Perhaps the addition of 3D made ALL the difference or at least I certainly hope so. Because in two dimensions, Avatar is a subpar sci-fi/cartoon with little to no depth or character or long term viability. A phenomenon or a fad. Not even Cameron’s best. A few notes:

- Story is Dances with Wolves…in space. Do have to say though the buffalos in Dances are better.

- Look, it lights up! Am I supposed to be overwhelmed that everything lights up like a Hollywood dance club? Lost its value after like two minutes.

- Some scenes were downright laughable like the voodoo-ish ceremony to raise Sigourney Weaver.

- Why did Sigourney’s Avatar look like her? Made her the most fake looking character.

- It never ends…it just keep going on and on and on. For God’s sake, cut, cut, cut!

- Why the tail? Didn’t seem to use it.

- Craig Worthington is nice as an action figure but actor he is not. He displays about as much emotion as burnt toast.

- Aliens is a far superior FILM.

- Cameron needs to hand off writing it to someone else, it has left his potentially landmark films wholly flawed. Titanic was great despite the dumb-ass story and Avatar is great as an accomplishment but leaves you little to consider when it’s done. Most of his dialogue is downright cheesy.

- Look funky horses and mean looking dogs and rhinos and dinosaurs that fly! And you can hook up to them via USB port! I was hoping for more than a modified horse. In fact, Pandora looks alot like earth on acid.

- Far greater film and accomplishment is the Lord of the Rings series.

- The USB stuff was pretty gross actually. And what if you need a haircut?

- One could easily look at the Navi and pull out all the racist stereotypes. I mean, they are clearly ‘black’ resembling an African tribe in many ways. I’m surprised no one else picked it out. It’s like the ‘orientals’ in the Star Wars films.

- I am SOOO disappointed. I had bought into the hype and was ready to have my mind blown: it was underwhelmed, I almost stopped it a couple times out of boredom – look this tree lights up, let’s USB to it! But wait, over here is a hamster, let’s USB to it!

- The ending: When all hope is lost and it looks like the end is near, Cameron’s brilliant idea is to bring on the…flowering rhinos? THAT was a let down that suddenly George of the Jungle had convinced all the animals to join in the fight! And here they come – dogs, cats, ferrets and foxes! Creatures of the forest unite!