So Avatar 2 turns out to be everything I expected it to be and not even a picogram more: technically impressive images (the detail of the human expressions on the alien faces really stand out) and a few very well-staged action scenes, all situated within a soul-numbingly dragged-out, tedious and instantly forgettable story, with no surprises of any kind at any point. I liked the stable and loving nuclear family aspect of it, but what is so out of step with the "progressive" agenda today would have been commonplace 25 years ago - which is when, to be honest, it feels like the script was written, too.

The simplest and most accurate summation is just that it's the most expensive and highly detailed cartoon ever made, but once you know that, you really have no further reason to even see the film at all, and, just like the first Avatar, this is a movie that I already know for certain I will never watch again.

4½ out of 10.