AVATAR: A LaMothe Movie Review

If you haven't heard about it or seen it already then you must be in deep hibernation because AVATAR has been the talk of the town for the past few weeks and I suspect that it will be in the cinematic history books as well. PG 13 and 160 minutes long, watching this movie in 3D made me and the 6 others I was with spellbound as James Cameron brings you into a world like no other...his world. Some people have expressed their disdain for the military factor in this movie but I didn't let my mind swim in that political pool...I just enjoyed the new technology that allows a fantasy like AVARAR come to life. My brother, Daniel, who happens to be serving our country in the military, said that AVATAR made Star Wars look like a puppet show...I tend to agree with him!


Synopsis

A paraplegic ex-marine war veteran is sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet's indigenous Na'vi race in this ambitious digital 3-D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron. The film, which marks Cameron's first dramatic feature since 1997's Titanic, will be shot on the proprietary FUSION digital 3-D cameras developed by Cameron in collaboration with Vince Pace, and will offer a groundbreaking mix of live-action dramatic performances and computer-generated effects. Australian actor Sam Worthington stars as the reluctant human settler, Jake Sully, with actress Zoe Saldana signing on to portray the local woman who enters into a romantic affair with the hero. The revolutionary motion-capture system created for the film allows the facial expressions of actors to be captured as a virtual camera system enables them to see what their computer-generated counterparts will be seeing in the film, and Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning Weta Digital visual-effects house has been hired to supervise Avatar's complex visual effects. Joel Moore, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Michelle Rodriguez round out the cast. - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide