Avatar, Second Half

Well, sometimes I'm wrong.

I watched the second half of Avatar today, and it really was better than I initially thought. Most notably, a lot of the characters I had originally simply not cared about became a lot more likable and interesting as the end of the movie approached.

I still got the Fern Gully vibe from the whole thing (especially when the bulldozer showed up!), but it's not a carbon-copy of that story, nor of the other stories it seems similar to. The story's still pretty shallow, but it's good enough to make the movie work.

All that said, I think one of the major criticisms of the movie is valid: the whole 'mighty whitey' thing. I wish it didn't. It would have been interesting to see it break from that stereotype. But if you can bear that one flaw and the slow pacing of the first half of the movie, the rest of the movie's at least worth the rental price, and I do regret not seeing it in theaters.