Avatar the LAST Airbender.

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However this isn't the kind of spoiler that would give away important scenes to the movie (although it will). No, this actually means that this idiotic movie itself is a spoilt waste of film, but I guess you already knew that.

But lets not get too much into that yet.

I've watched the complete series of Avatar The Last Airbender which was produced by Nickelodeon. I loved that show. Really, I did. Avatar is as exiting and as interesting as a cartoon can get. I'd even put it up there with Spongebob (and that's actually saying something). The book of water, earth and fire are just chapters in the story that no child or adult will ever forget after watching because of its amazingly crafted story line, exiting and funny characters and just plain old awesomeness make Avatar The Last Airbender such a heartwarming tale.

Now the movie on the other hand..................

IS...NOTHING...LIKE...THE...TV...SERIES!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly, what the hell was M.Night. Shyamalan thinking?!?!!
Its got a lousy and utterly pointless plot development, which makes even the fans from the series who KNOW what's about to happen to go "Wait, how the hell did they get here?" or "What the hell just happened?", so imagine the confusion of the crowd who hasn't watched the series who are unfortunate enough to be stuck watching this. Truly, world cannot begin to describe my disappointment for this film.

Then there's what I'd like to call the "Indianisation" of the movie. Hey, I'm not racist and I have nothing against Indians being in the top par of society, but come on lets face the facts here. Avatar is a predominantly Chinese cultured background series. (again, I'm NOT being racist here). It is very obvious that Shyamalan didn't want to cast anyone Chinese for any major role (maybe HE's being racist, I dunno)

The casting for the show is terrible. I mean absolutely terrible. They may not be bad actors but they sure as hell are the wrong ones for this movie.
Zuko (Dev Patel) is british Indian, Uncle Iroh (shaun Toub) is half Iranian or something, Azula (Summer Bishil) is half Arab half Indian, Commander Zhao (is a british dude born in Mumbai, Fire Lord Ozai is a Maori (so he LOOKS Indian), Sokka is played by the guy who plays Jasper in the Twilight movies (which sad to say is better than this), Aang is a white kid who knows taekwondo in real life, so I guess that helps. Katara is a pointless character in the movie. Princess Yue's character although is pretty, but is not the "Yue Prety" that everyone was hoping for, and one more thing, is it just me who noticed this or was EVERYONE in fire nation colony 15 Indian!!?!
Some really crappy story changes and scenes in this movie include:
-Sokka (which is probounced Sowhkar in the film) being the MOST SERIOUS character in the movie!
-Aang (which is supposed to have a slight E sound and can be pronounced as aeng when said ) is actually pronounced as aaaaang, and avatar is pronounced aaaaaaaaaaaavatarrr
-Not one sarcastic joke or comment from Sokka (that was at all Sokka-ish)
-Katara's mother is kidnapped and then killed.
-Aaaaaaang admits he ran away from home and then the ass smiles about it in the Southern Water Tribe Village. What gives dude?!
-Zuko's scar is a tiny tiny thing. Its more like a bruise and a scratch.
-Sokka and Katara's reason for leaving the tribe is to go save Aaaaaang's ass who was kidnapped by the fire nation (without the intentions of teaching him bending like they should)
-Uncle Iroh is thin, unfunny, is sooooo uninspiring when he speaks and doesn't mention tea till almost an hour into the movie!!! (what the hell?!?!) and there is no "Forgive my nephew" or "Priiinceeee Zuuukoo" "Lets have a cup of calming Jasmine tea" dialouge from him.
-Monk Kyatso is an athletic looking black dude, not a bald frail chinese man.
-Fire benders can't bend shit without a source of fire, and when they DO actually bend fire, they always do some sort of crazy idiotic dumbass ballet routine beforehand.
-Sozen's commet only gives fire benders the ability to bend fire from nothing, NOT give them awesome fire superpowers.
-During a fight scene with the fire nation, when 6 powerful earth benders do some sort of pathetic stomping arm flailing ritual in formation to kick fire nation ass, nothing happens. Seriously. Its just a pointless dance.
-Next to them is one other earth bender actually doing some actual bending. Unfortunately, the little rock which he bends moves with the same pace as a small running chicken.
-Any form of bending in the movie is mind numbingly slow.
-Aaaaaaang's airbending lags a little from his movements.
-Most of the fights involving Fire Nation troops involve Kung Fu and swords instead of fire bending.
-Katara gets the water bending scroll from Kyoshi Island.
-They all go to kyoshi Island, but guess what, no Kyoshi Warriors.
-Ozai has no facial hair besides eyebrows.
-Agni Kai is pronounced agnee keey
-Aaaaaaaang actually SUCKS at waterbending up to the point where he actually has to use it to save the day, then he's all powerful all of a sudden.
-Aaaaaaaang doesn't say anything to the Blue Spirit who gets knocked unconcious, he just leaves him in the forest.
-After kidnapping aaaaaang while he's in the spirit world, Zuko takes him into the city and hides out in a house to wait out the invasion instead of going all macho and braving the cold ice desert to wait out a snowstorm.
-The face stealing demon is replaced with aaaaaaavatar Roku's dragon.
-The Zuko aaaaaang fight is 80% kungfu 20% bending.
-Uncle Iroh is the only fire bender who can actually firebend from nothing.
-All fire bending troops including commander Zhao are scared stiff when they see this.
-There is no giant water fish creature at the end of the movie. Its just a huuuuuge wall of water.... which does nothing. It just goes up, waits a while and comes down the same way it went up without destroying ANY fire nation ships. But it does scare the whole bloody fleet enough to turn around and just give up the fight.
-Azula's face keeps twitching when her character is introduced at the end of the movie.

Wait, we're at the end of the movie?! Thank God!!!

This movie sucked. Big Time. This is THE worst movie I have ever seen. The acting is hollow, the dialogue is useless and the story is just plain bad. So much was changed from the original series to make this movie. Its almost like there was no effort put into the making of this movie. I'm actually starting to doubt if anyone from the production crew watched the series. Or was it just Shyamalan who didn't want to hear anybody's advice. I think the movie deal should have gone to producers like Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean 1,2,3, The Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time, Bad Boys 2) or Michael Bay (Transformers 1,2) or even Steven Speilberg, all of which are directors who actually realize the weight and the importance of the Movie Project that they undertake. Avatar has such a large impact on the global pop culture that a decision to make a movie like this, shouldn't be made lightly.

Shyamalan has ruined a perfect opportunity to make the perfect Series>Movie transition for a show, and also to give his already downward spiraling career new breath. Also, he has ruined the wonderful cartoon series which we all love so much. He reports saying that he has begun writing the script for the 2nd movie which is based on the Book Of Earth.

He's already shamelessly killed and ruined a perfect show and has already made this movie which is so damn bad. Fans of the series will probably never forgive him for destroying their beloved Avatar. I really do hope that this is, in every essence of the words The LAST Airbender.

Now I know how the Dragonball fans feel.

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