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Avatar: The Way of Water is finally on Blu-ray

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There are some fun moments in the movie! I loved the tulkun, a hyper-intelligent species of whale that can communicate telepathically. I thought they did some really neat stuff with all the ocean and aquatic bits, which is no surprise given James Cameron’s love of the ocean that permeates so much of his work, in better films like Titanic and The Abyss.

Some of the fights—while too long—were exciting and action-packed and had cool special effects. There were some funny and heartwarming scenes. I was entertained when I wasn’t bored. I can’t wait for video games to have graphics as crisp and high-definition!

But the story is a mess. It’s a retread of the first film. The mustache-twirling villains are after the precious resources of Pandora. This time it’s a golden whale goo that halts human aging. Last time it was the hilariously named Unobtanium. New resource, same plot. Now we have water Navi with bigger tails who can swim underwater for a really long time. Now we have underwater scenery instead of jungles. But the bad guys are coming with their guns and their bombs and their bombs and their guns.

And the Navi—a crude analog for the indigenous people of our own world—remain the Noble Savage trope they were in the last film, only less interesting now. The White Savior, Jake Sully, has been fully integrated into their community, but whatever interesting stuff defined them prior to his arrival, it’s all taken a back seat now to him and his family. Sully’s stick together! we are reminded. More than once.

However beautiful some of the CGI and scenery is in Way Of Water, it’s often broken up by weird editing, jarring cuts and even more jarring zooms. Multiple times throughout the film there’s aggressive digital zooms that rip you out of any sense of immersion. My kids talked about this on our drive home after, so it’s not just your humble narrator who found this off-putting.

Worse, still, was the dialogue, especially among Jake’s children. For some reason, all the kids constantly say “bro” or “cuz” to each other. I guess it’s because Cameron and his writers think this is how the young people talk these days or something. But even if that is how kids in the US talk in 2022—it isn’t, not to this degree—it makes no sense on an alien planet. It’s not like Jake is saying “bro” all the time (he often uses military jargon which makes more sense and it makes sense when the kids use it). Did the kids pick this up from . . . the human scientists?

It’s so cringey and weird. It reminds me of the bad dialogue in the new Willow series. “I got you, bro!” “Yeah, bro, let’s go, bro!” “Hey cuz, let’s do this!”