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The floating mountains held with bound vegetation were pure Dali. And the anti-exploitation/invasion sentiment was pure Anti-American sentiment. Odd that it’s a Hollywood blockbuster then, innit? It is, as others have said, Pocahontas meets tall hippy smurfs but it was beautiful in parts. The plot was typical myth structure. Yet it was good to see a hero who was disabled even if his deeds of derring-do were accomplished in another body.
The much talked about 3-D was not at all invasive and it was kind of the director not to shoot us in the eye with an arrow or throw rocks at us. It seemed a coming of age of sorts. The technology was almost not the real protagonist of the film and it made me hopeful for cinema maybe two or three years down the line when 3-D becomes commonplace and we don’t feel like a 1927 audience watching ‘The Jazz Singer“.
