If the title One Battle After Another weren’t already taken, it might be a tidy fit for the third installment of James Cameron’s sprawling “Blue Man Group” sci-fi adventure, Avatar: Fire and Ash. Yes, the movie offers gargantuan-scale spectacle, imposing technological wizardry and virtually nonstop action involving over-qualified and mostly unrecognizable actors in motion-capture suits. But it’s easily the most repetitious entry in the big-screen series, with a been-there, bought-the-t-shirt fatigue that’s hard to ignore.
That leaves way too much time over the movie’s ass-numbing three-and-a-quarter hours to wince at the risible dialogue coming from the mouths of Na’vi folk on the distant moon, Pandora. Or to stew in envy over their absence of body fat.
The 13-year gap between Avatar and its first sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, allowed time for a renewed sense of awe at the scope of Cameron’s bio-diverse worldbuilding,…
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