Avatar: The Way Of Water Review - What Cinematic Sorcery Looks Like At Its Best

Be warned: there is a lot of water in the second Avatar film. Unlike the fabulous foliage of the first film, Avatar : The Way of The Water is filled with spectacular stretches of water.

Avatar: The Way Of The Water made us wait for thirteen years. Now that it is here, cannot say it is a disappointing sequel. It is not. It leaves you revved up moved and feeling good about just being alive.

A lot has changed since James Cameron gave us the first Avatar film. The human factor in our civilization has diminished drastically since then. I would say watching Jake and Neytiri (every time she is called out I hear ‘Gayatri) ,their love for their children and the family’s determination to stay together through the worst human attacks, is the core of Avatar: The Way Of The Water.

Cameron captures the family frolic with utmost joy and affection. So deep is the humanism of the Sully family and so captivating the chaos that is captured around it , that we are left with no choice but to go with the flow.

There is a sense of infinite wisdom in the way Jake Sully holds his family together. On the other end of the sensory spectrum, Jake’s son Lo’ak’s bonding with a mammoth sea creature named Payakan harks back to the ecological innocence of the Lassie films.

Cameron has an equal respect for both the extremes: he is as skilled at swimming in shallow waters as the deep end.