Avatar - A big hoo haa?

I finally watched the largely anticipated movie Avatar recently and to my greatest disappointment, it never lived up to my expectations.

Yes, fair enough the movie really had a nice fantasy world to it, a very pretty one too.. But the story plot felt like a copy from movies.

First of, the whole story about the Jake that entered this fantasy world and got to know the way of their living style and came to fall in love with a native and changes his perception from trying to get the natives out of their land, to getting his own people to stop chasing the natives away somewhat mirrors the story of Pocahontas.

Secondly, the part where Jake tried to get his bird reminds me a hell lot about Harry Potter at the time where Harry bowed to the hippogriff and tried to get it to allow him to ride on it (In Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban.

All in all, the movie wasn't that great.. It's creativity in creating the fantasy world and also the visual effects are to be applaused, but other than that, it is just another movie.