Avatar: The Way of Water
4K Ultra HD
Blu Ray
Avatar: The Way of Water is a visually stunning sequel with superior 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray quality, audio, and loaded extras.
Avatar: The Way of Water displays in Ultra HD with a striking blend of rich, vibrant colours and subtle shades achieved via WCG and HDR, offering unprecedented detail and depth. The film sets new visual standards, showing pronounced colour differences and enhancing the tropical beauty of Pandora.
The film's immersive audio mix leverages surround and overhead channels to deliver engaging effects, enhance viewer experience, and recreate realistic ambiance, effortlessly tracking off-screen activities and angle switches to enrich nuances like dialogue and action sequences.
Explore Pandora's cinematic journey with bonus features including a dive into the RDA's return, new characters, challenging technologies and the film’s creation process, all in a 150-minute segment. It can be experienced individually or collectively.
The sequel, set ten years after the original, flawlessly continues the Sully family's saga with unparalleled detail in its storytelling and CGI technique, evoking fresh excitement and maintaining the unique Cameron touch despite familiar narrative arcs.
Director: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
Plot: Jake Sully lives with his newfound family formed on the extrasolar moon Pandora. Once a familiar threat returns to finish what was previously started, Jake must work with Neytiri and the army of the Na'vi race to protect their home.
Disc Release Date: 20 June 2023
all scores
- Video90
- Audio90
The WCG and HDR give a resonance to the colours, there is vibrancy, boldness and richness, yet there is subtly in the fades, the grades and the depth....
Surround and overhead channels spring to life with ambience and effects, be it flying through the air, crashing through the forest, or swimming underwater....
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- Movie80
The RDA Returns to Pandora The New Characters of Pandora The Sounds of Pandora New Zealand - Pandora's Home Can be played individually or with the Play All function More From Pandora's Box Casting Stunts...
They each have arcs, of sorts, and even though it is easy to see the breadcrumbs being laid, that masterful Cameron flair holds it all together and still delivers....
- Total80
Whilst I cannot understand the box office receipts, as a film, The Way of Water, freed as it is from the stigma of the original unoriginality, manages to tell an even simpler story, but with gusto and...
- Video100
- Audio100
One of the really interesting examples in the subtle but discernable differences in highlights may be the more pronounced variations between the colors of the Na'vi and the Metakinya, but there are a host...
There is clear overhead activity throughout the film in expected moments like the "ikran" that the Na'vi fly on, or in some of the battle elements....
- Extra100
- Movie80
Pandora's Next Generation (HD; 10:47) does similar introductory service for some of the newer folks....
In that regard, it may be salient to put into perspective the fact that the nascent polygonal CGI "character" in Young Sherlock Holmes was rendered way back in 1985, Beauty and the Beast premiered in 1991,...
- Total80
Kind of strangely, Avatar: The Way of Water struck me as just a bit more of a slog, perhaps ironically because once the visual element is turned up to 11 (so to speak) and just stays there, a certain amount...
- Video100
- Audio100
It’s glowing, bright, intense, colorful, and detail-rich enough to set a new standard for visual effect spectacles....
Way of Water bounces from speaker to speaker effortlessly, a three-hour demo whether that’s during dialog where the ambience can show off or the action with bullets, rockets, and more bouncing around....
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- Movie40
Split into three sections, the bonus disc begins with a look at the film’s creation, and totals 150-minutes....
Way of Water isn’t dissimilar from the first Avatar, which earned a confused, even baffling public response that left next to no one talking about it after leaving the theater, but somehow earned billions...
- Total85
Way of Water continues Avatar’s story in a near-identical way to the first, but it’s an undeniable visual feast....
- Video100
- Audio100
Avatar: The Way of Water is a sci-fi/fantasy/action-adventure film that features two worlds that blend of mix cinematic visuals, and this Ultra HD rendering makes the most of its elements....
The immersive mix compliments the source material thereby enhancing the experience of watching the film....
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- Movie80
The Way of Water Blu-ray Disc 3: Bonus Features Blu-ray Inside Pandora's Box (A series of featurettes on the challenges facing cast and crew as filmmakers devise new technologies to push the limits of...
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, it launches the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other...
- Total95
Home Media Distribution in this Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray/Digital Combo Pack featuring superb 4K quality, excellent high-definition video, terrific Dolby Atmos sound, and, a fan friendly supplemental set....
- Video100
- Audio100
Color Reproduction: Of course, blue rules are, but there’s a great saturation that shows a very tropical beauty to Pandora this time around....
This is a well mapped out world built here with the rear and side channels crafting an ambiance that sets the mood but also the ability to track off screen activity as well as angle switches....
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The Troupe (HD, 5:38)Marketing Materials and Music VideoNothing is Lost (You Give Me Strength)...
If the first one wow’d with CGI effects that felt fresh, new and pushing boundaries, then The Way of Water made me believe in them again after a decade preceding it of substandard or mediocre presentations...
- Total90
This 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray provides one of the most impressive home video experiences in both audio and video while also loading you with bonus material....