They each have to deal with their own respective troubles that come with their coming of age, and all these young performers were cast perfectly. They are, without exception, lovely and engaging and very real. All but one, played by young, virtually inexperienced actors who all understand their assignments perfectly. But the biggest, and most pleasant surprise, are Jake and Neytiri's children. Cliff Curtis is very powerful as the Sea People's chief, and Kate Winslet is absolutely unrecognisable as his mate, which is as big a compliment as I can think of. The new characters are all good, strong additions to the whole. I especially love Zoe Saldaña, she was always the shining star of Avatar, and she's just as mesmerising here, even if her screentime is a bit shorter.

It's like meeting with friends you haven't seen for a while. The familiar characters are precisely the same as they were before, and it makes the past 13-year wait seem like nothing at all. But it's damn near impossible to be bothered by this, because the magic is there, and it's real. In all honesty, the story is awfully predictable, and an almost step-by-step rehash of the first movie. The action sequences are reliably awesome as always, and there are some truly heartfelt emotional passages. It's stunningly beautiful, creative and inventive and it makes you want to be there so badly, it hurts. The world he and his visual design team have created is truly a work of art. ~ The message and moral of the story are about as subtle and nuanced as a jackhammer. ~ The bad guys are all 100% completely evil, and the good guys are all but entirely saintly. ~ The lead actor has no discernable acting skills. ~ The dialogue was written by a 16-year-old intern. Because these are James Cameron's most typical trademarks, for pretty much all of his movies, which he has once again dutifully employed in Avatar 2: ~ The story is paper-thin. That's how he keeps tricking us into spending all our hard-earned money to see his movies, so much so that we've made him the most commercially successful director of all time. He has some kind of mysterious, special power that he secretly wields over us and we don't even notice.

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