While the plot was in your face anti-Bush warmongering (note "shock and awe" phrase), pro-green (the whole planet is interconnected - the trees, inhabitants, etc), pro-spiritual (earth mother), and the inhabitants (referred to as savages) were a melding of muslims, africans, creoles/haitians, native americans (can't figure out the tails - weren't used for anything, not balance, not to hold onto limbs, nothing), the effects were outstanding. I found myself reaching for things floating in the air!