Well colour me unsurprised.

completely. I'm still going to watch it, but my expectations are at an all time low — and they were almost nonexistent to begin with.

Okay, I just got back from seeing it. While the critisism is spot on, I don't think the movie as a whole was all that bad. It was just... off, if that makes any sense.

The whole name thing bugged the hell out of me, and the entire beginning of the movie pissed me off. Noah Ringer and Dev Patel did a very good job, both good choices. Katara was okay, but Sokka and Iroh were off. They didn't get the humoric aspects of their characters. Momo is in the movie, people, but the name is never said.

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Yes, the no Kyoshi Warriors fact bugged me. No Jun, not so much, but definetely no Suki annoyed me. Most of the other plot points were there, though.

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All in all, if you want to go and enjoy the movie... try and forget the show as much as possible. -_- It's probably good that you're not expecting anything, Kami, lol.

well at least i can't be disappointed, since i have zero expectation. right? right?! >_>;;

Lol, right, exactly. That's what I told Kanea. "If you do go see, try and forget the show completely."

well it's at 7% rating on Rotten Tomatoes ._. that's one of the lowest ratings i've ever seen them give.

Karena's right about the criticism, it is accurate, this coming from someone who knows very little about criticizing moving. They go from one place to the other without hesitation and you are literally left wondering who this new character is. It did have its good moments, few, Aang and Gyatso had funny, genuine scenes together. But overall it was crappy, in my opinion, I only enjoyed my time there because I treated like a parody and the section I was in was filled with Avatards who knew when to crack a wise-ass comment and make the movie unbelievably hilarious.

The part that hurt the most was the bending. The first instances of bending actually make it out to be cool. The bending intro was the like the shows bending intro and when Katara was first bending it looked believable, and then I don't know what happened.

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There is a scene where it literally takes five men to throw a small pebble! At that point your better off just chucking it, honestly this had me gasping for breath. The movie is worth for the lulz factor alone.[end spoilers]

That being said, I wasn't ever bored watching it, I guess the Avatar premise alone was good enough for me to stay awake. I suggest that if you are going to see it, take some friends and just MST 3k it.

I just saw a game spin off announce proudly, "YOU GET TO PLAY AS AHNG".
....

I just raged. >[

Yeah, the names take some time to get used to, but that is really the least of the problems with the film. Its a bad movie in my opinion, but not as bad as the tomato meter would have you guess.

Like I said, if you're going to go see just forget you ever saw the show. As for the bending, I thought Air & Fire were okay, but Earth and Water were off.

I thought they were all off, except for firebending. In the show, bending is a one move one action sort of deal, here it was way too stylized, do this dance and then [insert element] will move. Despite the fact that firebending was modified, it was the greatest adherent to that simple bending tenant, they punched and the fire moved, everybody else had to pull off a whole dance number to move their respective elements.

I had hoped that given the fact that before they animate a battle, they act out the motions to use as guidelines that they would at least get that right, I mean all they had to do was choreograph it like the show, but just not animate it. They didn't and hilarity ensued, at least.

Momo's name gets mentioned once, when they're in the NWT spirit oasis.

tha tmovie was pretty craptasic though. Shamalamadingdong failed it nicely.

but that's alright. life goes on. but no sexyfine haru, no sideburns on Zhao, and no Bumi was a letdown. 7% makes sense.

~Tenoko~

I actually just came back from watching it......GRRRR

I agree with Karena, I didn't think it made me want to tear my eyes out, but it was most definitely off. The name stuff made me cringe in my seat the entire time and yea the beginning was kind of annoying.

If bending actually took that long benders would be killed....easily haha =)

I have to disagree Shio. I absolutely HATED the firebending in that movie. I watched it today, and I literally wish I hadn't. It wasn't awful, but geeze ....

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First off, the firebenders could only bend when they had sources of fire around them..... WHAT?!?!?! In the show the benders created their own fire, using their breath, the sun, inner energy (chi).... but I mean come on. There was very little punching moves and almost all of the fire bent looked like long water whips

Second, ... the dragon spirit?

Third, waterbending and airbending are too dance like, I agree.

Fourth, when did Aang become the hopeful inspirational character and Katara just goes along... huh?

From what I've seen of all the bending, I thought Fire and Water were most off, speaking as someone VERY familiar with Tai Chi and Northern Shaolin. "Lots of Punching" does not equate firebending.

OMG, not the Dragon spirit. It was the lion turtle in my opinion, they gave it a cool voice, but me being crap at hearing stylized voices I couldn't understand much of what he said, like the lion turtle. Not to mention the fact that they completely changed what the Avatar was, including the Avatar state.

I will say that I like the Fire Lord's voice.

@ Tenoko-THEY SAID MOMO'S NAME?! I thought he went nameless. I really felt sorry for the newcomers because I just kept imagining being in their shoes and being completely lost because of how things were left unsaid or were being said too often.

@ Saiki- in my section there were a ton of Avatards, and the first time they heard the new name pronunciations all you could hear was a wave of "what?" and the shows pronunciation of their names.

I also have to add, that the movie really did show just how many pretty dumb things happen in cartoon. I guess with the right timing anything can be made acceptable.

I liked Yue here more than the cartoon counterpart, then again I never cared for her at all.

@ Toph- I still take it that you haven't seen the actual movie. Just wait until you do, the best waterbending is in the trailer when Aang is fighting in the Northern siege.

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They killed all Aang related shipping. That part had me smiling, although Zutara is still a viable option there.

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Well, as I refuse to give my money to this film, I'll have to let you guys know how I feel about it after I can rent it.

I'm not too sue what to say about the movie... I watched it last night. and towards the end me and a friend had a contest going where we said "botched" every time they messed something up (we did it quietly)

ok, I'ma just go down a quick list of things that made me shudder.

1. Katara hitting the orb where Aang was trapped... it looked sooooo lame.

2. The obvious omission of the Kyoshi Warriors, made even more obvious when they pointed out Kyoshi's statue

3. They confined the earth benders to a quarry... What sense does that make?! The off shore rig coal fight was one of Avatar's really good moments in the show.

4. I wish that they would have had Roku and not just his dragon

5. Aang's past lives were all for killing if absolutely necessary. They never said that he shouldn't hurt people... that was a virtue that Aang learned from the Monastery.

6. Sokka's acting could have been much better... He had a decent joke occasionally, but the actor could never pull them off

KK, I'm done raging for now. There were more things that could have made the list, but I'm too lazy to list.