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The James Cameron one, not the Last Air Bender.  Complete rubbish.  There I said it.

Life on Pandora is great for the natives.  They live one with nature.  Twelve foot tall.  Able to command creatures by using thoughts transmitted by their ponytails.  GET A HAIRCUT, HIPPIES!!

What is so fantastic about this place?  It can't be the Unobtainium mineral that the humans are trying to collect, because the natives do not even use it.  It must be that everything is phosphorescent at night.  Sure it might be cool to sleep in a leaf for a night, but guess what.  IT'S A LEAF.

The big corporation stereotypes are trying to get the Unobtainium and they use the marine stereotypes to be their muscle.  The corporation/military people send in the paraplegic marine to spy on the natives so that they can get the mineral rights.  Meanwhile, researchers are just trying to understand the natives and the world of Pandora.

The story is good.  But did everyone go nuts over this movie because of the computer generated graphics?  Just because the cartoon looks a lot more life-like doesn't mean that it is a better movie.  It just means that the graphics looks a lot better than the stick figures you drew back in elementary school.

I like nature.  I like going to the grocery too.  Does that mean I am a bad person for not wanting to kill my dinner? 

To quote a good friend of mine, "It was basically 'Dances with Space Wolves'".  Well put. 

I give this movie 1 1/2 out of 5 putters.