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Angelina Jolie has a look that isn't attractive at all, just weird. The whole thing is unsubtle and boisterous, more like a superhero film than a fairytale. Ultimately the characters, and the world they inhabit are just not like able enough, something Disney usually does very well. A decent enough way to pass a quiet evening, but not memorable or moving or even thrilling, just okay. The look of the film resembles a Lord of the rings movie mixed in with something like Alice in Wonderland, even similar looking creatures. So its sort of nothing new, neither is the all too familiar checklist of computer generated effects, armies and battles and enormous castles, and fire and dragons and flying through obstacles at high speed. It's all just so familiar and boring and not even realistic looking. Angelina does do well with her part though, good acting.

Take Independence day, add Transformers (the first, good one) and blend together through the striking style of Guillermo Del Toro, and you have a triumph. This kept me enthralled from opening to sneaky post credits bonus. As someone who has become very disillusioned with CGI driven, plot and character empty titles such as all the Iron man films, this is in a totally different league. Proves that massive monsters and destruction on a global scale can be awesome when done by a film maker of Del Toros skill and vision. Fun, nail biting, dazzling, great characters and performances. There's not much else needs to be said, just see it. I can't comment on the 3D, I gave up on it some time ago, but in 2D it rocks!

As I already feel cheated of the hour and a half I've wasted watching this, I will waste no further time on it other than to say if I could have worked out how to give it 0/10 I would have. Quite angry about the Film four hype for such pretentious drivel. The Ben Wheatley interview afterwards was equally annoying, adding insult to injury, and was promptly abandoned. The worst kind of student film, what a waste of finance for British film making. Rubbish...........rubbish...........rubbish...........rubbish...... .......filling the required ten lines now......total rubbish..........film four shame on you........etc.......etc......etc....

Just caught this on the horror channel and I definitely reckon Angelina Jolie's rack has got bigger since then. That is pretty much the most salient point I took from an otherwise unremarkable rickety old straight to DVD Terminator inspired late night TV channel filler. You know the score. Now apparently the minimum requirements for a review is ten lines, which leaves me in the embarrassing position of desperately trying to fill those ten lines. Which, given my fairly absent state of mind after watching this title, will be difficult, and I apologise in advance to anyone unfortunate enough to read this expecting at the very minimum, for the words to relate in some way to the film. I make that nine and a half lines, so now we should be...........there.

James Cameron pulls it off for a second time. You would think Titanic was enough..massive budget, cutting edge effects..childish story. This is basically the Dune story ripped off. However, Dune had a huge story and intricate detail behind the premise of "indigenous people who are at one with the environment overcome technologically advanced but savage invaders intent on destroying the environment for material gain and greed" This is another wafer thin Cameron extravaganza, a po faced, self important cartoon. I found it impossible to suspend disbelief watching this. It fails to convince that the CGI and live action sequences are the same reality, more like Arthur and the Invisibles, where a real world and cartoon world exist alongside each other, or The Matrix, with the characters entering a simulation when they enter the Avatars. From this point, the film can never work. For all the spectacle of the effects, they do not create a convincing reality, merely a luscious cartoon. The greatest majority of cartoons are parody and pastiche, and as such are very funny. Without the humour, this is just a very boring, cringe worthy cartoon. Full marks as always to Cameron for innovation in movie making, and a place in my top ten with T2, but this one is destined to go the same way as Titanic..largely forgotten a year from now. A shame.