Reviews Film / The Last Airbender

A fucking disgrace to the franchise

This movie is fucking horrible. Where to start? The acting was some of the worst I've ever seen. Even though the 3 lead actors were kids at the time of filming, their performance was still unforgivably atrocious. The fact that they were casted to begin with is almost laughable, as the majority of the characters in the show were some type of Asian. But the actors for this "film"? Most of them are either white or Indian. No Asians here! Much of the cast have been whitewashed. It was completely devoid of any of the humor the animated show that it was based off of contained, once again proving that making something Darker and Edgier does NOT always improve the quality of a work. Also, the fights in this movie were just terrible. The only fight that was anywhere near good was the one where Aang and Zuko fight...without using any of their bending. One has to wonder how a movie with a production budget of $150 million can have some of the worst CGI and special effects ever put to film. Some of the scenes weren't even lit properly, like that one scene where Aang is practicing water bending while Sokka and Katara are sleeping. And then there's the pronunciation of the names. It's Aang, not "Ungh", and it's Sock-ah, not "So-kah". Jesus fucking Christ. And to top it all off, when a news network in the UK interviews M.Night Shayamalan, the person responsible for this large-budget fuck-up, what does he have to say in response to critics panning this movie? He says that American audiences just don't get the "European sensibility" and cultural references of his films. I don't see what Europe has to do with a film based on an American cartoon that's based on Asian culture. This film gets a negative 5!