Synopsis
The story follows the adventures of Aang, a young successor to a long line of Avatars, who must put his childhood ways aside and stop the Fire Nation from enslaving the Water, Earth and Air nations.
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Cast
- Noah RingerAang
- Dev PatelPrince Zuko
- Nicola Peltz BeckhamKatara
- Jackson RathboneSokka
- Shaun ToubUncle Iroh
- Aasif MandviCommander Zhao
- Cliff CurtisFire Lord Ozai
- Seychelle GabrielPrincess Yue
- Katharine HoughtonKatara's Grandma
- Francis GuinanMaster Pakku
- 63
USA Today
He hasn't mastered the craft yet, but M. Night Shyamalan may be on to something with this action-movie thing. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
The movie is "Star Wars" with martial arts, plus a touch of "The Last Emperor." Technically, it's not badly done; I enjoyed the physical clash of elements, the water balls rising like sculpture in the air. - 38
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A toxic potion that will put children to sleep and kill his (M. Night Shyamalan) career. - 30
Arizona Republic
While the special effects are impressive enough, M. Night Shyamalan's film doesn't make a lick of sense. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Even during the climax, the film still is struggling to introduce the world of the film and its strange rules. - 25
Boston Globe
The Last Airbender' is dreadful, an incomprehensible fantasy-action epic that makes the 2007 film "The Golden Compass,'' a similarly botched adaptation of a beloved property from another medium, look like a four-star classic. - 25
Orlando Sentinel
This colossal folly, the fiasco of the summer of 2010 - gives us all a ringside seat at the sight of Mr. "I See Dead People's" career gurgling down the drain. - 20
Variety
This is all enormously disappointing, of course, since the best we could hope for from a live-action "Avatar" adaptation is the mind-blowing equivalent of our first encounters with wire-fu, rather than this cartoony nonsense.