Avatar (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo) [Blu-ray] (2009)

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced today that James Cameron’s epic AVATAR phenomenal best selling Blu-ray was never sold in shops after just four days, with an astonishing 2.7 million units in North America only. AVATAR Blu-ray sales down the previous record of 2.5 million units. AVATAR retail sales of Blu-ray and DVD have exceeded 6.7 million units since its launch last Thursday, the step to be the best-selling titles in recent history. The first extraordinary sales success of Avatar is clearly a change of game for the Blu-ray. Blu-ray for the first time surpassed DVD players in shops around the country as fans to update their systems for best picture and sound quality experience available. The latest high-definition experience for the audience viewed at home, April-AVATAR Blu-ray and DVD movies and corresponding menu, use the entire disk space to offer maximum image quality and sound. An action-adventure-journey of self-discovery that shows how dramatically the invasion of human life balance nearly destroyed the planet Pandora, the Oscar ® and Golden Globe ®-winning AVATAR the highest grossing film of all time taking more than $ 2700000000 in box office worldwide. Written by James Cameron and produced with his long-time collaborator Jon Landau, AVATAR stars Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Wes Studi and Laz Alonso.

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Editorial Reviews

After 12 years of thinking about it (and waiting for movie technology to catch up with his visions), James Cameron followed up his unsinkable Titanic with Avatar, a sci-fi epic meant to trump all previous sci-fi epics. Set in the future on a distant planet, Avatar spins a simple little parable about greedy colonizers (that would be mankind) messing up the lush tribal world of Pandora. A paraplegic Marine named Jake (Sam Worthington) acts through a 9-foot-tall avatar that allows him to roam the planet and pass as one of the Na’vi, the blue-skinned, large-eyed native people who would very much like to live their peaceful lives without the interference of the visitors. Although he’s supposed to be gathering intel for the badass general (Stephen Lang) who’d like to lay waste to the planet and its inhabitants, Jake naturally begins to take a liking to the Na’vi, especially the feisty Neytiri (Zoë Saldana, whose entire performance, recorded by Cameron’s complicated motion-capture system, exists as a digitally rendered Na’vi). The movie uses state-of-the-art 3D technology to plunge the viewer deep into Cameron’s crazy toy box of planetary ecosystems and high-tech machinery. Maybe it’s the fact that Cameron seems torn between his two loves–awesome destructive gizmos and flower-power message mongering–that makes Avatar’s pursuit of its point ultimately uncertain. That, and the fact that Cameron’s dialogue continues to clunk badly. If you’re won over by the movie’s trippy new world, the characters will be forgivable as broad, useful archetypes rather than standard-issue stereotypes, and you might be able to overlook the unsurprising central plot. (The overextended “take that, Michael Bay” final battle sequences could tax even Cameron enthusiasts, however.) It doesn’t measure up to the hype (what could?) yet Avatar frequently hits a giddy delirium all its own. The film itself is our Pandora, a sensation-saturated universe only the movies could create. –Robert Horton

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