Movie: The Last Airbender

• Director: M. Night Shyamalan
• Release Date:
• Writers: M. Night Shyamalan
• Run Time: 103
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Tagline: Four nations, one destiny!

Review: The movie was indeed passing expectations to me in my opinion. I have seen countless adaptations that were just terrible. Percy Jackson. Dragonball Evolution. I am sure you could name a few others. But this stayed very close to the show and kept every essential part to the series in it. But do not expect it to capture the magic of the series.

A couple of the names of characters were mispronounced. The reasoning for this is that in Asian culture, a long A sounds like AH. I sounds like a long E. Every vowel sounds different in their culture from ours. I was not too mad about this. At the siege of the North Pole, the violence had to be toned down, for this movie was made for children. My only problem with this movie is it has too much action and little filler space. Aang, Sokka and Katara exchanged little dialog throughout the movie and didn even goof around at all, like they did through half of the entire series. You can really capture the characters personalities in this movie the way you did in the show. Sokka and Katara didn really do anything, they just took up space.

Kataras actor had an extremely young expression all of the time she was on screen. She seemed younger than Aang. But I expected this. When I first saw a picture of Nicola Pelts portraying Katara a year and a half ago on a fan site, I knew from one glance at her that she seemed like a little girl.

The movie was a little longer than an hour and a half so the creators could have added 15–heck, I would settle for ten–minutes of the characters goofing around and other nonsense so you could capture their personalities as kids in this movie. It is so difficult to catch someones personality in this movie, even Zuko seemed pleasant.

So in conclusion: very good, stayed close to the series and covers everything important to the plot. Cons: Too much action, not enough dialog for you to get a sense of everyones personalities.

So if you have read this review before seeing the movie, you will know what to expect and not be one of the people that were deeply dissatisfied with the movie. But please keep in mind that if you are still one of the viewers that hated this movie: it can be as bad as Eclipse.

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