The Last Airbender (2010)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Very Cool!!!

the audience applauded

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must master all four elements and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water Tribes and the Earth Kingdom. I'm a big fan of Avatar: The Last Airbender and this cinematic movie based on the popular animated movie was alright to be honest. Now the acting was simply average and i was kind of disappointed with Zuko to be honest but as i said it was alright. The special effects were dazzling for sure and as a movie? It was average but kind of an entertaining guilty pleasure. (6/10)

Did M. Night Shyamalan pay any semblance of attention to this series when he decided to make it into a movie? No. way.Right off the bat, the casting was dreadful. The race of the characters are the following: Water Tribe was Indigenous American/Inuit, Fire Nation was Japanese, Earth Kingdom was Chinese and Air Nomads were Tibetans. Here, most of the cast was white and any Asian actors were restricted to background roles!Secondly, the tone. The characters had about as much personality as a piece of cardboard, and there was no humour. Sokka was supposed to be the joker of the group, and here he was pretty much like Hayden Christensen in the Star Wars prequels. Aang was this fun-loving innocent kid, Katara was a brave, motherly character. Honestly, I think I've seen more personality in a piece of wood.Thirdly, the fact that character's names were pronounced wrong. Ong? Sohka? Ee-roh? Ovatar? You know your movie's in trouble when you can't even do that right!M. Night Shyamalan claimed he watched the show with his children, which inspired him to make the film. Yeah. Bet he only watched like thirty seconds of it. And he also had the CHEEK to claim that more films were in the pipeline and they'd be culturally diverse. Oh, yeah, how those hopes of his were nixed!To round this off, don't watch this train-wreck and watch the show instead!

Don't get me wrong- the movie is a pretty bad remake. But the effects that go into the movie give it a real feeling of ATLA. If you were to have never seen ATLA and watch this movie then you might actually like it. But for extreme fans like most of us it was disheartening to watch this properly make fun of our beloved ATLA series. I do give them props though for casting a mostly Asian, middle eastern, and people of color cast with a few white people. I did not like though that Aang, sokka, and Irohs names were mispronounced. I get that that is the correct way to pronounce them but in the original series it pronounced them a different way and that was what we were used to. Give the movie a chance if you haven't. At least to see what bending looks like in live action ( not bad at all). But the $150 million spent on this movie should have been spent on casting actual talented actors and writers who did their research. It's not the worst movie I've ever seen but it comes pretty close. This movie series could have been amazing and could have lead to a sequel and a trequel. But it's too rushed and is just missing a lot of imortant moments. Plus a lot of other bad mistakes in this film. I give it a four because they tried and the effects were the only thing good about this movie. Besides Appa, he looked really different and looked like a soggy wet rag instead of a flying bison.

You might want to know that I am NOT the target audience for "The Last Airbender". I never watched the television show and only got the DVD from Netflix because I was curious if the film was actually as bad as its reputation would have it.So was the film any good? Not especially. At times, the film seemed to skip around and the plot didn't always make sense. I understood why this was the case when I read IMDB's trivia. In order to afford to convert the production to 3D, they cut out huge bits of story...and it showed. The transitions were sometimes klunky and the story felt rushed and superficial. It seems almost criminal to deliberately sacrifice story in order to make the film a 3D spectacle but although the film was universally panned, folks DID go to see it in droves and made it a financial success. On the positive side, the music was great and the story not entirely sucky. Not a good film by any standard but not the complete disaster I was expecting.