Avatar: Still a Groundbreaker in CGI, but Not in Story
I suppose you could argue that the story wasn’t what Director James Cameron was aiming for, it was the visuals. The spectacle of it all was the point, and it certainly shows.

The world is going bad, humans are no longer laughing, the situation is serious. the god of jokes has only one solution: michaël youn and his gang! their mission: to accomplish the 11 commandments of jokes in order to put people back on the right track of laughter by pushing back the limits of stupidity. waltzing in weightlessness at an altitude of 15,000 meters, flooding a house to turn it into a swimming pool, rollerblading under sleeping pills.
I suppose you could argue that the story wasn’t what Director James Cameron was aiming for, it was the visuals. The spectacle of it all was the point, and it certainly shows.
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