THE Vatican has slammed multi-million blockbuster Avatar as "technology without emotion" in a scathing attack. Created by director James Cameron - who also made Titanic - Avatar has taken more than £700million at the box office since it opened last week and is on course to be the biggest grossing film of all time and has rave reviews.
But this failed to impress L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper which said the 3D sci fi blockbuster had "Numerous captivating special effects but little true emotion, that is human emotion...visually there is impact but the plot is stale."
The damning verdict came after the film had its debut in Italy - ironically at a cinema just a few minutes walk from St Peter's with Cameron and a host of Italian VIP's attending the red carpet ceremony.
Osservatore Romano's review also hit out at the "enormous cost" of the film - which reportedly had a budget of £187million making it the most expensive movie ever made.
Avatar - about a disabled marine who infiltrates a race of giant blue aliens - combines live action with digitally-enhanced performances.
The review added that Cameron's film was "bland" and blamed this on the fact he had "concentrated" too much on the special effects of the planet Pandora, "in the end telling a story which is more sentimental then searching" and put it on a par with Dances With Wolves starring Kevin Costner.
It added:"In the end it is just reduced to an anti imperialistic, anti militaristic parable which doesn't have the same cutting bite as other more committed films on the same theme."
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