Twelve years after he unleashed the most commercially successful movie of all-time, 'Titanic,' James Cameron is finally back with a few feature film: the computer-generated sci-fi spectacle 'Avatar.'

Understandably, anticipation for the film's U.S. premiere is huge. The movie has already premiered to solid reviews in the U.K., and entertainment trades in the States are liking what they're seeing, too. Take a look.
 Twelve years after he unleashed the most commercially successful movie of all-time, 'Titanic,' James Cameron is finally back with a few feature film: the computer-generated sci-fi spectacle 'Avatar.'

Understandably, anticipation for the film's U.S. premiere is huge. The movie has already premiered to solid reviews in the U.K., and entertainment trades in the States are liking what they're seeing, too. Take a look:

Variety: "The King of the World sets his sights on creating another world entirely in 'Avatar,' and it's very much a place worth visiting. The most expensive and technically ambitious film ever made, James Cameron's long-gestating epic pitting Earthly despoilers against a forest-dwelling alien race delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back-to-nature theme that will play very well around the world, and yet is rather ironic coming from such a technology-driven picture. Twelve years after 'Titanic,' which still stands as the all-time B.O. champ, Cameron delivers again with a film of universal appeal that just about everyone who ever goes to the movies will need to see."

Hollywood Reporter: "A dozen years later, James Cameron has proven his point: He is king of the world. As commander-in-chief of an army of visual-effects technicians, creature designers, motion-capture mavens, stunt performers, dancers, actors and music and sound magicians, he brings science-fiction movies into the 21st century with the jaw-dropping wonder that is 'Avatar.'"

Screen Daily: "Twelve years after 'Titanic,' James Cameron delivers his latest blockbuster and once again takes cinema to a new level of remarkable spectacle. An epic film born entirely of Cameron's imagination, 'Avatar' uses tailor-made technology to create the most astonishing visual effects yet seen on screen and blends them seamlessly into a mythical sci-fi story about an ancient alien civilization fighting the encroaching human menace. It's an unprecedented marriage of technology and storytelling which is on the whole remarkably successful."

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The London Times: "Movie events don't get bigger than this. James Cameron's long-awaited follow-up to 'Titanic,' the most successful film to date, is immense in every way: from the ambition and scope of its vision, to the ground-breaking technological wizardry, to the staggering size of its budget."

Empire: "'Avatar' is unequivocally, completely, 100% the film that has been percolating in James Cameron's head for the last 14 years. It is not, in all probability, the film that you had in yours when you first heard that the man who directed 'Aliens' and 'The Terminator' was returning to sci-fi with a movie so ambitious that he had to build the technology to make it happen. If you can let go of your version and embrace Cameron's -- if you're not, in other words, one of those splenetic internet fanboy types who've apparently made their minds up about 'Avatar' before seeing it -- then 'Avatar' is a hugely rewarding experience: rich, soulful and exciting in the way that only comes from seeing a master artist at work."

The Guardian: "Any lingering suspicions that James Cameron has become the Al Gore of Hollywood will be firmly extinguished by his new, monstrously-hyped creation. For a while, it looked like he was giving us a reasonably sweet-natured blockbuster, suggesting that the natural world has, like, the power to heal us all, or something. Then Cameron sends in the helicopter gunships and starts blowing (stuff) up, big time. Way to undermine your own message."

The Sun: "'Avatar,' out next Thursday, is truly an event movie. The Sneak still recalls sitting in a cinema 12 years ago watching awestruck as 'Titanic' slipped beneath the Atlantic waves. And your critic is sure that, even when he is pushing a Zimmer, he will remember the moment the main spaceship of the baddie corporation goes down in 'Avatar.'It is overwhelming, and that is because you are emotionally tied up in the characters and the story."

The Independent: "A paraplegic marine sent to a new planet, armed with a virtual body, to ingratiate himself with locals in order to gain their trust and subsequently destroy them? Sounds like the plot of a bad sci-film film. But as it turns out, it's the plot of a highly entertaining sci-fi film -- that being, of course, 'Avatar,' one of the most anticipated films of recent years."

Do these reviews make you want to see 'Avatar'?
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