The protagonists experience exotic, danger-filled alien landscapes on different planets with bizarre flora and fauna, and take samples. Following Grace's death, he asks Tsu’tey, who has been made clan leader, and the entire clan to stand with him and face the humans. In reference to the use of the term shock and awe in the film, Cameron said, "We know what it feels like to launch the missiles. Avatar was the highest-grossing film of all time for 9 years until it was surpassed by Avengers: Endgame in 2019. She is at first angry with Jake for having caused her to kill the viperwolves needlessly and leaves him.

The planet reacts to the arrival of the protagonist by immobilizing him with creeper-like tendrils from the surrounding plants that embrace him, an idea that was re-used towards the end of Avatar when Grace Augustine's and later Jake's human bodies were placed under the Tree of Souls for their respective consciousness transfers. Matthew Pejkovic of Matt's Movie Reviews felt the film has a spiritual quality to it and said, "Avatar provides the ultimate journey to a world unlike anything seen before it, with a deep spiritual core giving substance to its most impressive display of style. We also know that the movie will be an epic with a runtime of 190 minutes, that's three hours and ten minutes. The sketch shows a male and female character on an alien planet, a tree with a spiral shape and a spaceship in the background. That night, Jake looks at his queue, a sensitive part of his avatar body that is located at the tip of a long appendage connected to his head (at the end of his "ponytail") that plays an important role in Pandora's ecosystem.The film was released in traditional 2D and 3D formats, along with an IMAX 3D release in selected theaters.

Due to Cameron's personal convictions about climate change, he allowed only plant-based (vegan) food to be served on set. When all things seem bleak, the native wildlife of Pandora strikes back in force, seemingly responding to Jake's earlier plea to Eywa for help. Cameron also made a series of paintings, showing "jagged, vertical mountains or cliffs wreathed by clouds and mist". In August 1996, Cameron announced that after completing Titanic, he would film Avatar, which would make use of synthetic, or computer-generated, actors.Visually, the film was upscaled to 4K resolution, with a higher level of detail and altered color grading. The look of the Na'vi– the humanoids indigenous to Pandora– was inspired by a dream that Cameron's mother had, long before he started work on Avatar. It has a beautiful forest with a vast network of interconnected, bioluminescent trees, a glowing river, and a deadly atmosphere.

Kate Winslet is playing the role of Ronal in all the Avatar sequels, marking hers and James Cameron's first collaboration since the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.These willow-like trees gravitate toward the female lead as she passes by and two characters kiss beneath the tendril trees. Avatar (marketed as James Cameron's Avatar) is a 2009 epic science fiction film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, [6] and Sigourney Weaver. In the morning, the RDA discovers the wreckage and sees that six of their men were killed by the Na'vi. Jake is caught by her fellow Na’vi, but Neytiri defuses the situation by telling her people that she witnessed him being chosen by the seeds of Eywa, a spiritual and also physical biological entity that the Na'vi revere, which indicate him as a pure spirit.

Jim Vejvoda of IGN gave Avatar a 9/10, saying "The running time and the overall formulaic nature of the story is what keeps me from giving Avatar a higher score. Avatar 2is finally, officially, completely finished ahead of its release in cinemas very, VERY soon, so we'll soon know what The Way of Water means. A week prior to the American release, Zoe Saldana promoted the film on Adult Swim when she was interviewed by an animated Space Ghost. One of the inspirations for the look of the Na'vi came from a dream that Cameron's mother had told him about.The three-and-a-half-minute trailer of the film premiered live on November 1, 2009, during a Dallas Cowboys football game at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on the Diamond Vision screen, one of the world's largest video displays, and to TV audiences viewing the game on Fox.