Avatar is FernGully

Last night, Row and I went to the movies for the first time since Samuel was born. It was good fun. We got to wear these crazy 3D glasses while watching Avatar. I really enjoyed it, visually quite spectacular. As we left the cinema Row’s assessment was that it was just a more sexied up version of the 1992 Australian movie, FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Check out this mash-up: Avatar trailer audio, with snippets from FernGully.

Here’s the real Avatar trailer | Here’s Rich Beeston’s Fervr review

14 Responses to “Avatar is FernGully”

  1. Tim January 2, 2010 at 7:36 pm #

    I knew it :P

  2. Julie January 2, 2010 at 8:05 pm #

    Went to see it last night too. I had forgotten about Ferngully – don’t think I saw it since year 8. Avatar is so Ferngully – with the score of Titanic thrown in ;)

  3. Timothy Lee January 2, 2010 at 8:50 pm #

    oh wow…

  4. davemiers January 3, 2010 at 11:48 pm #

    with the score of Titanic thrown in

    haha – i started singing the celine dion song on the way out of the cinema!!!!

  5. Tim Clemens January 6, 2010 at 6:27 pm #

    classic!
    good pick!
    Thanks again for today dude

  6. davemiers January 7, 2010 at 1:03 pm #

    no worries timmy c. great to hang with you guys!!

  7. Nathan January 8, 2010 at 12:44 pm #

    It’s also a Pocahontas rip off

  8. davemiers January 8, 2010 at 12:56 pm #

    that’s gold!!!

  9. Domenica February 2, 2010 at 2:07 am #

    While I really enjoyed Avatar all I could keep thinking the entire time was, “this is a high tech adult version of ferngully.” I really loved Avatar, was happy I saw it, thought the special effects were incredible, but didn’t see why people were so affected by the plot and message of the movie…It’s like he watched ferngully and thought how can i spend more money and get people to watch this???

  10. Domenica February 2, 2010 at 2:08 am #

    really funny to see how many people thought the same thing

  11. The Worm Grower April 15, 2010 at 9:33 am #

    Avatar should be named the most creative movie since Star Wars.

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