I think the movie had too much plot. I would have preferred more time just vibing.
Like they mention the magic blood as a contrivance for the bad guys to have a reason to kill the whales but like, there's zero exploration of it outside that scene. Multiple examples of basically one liners explaining away important details [if you're trying to tell a story]. Just give me Baraka on Pandora please.
---
Separately I feel like there's a lot of discourse on Spider? Like people are making him out to be the worst POS person of all-time, a disgusting traitor etc. Really??? He's a kid abandoned literally by his species on a foreign planet, who grows up with the Na'vi who, even though they are somewhat nice to him, do not consider him true family (I find Jake to be really hypocritical here), at some points Neytiri litrally trying to kill him to show how much she doesn't consider him family. So when someone tries to be his father figure, not a surrogate (ironic I guess because it's a memory surrogate), it seems fairly natural for a young person's emotions to get confusing like that???? Not that I care about this discourse at all lol.
Edit: And also in addition to Neytiri doing some questionable things (see above) in this movie I'm still disappointed she's basically relegated to being a side character for the first 2 hours.