Avatar - The Last Airbender (Movie)

[shredfreak]

Fuck this shit, i was really hoping it would be a +2hour movie for each season.

This is infuriating

 

[Razorgrin]

A couple of my friends are huge fans of the show, but they haven't seen the movie yet. I keep telling them not to get their hopes up, because everyone seems to hate it.

 

[AK DRAGON]

I take it no matter if you have seen the show or not, it's not worth the price of a movie ticket?

 

[OrsusMetal]

I take it no matter if you have seen the show or not, it's not worth the price of a movie ticket?

Nope. Not worth it at all. Trust me. That movie =

 

[Variant]

My review if anyone wants to read it. I put spoiler tags just in case anyone doesn't want to read it yet, even though everyone who has seen the show will know what is going on.

Spoiler

So seriously, it was an hour and forty-five minutes of the worst script and dialogue I have heard in a long time. The cast was pretty damn great. Everyone sounded the way they were supposed to, the actors did justice to their characters. But, the script they were given DIDN'T.

First thing that was stupid. They mispronounced almost everyones name. There were tons of characters that had their names said wrong, including Aang and his title of the Avatar. That was just silly.

There was absolutely NO character development whatsoever. They spent about 10 minutes at the Southern Water Tribe, then boom, all the sudden they are at the Air Temple. They don't show any of the traveling. It was seriously like M. Night took the first season and just deleted scenes and sections from it. Now, you might think that is usually what should be done. But he didn't really do anything to make up for what he cut.

There were no animals either. They had Appa, Momo and the lizard creatures that the Fire Nation ride in the trailer, but that is it. The whole world that was created with the unique animals wasn't there at all. And even though they had Appa and Momo, they seemed like an afterthought. They weren't important at all. As far as you, the watcher understands, they are just teleporting across the planet. It just cuts from scene to scene and all the sudden they are at a different place.

Firebenders couldn't bend fire unless they had it with them. They can't make it themselves. So the Fire Nation carried around torches.

And, they cut so many characters that were important. Fuck, they even cut characters that they had casted. Suki was cast as the Keyoshi warrior, but they weren't in the movie at all. Neither was Jet, or Bhumi.

There was just so much wrong with this movie that I'm actually furious. And it's not just because I'm a fan of the film. There was seriously SO MUCH wrong with it. It would be so much worse if you had walked into this movie and had never seen the show before. You would seriously have no fucking clue as to what was going on. It would have been an even worse movie for the crowd that hadn't seen the cartoon.

There was so much more that was wrong and I keep going back and forth between everything that I can say. Like how Iroh had a dragonball z moment, Koe the face stealer was replaced by a random dragon (I'm assuming it was Roku's, but they never say or really mention Roku), how Aang took his first adventure to the spirit world the first time he went into the Avatar state. Seriously. When he finds out the monks are all dead, he flots and goes Avatar state like in the cartoon, but then he goes to the spirit world. They never even explain the fucking Avatar state or mention why it happens to him.

It was a fucking waste of money. I was so disappointed. I really, REALLY hope they stop M. Night from writing the next script, because I know he is working on it. They need to get someone else.

I will say this though. The scenery was beautiful. He did a good job there. I had no issues with the cast or the jobs they did (except Ozai and Zhao, I wish they would have casted different actors for them). I am only furious about the script. Since the script was awful, it made everything else awful, including the characters. The script and his directing ruined everything. By the time I left, I hated every single character. Aang was whiney, Ozai wasn't terrifying, just some calm guy, and Zhao was a dick, then he became annoying REALLY fast. If you see it, you'll understand with his constant talk of the library and scrolls he found. Since there was no character development, each character that I loved was painted in a new, different light. And there was no reason to like any of them.

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That's about as good of a description of the film as you get. Such a great show squandered on a haphazardly thrown together film. True, though most of the characters were spot-on (except Iroh, who despite the personality and demeanor being there, looked totally different , and Zuko who got started in on the sympathy path way earlier than in the series) and the visuals bringing the experience to a level the cartoon simply could not achieve... so much of the great storytelling was tossed out. The series was about the experiences of a populous in the face of adversity as much as it was about the characters, and so much of that was glossed over.

 

[OrsusMetal]

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That's about as good of a description of the film as you get. Such a great show squandered on a haphazardly thrown together film. True, though most of the characters were spot-on (except Iroh, who despite the personality and demeanor being there, looked totally different , and Zuko who got started in on the sympathy path way earlier than in the series) and the visuals bringing the experience to a level the cartoon simply could not achieve... so much of the great storytelling was tossed out. The series was about the experiences of a populous in the face of adversity as much as it was about the characters, and so much of that was glossed over.

Don't forget Ozai. He looked nothing like he was supposed to and he definitely didn't act the way he was supposed to. There was a part where it even somewhat sounded like he cared about how Zuko was doing. His character seemed more like a strict boss at work than an evil tyrant set on ruling the world.

 

[canuck brian]

I saw it a couple of days ago - quite possibly one of the worst piles of shit i've ever been exposed to.

Ozai is supposed to be the baddest mofo on the plant and Zhao was supposed to be a REALLY angry and scary guy. The movies have portrayed both of these guys as suckers.

Firebenders not being able to generate their own fire, the fight scenes suck... i really couldn't find any redeeming feature of this movie whatsoever, but that might have been because i was laughing all the time at the brutal dialogue that i'm sure could have been lifted from a bunch of 12 year olds playing Dungeons and Dragons for the first time.

 

[tekkadon d]

what the heck when did it come out?
i guess it got released early i america, but sucks that its sucks ill still see it though when it comes here.
what i thought was cool about the show was they had a kung fu guy to do the fight scenes, like choregraph them or whatever.

 

[Deathmetal94564]

They cut out so many good scenes too. That made me really pissed. Zuko didn't even have his pony tail. Plus they pronounced some of the names wrong.