Avatar (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) [Blu-ray] | ![Avatar (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512Kb3ix8VL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Lang
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  1582 reviews
Sales Rank: 61
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 162 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 0.6
MPN: FOXBR2265613
UPC: 024543656135
EAN: 0024543656135
ASIN: B002VPE1B6
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 2009
Release Date: April 22, 2010
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 04/22/2010 Rating: Pg13
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After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable about greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na'vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he's supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who'd like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na'vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron's complicated motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na'vi). The movie uses state-of-the-art 3D technology to plunge the viewer deep into Cameron's crazy toy box of planetary ecosystems and high-tech machinery. Maybe it's the fact that Cameron seems torn between his two loves--awesome destructive gizmos and flower-power message mongering--that makes Avatar's pursuit of its point ultimately uncertain. That, and the fact that Cameron's dialogue continues to clunk badly. If you're won over by the movie's trippy new world, the characters will be forgivable as broad, useful archetypes rather than standard-issue stereotypes, and you might be able to overlook the unsurprising central plot. (The overextended "take that, Michael Bay" final battle sequences could tax even Cameron enthusiasts, however.) It doesn't measure up to the hype (what could?) yet Avatar frequently hits a giddy delirium all its own. The film itself is our Pandora, a sensation-saturated universe only the movies could create. --Robert Horton
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 A Great Story - Even Without 3D September 5, 2010
Rob from Sanford (Maine)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not since Silent Running with Bruce Dern has my environmental activist side been so inspired by a science fiction film, I highly recommend this to anyone who loves the Earth and would enjoy a film that implies how destructive mankind has become to its "Mother" and is encouraged to protect our environment and climate.
Avatar on BluRay September 5, 2010
Caroline Branca (Atlanta, GA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
BluRay does bring something extra to Avatar. Also love that a regular DVD is included so I can enjoy this wonderful sci/fi/fantasy on my other DVD player, too.
Image is everything September 5, 2010
Pablo Viana
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Everyone already knows this movie haven't a great story, I mean, anytyhing new to talk about on this screenplay.
However, it gives you breathtaking digital image for those who really want to evaluate what actually the Bluray technology can deliver.
Although I've seen other movies in HD Bluray disc, this one is undoubtly a ground breaking on image quality, mainly if got a good screen. I mean, a larger than 40inch fullHD screen will do the job nicely. For those who couldn't enjoy the IMAX experience of Avatar on the theaters, this BD delivers a comparable sensation.
Ideal for bluray equipment setup tests!
Most excellent syfy in a long time September 5, 2010
Rita J. Beatty (Indiana)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a big fan of the "fantasy", so this movie was great for me. Excellent acting, beautiful & intense graphic designing, could not be more pleased with purchase. This movie should keep everyone in the family entertained and should also teach us all a great deal about our own environment. The Native Americans had it right--the earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth. This is one movie I will watch over and over again. I hope they release the "new" version with even more action & new scenes. I will definitely buy one!
Beautiful Love Story of Lies and Rapture September 5, 2010
Ladyhawk Wright (Ten Mile, Tennessee)
The two main characters are well chiseled into their own lives and thrust upon one another purely by accident. In the circle of life shown in this movie we see how the Navi care for Gaia or Mother Earth and this love dwells within their hearts and how they try to share this Sacred knowledge with outsiders only to find their homes destroyed by the greed of environmental progress. I loved it so much I want to be a Navi for Halloween this year!
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