Hope my great-grandkids will see this movie.

Despite being a very long movie Avatar: The Way of the Water at times is a superior sequel. That is more beautiful to look at “especially in IMAX 3D.” With some better action and adventure.
The movie might even manage to make the Avatar haters fans. Even if James Cameron doesn’t have something so good on his hands. That he can drag it out to seven movies.

I hope whenever this drops in 2018 it does justice to the first one, the dynamics of History, Culture, Spirituality & Social awareness worked great. I was actually surprised that a lot of people said they didn't like it.

Sure, it's beautiful. That's said. But what else ? Not much.

The story itself is a 95% copy of the first one, and can't say it was original either at the time.

There's a whole universe there, but that was what came from the first one. There's basically nothing new here, except what they once did in the forest they now do in the water. It basically brings nothing new. Even the bad guys, that were dead, are the same.

Instead of soldiers we mostly follow the adventures of the kids, which adds a lot of annoying stupidity to what happens.

The only "new" thing the movie brings might be what's happening with Kiri, but it's obviously been kept for future releases and barely scratched here.

Is it at least entertaining ? Meh. It could have been, but EVERYTHING is too long. You could cut 5 to 10 minutes of absolutely every single sequence. All of them, be they exposition, adventure, contemplation or even action scenes. Everything is too long.

Not all the CGI and IMAX bonanza in the world can save a lackluster and uninspiring plot

If I ever traveled to Avatar world, I would invent arrow proof cockpit glass for the helicopters and become rich.

Great movie. 9/10. good move to allow ratings for non existent movies.

The first one sucked. Why they are adding two more is beyond me. Hollywood just plain sucks these days. I literally have no want or desire to watch this.

One can only hope this bombs so bad that they cancel the third one.

Has Sam Worthington even been in another movie since this??? There’s a reason for that. Terrible actor.

***James Cameron should stick to terminator and alien movies like he is good at. Avatar franchise is trash.***

Just saw this.... I have no idea why. There was so much fluff. They could have condensed the movie to an hour and half and had the key points landed. After the 2nd hour, i found myself continually looking at my watch. Was basically the first one but now the bad guys aren't human... just dumb. Sam Worthington's voice was even creepier in this one than the first. Great idea for a lead James Cameron... no one has ever said that. Make another Aliens movie, F this crap.

Been waiting over a decade for this movie…

Obviously the biggest movie of 2022!

the wait has been taking so long so hopefully next year is the one

The visuals and the message -anticolonialism, protection of nature, sovereignty of indigenous people- are great, but the plot is just bad: poor, repetitive, with many clichés, very predictable... Much worst than the first, I couldn't connect. But it's arguably worth it to see it in 3D just for the visuals.

3 hour movie that felt like a 5 hour movie and could easily be edited down to 1 hour without losing any plot points.

Took a lot of looking around to find a screening that had comfy seats that wasn't in 3D.

Visuals go from being stupidly realistic (ie, amazing) to looking like clear animation and back again throughout the movie.

I had someone comment to me "visually stunning. But. Has James Cameron even met an indigenous person?? And all those plot holes. California wellness and cultural appropriation all over the place." and I can't fault that.

And towards the end [spoiler] when the fire comes around ON TOP of the water, 5 whole people suddenly forget the whole 2.5 hour sequence where they learnt to free-dive and hold their breath? They can't swim under the flames? Have to swim away and towards the sinking boat? I understand the characters need to be ushered in to the sinking boat for the next sequence but surely there was a better way. That's like scientists taking their helmets off the moment there's anything remotely resembling breathable air on a completely alien planet then sticking their heads inside giant eggs. [/spoiler]

Pretty good movie, way better than I was expecting considering it was in development hell for a decade. Visuals are of course outstanding, this one is worth going to IMAX for