Avatar will almost certainly nab a Best Picture nod Tuesday when Oscar nominations are announced, but that doesn't impress the grumpy YouTube critic who earlier took down Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. In a droll YouTube spanking, he rips Avatar as a simplistic "sci-fi comedy" and pans the movie's Na'vi love interest as a sexual fantasy for nerds.
At a mere 18 minutes, the two-part video review by YouTube user RedLetterMedia isn't nearly as long as his 70-minute drubbing of Phantom Menace, which racked up millions of views late last year.
This time out, while the DIY critic says he liked the way director James Cameron manipulated the audience with a hateful villain and love story surrounded by impending catastrophe in Titanic, he rips those same elements in Avatar. In the first half of the review (embedded above), he dismisses the moon Pandora, where Avatar's action takes place, as an "unrealistic, cartoony world" that reminds him of when his grandkids put LSD in his coffee.
He describes the Na'vi as a "Blue Man Group meets black people" concoction that reduces audience members to "crying, tree-hugging man-babies." The visual effects artists gave blue Avatar hottie Neytiri "Disney eyes" combined with a nose and ears reminiscent of lovable cats and dogs, plus "big luscious lips" to produce a "perfect sexual-fantasy creature for nerds," the critic complains. "That's a big yawn to me."
See Part 2 of the review below.
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