Nobody _EVER_ talks about the worst part of the six earthbenders scene, though! The six of them weren’t even the attackers, _they were just setup!_ All of them do an entire dance routine to float a small rock slowly through the air….and then 5:05 _ONE GUY,_ in _ONE MOVE,_ launches the damn thing at _at least_ five times faster than they moved it!

4:48 "Let's lock the earthbenders in a prison made of earth, that'll show them!" Well judging from how amazing that earthbending was 5 seconds later, maybe it will.

The funny thing is, I love PJO and ATLA, but both have HORRIBLE movie adaptations…. The pain that I’m having as I watch this lmao 😭

Kommander zhao saying TO THE FIRELORD "As you know" was so ridiculous and the firelord PATENTLY LISTING even more so.

...That's rough buddy.

The six guys getting together to slowly move one tiny rock will always be hysterical!

I feel really bad for Dev Patel and Noah Ringer especially because in a different timeline and with a better script and direction, they could have genuinely been good in their roles. Noah actually has so many Aang like qualities if you watch him behind the scenes, but so much of that was lost due to bad script and dialogue and direction. And Dev is easily one of the most talented actors who is wasted in a script that gave him little nuance or range. There is so little either could do with this bad of a script and direction.

This movie and the lightning thief movie both came out in 2010. By coincidence, the original animated series and the first Percy Jackson book both came out in 2005 and now both franchises have had a new chance at a decent live action adaptation just months apart. If the Percy Jackson series is an indicator of how well this will turn out, then I'm hopeful but yeah, 2010 was not a good year for us.

The only good thing I can say about this movie is it helped get Seychelle Gabriel cast as Asami in Legend of Korra

The earthbenders 🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺 The guy waiting to get hit with a small rock 🧍‍♂️

The casting here was just wild! You can't imagine the jump scare I got when Brooklyn Beckham got married and I realized his wife was the "actress" who played Katara?! 😳😵‍💫

The uncle iroh is awesome though.... i thought he nailed the sadness in a veteran's eyes part. His wisdom felt earned.

took me like 13 years to realize that Princess Yue in this movie also voiced Asami in TLK

The Jasper look took me out. He can only play Jasper. 💅and the fact that they thought they were gonna get a sequel. 😂😂😂

Doing the Macarena to represent earth bending 🤣

'there is no movie in ba sing se' 😂😂😂

Ngl, I completely forgot about that earthbending scene at 4:57, and watching all that fancy martial arts work amount to one rock floating over to the enemy had me keeling over on the floor in an uncontrollable fit of laughter 😆🤣

The earth benders coming in was giving Camp Rock chant

Watching this no joke brought all my confusion, shock, horror and utter outrage at what this movie did. The trauma i thought i forgot it but now i remember everything. Is there room in the mind wipe chamber?

i cannot believe that nobody making this moving looked at the six earthbenders scene and saw how fucking hysterical it is they were really like 'yeah this is good. yeah this is a fight scene' while making meme material

I am gonna say it…I like how they did aang’s tattoo’s, I feel like if they could animate that level of detail, the tattoos would have looked like that, not just a blue, filled-in arrow

5:01 nothing will ever be funnier to me than that single rock soaring through the air

The bar for live action ATLA adaptations is down in Tartarus. Kronos is currently down there trying to figure out what an "Ong" is.

oh this is the first time i’ve heard that shyamalan quote WHAT THE 😭

No joke, they played this in theaters and my sister and I (we absolutely love ATLA) went to go see it, it came out the day before her birthday and I took her as a birthday present, we just wanted to have a good time. Within 5 minutes, the entire theater room was empty and there was a line of people demanding refunds at the ticket desk LMAO. Not only is this movie boring as sin, but you know the worst part of it? EVERY decision in this movie, from the choreography to the names being wrong, were *intentional* They ran the movie in theaters for 2 days before pulling it from the roster lmao.

3:08 fun fact Jesse McCartney voices Dick Grayson in Young Justice and is able to depict his personality perfectly.

Oh my GOD. your earthbending macarena dance routine had me rolling

Pros: setting, score Cons: seriously considering a lobotomy to forget

Adventures of Ong, Sowkha, Ketara, where we met our favorite Uncle Eero!

Your making me relive my past trauma.

I've watched this movie only once, and even back down I was traumatized by it… So, really, thank you, for making me laugh about it, instead of wanting to stab myself in the eye with the closest ball pen. It was just so hilarious to see your reaction to it and your comments, and especially your very accurate bending style to throw a pebble into the screen… xD and about the "show not tell…" the movie just went with "Audio description without choice!" oO thesis/conclusion to this movie: aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! *calling my therapist

This video is perfect. Agree to everything, including „There is no movie in Ba Sing Se!“ :D

I convinced my family for us to go watch this in cinema so they could finally understand why I liked this "avatar thing" so much, back when I was younger... Needless to say they thought even less of me and my tastes afterwards...

Another good thing I will give the movie was the casting of Azula, for who short it is. The actress Summer Bishi, showed on the show The Magicians she would have made a killer Azula under an actual good adaption

I’m so sorry you did this to yourself, ❤ (seriously I love your videos)

my One Thing i liked in this movie was when Katara tries to attack with waterbending for the first(?) time and accidentally gets it on Sokka, not the fire nation soldiers. It was a good gag and considering how many times Sokka gets all kinds of stuff on him (be that snow, slime, saliva...), it was character accurate. I laughed.

Mikaila looks near to tears this entire video and honestly, same 😭

I've been reading reactions from people who went to the premiere for the first episode of the live action ATLA and I am actually SO excited for the new live action show. The cast seems great and the crew speak so highly of the source material. The VFX might not be the best and I know there might be some changes not everyone will like, but I'm personally looking forward to it. Disney PJO adaptation was so much fun to watch and I have a feeling the NATLA show will be as well.

Remember when Bolin's family thought his movers were comedies? I think that joke was thrown in there in reference to this movie.

I love Jackson!💗😂 The fricking Jesse McCartney skit killed me!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Definitely your funniest reaction video yet! The arm movements were just too good!🤣

WHOAW!!!!! To this day I am still not over this movie. I am literally, just disappointed just hearing this again.

I really think someone told Shyamalan that bending is based on martial arts, and he thought: 'You do martial arts, and then bending happens.'

Hey Mikaela, if you want to watch another AWESOME book-movie adaptation. You could check out Disney's Artemis Fowl. Just uhh. Just read the books first before watching it. The movie's awesomeness is on par with the ATLA and PJO adaptations

In the dvd box set of AtlA, there are behind the scene bonus content for this movie (that doesn't exist in Ba Sing Se). Theres a few interviews with M. Night and the Co-creator. They seem to be hopeful of the film in the interviews. But its really funny to go back and watch. Its like being in a dream and screaming at someone but no words come out of your mouth

What I always enjoy is there's part of a scene that "Katara" talks over that they mostly took out when she's talking about taking back Earth Kingdom villages from the Fire Nation. The full scene was deleted. In that scene the villagers celebrate by doing the most generic native dance you could think of. Makes me laugh every time.

That Earthbender dance you did. I can't. It was beautiful, and steange, in a Johnny Depp Willy Wonka way. When he talks to the Oompa Loompa leader - that. I have complicated feelings about it lol

aside from dev patel, one good thing they captured was that katara actually practiced her water bending to show how she was deserving of the title of a master after the north tribe arc

i got chills with the music when ang made a big wave to splash the water at their boats

Gotta point out the amazing exile solo in the middle of the vid bravo love that song

1) I love how that you felt you had to clarify the percentages part. 2) You looked like your soul was slowly slipping away during the exposition part.

Can I just say, you have a beautiful voice? That audition scene was soo good. 💝

I'm SO glad you brought up James Newton's mind-blowing score, as it means I have FINALLY figured out why that giant wave scene near the ending connected so much with me when I saw this in theatres, and why it's stuck with me so long. Tragically (lol), I saw this movie before I saw the series, so while I remember being like "why are there white kids in what appears to be an Inuit village," I didn't understand the level of problematic this movie was until I watched the series. As a massive fan of the series now, I feel a sense of shame when I think of that giant wave scene because a part of me has preferred it to the spirit-destruction scene in the show, despite not having seen the movie since it came out. This could be the wrong take, but I think there is beauty and so much power in showing your enemies the power and control you have, without actually using it to defeat them, and after the pathetic bending in the movie, the power to make a fu*king gigantic wave seemed epic. But it's the MUSIC in that scene specifically that makes it seem so moving and profound, and I somehow overlooked that. How many movies out there would be half (or less) of what they are without the score?

When i think about live adaptations of japanese animation like Fullmetal Alchemist, Saint Seiya, or Attack on Titan, i must admit : this one is almost decent.

Percy Jackson, The Last Airbender and Dragon Ball Evolution were my triple combo of realizing as a child that movies could be bad, actually

“He felt mixed race with an Asian quality to him” is a WILD sentence to say. I had to replay that part back because wtf 😂

I love your wall decorations

I don't know why the side by side Jasper comparison had me CRYING 😂

Another great take, Mikaila!

At the end you bring up the BEST point I have heard about the Netflix live action ATLA. WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE THE ANIMATED SERIES. We can always go back and watch that, over and over. Fall in love with it all over again. No live action adaptation will ever reach that height, but Netflix did a great job reaching further towards it. And it helps keep that beautiful, perfect animation alive.

amazing video, but don’t sleep on Nightmares and Daydreams. I find it a highly entertaining episode that digs into Aang’s inner turmoil and surprisingly relatable insomnia.

i haven’t seen your channel before today, and this was fun to listen to and watch😂 but i was really anticipating watching the movie alongside you. i checked the length of your video too late and realized that this wasn’t a watch with me at all like i expected. funny video nonetheless!!❤

not me just realizing sokka in this movie was literally jasper from twilight

Can't wait for your reaction to the Netflix's live action!

8:49 YOU JUST SAID IT AT 8:46

The Jesse McCartney bit made me start wheezing ngl

I watched this movie having not seen the show in awhile. And I was young. The biggest thing I was upset about was the cliffhanger.

bruh the footsteps on snow was killing me lmfaoooo

I love seeing that I’m not the only one who thought it was chaos and not great 😂 also I love you so much girl you always make me laugh ❤

The thing is we've already seen how a modern day netflix Avatar would look with Dragon Prince and, even though its pretty good, they took what Avatar would have told in 2 maybe 3 seasons and turned it into 6. That's not even including the limitations of life action CGI technology which is ever escalating but will never beat the animation. Therefore, unlike with One Piece where they were actually able to improve the pace and trade realistic, strong acting in a more realistic setting, the Avatar remake will likely worsen the pacing or at best keep it the same and will have to reconcile trying to make realistic a world that is intentionally made to be fantastical and cartoony. To give credit, I do think they are right that they can make an improvement on Sokka's misogynic tendancies but what a graveyard of Ls to attempt to face to fix one problem. I hope new kids like it is all i can say

Omg, when you took out the music at 8:12 💀

Mikaila loving Hp pjo and Atla I think I found my new fave KZfaqr to watch

I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE SCRIBBLES 🤯🤯 After all this time, I hate this movie sooooooo much more than when I 1st saw it. Great commentary

The producers: hmmm 🤔 these Chinese words are kind of ugly. i know! We can change them and make them look more artistic! Also the producers: let’s change the name pronunciation to make it seem more like a Chinese person would say it! because we want this to be authentic Chinese culture!! Like how does that make sense😂!!??

Best part of going to see this movie in the theater (in Jamaica) was the National Anthem and the put on your 3d glasses Rio clip.... I dont remember anything else 😅

The other good thing, aside from the soundtrack, is Princess Yue's actor, who later played Asami in LoK

Love your wand waaaaall! ❤❤❤

The, "What in the Mandela effect," got me.

i was thinking about this earlier and i feel like what majes pjo a good show us that riordan was there making sure they stayed true to the essence of what the books are. the changes may have been weird in some places but the essence was there. but with atla it... doesn't feel that way. it feels like they want to get from point a to b to c without considering everything that helped it get there

My dad and I had a daddy daughter date and went to go see this movie when it first came out… we definitely bonded… Over how awful it was

I tried watching this once and couldn't even make it halfway. I applaud you

Oh you brave soul! Godspeed! I got through that movie once - never again!

Ok, In the movies defense: 1. We were all way to rough on Noah Ringer. He quit acting because of all the hate. 2. Noah did what was in the script. It’s not his fault. It was bad writing. 3. I actually liked the air bender tattoos from the movie way more than the ones from Netflix. 4. I don’t get this Oong hate thing that much. I am German and the name was always Aang here (but voiced Oong) so it wasn’t really an issue. But I get it. The show was originally American (I think) and it was English pronunciation so that can throw people off. However, it wasn’t an issue anywhere. Maybe try watching the German synchro a bit to understand what I mean. It was always exactly pronounced the same way as in the movies. 5. I didn’t find (and still to this day) the CGI that bad. For 2010 I think it’s alright. Yeah, that Little Rock (for a group of earth benders) was a bit wacky but especially the water bending I actually enjoyed. 6. In the Netflix adaptation Katara is also not dark skinned.

I love the conclusion about the bar =)))))) so funny =)))) watching you rewatching Avatar 2010, especially now that the ATLA Netflix is confirmed to be renewed for season 2, 3; really hope that I see my girrl Toph cuz the 2010 is so bad I never get to see a Toph live action

I believe it came out a few years after this movie that Katara's actress was a nepo baby, and her casting caused a bit of a chain reaction, i.e. Katara is white, so her brother and grandmother would have to be as well. Still doesn't explain the casting choice for Aang or the original choice for Zuko.

I hope you see this! im coming from your PJO ep 7&8 reaction and I don’t know if you saw it, but towards the end credits there is a short scene of gabe **SPOILER*** that he tries to get into the apartment but the key doesnt work bc sally changed the lock and gabe notices a box sitting there saying “from the gods” and its medusas head and he turns into stone.

its my birthday today so im taking the new netflix adaptation as a late birthday present

I mean, I can't really give Noah Ringer too hard of a time because I heard that he had never taken an acting lesson in his life before this movie and, holy shit, Dev Patel deserved so much better than to be in this movie.

Showing off your singing skills yet again with that jesse mcartney skit I've replayed "his name is ong, he is the ovatar" about 5 times already also, soak-ka isn't pouty enough /s thesis: we don't acknowledge the movie The bar doesn't exist/the bar is on the floor. Same thing I say about finding a boyfriend, the bar is in hell

THANK YOU!! MY OPINION EXACTLY! ❤🎉

That Jesse McCartney audition was a thing of beauty. I really needed that. Thank you.

I have never watched more than the earthbending clip before, and I'm lowkey upset that I watched this video because every single clip hurt lol

Pretty much the only redeeming quality is the bending effects are pretty decent

The bar is so low that it's on the ground in hell. Let's hope they don't go limbo dancing with the devil

Mikaila you are a comedic genius and I hope you know that

I do gotta give the costume and hair makeup credit, cause those wigs are nice, way nicer than the 2024 wigs

5:00 "WE HAVE THE POWER GOD AND ANIME ON OUR SIDE"

As a huge ATLA fan I went to this movie premiere day without looking at reviews, paid full price and 3D, to this day I still remember the feeling of deep disappointment and robbery. Never again I went to a movie without checking reviews or in 3D

Can I ask where you got your airbending jacket and matching beanie?! I NEED IT!!!

Literally came here after rewatch the movie that should not be named

I love how we are all rewatching the horrible movie adaptations of pjo and avatar and cringing collectively.