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Vatican City, Jan 12 (THAINDIAN NEWS) James Cameron magnum opus Avatar might be raking in huge box office collections all over the world, but it has failed to impress the Vatican at all. The Vatican newspaper says that the movie is simplistic in its plot and is superficial in its eco-message, despite groundbreaking visual effects. Plus the Vatican is also not amused by the substitution of nature as a worship entity instead of religion.

“So much stupefying, enchanting technology, but few genuine emotions,” said Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, which devoted three articles to “Avatar” in its Sunday editions. Vatican Radio called it “rather harmless” but added: “We doubt that this is an heir to those sci-fi masterpieces that - for reasons other than special effects - have marked cinema history.”

“Pandora is the planet that cleverly winks at all those pseudo-doctrines that turn ecology into the religion of the millennium,” Vatican Radio said. “Nature is no longer a creation to defend, but a divinity to worship.” They are certainly not happy with Cameron’s bland approach. “He tells the story without going deep into it, and ends up falling into sappiness,” it said.

Besides this the magnum opus and the blockbuster hit Avatar is under attack for sending out a racist message. In the movie Avatar, the white skinned American hero gets into an Avatar, a blue-skinned Alien body, and rescues the blue-skinned Alien occupants of Pandora. So according to the critics, the movie gives out the message that the Whites are superior to all as they rescued the natives of Pandora.