The Last Airbender (2010) live action movie was the most unsatisfying film I have seen all year. Negatives: As a huge fan of the cartoon series, there were several reasons why I did not enjoy the film. SPOILER ALERT! The script was hideously written, it was extremely fast paced which is unnecessary even if you're covering a whole season in one movie, the acting was poor, character names were pronounced very differently (I completely understand "culturally" why they did this) but as a cartoon series fan it made concentrating very difficult, main character Aang was surprisingly calm/serene/peaceful at the end of the film for someone who is supposed to be angry/out of control/violent in the first season of the television series. Uncle Iroh had a "forced accent", Zuko's burn scar is barely noticeable, there's no emotional development during the movie's transitions in order for you to really have empathy and care for the characters who perish, the 3-D rendering was very poor and caused headaches due to unfocused camera angles, there wasn't enough elemental bending... *sighs* I could go on ... but I'm also trying to dwell mostly on the positive qualities that I actually enjoyed from the film.
Positives:
For one; the intro sequence with the four elements was beautifully done. Secondly, some of the martial arts scenes between Aang and Zuko (with the exclusion of bending) were wonderfully poetic, plus the last scene with Azula WAS PERFECT! The only reason that I would probably go to see the Earth Book movie is to see the possibility of Azula being a total bad ass! :D
All in all however: I highly do not recommend this oddity of an adaptation and just stick to the cartoon series if you want to enjoy the fullness of the Airbender fun.
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