Avatar had, arguably, more press coverage and media attention than any other film in history, but the real question is whether this huge multi-million dollar colossus matched expectations or simply fell flat on its big blue face?

For all those who have, for whatever reason, been oblivious to film for the last six months a brief synopsis is in order. Avatar is a science fiction action film based on the idea that human beings have explored beyond our own solar system and in doing so have discovered a planet known as Polyphemus. On one of the moons of Polyphemus, Pandora, it has been discovered that there exists an extremely rare raw material that is essential to energy production on earth and so we have begun to mine it. However, Pandora hosts an eco system much like the rainforests of earth and so contain a huge variety of animals, one of which is a humanoid creature known as the Na’vi. Coincidentally the N... (read more)