Once you get over the memory of "Dances With Wolves," (essentially the same story, with the same emotional intensity and character values), this is a technically creative, well-acted, gripper of a film. We've come a long way since "Star Wars" and it's all here. Effects have a kind of perfection that's fun but sometimes distracting. Overall, I wouldn't have missed it, it was worth the 3 hours. As effects-driven films go it gets an A in my book. (The "something blue" is the color of the Pandorans.)