We've waited over a decade for the second 'Avatar' movie to come out. “Avatar: The Way of Water” sets a new bar for CGI spectacle, our reviewer writes.
You know that “Avatar: The Way of Water” has an actual point of view because every time humans appear on screen, they look trollish. Lumpy and inelegant, they’re mostly cast as violent colonizers and grunts, slashing and burning their way through the idealized alien world of Pandora.
Pity that the rest is still clumsily contrived, simplistic to a fault and emotionally vacant. Cameron and fellow scriptwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver invoke family loyalty, strangers in a strange land, racism and ecological stewardship vs. exploitation, but to no lasting effect. Gorging on all the eye candy — floating, rocky “islands,” sparkling waters and exotic creatures — at least distracts from that.
One of them is essentially adopted — the wide-eyed, introverted Kiri, the daughter of the first movie’s main human scientist, Dr. Grace Augustine. She’s voiced by Sigourney Weaver, whose physical presence is missed here. In Cameron’s trio of planned sequels , she’ll no doubt move to the center along with the new, younger characters, of which there are many.
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