitize young audiences before they get the call-up.
12/11/09
Avatar is as old-fashioned and romantic as Titanic, and thrillingly, just as wonderful to watch.
12/11/09
There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely.
12/11/09
Top CriticAs visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it.
12/11/09
Top CriticWow. James Cameron pulled it off.
12/11/09
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