Avatar

Given all the buzz about Avatar, I really wanted to see this in the theaters. Of course, thanks to that same buzz, I had a pretty good idea what to expect: beautiful effects coupled with a relatively unoriginal story.

There's been a lot of criticism about this one.  Over at i09, Annalee Newitz  criticizes it as a white man's guilt movie. Others describe it as a mutant love child of Ferngully, Dances with Wolves, Pocahontas, and the Smurfs.

Valid points, but they miss one very important...