So I’ve never seen a 3D movie before. When my friend suggested going to see Avatar, I got pretty excited. I’ll admit I didn’t really buy into the hype at first. It just looked like another CG movie to me, and I hadn’t heard anything of the story line. I just wanted to see what the 3D was all about.

It was pretty intense.

I sat down with my TCBY parfait, and shouted out the answers to the pre-show quizzes. I had my plastic 3D glasses, which are pretty stylish, sitting on my face, hoping they’d throw something 3D in, to see what it was like. We chatted back and forth until the movie started.

Holy. Hell. It was amazing. The commercials that advertise 3D where the screen seems to come out at you are not a lie. I was amazed. But the actual 3D isn’t the point.

The world that we are brought into in Avatar, is Beautiful. We follow ex-marine Jake Sully from earth to a planet in another galaxy (he had to spend over five years in cryostasis to get there) called Pandora. The planet looks like an alternate reality Earth, where reptiles were the prominent species in mammals. And even though it seems to be just a cheap gimmick, explores the fact that evolution, whether mammal, reptile, bird, etc, follows a similar pattern. For example, the natives to Pandora, the Navi, are tall, slender, blue skin humanoids, and there are animals that closely resemble our own, wolves, rhinoceros’, geckos and to a certain extent, dinosaurs, and prehistoric flying reptiles.

The story gets off to a pretty good start, an ex-marine given two options, one good, one bad (morally). He chooses the bad, to favour his army background, thinking that the Navi are savages. He is put into a link tube, and takes over his avatar, which he gets used to fairly quickly, and is a biologically engineered Navi.

He learns about the Navi, and their way of life, and starts to see them in a different light.

Now, here’s where it’s downfall is. The acting was definitely up to par. I got into the characters, which I thought would be hard, since most of them are computer renderings. I could believe the story, I got into the world, I wanted to learn more about everything that was going on, but, something’s are so incredibly predictable. The foreshadowing left nothing to the imagination. Instead of having a feeling later on in the movie of ’Oh that was because of this!’ it was a more instant ’I can’t wait to see that.’ I wont give them away, but if you see the movie, you’ll likely figure out what I’m talking about.

It was a good movie, but I didn’t go in expecting anything really, since I hadn’t paid much attention to the advertising. The world was gorgeous, the characters were well played, the 3D was amazing, and I’ve always had a thing for blue skinned girls.

I wrote this review in 3D.

Either way, later.