When a TV series is turned into a movie, it’s usually somewhat-successful amongst the hardcore fans of the series. When an anime cartoon is made into a full-length film, it is usually a disaster.Such is the case with The Last Airbender. This pathetic attempt to make a movie out of a cartoon was easily the most frustrating film of 2010 by far. Like wow.
I’ll try to review this properly, hard though it may be, by starting with the positives.
The movie does have some good effects. The magic or “bending” scenes had some nice animations, with fire, water and huge rocks rising from the earth. That was neat.
Also, at times, the movie does succeed at being funny. Though, not “haha” funny. You know when someone says something really stupid and you laugh in your head thinking “wow, what an idiot”? I had a lot of those moments when protagonists and other important characters did anything besides standing still.
