The Last Airbender reviewed by The Rotten Tomatoes Show

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Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox join forces with top movie critics to review "The Last Airbender," the live action adaptation of the popular anime, "Avatar: The Last Airbender," directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

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  • Dejan_Croatia
  • Dejan_Croatia
    • 0
      Dejan_Croatia  
    • the last air bender has to be my favorite adaptation of any movie ever!!!!!!!!

      it was awesome i hope the next two movies stay true to the cartoon like the first one!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • thaDOCTOR
    • 0
      thaDOCTOR  
    • VLPMONTY IS GAYYY this movie sucked big time they dont even pronounce aangs name right cmon r u kidding me i watched the entire series and this movie interpretation is terrible!

    • 1 year ago
  • vlpmonty
  • vlpmonty
    • 0
      vlpmonty  
    • I actually enjoyed myself. I'm not saying it a perfect movie, but for me, after reading the reviews and dumbing down my expectation before seeing it, I enjoyed it. It felt like a kids movie, not Pixar kids, but Disney channel kids. and if I was between the ages 4 and 13 this would be the greatest movie ever. Truth be told, though grown ups like the cartoon, it was made for kids, it's on Nickelodeon for crying out load!!! If you listen to the dialog in the cartoon, it's really goofy and silly...just like the movie. Unfortunately for M. Night Shyamalan you can not get away with the same dialog and flow with live action that you can with animation. Plus the series has 100+ episodes to develop a connection with the characters and the movie only had 2hrs.

      I think this is a case of adults going to a kids movie, expecting to be mentally stimulated as an adult...which is not what this movie is targeting.

    • 1 year ago
  • SparkShark16
    • -1
      SparkShark16  
    • hahaha this movie was a joke... too bad it doesnt seem like any of the critics were fans of the series. as a true fan i was thoroughly disappointed in every aspect of the movie :-/

    • 1 year ago
  • blaino
  • dtringas
    • 0
      dtringas  
    • What in the world is wrong with the people claiming the cast was all-white? Are you blind? While I agree the movie had the wrong ethnicities going on, the majority of the actors were Indian; not well tanned white people. The movie was not that great, but I don't see how it got a 7% rating when worse movies get better than that.

    • 1 year ago
  • AdrianBikes
    • 0
      AdrianBikes  
    • I think I'm in chorus with everyone when I say the movie is far less awesome than the cartoon, watching the movie made me go back and check out the series again.

      But I'm tired of people complaining about the 'white' actor preference in the movie....there were 2 white people and like 50 Indians!! Sure Saka and Katara should've at least been tanned (very obvious in the cartoon) but Indian fire benders?? I mean that was just the biggest WTF ever. Not only were they asian, but they were pale asian so even white actos would've been better actors.

      Also, I don't get why he got so cocky and did the writting himself. The original wrtters are what made the series so awesome, who gave him the right to think he could out-write them?

      And my last complain.... PRONUNCIATION!! Aang is not said Ahh-ng or Saka was Soh-ka...so stupid.

      Well Shamalamanam (southpark lol) did what everyone expected...kill a perfectly good concept.

    • 1 year ago
  • Agent_Alpha
  • PeanutButterSandwitch
  • Weepowopo
    • 0
      Weepowopo  
    • I haven't seen the movie but I am still able to tell that it's crap.
      What's with the non-Asian characters? Yesterday I saw "The Last Samurai" and that movie had way more asian people than this movie needed so what the hell? And it's so fucking stupid to have the Indian guy that plays Zuko to dawn the Blue Spirit costume which includes a JAPANESE Noh mask.

      P.S.
      Rotten Tomatoe sucks now. I just wanted to comment on the travesty that is MNS's "The Last Airbender"

    • 1 year ago
  • RaceBannon
  • Agent_Alpha
  • ocanada
  • musiker91
    • 0
      musiker91  
    • I don't understand how Shyamalan had so much reference and he was still able to screw up a good story. This movie could have been so great.
      I'll just stick to the anime that I loved.

    • 1 year ago
  • robertstr
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • Chris_Walker
    • +2
      Chris_Walker  
    • Einsam_Data_Old:

      Dude it wasn't just that if your a fan of the series you can notice the fighting styles in the cartoon weren't even apparent in the movie . for example you have the earth nation which practices Hung gar Kung Fu, the fire nation practicing Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, Tai Chi for the water nation, and Ba Gua for the air benders. In the movie the movements of the actors were choppy and something that I would expect from the power rangers.

      If I was to rate this movie I would give it the old baseball 3 strikes your out of here !!!!!

      Strike 1 hardly any Chinese actors which the series draws most of its influence from

      Strike 2 poor acting skills from the entire cast

      Strike 3 horrible martial arts display

    • 1 year ago
  • ocanada
    • 0
      ocanada  
    • They were far to nice and restrained with this one. This was a time for rt humor and it wasn't really delivered with the impact befitting a 7 on the meter. Not to mention the racial issues which well...didn't get a mention. But not surprising considering that the Empire magazine critic was the only person to bring up that issue with Prince of Persia when he asked why Al Jolson wasn't in the movie, which is a pretty scathing remark that they worked very hard to couch in the humor that makes the show great. I guess it's hard to keep the show positive when a bad egg like airbender comes along so I don't mind them being restrained but I hope they don't have to sit through a worse movie ever again.

    • 1 year ago
  • UWAZell
  • ocanada
    • +2
      ocanada  
    • UWAZell:

      Theoretically it was a good choice. Possibly the most successful Asian American director. known for works that have their own mythologies and often deal with eastern myths. He had great success with child actors in the Sixth Sense and Signs. Not to mention the personal appeal he made based on his children's love of the show. There can be no doubt he has personal charm, having won over Disney of all studios to produce a hardcore suspense thriller with gory scenes of children in deep physical trauma like gunshot wounds to the head and it paid off with six hundred million dollars and six nominations for the Sixth Sense perhaps he summonsed some of that charm with Paramount as it was he who approached them to acquire the rights for the series.

      I see why Paramount went along with him I just don't see why he made the choices he did. If he felt he saw Katara in his daughter and she wanted to dress as her for Halloween than why not cast a Katara that resembled his daughter instead of evangelizing as he has for the wooden Nikola Peltz. He's said that he would have refused to make the movie without her and I just don't get it. None of the kids in this movie are a Haley Joel Osment and they are all with the exception of Dev Patel ghostly white and its simply Jarring. Seeing a white tween walk out of what is essentially a wigwam looks ridiculous but might have been excused if she won over the crowd with some display of acting prowess, she does not. Her brother sucks more life out of the picture than he sucks blood in Twilight. If he wanted a Twilight actor to sell the picture to tween girls why didn't he just pick a member of the "wolf pack" who girls faint over and just so happen to be primarily first nation? I know I"m commenting too much on race but I feel it is out of step with the story and provides both a jarring experience to the viewer and lends less authenticity and weight to the whole proceeding. It seems to smack of either a lack of artistic integrity or an uncanny shift in talent for M. Night in terms of cultivating young actors to deliver good performances. That seems to be the chief element bent in this picture, Shyamalans former directing prowess.

    • 1 year ago
  • EmperorThan
  • TheMidnightWolf
    • +2
      TheMidnightWolf  
    • i'm seriously going have to agree. i didn't even watch the movie and i know it went away from the core of the series. zuko doesn't look like zuko, iroh is supposed to be this comical fat guy, and m. night shamalan gave crappy reasonings to the pronouncing of the names...back to the zuko thing, zuko isn't supposed to have hair...well not really. shamalan...WATCH THE DAMN SERIES!!! nuff said....

    • 1 year ago
  • smurph25
    • +5
      smurph25  
    • Thanks, I guess people should be better off watching the animé series on Nickelodeon, so I won't be watching that film, and yes, 3D conversion is really doubles as cheating.

    • 1 year ago
  • booninvailable
    • +4
      booninvailable  
    • I just wish it turned out that M Night Shyamalan has actually been dead all these years and a secret society has been pushing out this crap under his name. WHAT A TWIST!

    • 1 year ago
  • jswiz
  • jswiz
    • +3
      jswiz  
    • I would have done a better job , they didn't even pronouce the names of the characters correctly , things that happend animated series were changed just to fit in the movie , and I think , this is just my opinion , the characters that represented the fire nation should of have japanese ethnicity .

    • 1 year ago
  • ocanada
    • +1
      ocanada  
    • jswiz:

      Apparently Manoj felt that he could relate to mispronounced East Asian names having one himself so he had a cultural consultant come and educate the cast on pronunciation. Sadly he didn't care enough to bother with a cultural consultant while filming in Vitenam and Greenland majority minority countries whose nationalities are not often represented in films and choose them as window dressing instead. In the process he pissed off fans of the peabody award winning show and offended two entire communities who are now less likely to see the film. According to the seven on the meter that might be a blessing for them.

    • 1 year ago
  • jswiz
    • 0
      jswiz  
    • ocanada:

      definitely a huge mistake on both accounts , i can only wounder what the creators really thinks of this movie & can't help but feel sorry for them .

    • 1 year ago
  • ocanada
    • 0
      ocanada  
    • jswiz:

      non disclosure agreements are tough business, I suppose even if they disagree and they seemingly do they wouldn't want to tank their own franchise by further stirring up discontent. I just hope Nick gives them the greenlight for their avatar based project they wanted to do. IN ANIMATION and not live action.

    • 1 year ago

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