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If Avatar is an environmentalist fable, then it is a failure. And if you want to read it as such – a liberal allegory pleading for humans to respect nature and the indigenous peoples who live in a symbiotic relationship with it – then, sure, I can see how Avatar is a “bad” film. I can see how the journey of protagonist Jake Sully is a narrative badly cribbed from Dances With Wolves. I can see how the representation of…
[MONSTERS VS ALIENS trailer here.]
Monsters vs Aliens is actually pretty cool in concept: An attempt to reinvent classic monsters from movies of the 1950s in order to celebrate their Otherness, this film is what happens when Todd Hayne’s Far From Heaven gets mashed together with a Saturday morning cartoon.
