[Movie Review]Avatar--a real dream!

After days of viral fever and a marathon exam schedule,I was tired mentally and physically when i lay down on my seat!And soon I was seeing floating mountains,wierd flying creatures,bright neon like glowing structures,exotic flowers u have hardly seen before,a tree of souls through which u can speak to your forefathers and many more...The dream was chimerical.The dream was pleasant and eye catching.The dream was 'Avatar'.

But sooner or later though you have to wake up and you just cant ignore the facts.The same old hackneyed story of 'Man Vs Alien' and the same old characters we have read and have seen in many old classics.No price for guessing what Cameron was concentrating on in this million dollar venture.This is not a movie made on just a wild thought.This is cerebral.In this 3 long hours episode he introduces us to a unique/wierd race and as the protagonist learn from the female lead in the story abt their traditions and culture you would too but after abt 70/80 mins(n still more than a hour left) you would know exactly what was going to happen if u hadn't figured it out yet.And if u have seen and read a lot of Man vs Alien stories you better forget the story and enjoy the moon Pandora where all the action takes place.

As far as the story goes,as Jake(protagonist) himself say in movie while he was video loging the happenings "Outcast. Betrayer. Alien. I was in the place the eye does not see. I needed their help. And they needed mine".Jake had to betray his own race to help the aliens among whom he has already lost trust.How does he do it is the story which of course ends with the mayhem and chaos of war between human and the Navi race.

The technologies behind movie making doesnt excite me that much.So I dnt know abt the level of complications involved in the making.But I still remember waking up to Jhonny quest cartoons when I was in school where the lead characters go into a different,new simulated world pretty much like the avatars(replica of a person in a different world) and to think of meteoric growth of technology since,to reach where it is now is mind blowing.Hats off to all the technical people involved!Cameron's persnickety film making style should come for special mention though you cant help but feel that he lets you down on the story and the characters.

Avatar is not a movie.It's a visual spectacle.And that's why I would recommend you to see it in 3-D.Most of the scenes are plesant and the whole settings are often compelling.Characters as I said are the usual ones you could expect...an immoral chief heading a small army who are on a mission and who wouldnt care much abt others,a R&D lab headed by a biological scientist where this avatar experiments are carried out.The (fictional) science is that that you can have your own avatar (replica) with the same original consience and eveything but in a different body in a different place using a special bed in the lab and will come back to the real world when the power is switched off and you can be active in any one place only.

When you look back on the list of movies,now and then you come across movies like Artificial Inteligence,Jurrasic Park,Minority Report etc which roughly gives you the idea on the level of technology existed then and the kind of thinking/creative film makers who were there then and that's exactly the category where 'Avatar' would fall among the umpteen movies coming out every year.In short Avatar is like a smiling young Indian girl in a saree whom you may not like but you wouldnt mind ogle at.(uhh,am I disrespecting someone here??I didnt know that!)