All and all the Cinematography and Special effects were alright, although we have seen that quality of work in every film produced after the Matrix (which was a pioneer in that field and broke the mold) Moving water and pyrotechnics has been done to death since the Abyss and Carrie. As for action and CGI (Ohh the pretty colors!) go watch the Sorcerer’s Apprentice or any of the Ang Bak martial flicks out there. No fast paced movement or fluidity we come to expect from Crouching Tiger or Forbidden Kingdom, only Power Rangers in slow motion. Yes that bad. The real shame was the lackluster detail made to Appa. Can anyone say Falcor reject! Did you like that well those were the kindest words you will hear from me in this review.

The actions sequences in the movie were already shown in the trailers which leave nothing left to the movie but talk, talk, and yes you guess it more talking. That in itself would not be so bad; however the script is pure garbage. It’s like sitting thru a kindergarten play of the first Thanksgiving. The actors are simply going through the motions with no enthusiasm whatsoever. The transition to audio book will be seamless!
The Martial Arts (snicker) and Acting were at best mediocre and at worst laughable. Apparently this Noel ringer kid is a talented martial artist, why he held back in this film is anybody’s guess. I saw better fighting in the Rundown (A modest film by the former wrestler The Rock which in my opinion is ten times more fun than this abomination). Really I saw better choreography at karate classes for 5 year-olds. Now the acting, everyone except Uncle Iroh and maybe Zuko was somewhat tolerable. Everyone else made you feel you were watching the second or third day of filming. No passion, humor, or chemistry; you simply do not care for anyone in this film. The girl they picked for Katara had one dimension, worrisome, and ran with it. Ang had a sad puppy dog expression and like the rest of the cast took himself too seriously. The guy who played Sokka looked high as a kite and I was waiting for the other cast mates to find him tapping a vein with his arm tied up with a piece of tube. Why so jittery and bug eyed!

I will not go over the changes made from the series because the fans will see and hate them on their own, while the rest of the public will find other things to be sick about. The Critics were so on target with this movie and it’s sad that such a great work of art the series was, was reduced to this effigy of laziness and incompetence. In short this movie has no soul at all. No brains or muscle either for that matter

so WILL THIS MOVIE CONTINUE ?

Lady in the Water earned a pedestrian $42 million at the domestic box-office. It was the 73rd highest grossing film of 2006. Considering Night is a very well-known director with has a track record of success and a big studio marketing budget behind every movie he makes, which is a terrible showing. 2 years later, The Happening earned just $64 million from US moviegoers. It was the 49th highest grossing film of the year, again a poor showing considering Night’s name and the studio muscle behind the film. Especially troubling was the fact that it made $30 million its opening weekend in theaters and then just tanked to earn a total of only $64 million. Most wide releases earn about a quarter of their box-office the opening weekend. For a film to do half of its total take its opening weekend it is a sign that the people who did see it the first weekend went out and told all their friends how horrible it was. It is a sign of massive negative word-of-mouth. The notion that these films were successes with audiences is a fallacy and a disservice to the readers of this article.

Finally, the latest of Box office abortions The Last Airbender is another great success story. The production budget for the film was 150 million (Marketing costs were another 130 million, but that’s another story) and so far it has made domestically $129,344,805 and since HALF goes to the theaters that show it, that amount is less than 65 million. Now if you add the the foreign gross (54 million) and we have about 188 million worldwide. However since half has to go to the theaters, the movie has only made less that 95 million so far after a month and a half. Still a failure in both counts.

I wonder if the authors of these articles had an agenda and wanted to preserve their relationships with Night so they wrote a puff piece that ignores the facts. I will admit that Air bender has been a decent “success” at the box-office, especially when compared to Night’s recent films. However, when you consider that the film had a $150 million budget and a marketing budget of more than $130 million, there seems to be little chance it will be a money-maker for Paramount. I find it amusing that Night says Paramount is waiting to decide on making sequels. The odds of a sequel to a film that lost money are slim and none. Most astute Hollywood observers know that Air bender is going to lose tens of millions.

The movie is so bad it looks like Uwe Boll directed it. Seriously.

This director had no idea what he was getting into. The anime fans are so evolved, that they are your harshest critics. When a person who does not even know the storyline, but is going by the trailers, knows something is badly wrong, then the director has a responsibility to the anime fans for the next movie, or the anime fans can anniliate the movie, along with everyone else if he does not rise to the caliber he did in Sixth Sense.

Animated movies can be a scary territory, especially when you have an audience with a preconceived idea or worse it is an animated series that the director has to measure and compare.

The actor for airbender. It is not his fault. You do what the director says you do. He had the looks for it. The expressions were there. But if the script is bad, and you do what the director tells you to do, then, throw the blame at the director and the scriptwriter.

Look at Clash of the Titans. They had two best actor academy award winners, in the movie. The actors did what they could do with the bad script they had, and bad directing. But it did not save the movie.which proves my point. Bad script, bad director, ends up bad movie, no matter how talented the actors are.

Jackson was smart. His scriptwriters knew there were millions of fans of Lord of the Rings. They knew they were going to have to change some drastic scenes, and characters. So this is what they did. They puposely gave out information on the internet of what they were changing, and the reason why. Then they waited to see the response. And they got it!!!!The fans were included in the decision making of the script, and they did not know it. There reaction helped the scriptwriters to find alternatives to please the fans. Many of the fans, thought the changes were excellent, because they saw the reasoning behind it. They got adjusted to that way of thought. Other ideas, simply put them into a revolt, if it was changed, and the scriptwriters did not add, or change that scene or character. This was a perfect way of getting the fans adjusted to the changes before the movie came out. Even though jackson has not done an animated film, I have no doubt he would be able to make a movie that would be a animated series into a live action movie.