I know I'm probably behind everyone else seeing this movie.  I just saw it last night.  There seem to be 2 groups, people who loved it and people who didn't.  I was wondering what everyone here thought of it.

I'm in the didn't care for it crowd.  I'm still having a hard time suspending disbelief with the live action cgi movies, and the switch from the non-cgi base of operations to the all cgi forest made it worse.

But I could forgive that if the story was compelling.  Instead, I thought it was an overdone folk story, and therefore predictable.  The characters were caricatures.  It lacked the complexity to keep me interested.

But my review may be biased.  I had heard the Pocahontas connection before seeing the movie, although I think I still would've been bored with the lack of character development.  And our ex-roomie loves Avatar, so he bought it and brought it over for us to watch.  And narrated the whole thing for us.  "Oh, you're going to love the helicopters [gives a full description of what they look like]."  "Look at that.  They do that because..."  Yes, I can see that, isn't that what the MOVIE is supposed to be telling me?

At any rate, I think this movie would be best for teenagers or older kids.  I give it the, "watch it on Netflix instant queue just so you can say you've seen it" rating.  It's not horrible, but it really doesn't live up to the hype.  The CGI is pretty good, so it is worth watching just for the visual effects.