It made me feel like I was some kind of unknown entity, disconnected from humanity, as I couldn't fathom as to why these blue smurfs were so popular with the general audience, or perhaps they were just easily entertained with the visual spectre and 3D effect - like a baby being dangled a toy in front of their face.

The movie is very cookie cutter, following a predictable formula James Cameron perfected with Titanic. It is almost hilarious how Avatar follows it pretty much beat for beat. Outsiders of lower standing by chance becomes selected to join on exploring a new place, meeting new kinds of people who's different than him, and he is being shunned for his differences at start, while he falls for the girl. Mostly adventure and a bit of drama for the first 2/3, and then tragedy strikes, making the last third act more action oriented. This is summarising it, but even looking in further detail it doesn't miss.

It isn't the worst movie made or anything like that. There clearly is a lot of effort put into it. However it just comes across as such a commercial product, with bland characters. Also have to mention how hilarious it is Cameron announced Avatar 2, 3, 4, etc back in the day. Seems the first sequel is actually coming out later this year. Personally I strongly prefer his earlier movies as Terminator and Aliens.