Avatar: Fire & Ash Reactions Reveal If James Cameron's Franchise Has The Juice For Another Billion Dollar Hit

Avatar: Fire & Ash Reactions Reveal If James Cameron's Franchise Has The Juice For Another Billion Dollar Hit By  Andy Behbakht Published 1 hour ago Having covered the world of entertainment journalism since 2010, including superhero/comic book media, Andy's career includes having worked for sites such FanSided, KSiteTV, TV Fanatic, It's Just Movies, Heroic Hollywood, TV Overmind, and more. Outside of writing, Andy is the host of The Showrunner Whisperer, The Flash Podcast, the editor-in-chief of Multiverse of Color, and the network director of DC TV Podcasts. Sign in to your ScreenRant account Summary Generate a summary of this story follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Thread Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap

Critics are finally giving their impressions on Avatar: Fire and Ash, as the beloved fantasy franchise continues. With 2025 getting closer to its end, one of Hollywood's most legendary directors will be part of concluding the year, with James Cameron bringing his billion-dollar series back to the big screen.

As Avatar: Fire and Ash is only a few weeks away from its theatrical release, multiple members of the press have been able to screen the film in advance and are finally sharing their initial reactions to Cameron's highly anticipated entry. Check out several social media reactions below:

ScreenRant's Graeme Guttman stressed that while there is "definitely a middle chapter feel" to the Avatar: Fire and Ash story, Cameron's sequel is praised for how "overwhelmingly immersive" the follow-up is.

ScreenRant's Molly Freeman shared how Cameron's 2025 installment "is visually stunning, and it has a better spectacle-to-story balance than previous films in the series," but with some "story choices" that are "bizarre" ones.

While feeling it's "albeit an overly long one," ScreenRant's Tatiana Hullender celebrated Avatar: Fire and Ash for being "a bonafide cinematic experience."

Avatar: Fire & Ash rehashes Way of Water, but better? Club-footed story, technically great, dialogue atrocious, politically the same de-colonial, anti-military stab. A technical triumph. Sigourney Weaver as 16 continues to be strange. It’s very fun and propulsive, but don’t expect more than that. — Gregory Nussen (@gregnussen.bsky.social) 2025-12-02T06:46:50.757Z

ScreenRant's Gregory Nussen added how the third outing "rehashes Way of Water, but better?" while elaborating on the "club-footed story, technically great," but with weaker points, such as "dialogue atrocious, politically the same de-colonial, anti-military stab."

Variety's Jazz Tangcay declared Avatar: Fire and Ash as a "staggering achievement of moviemaking," including its "gorgeous visuals" along with "thrilling new characters."

After three films, Collider's Perri Nemiroff "still can't get over how magical" the Avatar movies are, stating that "there’s a noticeable increase in complexity in quite a few aspects of the production."

Mama's Geeky's Tessa Smith calls Cameron's threequel "gorgeous to look at & certainly has its moments," while also sharing how the latest chapter "falls into the same trap of repetition as the previous films."

Courtney Howard commented how "James Cameron still has the sauce, making the epic spectacular feel emotionally impactful," adding that Avatar: Fire and Ash "is what movie theaters were built for."

Mike Ryan "truly love that these movies exist," despite "a couple beats were repeated from the previous film." However, in the end, Ryan praised that "for over three hours I was on a different planet."

The Avatar: Fire and Ash cast and Cameron will be taking the "audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family." Cameron, who directed the third installment, also wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, while the three of them worked on the story with Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno.

James Cameron's Avatar: Fire and Ash is scheduled to open in theaters on December 19.

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Like Follow Followed Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy Release Date December 19, 2025 Runtime 195 Minutes Director James Cameron 7 Images Quaritch looks on in the trailer for Avatar Fire and AshNeytiri looks up at Jake in the trailer for Avatar Fire and AshBrendan Cowell manning a turret on a boat as Mick Scoresby in Avatar Fire and AshZoe Saldana as Neytiri snarling with a bow in Avatar_ Fire and Ash trailerNeytiri and Jake walking forward in the Avatar Fire and Ash trailerHuman vehicles in Avatar: Fire and AshSpider falling in Avatar: Fire and AshClose

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• Sam Worthington Jake Sully
• Zoe Saldana Neytiri
• Sigourney Weaver Kiri
• Stephen Lang Colonel Miles Quaritch

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