Best/Favourite movies of the year

[Grieve]

As corny as the movie was, you had to be impressed that it was mostly 3D animated characters making you really experience the corniness. I mean, the writing was horrible, but not because the 3D animated characters were unbelieveable. They really did come off as "actors" just following bad direction.

There were definitely corny moments and a few clunky lines, and the military dude was way too one-dimentional. But overall I thought the script and direction were very good. They made you care about the characters, and feel their pain when the military jackboot came down on them, and that's quite an achievement for a bunch of blue pixels. Like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, it made you believe in a world that is completely alien from anything we know. Extra brownie points, as Breand pointed out, for being a completely original story (despite Dances with Wolves "inspiration") rather than a remake or adaptation.