The last
Airbender is a film Adaptation of the animated Nickelodeon series Avatar: the
last airbender. The story follows the adventures of Sokka, Katara and Aang, after
Sokka and Katara free Aang from an iceberg. They find out he is the avatar the
master of all four elements, and they must team up to stop the firenation from
winning the 100-year long war. In this review, I’ll talk about why I was not particularly
impressed with this movie.
Casting Mistakes
This movie
casted actors and actresses that looked nothing like their animated
counterparts. In the movie, almost everyone changed ethnicity which isn’t good,
but defiantly wouldn’t matter as much if the actors and actresses knew how to
act. The actors and actresses all try to use an over dramatic voice, while
every line they deliver looks and sounds like they’re reading off a
teleprompter behind the camera. They also mispronounce names in this constantly,
so much so I seriously though they changed the names, but it is a few moments
in the movie where they do pronounce it right. A lot of the cast is unknown
child actors, and that they lack training defiantly shows threw out this.
Depressing Atmosphere
The movie
is very depressing. The original cartoon had a heart worming stories, and some fun
comedic moments. All the comedy in this movie is sucked out, and it feels like
no characters like each other in this movie. The character Sokka is the fun and
sarcastic guy, a great worrier and a guy with a big heart. This Sokka is the
guy that makes you hate life, he is always depressing, and never has any fun. Katara
is the girl with hope, and she is a fierce waterbender. In this she is the girl
that talks to much, and never does anything helpful. They did an awful job explaining
the backstory of Zuko and Aang, in the show they went deep into their
backstories talking about how that made them into the people they are today. Their
backstory and everything in this move is just explained the whole time instead
of letting the movie tell us the story with character interactions or other
ways.
Why does it look like that?
All the
special effects in the movie looks awful, and the set looks like an overpriced Disney
channel original movie set. It’s originally an amazing world, and the movie
makes it look bad. I don’t have much to say about it other than that it’s not pleasant
to look at. They always film from weird angles and they try so hard to make it
look like a “cool and badass” movie and it fails completely.
Conclusion
The
original TV-show was fun, diverse, it was a great story and it had unique
characters and it was 100% unique. The movie is everything but that. I know it’s
unfair to compare it to the cartoon, but it honestly doesn’t even hold its own
as a stand-alone movie. This movie had an amazing promise but failed completely.
The movie is a bad movie and the pacing sucks. I give this movie a 2,3 out of
10.
