A movie achieving it's goal - entertainment

Rating: 6/10 (28 March 2011)

After a year of reading or listening to others' opinion I released why is this movie so successful. It has achieved very simple goals - simple entertainment, thrills, laughters and feeling for the protagonist.
I also realized that the real hero in Avatar is not Jake but the Na'vis are all the heroes. Sure they had an adult male, warrior who had laughed at Jake almost always but he was likable at least. Also the natives almost killed themselves when they tried to save one woman's life which is honorable.
The Na'vis are still amazing. There's a lot of dialogue where the good guys are making the natives look weak and the planet precious but this image comes to turn upside down making the natives and Pandora much more than that. That's where Cameron's genius lies except for the amazing visuals. Like in his Terminator movies he gives the out-of-this-world beings a simple feature or motivation until the end where you have to realize it is more complex you believed. I almost started to cheer loudly at the twist in the end.
If you watch only at how amazingly the movie looks or the various creatures and sites Cameron came up with you are missing the real meaning of the story. Of course it's not so original for a feature film but there are times you are pleased with GENERIC fantasy plots and not ones that top dramas with deep characters.
This movie is important for me so please stop bashing it for being successful. It's one thing you don't like or understand it.