A New Visual Slap The film Avatar 2's first positive point is the fact that it does not linger on the job before taking the main characters to where the major part of the film will take place. The big positive point that we can recognize in the film is that after 13 years, the special effects are incredible which gives us a breathtaking visual experience, I was clearly not disappointed on this point.
In terms of the story, it's certainly not the scenario of the year, but that's not what we're asking for and the proposed scenario works very well without surprising us. The villain of this film is more developed than in the first and even more interesting even if that of the first was in my opinion more charismatic. Jake's family is interesting and the fact that the film is not centered on the father but on the children makes for a refreshing experience.
The film is 3 hours long and I felt the 3 hours were over because even though the film was visually stunning, I found the story at certain points to be longer than at other points when time passed more quickly and where we were more invested in the film.
Each of the children have their own and interesting personality and the environment in which they evolve is frankly very cool to discover. The eldest is the least developed character in the story, which made me predict his death, which didn't take long, but the other characters have potential and I hope that development will continue in this direction for the next sequels.
To finish with the positives, the fight scenes which are like in the breathtaking first film, I was glued to my seat watching them. Something I really enjoyed as an avid reader and those are hard references to have but whaling is full of Moby Dick references. A whale alone and not in a herd that is also smart enough to counter the boats that chase it. There's also the moment when the chief whaler holding the harpoon gets his arm cut off, which is a direct reference to Captain Ahab's lost leg in Moby Dick. In addition to these references, James Cameron shows us again in this film his mastery of the marine world, in particular with the sinking boat at the end of the film which inevitably recalls Titanic and the scene is perfectly mastered.
Now in the negatives, there is in the first place the whole story around the pariah whale which in my opinion was the least interesting moment of the film. Then in the small details is that they did not explain after the accident of Kiri, the oldest daughter of Jake Sully, how did they manage to contact the scientists who remained in the forest but I procrastinate a little.
Another negative point but much more personal this time, it's a criticism that I already had on the film levy and it's only my feelings but I never managed to take seriously all this spiritual side, this side connected with animals and nature, with the tree which is considered as a divinity à la Yggdrasil which in my opinion is a bit forced. I've always had trouble with these kinds of themes in films where they create sorts of religions. Customs for the film. Taking this sort of thing seriously is quite complicated for me and for a film where the characters are so centered on this side, I was not really convinced.
Another negative point is the character of Spider. We feel that he is there only to make the villain feel empathy, otherwise he would have been useless. In the last negative point, it's Jake Sully, we feel that the writers wanted to make him much more in the background to develop his children and in the film he acts as a father figure but apart from at the end, he will have spent his time arguing with his children and even if the film explains to us that he educates them more in a military way than in a paternal way, I found it a bit of a shame to put him so much in the background.
To conclude, the film was like the first part, a real visual slap and the 3 hours are felt only slightly, the film makes us have a great time through the discovery of new characters and their development in this new marine environment, the specialty of James Cameron, the experience provided have succeeded and the film, even if it does not have the most incredible scenario of the century, makes us have a good time.