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.

Hated it!!! I and my family are huge fans of the series. My husband and I went to see it. We were honestly interested to see how it would be adapted, perhaps some real Kung Fu forms, story line changes and twists, etc. The movie felt so hard and flat on its face we left after the first twenty minutes. Most of the actors need a lot more classes. Lame would be a good word for it. By the way Aang is now pronounced Ong and Sokka is now Soaka, Uncle Iro is Earo.

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.

If you loved the cartoon stay away from the movie. I hardly held my attention never mind my 6 year old. There was too much of a great story crammed into it. The filming is somewhat nauseating with characters talking. Great effects though and scenic views. Defiantly not happy, but someone else might like it.

I just saw an advanced sneak preview and it contains alot of bad content.

Good movie lacked story development, but it followed the series perfectly which gave it its flavor and success that is needed for say a popular series to be a good movie.

I enjoyed the movie, even though I had only seen the cartoon in passing. Of course there are a lot of action scenes, but not much pain or hurting is really shown. Zero gore! I thought the female leads were portrayed as strong women. There is a lot of the movie that might go over a child's head (ie: the though of world war).

My kids loved the tv show and were really excited to see the movie. After reading the reviews I braced myself for boredom and was very pleasantly surprised. For fans of the show who really know the characters and storyline this movie was a lot of fun. The actors portrayed the characters much the way they appeared In the show ( there were cartoons after all - we should not be expecting academy award performances!). I recommend it, my kids really enjoyed seeing their favorite scenes acted out by real actors!

Really disappointing! I was excited because I liked the series, but this movie seemed like it was missing huge chunks. The acting was awful and went from low action to high emotion in seconds for seemingly no reason?