With close to 3,000 reviews, we hardly need another one (and nobody will read the negative ones for Avatar anyway) so I'll keep this brief. The bottom line is, I don't think this film really deserved quite as much praise as it got. There, I said it. It's not that it wasn't good - it certainly was. I went to see it with my best friend (who I don't see often enough as it is, so I was really looking forward to it), and neither of us thought it lived up to expectations. My friend described it as 'depressing', and I can explain my feelings in one point: At least twice during the movie, my mind wandered. I actually found myself thinking of other things, then thinking, "I should be riveted to this Oscar-award winning masterpiece. But I'm not." Not to sound selfish here, but if a film can't hold my interest indefinitely, surely there were others in the cinema who agreed. And a movie as good as this one is said to be shouldn't fail to keep us all on the edges of our seats. The thing is, I think it was because I'd seen the same sort of plot devices in other movies. Much less glorified, of course, but the same thing. Other people have said they see similarities to Pocahontas, and I agree - but what it reminded me most of was Ferngully, an old animated movie about fairies protecting a rainforest. So no, I do not think this is as good as they say. That's just my opinion, but I really am curious to know why everybody else seems to worship it. If it's for the CGI, then I'm sorry - but that's pathetic. A good movie has developed characters, a substantial plot and a satisfying ending. This didn't completely fulfil any of those requirements.