I’m still shook that you called Sokka Katara’s boyfriend lmfao

The best thing about that rock scene is that it takes 6 benders doing a whole performance to move a small rock while in the original show just 1 ground pound could raise a entire wall.

M. Night Shyamalan took one of if not the greatest Nickelodeon shows ever, and turned it into the single worst and most insulting film of all time. I still can't get over that the *earthbender* prison was on land, surrounded by dirt and rocks. I know an ocean rig like in the show would've been expensive, and probably looked awful in cgi, but still. It's just so stupid.

The movie is actually how I found out about the series.. I'm glad it led me to a better place

It's sad cus the kid that played Aang had Aang's personality irl. It was showed in the interviews. Guess that's another sin of the direction team.

Imagine being an actor and being told “we’re gonna put you in THE Avatar The Airbender movie” and you put your all into the choreography, thinking *they are gonna make me look cool as hell* then it looks like this

The sad thing about the movie is that the visuals are stunning, the outfits the environment, everything looks amazing. But the acting is bland, nothing really makes sense, i feel bad for the people who worked on this! Like imagine spending many hours working hard on models, costumes ect Just for the movie to serve it as a waste of time.

As much as it pains me to say it: I would sooner watch this movie all over again than sit through Velma

even as a child watching the movie, I thought it was bad, and we have to count that I was 4 in 2010 ☠️☠️

I remember a news segment on the opening night of the movie. Several teens had cosplayed characters, and were super hyped to see it. The news interviewed them afterward and they were so disappointed. The guy who cosplayed as Aang said, i shaved my head for this.... :(

There is no Avatar The Last Airbender Movie (2010) in Ba Sing Se.

That earth kingdom pebble dance broke me. Fromt them being imprisoned in earth to the fact that it took like 9 people to slowly move one small rock, that was my breaking point.

I’m still pissed this movie turned Sokka, the funniest character in the series who’s lines and jokes are still quotable to this day, and turned him into an absolute stick-in-the-mud.

Fun fact: originally Shamalan made a first draft that was much better and much more faithful to the source material, but his script was given to a ghost writer who changed it into what we got in this film.

You know, in hindsight, this movie should have told us about the future of “life action” remakes

Bro did the default dance💀💀💀💀

To this day I still believe Noah Ringer is perfect casting for Aang, under the hands of a better writer and director who knew how to tell this story, this kid would have shined. I feel very sorry for him.

when I was 15 My neighbor's 10 year old son's first exposure to Avatar: the last airbender, was unfortunately this movie. worst part was that they said it was "their most favorite movie of all time" (i swear I died and saw the spirit realm after that). after a good 10 minutes of arguing and a few weeks on KZfaq later, they saw the REAL masterpiece that is the Nickelodeon show (plus a little of Kora) and im glad the damage has been undone.

"argues with her boyfriend" I think you meant brother haha

I remember that in the cartoon Sokka and Yue felt a little forced to me, too fast. But Soaker and P-hair is a completely different level, we don't see them grow, we are told and so they are, like if Katara was a creepy aunt shipping her nephew with the first cute girl he sees..!

I would rather watch the full play from "the ember island players" At least that was _funny_ and I could laugh at the fact that the fire nation doesn't actually know how Toph sees

8:30 That actually is a thing in the show. They can't just create stuff from nothing. (Well except fire, but fire's weird.) In fact in one episode Katara is locked up & has no water to bend, so they have to work up a sweat to be able to have something to bend at all.

Glad there were no sequels for it. Imagine how Shyamalan would have butchered Toph...

Something isn't adding up. They had the budget to edit Appa some really nice quality fur, but they did not have the budget to edit better fighting skills when people were doing their bendings or even put the characters in better cosmetics to make them look kinda similar to their animated selves?

I’m convinced shyamalan despised avatar the last air bender and made this movie out of spite honestly

There is no movie in Ba Sing Se.

The episode "the great divide" was better than this movie. At least all the characters had their actual name and had actual(albeit wrong) character traits.

I think the absolute worst part is the race bending. M. Night Shyamalan made the villains INDIAN. And then the protagonists are White and ambiguously Asian. incredible.

Even if the infamous "six men dancing for ten seconds to throw one rock" scene is trying to show something else (the most common one i hear is, the first five were bending the earlier wall, and the sixth is the only one moving the rock)... that would almost be worse. It's not nearly as bad on the bending front (still bad, one earthbender in the show can easily make a wall like that), but there's now a much bigger problem in the presentation. The cause (the five dancing men) and the supposed effect (the wall) are shown separately, without any significant link between them, in reverse order. And if the small rock is supposed to be completely separate, then the film does a bad job of showing it; if the most obvious conclusion is not the intention of the scene, then that's a failure on the film's part, not the audience. Stop trying to justify a writing failure by saying "you just aren't understanding what you see". Then, it's a writing failure AND a cinematography failure.

The part when Aang defends himself with the airbender training equipment gets even dumber once you realize how easily Korra set those very same things on fire

4:04 did you just call sokka her boyfriend?

I feel like any time a movie tries to make a live action remake of anything that’s not a movie already, it just ends up bad. A single novel into a movie? That can work. A book series? Nope. A tv show? Nope. There’s just not enough time to properly explore things.

The show is a genuine masterpiece when I found the movie I litterly stopped the movie and through it in the bin!

The only good thing about this movie is the fact that doesn't have any sequels. That's how much this movie sucks

Before the premier of the Last Airbender, I got a major case of food poisoning, and missed the debut, despite my illness, I think it was less painful than watching the film a week later.

Um why did you call sokka katara's boyfriend at 4:03 Also he calls avatar an anime.

Aang bald in the cartoon: Looks good Aang bald in the movie: *the child of Caillou and Jojo ciwa*

There was a good commentary from Jill Bearup that mentions how they messed up the Earth prison. Basically, those 6 guys 1 rock ISN'T the same "spell". It just LOOKS like it coz the director insisted on doing 1 long shot, and the CGI guys had to animate over this so there were points where the guy doing the action is off screen but the FX isn't (and vice versa)

It's uncanny that this uploaded when I was randomly thinking of this film.

Somehow, I always forget just how bad this film is

41:12. That was one thing I actually liked, she recived a part of the moon spirit and her hair became white, she gives it back her hair turns back, I get why it's different for the show since there her body dissapears, it doesn't stay behind

I can't believe how un-cinematic this film looks.

Really interesting to see people pointing out that they say "avatar" wrong. I grew up watching Russian version, and there "ahvatar" spelling is normal

In Bojack Horseman s1 e4: Todd was writing a rock opera and Bojack was trying to give constructive criticism: instead he kept making hyperbolic statements about how bad it was. At first he said ‘that was, and I don’t say this likely: worse than 100 September 11ths’. Later Todd tried to improve it and Bojack said ‘Imagine if the Holocaust happened ever 4 years than the Olympics, I’d rather that happened than your rock opera’ This movie is worse than BOTH of those things.

i actually thought that it was good until i found out about the series

13 years later and it still burns my eyes

At least the actress who played Yue in this movie went on to be the voice of Asami Sato in Legend of Korra

To call it terrible is an understatement 😢

Hahahahaha the dialogues, I didn't remember how ridiculous they were, the theater on Ember Island is a thousand times better ​

0:09 Still 100% better than the bending in the movie.

Dazz is ripping this movie apart with the joy and energy of a little kid on Christmas Morning.

Today was the day I saw Dazz Fortnite dance to earthbend. My life is complete now.

Everytime I see scenes from this film I actually can't help but cry. Avatar was such an impactful series for me growing up in an abusive family where I felt either beaten or alone. I can litterally attribute who I am as a person today because of the series and seeing this film when it released just broke me. It felt like watching a part of me be tortured. They had a perfect fucking template for how to do it like are you kidding me me how do you screw that so badly.

funny enough, the actor playing ozai in this is also in the blue people avatar

Well, here we go again. "The Earth King has invited you to lake Laogai" C'mon time to wipe our memories of this atrocity.

The subtle default dance at the beginning absolutely destroyed me

5:21 The 1 visual aspect I DID love out of this dumpster fire was the Air Nomad tattoo design - it was so much more intricate & even contained the air element symbol 💨throughout (though I know it would’ve been a pain to animate due to said intricacy)

It's the only movie I ever walked out of ever.

Did... did you say katara argued with her BOYFRIEND in the show? Is that what I heard?

M Night Shyamalan really didn't understand the show one bit. He saw all the scenes, saw that we love them, but had no idea, why we love them, and what details were imoprtant for anything to be good. This Happens when a movie adaption is just done for money without any ideas or knowledge.

I remember watching this in the theater with a friend. We were both huge Avatar fans. After the movie we stayed up until about 3 am talking about how...bad it was and how much they got wrong. I understand they have limited time because they decided to do an hour and 40 minute movie instead of like, a 3 hour movie like it would have needed if it HAD to be a movie. I honestly don't understand what they would have done in the next movies though. One of Aang's central conflicts is that he can't go into the Avatar State at will, and when he DOES go into the Avatar State he's a force of nature with no control and it terrifies him. That's why he goes to see the Guru at the end of Book 2. Here he just...goes into it at the end with no problem. Zuko meets the group twice (Three for Aang if you count the Blue Spirit) in the movie. The finale hits hard because Zuko was so close to redemption during his conversation with Katara and betrays them. They're basically complete strangers in the movie, making the almost redemption into betrayal feel almost pointless. They completely skipped Kyoshi Island, meaning they completely skip Suki. And while that's mostly fine for Book 1, if they planned on making the other 2 books Suki and the Kyoshi Warriors become way more important. She becomes Sokka's main love interest for one, but sure they could reasonably move that aspect to later. But more than that, Azula's crew defeat Suki and the other Warriors and that's how they sneak into Ba Sing Se AND Suki being imprisoned is why Sokka falls for Azula's stalling trap later, and is literally Sokka's entire motivation of for going to the Fire Nation Prison. If you're going to skip a whole lot of episodes to save time, why skip one of the more important "set up" episodes that will matter later on? Lastly, what was their plan for the Day of Black Sun? If we assume the Earth Nation still gets conquored at the end of Book 2, which is why they can't rely on the Earth Nation army who are they going to invade with? Will Haru and his father be joining them? That'd be weird since they basically didn't interact with him in a meaningful way. Will any of the Freedom Fighters be joining? Well they got skipped completely so they're out. How about the inventor and his son who are crucial to making the machines they even use for the invasion? Nope, gone. Book 2 would probably keep Toph's introduction the same so we could potentially rely on The Boulder and some of the other wrestlers but I doubt the Swamp Benders from Book 2 are making the cut so they're probably out. It's like they had no real plan for what to include in Book 1 that will be important later and that's just so weird if they were planning on making 3 Books.

Now that I think about it Aang can't wear silk, as to make silk you have to kill silkworms in boiling water, then extract their webing from it.

It’s actually insane how it’s not just a little bad but literally every possible thing they could have messed up they did. And it’s not even a little messed up it’s mangled.

did you call sokka katara's boyfriend?

4:04 Katara arguing with her boyfriend? didnt know Sokka and Katara were in an incestuous relationship

I thought it was Avatar the blue alien movie for a second cause of the coincidentally colored thumbnail but hey it comes with the territory

I'm so sorry for any of you that had to view this utter garbage...

Remember. When adapting a material it's important to learn how to care-bend. And also what mediums make sense. We can definitely get a good Avatar movie. Just not based on the TV show cause that would obliterate pacing without extreme purpose and care. But a movie about other avatars or side stories? Yeah, that'd work well

The moment I dropped this film, was when they revealed the Earth Benders to have been imprisoned amongst THE LITERAL EARTH THAT THEY CAN BEND AT WILL. It's the equivilant of imprisoning a water bending on a dingey on the ocean.

Between the two Water siblings, maybe Sokka should have been the Bender... He's soaked...

34:08 Ah yes, Zuko’s iconic technique of T-Posing to show dominance

I was surprised that M. Night didn't find a way to get the his avatar on a water bed. He would've totally stopped the movie just to explain why they have water beds. Might've been a more riveting movie.

4:03 "Katara arguing with her boyfriend" ayo, what you mean by that 🤨🤨🤨

4:03 Did you just call Sokka Katara’s boyfriend?

one of my all time favorite characters out of the show is The Boulder because he's just so over the top

man i remember when aang was being walked to the jail cell in the 2nd episode and he just blows himself back down the corridor to escape, that’s when i knew i would love this show

This makes me want to binge the series again just to bleach my brain from seeing these scenes

Fun fact: Yue's actress voices Asami in Legend of Korra!

I love how every movie reviewer must cover the ATLA movie at least once on their channel to remind everyone of the worst live action adaptation

The bending is frustratingly still better in that video game. 38:40 Seriously. Action --> bending, immediate and impactful. Not _great_ , but at least translating directly from one to the other so it feels like fighting instead of waggling limbs pointlessly first.

I am now calling Aang “Gong” from now on

I love watching reviews on The Last Airbender and the live-action Mulan so much, I don't know why

The only thing that kept me and my friend sane while watching the clips from the movie were the ads in between.

Watching this for the first time, 4:00 ... did you really say Katara arguing with her boyfriend XD I had to rewind and repeat that 3 times to confirm. Sweet home Water Tribe :P

Can I just say - they did katara and sokka’s grandmother so dirty, that is the whitest woman I’ve ever seen, I half expect her to be trying to recruit the rest of the water tribe to join an HOA

The 6 Earth benders bending a pebble across the screen: “I’m a little tea pot short and spout.”

4:03 SWEET HOME ALABAMA!

#notmyavatarthelastairbender like fr wtf is that movie?

38:58 bro did the avatar game use Yoda's scream from the Lego game??? 34:18 and here too!

I remember seeing a behind-the-scenes documentary where the director stated he liked the Kyoshi Warriors so much he ended up shoehorning them into a dozen scenes where they weren’t supposed to be, realized he was going too far, and then went too far the other direction and cut them from the movie entirely.

His name is Ong and he is the Uvatar and he is the last heirbender He Kutara Soaka must travel the world in search for better acting in The Less Airbender's Book wan, Woter. Along the way they come into contact with Uncle Earoh, just wanna say how dare they do this to Uncle iroh.

This movie does not exist.

I thought collectively we decided to forget this movie ever happened...

I watched the show, even though I wasn't the biggest fan of it, but I actively avoided the film when it was being advertised simply because it wasn't animated

It's been more than 10 years and people are still not over this film that's saying something

Shyamalan liked Avatar, but he didn't fully appreciate the acting, the dialog, the world building, the character development, the action, the comedy... It feels like he watched it, was like "wow! Look at these people with powers and ancient spiritual mysticism!" And just ran with that. Which would explain an awful lot about his movies, I suppose X3

1:08 We didn’t forget to add plasma. Earth = Solid Water = Liquid Air = Gas Fire = Plasma

I like how the Fire Nation colony doesn't even have a name.

Me when cow:ZOOYOPIATRA Everybody:chocolate

your reviews are so good! i'd honestly really want a dante's inferno: an animated epic review.