I have many friends who have seen this film and everyone agrees the graphics and media technology is unbelievable. That is true- fantastic. But I also found the story line to be fully engrossing and the underlying messages of global destruction (in our case for oil) and a total disregard for indigenous people and complete rip off of their land and squashing of their culture (native americans) to be evident without over shadowing the film. And even though the film was nearly 3 hours long the time seemed to slip by and the movie over before I knew it. I'm a 50 something and I loved the film.