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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] for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.

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... 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 between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. More than ten years in the making, Avatar marks Cameron's return to feature directing since helming 1997's Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time and winner of eleven Oscars® including Best Picture. WETA Digital, renowned for its work in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and King Kong, will incorporate new intuitive CGI technologies to transform the environments and characters into photorealistic 3D imagery that will transport the audience into the alien world rich with imaginative vistas, creatures and characters. --© 20th Century Fox [More]

Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver

Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez

Director: James Cameron

Director: James Cameron
Screenwriter: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Jon Landau
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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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.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment 2 Comments
12/14/09
Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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It's a magnificent technical achievement, a movie of such vast scale and ambition that you have to watch it on the big screen.

Full Review Source: SFX Magazine | comment 2 Comments
12/14/09
Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards
SFX Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: Hollywood & Fine | comment Comment
12/14/09
Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine
Hollywood & Fine

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.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
12/14/09
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

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.

Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | comment 6 Comments
12/13/09
Erin Free
Erin Free
FILMINK (Australia)

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.

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
12/13/09
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile

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

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12/13/09
Andrew L. Urban
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile

An astonishing, breathtaking masterpiece. Cameron did it! It will easily surpass Titanic's box office. I think Cameron created a few new colors.

Full Review Source: FilmsInReview.com | comment 53 Comments
12/12/09
Victoria Alexander
Victoria Alexander
FilmsInReview.com

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

Full Review Source: HitFix | comment 7 Comments
12/12/09
Drew McWeeny
Drew McWeeny
HitFix

If I wanted to hear endless nonsense spewed from something good-looking, I'd watch The Tyra Banks Show.

Full Review Source: Metromix.com | comment 13 Comments
12/12/09
Matt Pais
Matt Pais
Metromix.com

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.

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment 1 Comment
12/12/09
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

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.

Full Review Source: SSG Syndicate | comment 10 Comments
12/12/09
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate

James Cameron's long-awaited sci-fi epic is every bit as wondrous and imaginative as promised. Prepare to be amazed.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment 2 Comments
12/12/09
Thomas Leupp
Thomas Leupp
Hollywood.com

Avatar is part National Geographic TV special, part Guns 'n' Ammo bumper edition . . .

Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page | comment 2 Comments
12/11/09
James O'Ehley
James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page

An amazing visual achievement, slightly hampered by routine narrative and cardboard characterizatons--Tim Grierson.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment 12 Comments
12/11/09
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

"Avatar" may well be a perfect film to desensitize young audiences before they get the call-up.

Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com | comment 22 Comments
12/11/09
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

Avatar is as old-fashioned and romantic as Titanic, and thrillingly, just as wonderful to watch.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment 1 Comment
12/11/09
Katey Rich
Katey Rich
CinemaBlend.com

There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment 43 Comments
12/11/09
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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As visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment 6 Comments
12/11/09
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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Wow. James Cameron pulled it off.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
12/11/09
Jim Vejvoda
Jim Vejvoda
IGN Movies
 
 
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