Saw the Last Air Bender movie with Heather the other day. Didn't want to start critiquing the movie right away so I took a few days to think about it.
Now I really don't give a lot away about the movie and if you've seen the show then you already know the story.
As a fan of the show, the movie a little off. M. Night tried to push a lot into one movie. The movie was, for the most part, the first season. There were things that were left out and I can see them being left our for the sake of time. But I think that the whole movie moved rather fast. M. Night wanted to hit some of the big points from the show, but there are a lot of them when you are talking about a entire season.
Then I started to look at the movie as a retelling of the story. When I thought about it like that it wasn't as bad. Though I still thought that the movie moved along rather fast and didn't really make it possible to relate with the characters.
I then was reminded that this was a movie based from a kids cartoon, which one has to remember they don't have the longest of attention spans. It would have been nice if it was made more with an older audience in mind.
The special effects of the movie were outstanding. Apa and Momo were very well done and the bending was top notch. I didn't really mind the fact that the fire benders had to have fire around to bend, unlike the show. Which made the ability to create fire all the more powerful. The water benders had to have water around to bend or were SOL. Unless you have the air benders in a vacuum, they are the only ones that have their element all around them.
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