Avatar: The A stands for Atrocious

My bride and I just went to see Avatar in 3D and all I can is…

Stop me before I utter another inane cliche!

…Wow!

That was really, really bad!

Not all the computer animation in the world can make up for the fact that this was a not-subtle-at-all liberal propaganda film.

• Anti-capitalist? Check. Those evil corporate money-grubbers will stop at nothing in their lust. And, it’s handy to have a marine battalion in your back pocket.
• Race card? Check. Blue is the new (American Indian) red.
• Anti-American? Check. Everyone can identify with the “aliens” being analogous to the imperialist Americans currently occupying countries worldwide.
• Tree-huggers? Check. They don’t just hug trees, they worship at their feet. Literally.
• Military haters? Check. Never have marines been made to look so dumb – and unprincipled – for so long.

Now, it isn’t as if we weren’t prepared for it. We were. But I resented Hollywood for failing to produce an Epic Movie this year, so we went anyway, hoping that the message would be slightly more subtle. So, I share some of the blame.

To top it off, the script was terrible. I counted (and yes, it got so bad I started to count) no less then 40 verbal cliches, to go along with all of the visual and plot cliches that were already there. Let’s go girls. Shock and awe. Treehuggers. You’re not in Kansas anymore. Fight terrorism with terrorism. I want to be home for dinner.

Good God make it stop. And while we’re talking about things that must stop, how about those outfits on the natives! If the natives were white instead of blue, this would have been rated NC-17. Skin, skin everywhere.

Two and a half hours trapped in the middle of this propaganda film seemed like days. Ironically, there were two groups that couldn’t possibly be pleased with the effort:  PETA and the peace-loving hippies. How instructive that a film made by liberals for liberals about liberal struggles ends with a victory achieved not through diplomacy, but a violent battle and animals dropping left and right.

Avatar. We went so you don’t have to.