Movie Review | Avatar 2 plays on Cameron’s strengths to deliver a breathtaking epic

“Avatar 2” is the movie event of the decade. However, to understand how “Avatar” has stayed relevant in an oversaturated market already fatigued with multi-billion-dollar IP franchises, we must look into why James Cameron made Avatar in the first place. Pandora isn’t simply a fictional world: Cameron elevates it to an immersive, theme park quality experience every time the lights fade out in the theatre and the audience are plunged into the ground-breaking technology that has made the film possible — a complete experience of sight and sound. Avatar 2 lingers upon the visual beauty of its living environments, allowing us to soak into its splendour because that is what makes the grief real: You truly feel the loss of a beloved animal the Na’vi has a life-bond with; the destruction of the reef dwellers’ homes to discourage dissent hit us harder this time around because the he allows us enough time to seep into the hymn of the Na’vi: that we are all connected with the world and by that extension, to one another. Revisiting Pandora in its latest ‘avatar’ makes the runtime of the movie worth every second of it, especially because we are now one with its “mind world” just like the Na’vi.