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From the moment The Last Airbender’s production was announced, people were highly skeptical, if not outright doubtful, that Hollywood was going to transform this popular Nickelodeon cartoon series into an even respectful movie. Director M. Night Shyamalan has not had a successful movie since The Sixth Sense back in 1999, and The Last Airbender was to be the first film not of his own creation.
The Last Airbender [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like most fiction franchises, encountered the running time versus heavy content conflict when it crossed into a film adaptation. The first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender consisted of 20 half-hour episodes, so Shyamalan had to somehow condense ten hours worth of important story content into a 103 minute movie or else produce a three-hour time glutton.
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The movie begins with a carbon copy of the TV show’s title sequence and identifies itself as “Book One: Water” just as every episode of the first season did. While this introductory style may be kosher for a cartoon series, when applied to a feature-length film, it gives the audience the impression of cockiness, a movie franchise so confident that it will be successful that it already knows there will be demand for more of it.
The movie is based on the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender (for a series synopsis please go to Avatar: The Last Airbender Revisted) and, from the film’s very opening [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it makes absolutely no bones of its intention of making sequels out of the rest of the series.
The best way to describe The Last Airbender is a train wreck, because like a train wreck it is a disaster but one so huge that you cannot help but just stare at it. The movie can be watched as a how-to manual of amateurish and incoherent movie making. The fact that a professional team of film makers created such cinematic swill is nothing short of embarrassing.
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However, in order to avoid becoming another Lord of the Rings, the film instead becomes another Dragonball Evolution, having so much material to cover in such a limited time frame that it pushes story structure and characterization under the bus. Constantly [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], The Last Airbender overuses narration and abuses dialogue to omit scenes, and save time, telling but not showing audiences what just transpired. All of this results in pacing that feels rushed and a plot that detaches viewers from the fictional world shown rather than immersing them in it. The Last Airbender is in a hurry to go somewhere but ends up going nowhere.
Furthermore, Avatar: The Last Airbender only concluded a couple years ago, so a live-action film of it feels unwarranted. However, it was the finalization in casting that clinched pessimistic belief that The Last Airbender would crush a diamond into a lump of coal, when the expected Asian-dominated cast was largely replaced with Caucasian and Indian actors.