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# Review

The story continues from the previous film; Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) lives with his new family on Pandora but the humans return in greater numbers. A familiar foe from the first movie returns and hunts both Jake and his family; Jake is forced to seek refuge with the Metkayina people at Pandora's eastern seaboard.

The story focuses much less on Jake and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña) and it focuses much more on their children. The scenery backdrop also changes from the lush forests of Pandora to the Sea. Other than that, the film felt very similar to its predecessor.

For one, the major theme of colonization is still prevalent, but instead of colonizing the indigenous peoples of North and South America, the retells the colonization of the indigenous peoples of Oceania. Many of the cultures and customs of the Metkayina people resemble those of indigenous Oceanian cultures, such as the tattoos sported by the Metkayina Na’vi.

The film also favours cinematic CGI scenes over an enthralling story. As with the first film, it felt that the story is built around the many beautiful shots of the sea and the creatures within the sea. I watched this film in theaters with in ScreenX and some of the scenes were breathtaking. This is also the film's downfall; the film focused so much on showing beautiful shots of Pandora's nature it felt like a nature documentary at times. For instance, the many scenes involving the Sullys learning the ways of the Metkayina literally felt like scenes one should only see in an extended cut of the film. The pacing of the film was grounded almost to a halt to accomodate these nature scenes.

# Conclusion

Again, not a particularly memorable film, but beautiful CGI cinematics though.

# Overall rating: 7.2

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