I opted for the whole kit & kaboodle - 3D & IMAX.

The storyline could NOT have been more predictable. The graphics could not have been more stunning. This wasn't Star Wars.

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While I wasn't driven to temporarily attach my nether-regions to the flaming state of timber, as SOON as he saw that girl, the movie was over to me. I knew it would follow the same love-story plot line. The only question left was: was he going to die in the end of the epic battle for humanity, or miraculously pull through?

Oh, and Sigourney Weaver's avatar looked an awful lot like Helen Hunt.