The Last Airbender (2010)

[written 13 minutes into the film] Don’t let anyone tell you differently-this is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. I haven’t seen 15 minutes of this, and I already want to make the movie end. It is so terrible. The ‘actors’ are so terrible I am going to lose my mind. The only emotion in their eyes is-“Getting a paycheck”. I have 90 minutes left. *sigh* [20 minutes in] Seven minutes has felt like a century. Right now, I’m watching the title character scream, have a flashback, and then get a glowing arrow on his face. Now, in a cartoon, this would have worked. In the cartoon, it did. This film is based off of the extremely amazing Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, where while I did not watch it constantly (it came on right around the same time that I really got into The Office), what I did see was amazing. The film does the television show no justice. Now, I see Dev Patel (who was in Slumdog Millionare, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, if you can believe it) have daddy issues. The film wants me to care about this guy. I’m supposed to feel emotion. I do. And that emotion is pain. [33 minutes in] Honestly, this last ten minutes have been pretty terrible. There’s been lame karate poses, decently bad special effects, but not a lot of people have talked. And that’s a plus when all of the actors are so wooden when they speak some of the worst dialogue written. Well, it’s been 33 minutes, I might as well attempt to explain this film to you. Basically, the plot of the TV series is that these two siblings find, and release from being frozen The Avatar, who is a child named Aang that is destined to save the world from the evil Fire Tribe. The Fire Tribe is one of four tribes, and each tribe represents their group of people who have the ability to bend, or control, these elements, fire, water, air, and earth. The Avatar is the only one who can bend all four elements, and can bring peace to all mankind (remember, this entire synopsis is from what I know of the TV show. If I hadn’t seen the show, I would not have a single idea what is going on). [52 minutes in] Oh, that’s why everybody hates Shaymalan. I know enough that the film doesn’t have a twist ending, as long as it keeps to the source material (even though it’s done a bang-up job doing that so far.) Also, I might as well add that Oppa (I have no idea how to spell it and no care to look up), the giant creature that Aang and the others ride to go places, kind of looks like a mix between something from The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl and Where the Wild Things Are, but worse than both of them. I just thought that I’d add that. [I hr. and 16 min. in] I officially hate this movie. Honestly, I cannot think of anything that could make this movie go higher than the 0/10 that I plan to give it right now. Shaymalan, what happened to you? The Sixth Sense is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. And now this? A-you need to stop casting yourself in your movies. That’s right, I saw you. B-I’m pretty sure that without the twist ending, you just stop and freeze up. It sure as heck seems like it. [1 hr. 29 min.] Okay, I take back what I said. This movie is not a 0/10. It just got boosted up to 0.5/10 because there is an action scene in here that was actually pretty amazing. It’s short, but I actually did enjoy it a good bit. I recommend you watch it on YouTube. [I hr. 32 min.] Cool battle scene over. Back to the normal monotony of terrible dialogue. [Movie over] Well, there’s an hour and forty minutes of my life I’m never gonna get back. Honestly, this movie was so terrible I’m surprised Tobuscus didn’t make a literal trailer for it (No offense Toby, your videos are hilarious, but I question your choice in trailers sometimes). But jokes that only five people are going to get aside, this movie is terrible. This is one of the worst films I have ever seen. And right behind Standing Ovation, this movie is the second worst movie I have seen all year. And I have seen a good bit of movies this year.
0.5/10