I'll admit some CGI improvements over the past decade, but they don't make for a good movie in terms of scripting and acting. For the overall message, Avatar keeps reiterating the same old stereotypes: nature is good, the white man is bad. Blues, greens, and virtually all other colors and species of all sizes are innocent and friendly. What makes white people so ugly? Greed, lack of empathy. So you can follow the rest of the consequences along a flat script with flat characters and some minor parentage issues (x is a child of y, and that creates a conflict. Have you heard of that before?).

The movie is long because CGI costs seem to have come down, so things you could explain most vigorously in 5 minutes run for an hour, iterating over and over again ad nauseam fast camera movements and details that mar any sense of realism and participation.

Warning: If you plan to watch this movie in a 4DX theater, be prepared to sail in a small boat in a heavy storm for three hours. Watching Avatar 2 in a 4DX theater is the worst experience I've ever had in a movie theater. All the problems seen in Top Gun 2 are made worse and multiplied by the continuous and violent movement of the seats, which makes it impossible to maintain an upright position. About halfway through the movie, you'll probably start wishing all the characters (white, blue, and green people alike) were dead and the end credits start rolling. Virtually every person ended up feeling dizzy on their way out. A real torture.

And no. Despite all the CGI improvements, you can still feel yourself watching colorful silly Tom & Jerry cartoons.