Except for the endless sermonizing and lame plot, Avatar is awesome

While my son Knight was a little uncomfortable with all the inter-species porn in Avatar, we both gave it two thumbs up. We saw it in 3-D and can’t imagine why someone would watch it in 2-D when that third D is available down the hall.

The plot could have used some throttling back, but who’s going to tell that to Jim Cameron?

I mean, who’s going to say to Jim Cameron: eco-trendy, new-age religion and anti neo-con babble: pick two. What was the deal with those plots? Somewhere in there, I started feeling a little squeamish cheering for the indians instead of the cowboys.

Sidenote: Casting Sigorney Weaver in the role she played in about three or four movies  thirty years ago was a little curious, but seemed to work out fine as most of the film she’s a giant blue Pandorian. But like I said, who’s going to suggest to Jim Cameron that he’s not 100% perfect.

But here’s the deal. I could have turned the voice track off on this movie and just watched the production and it would have been one of the greatest movies I’ve ever seen. It cost a fortune to make, but you can actually see the fortune. It’s amazing to watch the animation. And in the new 3-D method used, it’s a new experience: one of those gee whiz moments like when Star Wars first came out, making everything preceding it feel a little dated.

That part was great.

The plot and characters and story and clichéd sermonizing were not.

But I’m not going to tell that to Jim Cameron.