As usual this is a late post, seen this movie with friends two or three weeks ago but still I want to share it with you guys.
I made sure we watch this since I am a fan of the cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender back in Nickelodeon days.
The world is divided into four great nations: Air, Water, Earth and Fire. From these nations come gifted persons able to bend or manipulate their particular element. Only one person per lifetime can master the four elements and he is called the Avatar – the one that must unite all the nations.
Aang was the chosen avatar, from the Air Nation but he went missing for 100 years, during those years the Fire Nation took charge and wanted to rule the world so they suppressed the other nations and particularly eliminated the Air Nation. So the story starts upon the retrieval of Aang and his journey to master the four elements and defeat the Fire Nation.
I really enjoy the cartoons/ animated series but the movie? Nope.
Though it follows the story as it is, the execution I guess is not quite to my expectations.
It’s one of those 3D movies where I wonder why does it needed to be such. Aside from a more expensive movie ticket (I paid for those tickets!) it doesn’t seem to do the tricks. Most of the time, it is dark - calling lighting technician/ director! I cannot see the scenes and if I remove the 3D glasses it’s just some blurry things. In the end I just had a huge headache.
Let’s see the next 2 parts. Hopefully it would be better.
well, I’m a bit disappointed too with the movie because they made it too serious.
i was looking for the antics of Aang and Sokka.
my husband and i are fans of the cartoon series, but we chose to skip watching this one in the cinemas. since learning about the director and the cast, we felt that it wouldn’t live up to the expectations. though i might consider watching this on dvd… just to see what shyamalan has done to it.
oh this movie I not yet watch
I haven’t seen the movie too, but will see it if i had a chance to grab a dvd of it. Some of my friends who have seen the movie and is also fan of the animated series, are really disappointed. Especially characters of Aang and Sokka. For them Aang is like a puppet or a robot, gone are the childish antics of Aang, worst is Sokka who has the habit of striking funny jokes in all series of the Avatar. M. Night should be ashamed of himself.