“Avatar,” the first feature film by director James Cameron since he was crowned The King of the World with “Titanic” in 1997, is easily one of the most highly anticipated films of this rapidly ending decade. It opens today and – some minor gripes aside – will be THE family film of the holiday season.
Set in a future where humans have pretty much destroyed the Earth, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) is assigned to the far away planet of Pandora. There, scientists have figured out a way to put his consciousness into an Avatar, a vessel of a body resembling that of the native people called the Na’vi. Jake’s mission is to infiltrate the tall, blue, naturalistic Na’vi, learn about them, and do his best to help the humans take the rich energy source their home is built on. Predictably, Jake grows a consciousness and the film slowly becomes a love letter to nature in an epic war.
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