The Last Airbender: movie review
How about a moratorium on the use of the word 鈥渁vatar鈥� in movies? I wasn鈥檛 a big fan of 鈥淎vatar鈥� but it鈥檚 鈥�Citizen Kane鈥� compared with M. Night Shyamalan鈥檚 鈥�The Last Airbender,鈥� based on the animated series 鈥�Avatar: The Last Airbender.鈥�
What鈥檚 an airbender, you say? Don鈥檛 ask. It has something to do with being able to bend air. Aang (Noah Ringer) is the prophesied airbender who must defend his people against the Fire Nation in its quest to dominate the tribal nations of Air, Water, and Earth.
This means we get to see a lot of airbending and also mucho water, fire, and earth bending. In cheesy 3-D.
Shyamalan has been coasting on the success of 鈥�The Sixth Sense鈥� for a long time now, but, especially after his last two debacles, 鈥�Lady in the Water鈥� and 鈥�The Happening,鈥� you would think he鈥檇 can the hocus-pocus and settle into something a bit more, well, lucid. 鈥淭he Last Airbender鈥� is like a Care Bears movie that got waylaid in the fourth dimension. It鈥檚 insufferably silly. Grade: D (Rated PG for fantasy, action, and violence.)
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