A feast for the eyes, especially in 3D. The plot, ripped from 'Dances with Wolves' (with a dash of Smurfs thrown in), is a surefire success story about a lame ex-Marine who finds new legs via an avatar on the moon Pandora, falls in love with a native Streisand lookalike, learns the art of bird riding, defects to the enemy and declares war on his former commander. Although the ending is a ten on a nauseating new age scale, it's surpassed in every way by a gargantuan preceding battle. "Avatar" is a technical breakthrough that makes movie history with a capital M.