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Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Dev Patel, Jessica Jade Andres, Jackson Rathbone ... see more see more... , Shaun Toub , Aasif Mandvi , Cliff Curtis , Seychelle Gabriel , Katharine Houghton , Francis Guinan , Damon Gupton , Summer Bishil , Randall Duk Kim , John D'Alonzo , Keong Sim , Isaac Jin Solstein , Edmund Ikeda , John Noble , Morgan Spector , Karim Sioud , Manu Narayan , Kevin W. Yamada , Ted Oyama , Ritesh Rajan , George DeNoto , Manuel Kanian , Christopher Brewster , Ryan Shams , Jeffrey Zubernis , Brian Johnson , J.W. Cortes

Suspense auteur M. Night Shyamalan takes a break from crafting original screenplays to tell this tale of a 12-year-old boy (Noah Ringer) who provides the last hope for restoring harmony to a land cons... read more read more...umed by chaos. In a world balanced on the four nations of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, people known as the Waterbenders, Earthbenders, Firebenders, and Airbenders have mastered their native elements. Though the masters can each manipulate their native elements, the only one with the power to manipulate all four elements is a young boy known as the Avatar. When the Avatar subsequently appears to die while still mastering his powers, the Fire nation launches a global war with the ultimate goal of global domination. One hundred years later, two teens discover that the Avatar and his flying bison have in fact been locked in suspended animation. Upon being freed from his prison, the Avatar embarks on an arduous quest to restore harmony among the four war-ravaged nations. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 43 min.

Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan

Release Date: July 1, 2010

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DVD Release Date: November 16, 2010

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  • jmanard52
    January 10, 2011
    jmanard52
    Never having seen the tv show i can say this. It was not a bad movie. Wasnt great just interesting. I like fantasy type stuff so this was a good show for me. A pretty unique story thanks to the tv show ive been told. But supposedly the director did not capture it. NOW knowing ma... read moreny people who did watch the show. I hear this was not good. I will try and watch the tv show now to see how bad the movie supposedly was.
  • scottgreen96
    March 24, 2012
    scottgreen96
    M. Night Shayamalan made a mistake by making this horribly terrible storyline.
  • DreamExtractor
    December 25, 2011
    DreamExtractor
    The Last Airbender one of the worst films ever made, Shymalan better get back on track or he will suck forever. How do you ruin soure material, I mean he couldn't even get their names correct, he got rid of almost all the characters, and none of the episodes were in this movie f... read morerom Season 1. The acting sucked, they all looked in pain for some reason, Noah Ringer is a shoe in for Worst Actor of 2011, he was so horrible that its not even laughable. I will never watch this again, it was too horrible to speak of. The special effects were truly awful, the firebending and waterbending look so cheesy, and the earthbending was slow.... SLOW, in one scene it was going like .02 miles an hour. The firebenders in the show get fire from their hands, Shymalan made it so they had to get it from a torch or some shit. This movie is god awful, every moment is a pain to watch.
  • aquateen2
    December 4, 2011
    aquateen2
    I wanted to like this movie. But I couldn't. The Last Airbender is one of the worst movies i'v ever seen in my entire life! The plot is difficult to comprehend and the explosion of CGI makes it look so good that it looks bad. I love the anime series. It is one of the best cartoon... read more series on TV at this time that boasts terrific animation, good storytelling and deepness into the characters. The Last Airbender ruined the series' reputation.
  • 3niR
    August 29, 2011
    3niR
    It might be an awesome movie for children but for adult... I really doubt. I liked the special effects. But the people who was with power and stuffs were really lame. Although I thought Dev Patel's performance was good but sadly, he was the only one who seemed to blend in his cha... read moreracter. The ending looked like there was going to be another part. Sometimes this sort of ending is really frustrating (if they don't plan to make another one like they hint). But I hope this ends here. Would be a waste of money if they don't stop.
  • stevenecarrier
    August 10, 2011
    stevenecarrier
    While the general idea behind "The Last Airbender" is not to blame for the films utter failure, it's the atrocious screenplay that results from that idea that smothers it. While I am a large fan of M. Night Shyamalan (I have enjoy all his previous films for they are each a confid... read moreent expression of his visions, bumps and bruises included), he is squarely to blame for this incredible folly. His screenplay is incoherent, inconsistent and just plain boring. The silted dialogue is made even worse by a shocking array of inept child actors. While occasional spurts of his auteurial voice do make it through the endless barrage of cheese and special effects, "The Last Airbender" ends up being a flavorless, corny and just plain stupid film. It's a shame because, like I said, the general idea isn't a poor one. Lets pray a sequel never surfaces.

    Though I will say that the only audience for this film are 6 to 10 year old boys, and for them this will work perfectly fine.
  • thmtsang
    July 25, 2011
    thmtsang
    This movie is a little hard to follow. Superheroes can control the four elements - air, fire, water and earth. Only one the avatar can control all four. He is absent for 100 years until a global war is launched and he is awakened to save everyone.
  • riverdale237
    July 21, 2011
    riverdale237
    If my experience with this movie were a fairy tale, I'd start it off with "Once upon a time". Only it was a horror story, so I'll start it like this. My completely awesome cousins (6 year old, and 4 year old) were playing with me for a while, when one of my cousins (Lucy, 6 year ... read moreold) began to watch "The Last Airbender" It was her favorite movie. I figured "Why not?" They also like X-Men 3 and How to Train your Dragon, which were also good movies, so I assumed this might be good too. LORD, WAS I WRONG!

    The worst part about this unholy abomination is the script. I could have gotten better results from my 4 year old cousin. I honestly felt I had written the same things when I was writing fantasy stories in 3rd grade, and that is NOT a good thing.

    The acting was beyond horrific. I'll give credit to Aasif Mandhi and Admiral Zhao, but apart from trhat, it was pretty darn bad. The low lights seem to be Dev Patel as Prince Zuko (Who sadly was my favorite character from the cartoon) and Noah Ringer as Aang.

    Oh, I'm sorry, I mean Oong. Ring a bell? OF COURSE NOT! In the TV series, the Avatar's name was CLEARLY Aang. It's pronounced Aang, it's spelled Aang. WHY IS HE CALLED OONG!

    Truthfully, I love M Night Shyamalan, and will always love him. I love the TV series "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and will always love it. But I cannot bring myself to even ENJOY "The Last Airbender" and probably never will. In a sentence: The 5th Worst Movie I've Ever Seen.
  • fb100002384654145
    June 11, 2011
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    This movie may put the final nail in M. Night Shyamalans career as a director. Terrible performances left to right, especially Naoh Ringer as the films protagonist. The film's visuals are also terrible. The film tries to shrink the entire first season into an 103 min. film. T... read morehis results in the story being rushed and incomprehensible. The film fails on every level.
  • fb535316333
    May 17, 2011
    fb535316333
    Poorly acted, cardboard dialogue, lethargic, humorless, few of the words that describe this could-have-been fantasy epic. I thought I'd go for the awesome martial arts and special effects but turns out, even that was poorly adapted.

    It's all quite depressing, considering the aw... read moreesome source material M.Night had to work with.

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Christopher Orr
July 2, 2010
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic

[T]he film works so hard to explain its plot developments that it scarcely has any time left over to dramatize them. Exposition has not merely vanquished mimesis, it has burned its homes to the ground... Full Review

Lou Lumenick
July 2, 2010
Lou Lumenick, New York Post

Stilted dialogue, wooden acting, glacial pacing, cheesy special effects, tacky-looking sets, ugly costumes, poorly staged and edited action sequences, all shown in murky, cut-rate 3-D. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
July 1, 2010
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

A dull, boring, poorly acted, limply written and thoroughly unappealing fantasy, featuring bland characters locked in a struggle of no interest. Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
July 1, 2010
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

M. Night Shyamalan's big-screen live-action version of the popular Nickelodeon animated TV series constitutes a form of Chinese water torture in which tin-ear line-readings take the place of drips. Full Review

Richard Corliss
July 1, 2010
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine

Please, Hollywood, if there's to be another Airbender movie, hand the job to some efficient hack, and not to a once mesmerizing artist who's lost his way. Full Review

Peter Rainer
July 1, 2010
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor

The Last Airbender is like a Care Bears movie that got waylaid in the fourth dimension. It's insufferably silly. Full Review

Cliff Doerksen
July 1, 2010
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader

The current national priorities should be as follows: reduce carbon emissions and stop funding the films of M. Night Shyamalan. Full Review

Mary F. Pols
July 1, 2010
Mary F. Pols, MSN Movies

All the while, Shyamalan creates an ever-growing sense of 'Who cares where we are; when will this be over?' Full Review

Robert Wilonsky
July 1, 2010
Robert Wilonsky, Village Voice

This is one muddled attempt at franchise-making: confusing, drab, sluggish. (Ugly, too, if you're forced to see it in 3-D.) Full Review

Tom Long
July 1, 2010
Tom Long, Detroit News

Stiff, fuzzy-looking, cloddish and disastrous in nearly every way, The Last Airbender looks as if it could have been made by the spoiled son of a studio mogul willing to waste gobs of money. Full Review

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    • Old Man in Temple: My name is Old Man in Temple and I am as useless as this movie. Would not be suprised to hear of a few suicides of people who watched this garbage.
    • Commander Zhao: Gunna rape Katara cause she has the 'Know it all syndrome'.
    • Katara: Don't be afraid!
    • Aang: I don't know how to bend the other elements.
    • Princess Yue: It is time we show the Fire Nation that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs.
    • Commander Zhao: Again, I offer my condolences on your nephew burning to death in that terrible accident.
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