I enjoyed the original Avatar Movie. It trod new ground as far as CGI Cartoon/live action mash-ups were concerned. The story was terribly cliche and had been done many times before but it was an entertaining ride.

The sequel, however, is not fun. The revolutionary CGI looks old fashioned already and seems quaint in a novel way. The story is even more cliched with teen romance/drama seemingly taking front and center. To avoid spoilers, the main bad guy looks particularly weird and causes an extreme Uncanny Valley reaction in me for some reason.

I've been watching the blu ray of this for months and still haven't finished it nor gotten to any meat of the story. I can only do thirty minute chunks before giving up. It's incredibly boring for some reason and at over three hours is just stupidly long. Strip away the fancy glitz and there's nothing new underneath. If Cameron is relying solely on visuals, he's going to come very unstuck with the rest of the pentalogy as the story is either almost non-existent to very thin or has been done better elsewhere. This is throw away cinema at it's finest. Billions of dollars for what amounts to a dull experience that isn't any where near as good as Fern gully....err I mean the original.