With a terrible source material, Spielberg decided to create his Avatar movie. The story is as bad. There are as many clichés. This movie won't ever surprise you (that might be a staple of the director?).

Spielberg knows what to do to create a couple of heroes and villains, and he does just that. The movie is, in reality, an avalanche of references of pop culture with the shape of an action flick and some sparkles of Spielberg sentimentalism (gag inducing, but with professionally placed scenes by Spielberg).

The only reason to especially like this movie is the references. I don't care about them (and probably I didn't catch half of them), so.