The Last Airbender (PG, 2010)

I was saddened. No offence M. Night. The acting was horrible and it sounded like they were reading streight off of the script without stop. Noah Ringer showed a tad of potental I admit, his acting was good in some places, but the results still were a downer, the boy hardly smiled and his air bending looked like he was pretending to be an octopus. Katara was always so emotional, and she seemed more like a little girl than the 'motherly' figure. 'Soeka' (or as I call him) Soaks all of the fun out of everything, didn't match Sokka at all, he was FAR too serious, he always looked so angry and he hardly said ANY funny lines. And for Zuko, they must realize he growl in EVERY sentence he said in the cartoon, in the movie he sounded like he yelled everything. 'Eroh' I must say was a promising actor, but he wasn't as layed back, but the actor wasn't too bad. Although they need a chubbier actor, excuse me saying so, but Iroh was short and fat, not tall and skinny. None of the characters looked themselves, Aang sort of did, but not really, it looked like they obviously shaved his head. Katara and Sokka were Innuit, not pure as snow white, they could have hired African American's even for that role. The Fire Nation was Eastern Asian at least, not Middle Eastern. Especially Zuko in the show, he looked more Asian than most of them. As for the Earth Kingdom, they should just have all Asian actors for that one, not just TWO. They made Haru a little boy, and at the end, the girl that plays Azula is in her twenties, when Azula was only 14 years old, like Katara. If they could find someone around Katara's age to play the role, they can find a young girl that looks like Azula ('I' even look like Azula!) The affects were decent, but they were moving far too slow, they could have just rolled out of the way! The thing with the Fire benders needing a 'source of fire' is silly, if that was true, I don't think they would have gone as far as they did in the war. The people that were 'bending' looked more like they were just moving their arms all over, it hardly matched. You just couldn't relate to any of the characters, you could hardly grow on them. The set just seemed... cluttered. Little fun. Ozai didn't look scary, the characters look nothing like they should have, the names were said wrong, Appa looked like he was from "Where the Wild things Are" while Momo (his name was never said) looked like he came out of a video game. If they mess up Azula and Toph, I'm dropping it completely.

The movie had noting to do with the original cartoon series and overall the worst movie of this year.

Parents: If you want to see this film, Please don't waste you time and money to see a film that is based on the tv series. Its boring and slow. Please don't see it

Mom, dad, and both kids enjoyed seeing this movie in 3D. We can't wait for book 2 and book 3!

WORST MOVIE EVER!!!!! Please don't ever spend anything to see this movie! My kids are in LOVE with the cartoon and they practly cried when the movie was over because it was terible! The derictor changed the names of the main characters and took out all of the funny parts even me and my husband laughed at! Also I will point out almost none of the characters looked how they did in the cartoon. Please don't waste time on this fail of a film.

I think people are often too hard on films critically. This may not be the Casablanca of PG films nor as good as the cartoon series, but so what? What it is, is entertaining, NOT hard to follow if you haven't watched the cartoon, not plotless (despite some reviews to the contrary), and did not put me as a parent in any tense moments worrying if my three boys would pick up anything inappropriate. WHAT A RELIEF THIS FILM WAS. Not even so much as a word "stupid" or "idiot" was uttered. Fight scenes not too graphic. And the relationship between Katara and her brother, Sokka [sp?] is one I want my boys to copy - i.e. "take care of each other." My kids like the cartoon series. They liked this movie too. They DID notice the different pronunciation of the names - they forgave the film anyway. I'm glad I can avoid the usual argument with my 8 year old (who we do not allow to see PG-13 movies) why he can't see a movie all his friends have. My 4 stars is as a parent, not movie critic (and I have 2 brothers with degrees in film). It was good, safe, harmless summer fun. ONE WARNING: My theater showed previews for Salt and Inception (!!?) before the film I spoke to the manager who said the studio sends it that way. Even those previews showed more shooting and violent car crashes than I would allow my 4 and 6 year old to watch. Maybe go for popcorn then.

this is a total disgrace to the great nick series.it was turned from one of nick's best cartoons,into a sucky live action movie.No one should see this movie at all.the show is MUCH MUCH better

This movie was horrible!!! My friend and I love The Last Airbender series but this movie was not worth the time or money to see. They changed the names, more than half of the plot line, and in general the entire story! If you want to see this movie just watch the series instead because this movie butchered the entire show! I hated it!

I'm sorry, but how? How can Avatar fans bring themselves to like this? It boggles the mind! Do these people have low standards? Do these people just think everything related to Avatar has to automatically be the best thing ever? If anything, this is a horrid, horrid disgrace to the original source material! I thought that this could work. When I saw that they were attempting to make the character designs accurate, I was expecting something good and true to the original, or at least capture the spirit of the original. (Like how Fantastic Mr. Fox deteriorates from its source but still carries the spirit of the book) We get none of that. Instead, we get a boring, BORING movie that has nothing that made me love the show so much.