I do acknowledge that it's a family movie but maan the plot is weak. Weaker than the first movie. Sure It's supposed to be black and white for smaller kids, but given the amount of efforts spent on the visuals they could have done waay better job on motives and action for the characters First movie was like a breath of fresh air, even if you are not a fan of explicitly magical worlds and excessive drama - its was still a new solid movie for entertainment purposes. This one, however, brings nothing new to the table except stunning underwater world with a dumbed down storyline. Especially when it's 3 hours long!

I pray for the almighty cinema God the characters in the next Avatar will get at least a little development, change their NPC-like scripted behavior. Maybe some plot twist in the middle would be good like a bad guy suddenly dying mid-film or getting inner peace and joining the protagonist to resolve some new existential crisis (hopefully a more thoughtful one)

Next time I'll read the reviews first as a precaution if they are similar I'll probably skip :)