That one sentence basically sums up Avatar, the movie that everybody has been talking about lately and that I finally went to go see. There was a plot, but it is unimportant, because the real meat of the thing is that the hero gets to become a cat thing and, I guess, mate with his chosen female cat thing and live happily ever after (maybe they had cat thing babies?). Let's face it, people: this is not a movie made for plot, but for the visual art involved. Lush CGI landscapes rushing at the viewer in 3-D are pretty damn stunning, and the use of color in this film is really beautiful.
Still, the predictability and simplicity of the dialogue is definitely a low point (although entirely expected). Example:
Good Guy: This is all over!
Bad Guy: This isn't over while I'm still alive!
GG: I hoped you'd say that!
Fight scene ensues.
These kind of cliché conversations were used throughout the film's (nearly) three hours, but at least their lack of complexity made understanding the German easy for me.
A couple of other minor issues I had:
1. The time. Two hours and forty minutes? The whole thing could have been done in an hour thirty. The theater kindly provided an intermission.
2. There was definitely a lot of borrowing from other movies. People who fight with bows and arrows and live together in a giant, magical tree, for example. Hmmmm...where have I seen that before? Oh, yeah.
Despite my quatsching, I actually did enjoy this movie quite a bit. James Cameron always keeps it fun--he just really, really likes to draw out his action scenes (the ends of Terminator I and Titanic, for example), which can make a person like myself a little impatient. For the beautiful animation and the 3-D experience, however, I feel I got my money's worth.*
*Ok, so maybe 10.50 Euro was a little steep.
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