Released on Friday, Avatar: The Way of Water is being released 13 years after the first one.
The first Avatar movie released in 2009 remains the highest grossing movie ever, the new release is to continue the first release.
Recalled that the first Avatar film saw disabled marine ‘Jake Sully’ infiltrate Pandora’s indigenous population by taking on an avatar body.
In The Way of Water, viewers are transported back to the planet of Pandora, where the existence of the Na'vi people is once again under threat.
The release of ‘In the Way of Water’ has gathered mixed reactions as some critics go as far to rate it one star.
Most people seem to have issues with the long duration of the film, after all it played for over than three hours.
Bradshaw who awarded the film just two stars, said: “The story, which might fill a 30-minute cartoon, is stretched as if by some AI program into a three-hour movie of epic tweeness.”
The Times’ Kevin Maher who also rated it two stars said
‘the lead character Sully is “monotonal” and said the film felt repetitive,
‘Everything here is retread, restate, regurgitate.
‘It is visually spectacular but superfluous sequel.’
Another critic made his review,
‘Avatar: The Way of Water has scenes that will make your eyes pop, your head spin and your soul race,’ Variety’s Owen Gleiberman commented.
But, he added: ‘There is almost zero dimensionality to the characters. The dimensionality is all in the images.’
The Independent’s Clarisse Loughrey landed in the middle with a three-star review, headlined:
‘You probably still won’t care [about Avatar], but at least it’s very pretty.
‘These films, which are largely identical in tone, don’t feel like acts of love, but of material achievement, she wrote.
‘They exist more to be respected than to be adored.’
However, Justin Lang of the LA Times was more enthusiastic, suggesting the film ‘will cure your moviegoing blues’.
‘Cameron pulls you down so deep, and sets you so gently adrift, that at times you don’t feel like you’re watching a movie so much as floating in one,’ he said.
Returning to Pandora ‘just became the best deal on Earth for the price of a movie ticket,’ agreed IndieWire’s David Ehrlich.
