The final trailer for Avatar 2 has released online, and alongside announcing that tickets
are now on sale, it also includes some stunning new footage from James Cameron's highly
anticipated sci-fi sequel.
In this video, I'm going to be giving you my reaction and brief breakdown to what is
likely the final trailer for Avatar: The Way Of Water, due to be released
in theatres on December 16th.
There will be a link for the trailer in the description if you havn't seen it already.
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But without further a do, lets dive into my breakdown and thoughts on the new
Avatar 2 trailer.
So the final trailer for Avatar The Way Of Water gives us a lot of new footage from James
Cameron's film, and while it's again quite light on plot, like the previous trailers,
I'm really sucked in by the mood that it creates
and the promising tone of the film when thinking about the themes and potential character work
on display.
While the original Avatar followed Jake's introduction to the Omaticaya
clan, the sequel is shifting focus to the water-based Metkyina clan of Pandora.
Right from the start we see Jake and his family turning to
their clan in an effort to keep his family safe.
And based on previous footage from the other trailers, I'm guessing that the returning
humans led by a revived Quaritch have all but
destroyed the Omaticaya's homeland.
The mining operation from the first Avatar looks to be back in the sequel, but now excelled
to an even greater degree, as we see that the forces led
by Miles Quaritch are using recombinant marines, advanced exoskeleton tech and water vehicles
to bring an equal sense of threat to the clan's water combat.
We know from articles that Quaritch has been brought back to life by
the RDA, becoming a Recombinant, an avatar body embedded with the memories of a human
soldier.
So quite the reversal to the first films events that followed Jake Sully and his awakening
in an avatar body.
And with Quaritch seeming to remember Jake siding with the Na'vi in the first film there's
of course that big element of revenge at play too.
The question is will he evolve as an individual as the film goes on becoming more sided with
the Navi, because actor Stephen Lang did say in a recent interview
that the character is changing and starting to learn a different point of view via his
new existence and form.
I think they are hiding this from these trailers and with Quaritch barely
being present in most of them, to me, they are definitely keeping something under wraps
with that character.
While we don't get much Quaritch though, the final Avatar: The Way of Water trailer does
reveal a small taste of the RDA's all-out assault with nostalgic shots of Neytiri coming
down on a samson vehicle with a bow and arrow in
hand.
We also see more of the sea dragon, which is this films version of the dragon assault
ship now on water, and what I like to call the
waterwhale attacking the vehicle and swimming towards Lo'ak in a different moment too.
The post credit scene during the re-release of Avatar 1 showed us Loak helping a water
creature that had been injured and maybe this waterwhale
is the kind of Turuk Makto of the sequel, which Loak might have to try and bond with.
His character does seem like a big focus of this
final trailer and especially with how they give us more towards his struggles when adapting
to the new clan alongside his affection towards the water clan's Tsireya.
She and him look to be tied up on the sea Dragon during what I'm
guessing is one of the final battles, so I'd guess that the heart and threat of the movie
comes through the children being threatened or
captured by the RDA.
It was also said in the Empire article from a while back that because Jake and his family
adopted a human son named Spider, that the Metkyina clan don't trust
siding with a clan that could lead them to being killed.
Spider is said to be the real human son of Quaritch that had been adopted by Jake and
Neytiri after the first war, and there is a shot of what looks to be Quaritch and spider
riding a banshee above the homebase of the Metkyina, so there's a lot more character
issues at play in this sequel, that are yet to be
revealed.
A lot of the early struggles with the Metkyina in this trailer are the focus, with Tonowari,
the clan's leader, telling his people to treat the omaticaya as their brothers
and sisters and to teach them their ways, so we are likely to learn a lot about what's
within the oceans of Pandora, and how over time, Jake and his family feel like total
outsiders not just within the clan but also towards
what they know about Pandora through it's oceans.
It'll be the collaboration between the navi of the forest and the navi of the ocean that
will get them all through a much bigger and evolved threat this time around.
From this final trailer, it's clear that Cameron's sequel is centered around two main ideals
in water and family, two that he has felt incredibly driven
by throughout his filmmaking career and personal life.
And by the looks of it, the sequel's stunning underwater frames are being
transcended using new technology and the familial themes through the Sully family, will be the
driving force behind the conflict.
So what did I think of this new trailer for Avatar 2.
Well, I was expecting at least a bit more story in this trailer because of it being
the final one, and also because it was shown in front of Monday Night Football in america
with a lot of people tuning in.
At the same time, I can understand that like the original film, they are going for this
marketing approach where the experience of being transported
to Pandora or going back to this world after so many years is going to give a new sense
of anticipation.
I do like the added focus on family with the sequel and the suggestion that there's
going to be some really powerful and emotive moments onscreen, whether it's Jake having
to save his family and the Metakyina clan from
destruction or his children's struggles in adapting to a new environment and group of
Na'vi people.
Based on what Cameron and the actors have said in articles, I'm sure this stuff is
going to be more detailed come the release of the film, and you would think so with a
3 hour 10 minute runtime.
The trailers and this new one, suggest that the struggles are smaller
problems in the larger scale conflict.
But in the articles I've read, it seems like these problems are going to be the backbone
of the story, so I definitelly think they are hiding
big turning points and moments that define these characters as they get older.
But while a greater sense of the story wasn't here, the visual spectacle is what really
blows me away with every new piece of marketing and you
can see in every frame and the numerous motion capture performances on screen, that Cameron
has really put the effort in over the last decade
to make this look as impressive as it does.
Visaully and thematically, I'm expecting big things with the details they are currently
hiding from this film, and the world of Avatar presents that greater imagination and wider
canvas to do something really incredible all these years later.
From a character perspective, again, I'm liking everything I'm seeing
surrounding the children of Jake and Neytiri, and especially how they are going to somewhat
follow Jake in a way from the first film, in that they have to adapt and connect to
a new group of people, and discover things they
never knew which challenges their ways and beliefs.
The underwater shots and the potential for a greater connection to Eywa and the creatures
within may actually be the hidden soul of this film and with their parents having to
protect them and fight for that collaboration with different clans, it makes this story
have more opportunities to be a well told drama disquised
as science fiction epic.
Cameron said in the total film article that the focus with the sequel was more on characters
and story, so I'm convinced that they are hiding a lot of this
stuff from the marketing.
I was further impressed by the score used, which in all trailers so far, has been a huge
promising feature.
Simon Franglen is doing the music this time around, and after the passing of James Horner,
he had a lot to live up to, with the soundtrack of the original being so great previously.
So to hear him use Horner's motifs and bring
more new cues to that, it makes me trust his particular process when it comes to the sound
that supports the image.
So from a production side of things, and from the greater potential
of what the themes we're seeing could bring to the story, my excitement is still really
high going into Avatar The Way Of Water.
But that was my video discussing my thoughts and breaking down the final trailer for Avatar:
The Way Of Water.
It is going to be interesting to see if Avatar 2 can really blow up
at the box officie like the original, and this trailer regardless of it being light
on plot, does give us a greater taste of the action and scale that Cameron is bringing
with the sequel.
You know that I'm excited for it and regardless of what people have said about the film, positively
or negatively, I have hope that Cameron can deliver another great sequel in
his long history of successful work.
We'll have to see, but if you've seen the final trailer, what are your thoughts towards
the new footage, and are you excited to see what else
Cameron has in store for us with the first of his 4 planned sequels.
Let me know down below in the comments section.
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