Thursday, December 25, 2025

Avatar 2: The Way of Water: Movie Review


This is my first time watching this movie, so according to my new rules, I'm doing this as a video only review.



This is, once again, a video in which I didn't fully get out all my thoughts because I got cut off at the end, but let me briefly jot a few more things down here:
* The visual designs of the Navi unfortunately sometimes make it difficult to distinguish which one is which, particularly in the action sequences.  And the I particularly had a difficult time distinguishing between the two sons.  When they were sitting and talking, it was okay.  But when they were running around, I couldn't distinguish between them.
* Speaking of the two sons, they sounded a bit too much like California surfers for my taste.  (e.g. "Bro, come on, Bro.").  It took me out of the movie a bit.

***SPOILER*** There's a death at the end of the movie which should be an emotional moment, but the movie doesn't quite know how to process it.  It places the death right during the big climax of the movie, and the movie wants to keep the momentum of the climax going, but also wants to have the death feel emotional and meaningful.  But in my opinion the momentum of the climax overshadowed the emotion of the death, and as a result the death scene doesn't hit the emotional notes that it should.  And because of this, the death doesn't pay off emotionally, and feels empty.
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