The last Airbender Movie Review

Gemma – The last Airbender Movie Review

I found that the beginning of The Last Airbender wasn’t great, as the film is based on the animated DVD series called the Avatar which is in three books, each book having about 20 episodes.

At the beginning of the film it misses out a lot of information which is shown in the animated series, of course anyone who hasn’t watched the animated version wouldn’t notice, but it does make the film is slightly ‘jumpy’, so doesn’t make total sense, which just looks like a bad film.

The actors also don’t seem very good at acting when the film first starts. However, as the film goes on it improves in both areas greatly.

The main character is named Aang, and it is up to Aang, with the help of his two friends, Katara and Sokka, to save the world. Of course he has a lot of work to do in order to be able to save the world.

The special effects throughout the film are brilliant, and are some of the best I’ve seen, making it one of the best 3D films this year.

This was only the first book, and I can’t wait to see the second and third when they come out if they are as good as this one.

I would give this film a 7/ 10 mainly because of the graphics.

Score: 7/10

Sam – The last air bender review

I really enjoyed avatar because the special effects were amazing!

The movie is based around the cartoon series which i’ve watched, so i understood what was going on in it a lot better, but you can easily watch it without even knowing about the series and still understand the storyline well.

The movie covers the first of three series from the cartoon and if they create movies for the other two that are even half as good I’ll be very keen to see them.

In the movie there are four nations: earth, fire, air and water, who each have special people among them who can bend their nations element to their will, but there is one person who can control all of the elements, the avatar.

In the time the movie is set in  the fire nation is at war with the other nations and has already wiped out the air nomads.

Aang, the hero of the movie, is the current avatar and the last air bender left. He has been missing for nearly 100 years, until Katara and her brother Sokka, members of the southern water tribe, find Aang and together they begin a revolution to stop the fire nation from defeating the remaining two nations.

There is a climactic and epic ending at the northern water tribe’s fortress, where they manage to defeat the fire nation against overwhelming odds, which has some wicked special effects!

Score:  8/10

Matt – The Last Airbender

I’m not a huge fan of M Night Shyamalan (see my previous review of http://cinem.com/m-night-shyalamans-the-happening-on-dvd/) and I had caught a few minutes of the cartoon version of this at some point when Gemma & Sam were watching it on TV a while back, so I wasn’t really expecting much. In fact I wasn’t even planning on watching it, but got out voted…

The first, and surprisingly only major, problem I had with the movie was the somewhat out of place casting of the three main characters as caucasians rather than asians as pretty much the rest of the cast, it appears to be a classic “hollywoodization” of the film, most likely in an attempt to appeal specifically to the western/US market.

Once past that the movie itself was pleasantly enjoyable, although that was possibly because I went in with such low expectations it was difficult for it to disappoint.

The plot is fairly simple, but then it is based on a kids cartoon, and the dialogue likewise lacks any real sparkle or bit, for probably the same reason.

The acting wasn’t exactly award winning, but I’ve seen worse from supposedly better actors, rather than kids… Dev from Slumdog Millionaire did a failry good turn as a “baddy”.

The saving grace of the film was simply the effects, which made the whole thing good enough that I would actually consider seeing any follow up movies, although I’d probably only go to watch them if Gemma & Sam want to, there’s pretty much always going to be something else on that I would rather watch…

Score: 4/10

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Source: Cinem.Com & Original Post: Matt Garrett