"The Last Airbender" Review

The Last Airbender Review

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Shyamalan recieves $150 million,

He is told, "Go make 'The Last Airbender' into a Movie,"

Shyamalan wonders how to add his signature twist,

This time the twist is....

IT'S THE WORST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!

REVIEW: I'll admit it. Maybe the claim "It's the worst movie of all time" is a bit exaggerated. However, this does not disguise the fact that the movie is extremely awful and is a something you should avoid like the plague.

Let's start with the acting. Atrocious. Shyamalan's job as a director of a movie is to guide actors towards providing a good performance. Once, again he fails. The titular character, Aang (played by Noah Ringer), is a total joke through out the movie. He's so uninteresting that it really becomes hard to bother caring for the character at all. Although, it's also hard to care about the entire movie in general. Other supporting cast members provide us with additional terrible performances. Among, all this bad acting there is one character that provides us some relief from all the bad acting and his name is Dav Patel. Coming fresh off of his starring role in the Oscar winning "Slumdog Millionaire" it's rather ironic that he could go from such an amazing movie to such an abomination. Whatever the case Dav Patel's performance definitely stands out from all of the other terrible performances. Dont get me wrong Patel's performance isn't amazing but it is....ok. It's a truly sad day when the only performance a reviewer can praise within in a movie is merely an "ok" one. Once again, acting = atrocious.

Next up is...the story. Ugh. Maybe...just maybe this movie could have been a decent movie if Shyamalan hadn't been allowed to write his own adapted screenplay for the movie. Unfortunately, he was. And, he completely tarnishes the story from the hit television show. For some reason Shyamalan thought it would be possible to condense an entire season of a television show into one 1.5 hour movie. This is impossible. Thus, leading the movie into a bunch of confusing, incomprehensible scenes. 2.5 hours probably would have done the job. Then again, that would mean enduring a whole extra hour of Shyamalan. It's hard enough sitting there for 1.5 hours. So perhaps, this is actually a blessing in disguise. Long story short Paramount should have hired a capable writer. They hired Shyamalan. Thus, the story...sucks.

Finally, we are going to take a look at the special effects. I was fortunate enough to see the 2D version thus not having to pay extra for the 3D version of the movie which, other critics report, serves to make the movie even worse. When discussing the special effects one has to realize that this is sadly the highlight of the movie. However, most of the time it appears as though the special effects are wasted. Case in point, during the final scene of the movie we see a minion of the fire nation mounted upon a gigantic lizard creature. The lizard and the villain climb up a wall and.............the lizard is never seen again. What was the point of this? Why waste possibly additional millions on a lizard seen for approximately 10-15 seconds? Once again, Shyamalan shows his lack of sense when it comes to making movies.

To conclude, if you really want to see "The Last Airbender".........DONT. Instead, go to Amazon and buy the animated series. You're welcome.

IT'S A ROTTEN POTATO!!!!

1.210241/10