The Last Airbender
THE LAST AIRBENDER IS A DISGRACE TO ALL THE FANS OF THE ORIGINAL SHOW! I want to know who hired a horror-thriller director, M. Night Shyamalan, to direct a live-action adaptation of a story-driven and beautifully written show like Avatar: The Last Airbender. And I don’t want to hear you say, oh but he said he was a fan of the show. NO HE WASN’T, he doesn’t even know how to pronounce the names!
The real problem with the movie is that it takes itself way too seriously; one of the greatest things about the original show is that it knew when to be serious and when to be silly. We don’t get to see the goofy side of Aang; in fact, most of the characters in the movie are one-dimensional. Sokka doesn’t learn past his sexism, Iroh is a bumbling idiot, and Katara doesn’t become that loving carer that we see in the original.
As to the plot, it leaves out crucial parts because for some reason they thought they could fit a 20-episode first season into one movie! Aang never actually learns any waterbending; he somehow has already mastered it 30 minutes in! The storm, the blue spirit, Jet! All excluded. Instead, we get 40 minutes in the Northern Water Tribe! And somehow, they barely scratch the surface of what happens there!
This is disgraceful, one of, if not the worst, adaptations of all time, the only reason it’s not a 1% is because of Zhao. But other than that, it thoroughly deserves this 3% rating.
