In the 12 years since his mega-epic turned into a ’Titanic’ even at the box-office collections, James Cameron has been busy transforming his childhood fantasy into an epitome of Hollywood’s celebrated creativity standard. Drawing inspiration from several sources including George Lucas, Wachowski Brothers and Peter Jackson, Cameron created an all new world of unprecedented sights and sounds in Pandora where the Na’vi live in spiritual harmony with all of Eywa’s beings. Humans, as always, have a selfish plan that would require displacement of the native race for extraction of a precious resource ’unobtainium’. Pandora’s lethal atmosphere and the need for a humane approach prompt the invading Humans to back Dr. Augustine (Sigourney Weaver)’s scientific technique of infiltrating Pandora with Avatars created by mixed DNA of Humans and the Na’vi. Thus, a paraplegic ex-marine, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is chosen for this experiment and while he lays in the sealed chamber, his mentally connected Avatar lands on the stunning surface of Pandora .
Jake’s mission is to provide military information about Pandora to his commander while he engages with the natives to gradually become a part of them and eventually convince them to relocate. This engagement reveals to him the the sheer enchanting beauty that lies within the homeland of the Na’vi. The bioluminescent forest grounds, the eccentric creatures that ram through the woods, hounds, little apes and the Banshees that soar over the majestic floating mountains of Pandora are all exotic creatures that are vividly depicted by the trusted WETA studios. Jake befriends Neytiri, a princess of her land who, with her big golden eyes, big pointy ears and defensive snarls in moments of aggression introduces him into her world. The following tender love story between them is only disrupted by the urgency of Jake’s real mission with an unreal deadline. Human greed gets the better of Jake’s selfless attempts in salvaging the lair of the tribe and so, War is declared.....
James Cameron leaves no stone unturned on Pandora .
His exhaustive attention to detail is simply overwhelming to the eyes that are hopefully wearing the 3-D glasses! With a plot that will by no means get him even an MTV Movie award, Cameron keeps us entertained through the 2 hour 40 minute duration of the film by making it a non-laborious tour of delight, exotica, fantasy, destruction, battle and victory. The plot could have been more convoluted to excite the nervous system or draw more sci-fi fans, the dialogues could’ve been more epic than generic and our world could’ve had a more unpredictable future but Cameron caters his Avatar to a wider audience with simplicity in those aspects while the focus of the entire cast and crew was to create the special effects, perfect the depth of field of objects for 3-D, delineate every detail demanded by Cameron’s fantasies of another world and make sure it all looks awesome on IMAX.
Avatar is a showcase of tomorrow’s motion picture. It sets a new standard in special effects for films and with its beautiful hues and colors, makes an absolutely stunning journey into a fantastic adventure on Pandora. Do your best to catch it on IMAX 3-D, else, just be jealous of those who did.
9.19 on a scale of 1-10.