Hell yeah! I am super happy that I went to see The Last Airbender because I got to see a life size, pop up poster ad for The Expendables! There were at least 7 of those beautiful, ass-kicking men there right in front of me to ogle. I even reached up and hugged Stallone. I just couldn’t help myself. That was the best part about going to see this film, because the film sucked!
Aang (Noah Ringer) is the last living airbender who returns after disappearing for a hundred years. He is the one and only Avatar, which means he can control all four elements of air, water, earth, and fire and is responsible for keeping peace between the air, water, earth, and fire nations. In the absence of the Avatar, the Fire Nation turns into a big bully and tries to take over the other three nations. Does little Aang really have the abilities and training to stop the evil Fire Nation?
Spoilers Galore Alert: Yes, he does. Aang reappears after 100 years with only the ability to bend air. He learns how to bend water just in time to fight off the Fire Nation and protect the Northern Water Tribe. When it comes to his water bending abilities, Aang repeatedly experiences performance anxiety, but is able to bend in all the right places when it counts the most. Only he doesn’t finish off the Fire Nation, he just threatens them with a huge tidal wave and then lets them retreat. I know you’re only 12 years old and you are not “meant to hurt people” but come on! You need to learn how to finish a job and not just be an action tease. It leaves people feeling unsatisfied and antsy, action tease! Oh and there is some princess of the Northern Water Tribe that sacrifices her life to save her nation, but they really kinda hop right past her noble sacrifice.
Spoilers Galore End Here.
The Last Airbender has undergone a massive bashing from several different reviewers; however, one thing they are failing to give props on is that M. Night Shyamalan did not disappoint us…He has consistently put out bad films ever since his early work and this one is no exception, rest assured!
There was minimal use of everyone’s special abilities, lazy story telling, poor acting, complete lack of characterization, cheesy dialogue, and absolutely no dramatic tension to the film. The ending has all the punch of a doped-up geriatric, and the film itself would be more accurate were it renamed “Watch Tai Chi for an Hour and a Half.”
Note: There is no “Best Kill” or “Best Explosion” because the one kill was lame and there weren’t really any explosions.
Time Until Action: ~ 16 minutes
Baddies: Fire Nation!
One Example of Cheesy Dialogue: “We have to show them we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs.” I believe that they can believingly believe in their beliefs as much as the others believe they can believe in their own beliefs.
Action Rating: 1 Flying Cow, out of 5.
Illustration by Alex Langley. Rocket Llama World Headquarters.
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Oh, you really got me on this one! I thought you were serious 🙂
Very entertaining review. I especially like the part about M. Night not disappointing us…hehe.
Nice review! 🙂
My cousin went to this movie last night because he thought Toy Story 3 would be stupid. He was not happy with his decision.
Ticket Holder 2010,
I have all three seasons on DVD and absolutely love the series (which is called Avatar: The Last Airbender, not The Avatar, and nor is it anime) but Action Chick is dead on with this one. This movie was terrible from beginning to end. Shaun Toub is a fantastic actor and his performance was poor and lacking, which is all due to bad dialogue/directing/scripting. Same for Dev Patel and Jackson Rathbone, who I’ve seen do some great performances, where just sad compared to some of their other works.
Ha, his post was deleted while I was typing a response to it.
FYI – there was one explosion in the movie and one death, but neither were noteworthy. Loved the subplot better than the actual plot.
LOL. Awesome review! Especially the part about reaching out to hug Stallone. That’s something only a real Action Flick Chick would say. 100% kick-ass.
My son liked the movie but he did not love it… My son and I watch Avatar: The Last Airbender all the time on NickToons – It is a very good series, a rich and layered story full of emotion and action as well as clever stories that interweave gracefully. If you have never watched the series I would highly suggest it. Even though I fear the movie will lead people away from ever wanting to watch the series that inspired the boring movie. I give the movie a C- over all. I have seen worse movies. And because I have seen the animated series, that is superb, then I could fill in the blanks were M. Night Shyamalan was going with certain scenes – but he never came anywhere near getting there! The Story was choppy and rushed. The acting was poor and uninspiring of emotion, it came close with the princess’ sacrifice but as said before – it was quickly glossed over. I agree the dialogue was plain horrible, as said director also wrote the script. The movie in a word, as I said, BORING! I do think the Art Direction of the movie was done quite well- unfortunately that is one of the only things that can be said. The worst thing about The Last Airbender is probably the fact that it is set up for 3 sequels… if not more. And judging by the money it has made it will at least get one more.
If I could leave everyone with a final thought: Please watch the animated series- it is great.
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I can’t believe that I haven’t seen this movie yet. But I just bought tickets to watch it tonight. I read that the sequel for The Last Airbender is supposed to be a lot darker.
I’m looking at other movies while I wait for the Last Airbender and I came across The Incubus, which is a movie about a different type of vampires who feed off of people’s emotions and their soul instead of human blood!!! Cool huh!?!??!
Check it out and let me know what you think about it.!
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