James Cameron is back at the box office with his latest blue man blockbuster. Only this time, it didn't bust the block quite like it did back in '09. I'm not sure if it was because the novelty of it all was lost on the audience the second time around, but it seemed as though the wonders of the foreign moon Pandora were a little less breathtaking than they were the first time. Seeing the movie pan out, things just felt like a sequel was made for the sole purpose of making a sequel. Some of the dialogue was cringe-worthy and hard to listen to. The story, despite its potential, felt repetitive and predictable too often (it's almost as if it didn't need to be 3+ hours long). All this culminated in a lack of emotional attachment to characters who had plenty of screen time for the audience to get acclimated to them. There were heartfelt moments shared between family, and new and exotic creatures that the N'avi people rode into battle, but it paled in comparison to the original Avatar throughout. Even Jake Sully's epic monologues fell short of what they originally had been. Initially filling transitions with emotion and tension, Sully's speeches in Avatar: The way of Water only seemed to put the ribbon and bow on the exact gift it was- a flex of the prowess of computer generated image technology that was state of the art... 13 years ago.