McDonald's is a popular restaurant and yet most can agree that the food itself isn't particularly good or healthy . Likewise, despite all of Avatar : The Way of the Water's glitz and glamour and box office success it too in my opinion is not very good.

I went in with limited expectations as I found the first one to be fine but not exceptional. I found that one to be a story hijacked from other works but never did I think Cameron would hijack his own story and resell it to us. This second movie just takes all the major themes and applies it to the water people. For example , in the first one the banshees were the creature of fascination and in this one the tulkun whales just simply filled that void. Not to mention incredible amounts of time dedicated to simply just floating around with them. If I wanted to see this I'd have simply watched a real documentary like the Blue Planet.

Furthermore for a 3 hour plus movie some critical elements were rushed through at the beginning. The introduction of the family really wasn't adequate given how many new members there were. Unfortunately because of this I had difficulty even telling apart the two brothers throughout the movie.

Beyond this I even found the acting to be clunky and the script weak. It also has a rather dull ending. Is this villain really strong enough to make several movies on? I personally don't think so.

For the people who enjoyed this movie I'd ask this: In 3 weeks after viewing the movie will you remember the name of the outcast tulkun or even the name tulkun itself, I suspect a majority would not. Further how many people would actually be able to take me through the story scene by scene in a months time? I reckon hardly any and it wouldn't be their fault , it's just not a powerful enough story. Of course many movies fall into this category , but with this one getting labeled by many as a classic then certain standards must be met in my opinion and this doesn't come close to meeting them for me.