This is one of those movies that was so over-hyped, and overpraised that way too many people jumped on the bandwagon out of peer pressure. This was supposed to be Jame's Cameron's masterpiece, that he wanted to make for so long but had to wait for the technology to advance enough to make it. Guess what, it still hasn't advanced enough to make this any better than it is, a long boring cartoon!

I'm still amused why this movie isn't listed in the, "animation" section of every store and rental place. Because that is what it is. The basic story is those evil earth people travel to a planet in order to rape it of it's natural resources. The barbaric earthlings devise a way to create a sort of organic remote controlled robot to learn about the inhabitants of said planet and infiltrate them in order to steal their resources.

Now digital technology has come a long way, but look at Star Wars. The first 3 movies to come out (episodes 4,5,6) were beautifully done, and stunning compared to the crap George Lucas gave up with the horrible CGI mess that were episodes 1,2,&3. Same story here. If Cameron was a decent director and writer he would have used a lot less CGI and gave us something better than a slightly darker version of a lot of Disney animated flicks. This is basically an updated, fancy version of what Disney did with the old movies like "Bedknobs and Broomsticks." It's good for entertaining kids but that's about it.

Of course, Cameron had to suck up to all his Hollywood friends and cast Marines as bad guys (way to care about your country Jim) and show his compassion for the environazi cause.

As all director pieces given the "masterpeice" title, it has to drag on and on so that you just can't stay awake. When you wake up, you probably have reached half way. Dude, you may have fooled me into watching a cartoon, but you can't fool me into giving it a good review.

Oh yeah, and who the heck hires Zoe Saldana just for her voice? You have a beautiful actress like that and the only thing you can give us is a cartoon character with her voice. Please, if I had to watch that old hag Sigourney Weaver through this movie you could have at least threw me a bone and cast Zoe as one of the real people...

The acting was, well, what can you say it was a cartoon...there wasn't any acting. Cameron's writing skills seem to leave a lot to be desired as well as he probably has never met anyone, besides Bob Ballard, that has ever wore a military uniform, and shows by making most of the characters as clichéd as possible.

The animation though is pretty darn good and stunning, but the problem with that is that this was not billed as a cartoon. So congrats and 4 stars to Jimmy for putting a bunch of real special effects people out of a job for this one.

If you are an cartoon lover , and have penchant for "sustainability", rent this one and "The Lorax." Watch "The Lorax" first so that you will be all snuggled into bed for Jame's Cameron's bad, boring, animated bedtime story.

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