Twentieth Century Fox and James Cameron's number one box office smash, Avatar, is being released on DVD and Blu-ray on Earth Day, April 22, 2010. http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2010/03/16/avatar-announces-dvd-release-date/

Fox said that Earth Day was chosen as the release date because it matches up with Avatar's environmental theme. The movie set the all time box office gross record ($2.7 billion, and counting) by passing another of Cameron's films, Titanic. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1611067220100316

The DVD release on April 22nd will be a bare bones release without any special features. An enhanced edition of Avatar with special features is expected to be released sometime in November, 2010.http://homevideo.about.com/od/2010dvdreleases/fr/Avatar-DVD-a.htm

There is talk of a 3D version of Avatar being released in 2011. One of the reasons the first release dates of the DVD is in 2D is because not a lot of people have 3D television sets in their homes. Fox expects more people to have them by next year.http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1611067220100316

With the movie such a world wide hit, however, there is no reason to expect Avatar's momentum to slow down. Not all, people, though, were as enamored as the millions who poured into movie theatres and donned 3D glasses were.

Conservatives were less than pleased about the movie's over-all message. "I call it the 'liberal tell,' where the early and obvious politics of the film gives away the entire story before the second act begins, and 'Avatar' might be the sorriest example of this yet," wrote movie critic John Nolte.http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/politics-avatar-conservatives-attack-movies-political-messaging/story?id=9484885

MovieGuide called Avatar an "abhorrent New Age, pagan, anti-capitalist worldview that promotes Goddess worship and the destruction of the human race".http://www.slate.com/id/2241542/

Regardless of what the right side of the political debate, though, Avatar is an amazingly successful movie that entertained many of those who saw it and the DVD promises to be popular.

The movie Avatar is set in the future on the planet of Pandora. Pandora is the home of the ten foot tall, blue skinned Na'vi tribe and the place where a mega-corporation is mining for an incredibly expensive ore, called 'unobtainium.' Unfortunately for the corporation and the tribe, a huge deposit lies underneath the Na'vi's home.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/plotsummary

The company has a scientific wing, run by Grace Augustine (played by Sigourney Weaver, which has produced half human/half alien beings called avatars. (Humans link with their avatars telepathically.) The idea is for these avatars to explore Pandora from the safety of their lab.

Jake Sully, a paraplegic war vet (played by Sam Worthington, is called in because his brother was slain and Jake's DNA matches the hook-up with the costly to make avatar.

Sully's avatar ends up being saved by the Na'vi princess, Neytiri (played by Zoe Saldana). As Sully's avatar becomes close to and is accepted by the Na'vi tribe, Colonel Miles Quaritch, (played by Stephen Lang) works on Sully for some inside info in case the military wing of the corporation has to move the Na'vi by force. As Sully's avatar falls in love with Neytri and he comes to understand the secrets of the Na'vi and their culture, Sully is torn between the two worlds, and he must decide which side he will support in the end.http://www.fandango.com/avatar_v352199/summary