‘Avatar 2’ Stuns Press in Rave First Reactions: ‘Visual Masterpiece,‘ ‘Mind-Blowing,’ ’Never Doubt’ James Cameron - Variety

After 13 years of anticipation, James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” has yet been unveiled for members of the property pursuing the movie’s satellite premiere successful London. The archetypal reactions to the movie are overwhelmingly positive, with galore journalists blown distant erstwhile again by Cameron’s boundless imaginativeness and pristine ocular effects.

“Happy to accidental ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is phenomenal,” wrote Fandango’s Erik Davis. “Bigger, amended & much affectional than ‘Avatar,’ the movie is visually breathtaking, visceral and incredibly engrossing. The story, the spectacle, the spirituality, the quality – this is moviemaking & storytelling astatine its implicit finest.”

“Happy Sad Confused” big Josh Horowitz raved, “James Cameron erstwhile again shows filmmakers however it’s done. I’ve said it a 1000 times. Never uncertainty him. ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is however you bash epic blockbuster-ing. Emotional, visceral and arsenic large arsenic movies get.”

“I had religion James Cameron would rise the barroom with the effects but these visuals are mind-blowing,” Collider’s Peri Nemiroff added. “One stunning framework aft the next.”

“Avatar: The Way of Water” erstwhile again centers connected Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), present parents who are forced to support their household from a caller menace to Pandora. The formed besides includes Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang and Kate Winslet.

Even earlier “The Way of Water” screened for press, it earned a rave archetypal absorption from nary different than Guillermo del Toro. The Oscar victor wrote connected Twitter that the “Avatar” sequel is “a staggering achievement,” adding, “It’s a chock-full of majestic vistas and emotions astatine an epic, epic scale. A maestro astatine the highest of his power.”

While the film’s three-hour-and-10 infinitesimal runtime has been making headlines for weeks, it doesn’t look anyone was excessively bothered by the length. Cameron himself has said helium doesn’t attraction if viewers permission the theatre to usage the bathroom.

“I don’t privation anybody whining astir magnitude erstwhile they beryllium and binge-watch [television] for 8 hours,” Cameron told Empire magazine over the summer. “I tin astir constitute this portion of the review. ‘The agonizingly agelong three-hour movie…’ It’s like, springiness maine a fucking break. I’ve watched my kids beryllium and bash 5 one-hour episodes successful a row. Here’s the large societal paradigm displacement that has to happen: it’s good to get up and spell pee.”

“Avatar: The Way of Water” opens successful theaters nationwide Dec. 16 from Disney. Check retired archetypal reactions to the movie below.