The story’s protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will enable him to walk. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms, some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Na’vi, a sentient humanoid race that humans consider primitive, yet are more physically capable than humans. Standing three meters tall, with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Na’vi live in harmony with their unspoiled world. As humans encroach deeper into Pandora's forests in search of valuable minerals, the Na’vi unleash their formidable warrior abilities to defend their threatened existence.

Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars are living, breathing bodies that are controlled by a human "driver" through a technology that links the driver's mind to their Avatar body. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again. Sent deep into Pandora's jungles as a scout for the soldiers that will follow, Jake encounters many of Pandora's beauties and dangers. There he meets a young Na’vi female, Neytiri, whose beauty is only matched by her ferocity in battle.

Over time, Jake integrates himself into Neytiri's clan, and begins to fall in love with her. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth, and the Na’vi, forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.

Pretty much what hermi said.

I see it from a different light, my brother works at weta, worked on the movie and Iv seen a lot of it coming along from a while back and the technology and systems involved to make it is rather impressive.

I am no expert, but after working at Pandemic for 3 + years and being exposed to Weta a lot, I have a keen interest in this sort of thing.

The unfortunate part was, They have made this amazing CG movie, and only people who are interested in the technical side may really enjoy it, people looking for a story and dont care may not, I dont know yet but that is what I was refering too

No he didn't

@Opec

This may be true, but you haven't seen the movie yet, nor have I. So I'll pass judgement once its out. Too me it looks like it could be quite good.

I personally don't really care if it's CGI or real or whatever as long as the plot is good but, damn from the small chunks that I lifed from Wiki it is just well pretty lame for a "James Cameron". I guess everyone's allowed to make a mistake every once in a while, even if you're James Cameron.

Or they could use a lot more 'real' props and actors and stuff, like they did with Lord of the Rings. I got no problem with CGI, but when you start fully making characters in CGI and then placing them into a set which is made with CGI, it just starts becoming hard to swallow and looks a bit too wrong for my liking.