Aristomenis Tsirbas
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But now that it has finally arrived, all I can say is 'Is that all there is?' I already saw this story earlier this year in a CGI animation called "Battle for Terra" and I certainly didn't experience the sense of awe that I recall upon seeing "Jurassic Park" way back in 1993, even without 3D.
It’s not an uncommon theme in science fiction these days, as the very similarly premised animated feature, Battle for Terra, came out just two years prior.
In terms of story, Avatar is a steroidal hodgepodge of been-there, done-that melodrama and paper-thin present-day allusions that distractingly, unintentionally hew tightly to the plot of Aristomenis Tsirbas’s Battle for Terra from earlier this year.
In terms of story, Avatar is a steroidal hodgepodge of been-there, done-that melodrama and paper-thin present-day allusions that hew tightly to the plot of this past April’s Battle for Terra .
But it’s more than that: Not only is it Star Wars and The Matrix, it’s also John Smith and Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves and Fahrenheit 9/11, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Rider Haggard, Hayao Miyazaki and Jack Kirby, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest and Battle for Terra, Jurassic Park and Aliens.
When individual fighter crafts begin an attack, Mala lures one of them into danger, but then rescues its downed fighter, Jim Stanton (voice of Luke Wilson, "Legally Blonde," "Henry Poole Is Here"), and nurses him back to health with the assistance of his robot, Giddy (voice of David Cross, TV's "Arrested Development").
Behind the simple story is a fable about the interaction and symbiosis of land and sea, and while it isn't one of Studio Ghibli's best works, it's far superior to the American Battle for Terra, directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas, who worked as a visual effects artist on his fellow Canadian James Cameron's Titanic.