Avatar: The Way of Water is a huge hit in the movie industry. James Cameron’s follow-up to Avatar, which came out in 2009, was worth the thirteen-year wait. The action scenes in The Way of Water are better than those in the first movie. It also looks a lot better and has a plot that is built around characters who change emotionally. The Way of Water also adds to Cameron’s alien mythology by showing a brand-new area of Pandora’s moon that is full of animals and old buildings.
Because there is so much to cover in three hours, Cameron could have easily split The Way of Water’s plot into several parts. So, if you felt overwhelmed when you left the movie theatre, don’t worry. Let’s look at the big things that happened in Avatar: The Way of Water and explain what happened at the film’s shocking end.
How have Neytiri and Jake been spending their time?
At the end of the first Avatar movie, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) helps the Na’vi beat Colonel Miles Quaritch’s army (Stephen Lang). After the Na’vi win, most people leave Pandora. This gives the people who live there a new chance to live in peace on the paradise moon. Jake and Neytiri (Zoe Saldaa) have a daughter, Tuk, and two sons, Neteyam (Jamie Flatters) and Lo’ak (Britain Dalton), 15 years after the events of Avatar (Trinity Jo-Li).
Kiri (Sigourney Weaver), a young woman who was born by accident in Dr. Grace’s deactivated avatar, was also taken in by the couple (Weaver). Spider (Jack Champion), the last character, was born on Pandora but couldn’t go home because cryogeny is dangerous for babies. Spider grew up in the Na’vi culture and grew to love Jake and Neytiri’s kids very much.
Who are the worst people?
As they lead their Na’vi tribe, the Sullys learn what true happiness is like. But fifteen years after they beat the people, when the colonists go back to Pandora, they find trouble and destruction. The next year, Jake leads the Na’vi into bloody battles with the humans, cutting off their supply lines and trying to stop them from finding life in the area. Unfortunately, a group of avatars that the humans had brought to fight the Na’vi were after Jake and his family. The new team, Recombinants, is made up of avatar bodies with the memories of dead warriors, like Quaritch, who comes back from the dead to kill Jake and end the Na’vi uprising.
Why do Sully and Pandora leave Pandora?
Quaritch goes after the warrior’s children to find Jake. In his brutal attack, he almost kills some of them. Quaritch is able to solve the problem, but Spider is taken hostage by him. Spider turns out to be Quaritch’s son, and even though the Colonel’s recombinant says they shouldn’t, the two start to get close. Spider is also important to Quaritch’s revenge plan because the kid can teach him the ways and language of the area, giving him an advantage in battle.
Jake decides that the best way to protect his family from Quaritch is for the Sullys to run away and hide with a different tribe. Since Quaritch is most interested in them, their escape would also help protect the rest of their tribe. The Metkayina clan, also called the Reef People, gives the Sullys a place to stay. They had to build a new home and figure out how the water worked there.
What do Tulkuns mean?
The Tulkuns are smart, sensitive, and able to communicate with the Na’vi. They also have their own way of life, which puts peace above all else. Lo’ak is the only member of the Sully family who is close to Paykan, a Tulkun who has been cast out. Paykan set up an attack on a whaler to get back at the people who had killed his mother. The attack fails, and a lot of Tulkuns and Na’vi die. Paykan is blamed for their deaths, and because he went to war and broke his people’s traditions, he will now have to swim alone in the ocean. That is, until Lo’ak pulls a spear out of the big guy’s fin to save him.
How does Quaritch get hold of the Na’vi children?
Jake tries to stop everyone from going to war, but when a Tulkun dies while being protected, that’s the last straw. The clan decided to tell the Tulkuns about the attacks by humans in order to keep them safe and avoid trouble. Lo’ak tells Paykan that he is an outcast and that other Tulkuns won’t help him. When they meet Quaritch, who is leading a hunt against Paykan, Lo’ak’s siblings and the children of Tonowari, the chief of the Metkayina (Cliff Curtis), are with him.
Jake and Tonowari call up the Metkayina troops to save the kids, but they get there too late. By the time more Na’vi show up to help, Lo’ak, Tuk, and Tsireya (Bailey Bass) have already been taken by Quaritch. The Colonel only wants Jake to do it on his own. Jake is ready to do what the Colonel says, but Paykan attacks the whaler at the last minute to save Lo’ak. The chaos that follows gives the Na’vi the perfect chance to kill all the people.
How does the final battle go? Who dies?
The biggest battle scene in Avatar: The Way of Water comes right at the end of the movie. Jake and Tonowari lead the Na’vi against the whaler’s crew as Paykan attacks from below. Neteyam gets on the whaler to save his brothers and Tsireya, but instead of showing him how to get everyone to safety, Lo’ak asks him to save Spider. Neteyam gets shot while trying to protect them, but they are still able to save their human friend. The Sullys’ grief over Neteyam’s death is very strong. But since Quaritch is able to keep Tuk and Kiri as hostages, Jake and Neytiri turn their sadness into anger and attack the Colonel’s forces on their own.
Jake and Neytiri get rid of one of the Colonel’s soldiers at a time until only Quaritch is left. As a form of self-defense, Quaritch grabs Kiri and stabs her in the neck. Even when she is upset, Neytiri treats Spider the same way. Quaritch first calls Neytiri’s bluff, but after the Na’vi warrior cuts the boy’s chest, the Colonel lets Kiri go. Even though everyone is safe, Jake decides to put an end to the fight by killing the Colonel. The two avatars are stuck in a room that is flooding on a ship that is sinking, and they fight to the death.
Tuk herself falls down a shaft, sending Neytiri into the ship. Lo’ak comes to Jake’s aid and shows him how he learned the way of the water and how to use Metkayina’s teachings to save them, even though he always felt like Neteyam was his father’s favourite son. In the meantime, Kiri uses her unique link to Eywa to ask a school of glowing fish to light the way to her mother and sister. When Kiri and Lo’ak save their families from drowning, they become heroes right away.
