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Message: <blockquote data-quote="zen_hydra" data-source="post: 5039879" data-attributes="member: 6227"><p>As others have said, I found the story to be a retread of paths covered too many times already.  I wasn't sold on the 3D at first.  It took me a while before it stopped feeling gimmicky, and I stopped constantly noticing my glasses.  When it finally did, and I found myself immersed in awesome alien world I was blown away.  The movie tried to pass itself off a little too much like hard sci-fi, but was really purely a fantasy film.  The Na'vi are bit too cat-girl/elf to be even remotely plausible as an independently evolving humanoid species, which also happens to have compatible DNA with humanity, and culture and language nearly identical to humanity.  Right, willing suspension of disbelief.  Beyond the rehashed story, and the "aliens" that were designed to be physically attractive to humans, the biggest plot hole is why the Na'vi would know that the spirit tree could do the switcheroo thing you saw it do later in the film.  They had no reason to have had need of that ability until the humans came along, and it was portrayed as unprecedented until it was tried.  ...but even with all of my gripes, I thought it was entertaining and a brilliant proof-of-concept for the technology.</p></blockquote><p></p>