The Avatar 2 Teaser Is Certainly Blue

For a long time there’s been this crowd waiting with anticipation for one of James Cameron’s big pet projects to bomb. When reports came out of Titanic going way over budget, people thought it’d be that one — nope, biggest hit of 1997. When trailers for Avatar began showing up, and South Park accurately parodied the film before it was released, everyone thought “this is gonna be Cameron’s crash down to Earth,” but — nope, biggest hit of 2009.

Thirteen years later, it’s almost time for Cameron to come out of his groundhog hole again, and the odds of seeing his shadow seem greater than ever with his latest being a sequel to Avatar. The thing about all those other films is that they weren’t repeats of what he had done before. It’s unproven ground for him — and that’s brought the familiar murmuring of  “yup, this is gonna be the one.”

We still don’t have the foggiest idea of what Avatar 2 is about, other than Jake (now stuck in his Avatar body foreverz) and his Navi wife (whose name I have forgotten since I saw this movie a long time ago) raising a family and frolicking through intricately detailed scenes of alien nature. That’s all you get from the teaser, except a few naval base shots. I guess they’re still around.

What’s most worrisome is that I can’t think of another plot this premise can have, other than “the invading humans want to destroy our world.” It can’t be as peaceful as the teaser suggests or people would get bored, but the sources of conflict are pretty limited. It’s either repeat Movie 1, or do nothing. How is he going to make three MORE of these?

If it were anyone else, we’d predict mediocre earnings, but Cameron’s ability to defy gravity makes it hard to predict. Maybe this is the biggest hit of 2022? We don’t see how, but it’s got the Cameron brand!