A flimsy, pan-Asian patchwork Nickelodeon cartoon series earns the full Shyamalan writing and directing treatment,? and darned if he could make heads or tails out of it, or make a movie that made any sense at all.
So what does that leave? A lot of headache-inducing CGI-effects sequences, many scenes of children doing tai chi, and some imperiled magical fish. Another filmmaker might have crafted the material's theme, sstars Noah Ringer as Aang, an avatar who must restore balance to the world after the Fire Nation (led by Dev Patel of "Slumdog Millionaire") tries to enslave the other nations of Air, Water and Earth. Here's a look at what the critics are saying:
The Last Airbender is Shyamalan’s adaptation of the animated Nickelodeon series that debuted in 2005, and the filmmaker ― working, for the first time, from someone else’s material
Other than Assif Mandvi as the superfluous villain, the performances in The Last Airbender are uniformly atrocious. I can't remember the last time I've seen child acting this poor. It seems as though everyone is reading the dialogue for the first time � and reading it like Jake Lloyd. It's stunning,
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