Friday, December 26, 2025

Immediate Response: Avatar- Fire and Ash (2025)

My Dad is a big Avatar fan.

As such, I saw it with him on Christmas afternoon.

Let's see how it turned out...

The Good

* The Film looks amazing!  The CGI is so good that you get photorealistic creatures interacting with their environments in very impressive manner.

* The Film is epic in scale, with lots of Characters, locations and a Plot that grows from the previous Films.

* Oona Chaplin really shines as the new Villain.  She's not exactly nuanced, but she's impossible to look away from.

* A climactic battle feels like the proper finale to the Series.
This is the last Film...right?


The Bad

* The Film is very long.  This is because many Scenes feel drawn out.  This Film had multiple Editors.

* This Film was clearly set up as the final part of a Trilogy, so it has to wrap up LOTS of things that could have been dealt with in the last Film.

* Why is Jermaine Clement doing an American accent in this one?

* Seeing a CGI version of Sigourney Weaver (as a Navi) kissing someone 50 years younger than her- hmmm...no thanks.

All in all, the Film is a big, epic experience that is truly mind-blowing to look at.  I just wish that it could have been more concise.

Have you seen it?  If so, leave a comment.

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