Avatar: Fire and Ash(2025)

PG-13
Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, bloody images, some strong language, thematic elements and suggestive material
3h 17m

Release Date: Dec 19, 2025 | Wide

Jake and Neytiri's family grapples with grief, encountering a new, aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Ash People, who are led by the fiery Varang, as the conflict on Pandora escalates and a new moral focus emerges.

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Original Release | Dec 19, 2025

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Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$89,160,860
Total US & Canada:
$404,340,010
Total International
$1,081,659,880
Total Worldwide:
$1,485,999,890

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Director & Top Cast

James Cameron
Director

Sam Worthington
Jake

Zoe Saldaña
Neytiri

Sigourney Weaver
Kiri

Stephen Lang
Quaritch

Oona Chaplin
Varang

Kate Winslet

Ronal

Cliff Curtis

Tonowari

Joel David Moore

Norm

CCH Pounder

Mo'at

Edie Falco

General Ardmore

Brendan Cowell

Scoresby

Jemaine Clement

Dr. Garvin

Giovanni Ribisi

Selfridge

David Thewlis

Peylak

Britain Dalton

Lo'ak

Jack Champion

Spider

Trinity Jo-Li Bliss

Tuk

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: IMAX 6-Track,12-Track Digital Sound,Auro 11.1,Dolby Atmos

Aspect Ratio: (IMAX 3-D Version)

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States,Canada

Language: English

Summaries

Plot Summary

Weeks after the death of Neteyam, Jake Sully and his family are grappling with grief. Neytiri has developed hatred towards humans and Lo'ak blames himself for Neteyam's death. Jake also has grown weary of the events and the danger it poses to his family as well developing doubt about their faith in Eywa. As they settle back into their lives within the Metkayina Clan, Lo'ak finds Neytiri's bow in the RDA vessel wreck. Jake and Neytiri decide to send Spider alone on the flying merchant ships led by Peylak of the Windtraders back to High Camp with the humans for his own safety.En-route to High Camp, they are suddenly swarmed and ambushed, by an aggressive Na'vi tribe, the Mangkwan clan or Ash People, led, by their vicious tsahik Varang. They set fire to the ships, looting them and killing the survivors. The Sullys were frantically separated during the attack. Well fighting off the invaders Neytiri is incapacitated, with an arrow to her shoulder by Varang. Her banshee carries her back to the High Camp, where she is nursed, by her mother, tsahik Mo'at and the scientists led, by Norm Spellman. Well the flying ship crashes and Lo'ak escapes, with his rifle along, with the rest of the children. Jake loses communication, with Lo'ak and the children, and tries to search for them, but is cornered, by Quaritch and Lyle Wainfleet, who planned to capture him. Quaritch learns from Jake about the Mangkwan and they realize that, Spider has escaped, with the other children, without any backup oxygen masks. Quaritch reluctantly works together, with Jake to rescue them.As Spider's oxygen supply runs out, Kiri instinctively connects her queue to the ground, evoking her powers to activate mycelium spores from the ground, enabling him to breathe on Pandora, without a mask. They are soon captured, by the Mangkwan, who reject Eywa, planning to strengthen, with Lo'ak's rifles and threatens him. Impressed, by his will-power, Varang coerces Quaritch to teach her to use guns. Using her power to connect with Eywa, Kiri commands the flora to subdue some of the fighters, ensuring that, they escape to safety.The next morning, Jake and the children are picked up, by the High Camp rescue group and Neytiri, well Quaritch and Lyle return to their posts. At High Camp, Norm and Max examine Spider's body, and discover that, his cellular biology has been altered, by an organism, which could be reverse-engineered to, allow humans to breathe on Pandora, developing a queue to connect, with Pandoran wildlife. The family return to the Metkayina clan to shelter and regroup. Neytiri suggests Jake to sacrifice Spider believing that, he is a liability to Jake's disagreement, well Kiri learns of her birth from parthenogenesis in Grace Augustine's avatar, by the will of Eywa.The Tulkun council matriarch outcasts Payakan for disobeying their pacifism, although Lo'ak defends Payakan to Jake's admonishment. He blames Neteyam's death on his defiance, hurting Lo'ak deeply. Lo'ak tries to kill himself, but is stopped and comforted, by Kiri and Tsireya. He soon fixes Neytiri's bow, before leaving to find Payakan.Well the RDA under the leadership of General Frances Ardmore and former Administrator Parker Selfridge continue their reach, into Pandora's environment from their base at Bridgehead City. Quaritch travels to the Mangkwan village, and brings them supplies of firearms and flamethrowers in an effort to negotiate, with them to recapture Spider for the RDA to study and replicate his abilities. Quaritch convinces Varang and her people to collaborate, with him, promising that, they will be able to take over any clan and territory together. Enthralled, Varang begins to court Quaritch.Concurrently, Kiri helps Spider adjust to bonding, with the wildlife and they briefly kiss. But Spider is kidnapped for analysis at the RDA base after an ambush. Quaritch returns to the Metkayina village, with the combined forces of the RDA and Mangkwan, forcing Jake to surrender, who is taken to the RDA base to face execution. Quaritch brings the Mangkwan to Bridgehead, despite the RDA's disapproval and is grounded at the base, where they sleep together. Well Lo'ak successfully locates Payakan and reunites, with Tsireya, Ao'nung and Rotxo. The RDA's whaling fleet, led, by Mick Scoresby, learn that, hundreds of Tulkun congregate for an annual mating event, which could bring substantial profit, when hunted. Marine biologist Ian Garvin opposes their plans, but is rejected.Neytiri recovers and infiltrates the RDA base alone, and Ian steals a bulldozer to free Jake from the glass container. The RDA is unable to kill Spider, due to the research potential, so he acts as a human shield to protect Jake and, allow him to escape. Jake successfully escapes, with Neytiri and Spider on her ikran. En-route to the village, Jake decides to kill Spider, but Neytiri reminds him that, Spider had saved his life. Jake proceeds, but stops at the last minute, a remorseful Neytiri rushes in and finally accepts Spider as part of the family.At the Metkayina village, the Tulkun council refuse to act, despite listening to Jake's warning about the massacre, but Lo'ak brings Payakan and his clan's remaining survivor Tan'ok, making them reconsider. Jake rebonds, with the Toruk and rallies all the Na'vi clans to battle as Toruk Makto. The next day, the RDA ships approach the Tulkun and are quickly decimated, by both them and the Na'vi. Suddenly, the Mangkwan and Quaritch launch an attack, inflicting heavy casualties, including Rotxo. Ronal is mortally wounded and dies later in childbirth, with Neytiri taking her baby, Pril, before being captured, by Quaritch and Varang. Jake and Lo'ak set out for Neytiri, well Spider negotiates, with Quaritch to let Neytiri go in exchange for him. As Quaritch flies off, with Spider, Jake intercepts him mid-flight, before they fall, onto the floating rocks.With the help of Spider and Tuk, Kiri connects to Eywa and commands the wildlife to attack the rest of the RDA craft. Tan'ok kills Scoresby and Kiri overwhelms Varang, with her queue to save Neytiri, forcing her to flee in terror. The Toruk destroys the RDA flagship in a magnetic flux, killing Ardmore. Jake and Quaritch duel, until Spider shoots Quaritch in the arm. But Spider falls off the floating rock only for Quaritch to catch him and cling on to the edge, Jake saves and pulls them both up. As Neytiri and her children arrive, and corner Quaritch, he surrenders, jumping off the rock.In the aftermath, the Sullys recuperate and connect themselves to the underwater spirit trees, where Spider meets all the deceased Na'vi. Kiri introduces Spider to her mother, Grace and they initiate him, into their clan as a moon-wide interconnected network of Eywa's essence is revealed.

Storyline

The Return of the Threat: When the RDA (Resources Development Administration) returns to Pandora with a more aggressive military force, Colonel Miles Quaritch is resurrected as a "Recombinant"-a Na'vi avatar embedded with his human memories-to lead a specialized task force dedicated to hunting down Jake Sully. The Eastern Sea, Pandora, 2170. With his son lying on the bottom of the reef and the family grappling with grief, Jake senses that mortal danger is on the horizon following the events of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) . And this time, so much more is at stake than the home of the oceanic Metkayina clan. However, now is not the time for mourning; Quaritch is still alive, bent on revenge, with Spider caught in the crossfire. As the fate of the Omatikaya hangs in the balance, a brutal new menace emerges: Na'vi marauders who have turned their back on Eywa. With their violent sorceress leader Varang thirsting for power, will Pandora survive the path of fire and ash? — Nick Riganas

Movie Review

Avatar: Fire and Ash

James Cameron once again dazzles the eye without engaging the brain or the heart.

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Fun Facts

Surprisingly, the film introduces a new Na’vi culture known as the “Ash People,” a volcanic clan confirmed by James Cameron to be morally darker than the Na’vi seen in earlier films.