I got into the free preview screening back in the summer, you can read about that experience here: http://the-nail-gun.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... vatar.html
Here's my review of the full movie: http://the-nail-gun.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... html It's an overhyped lackluster generic Hollywood blockbuster with few, if any, redeeming qualities and 4D tecmologies that really don't seem to add much.
It seems to me that you forgot to mention the most important character of this movie, or you simply omitted to mention it in your review. She can be seen through many of her facets during all the picture. She is really living:
The planet or Mother Earth, Gaia, or the even better, the living network.
SPOILER: in case some of you thought that the ending was also too "Disney" ( when the wildlife is standing up together as one to protect the PACHAMAMA ( in Andean-Aymara dialect, compliments of Latinjoe22 ) meaning Mother Earth, I didn't see it as such. Ever heard of the Gaia's revenge? Oh yes, she can be mean too if we're mean to her and don't take care of her especially. Don't forget that the whole planet is defined as a living network according to Sigourney Weaver's character. It is not hard to believe that Sigourney's Will (forgot her character's name, sorry) to protect the planet from the milirary/corporation menace, helps the planet's collective nervous system to gain more information on the threat and on Earth's history to finally understand what to do about it...the same can be said of Sully when he reaches out to the Tree to tell it about how he needs its help to fight the Terran threat, and even warns the tree about what humans did before to their own planet and how they will keep doing the same if they're not stopped.
