Dad, Matt wants to see Avitar today!

This CNN piece is crazy! If watching Avitar leads to depression, it could be due to the fact we are destroying our planet for resources, not because our world is not as cool as Pandora .. which looks a lot like Hawaii and other tropical regions and as magical as the creatures are, they are modeled after those on Earth :) The NY Times has an article on the various takes on the real message of this movie here