Avatar

The film features 'intense epic battle sequences and warfare', including gunfights, explosions, and hand-to-hand combat. Examples include characters being impaled by arrows, shot, blown up, and thrown from aircraft, with several implied off-screen deaths. In one scene, a soldier is shot by two arrows to the chest and dies, with 'some blood shown'. Jake Sully is pursued and violently attacked by large, frightening alien creatures, being bitten, lifted, and thrown around 'like a ragdoll'. The final battle sees the Na'vi engaging human military forces with both traditional and creature-mounted combat, resulting in widespread destruction and many casualties on both sides.

The film uses 'profanities, crude language, scatological slang and terms of Deity' repeatedly. Specific examples of coarse language include words like 'sh*t,' 'b*tch,' and 'bastard'. Christian reviews specifically note that 'God's name is misused a number of times' and identify the 's-word' as a 'primary offender' in terms of frequency. A character also exclaims, 'What the hell have you people been smoking?'.

The Na'vi worship Eywa, a 'Great Mother goddess' who is depicted as 'a network of energy that flows through all living things'. They perform rituals and prayers to Eywa, particularly at the sacred 'Tree of Souls,' where they can connect their neural queues to commune with their ancestors and the planet's consciousness. Jake Sully, the protagonist, actively participates in these spiritual practices and prays to Eywa for intervention during the final battle. Christian critics have identified this as promoting 'pantheism and nature worship', with one reviewer stating that the 'tree worship' scene was so realistic that his wife 'almost walked out' and described it as 'demonic'.

The movie contains scenes where Jake Sully is attacked by ferocious Pandoran wildlife, such as a large 'dinosaur-like creature' that charges him and a 'giant alien dog-like creature' that 'leaps onto Jake, biting his backpack, lifting him into the air, and throwing him around like a ragdoll'. The film's climax is an 'epic battle' with 'intense combat scenes,' explosions, and gunfights, where many characters face death and severe injury. Many of the alien creatures themselves are described as 'very scary for younger viewers'.

The Na'vi's spiritual devotion to Eywa and their reverence for all life on Pandora, especially through sacred sites like the Tree of Souls, is a foundational element of the film. Christian critics, including the Vatican, expressed concerns that Avatar 'promotes pantheism and nature worship'. Vatican Radio suggested the film 'cleverly winks at all those pseudo-doctrines that turn ecology into the religion of the millennium'. The Christian Research Institute describes the film's worldview as 'pagan religion of nature worship' where Eywa is a 'Great Mother goddess'. This directly conflicts with Christian teachings of a transcendent Creator God and humanity's stewardship over creation (Genesis 1:28).