Yeah just saw the movie.. and I gotta say, not worth the $13 dollars I had to pay to apparently see it in 3-D. I say apparently because aside from the Nerdtastic 3-D glasses... there was no 3-Dness. It wasn't beautifully handled like How To Train Your Dragon. It just made things blurry whenever the camera decided to move faster than Matrix Bullet-Time.
The characters were bland, there was FAR too much exposition going on to just shove plot down our throats. Grandma seemed to think "Ong" could bend people's hearts to stop the war...
Anyway, onto characterization fail: Ratbum wasn't the best Sewka, his wolf tail was way too long (probably so he can hide the shaved side of his head. No dyeing for your art here) and he was so flat and wooden about his lines. Hell, everyone was on the hero side of things. Except for maybe this one exasperated "katarrraaaa!" on Sewka's part. Katara, man I don't even know why she WENT on this trip. Her only motivation for following Ong appears to be because she feels responsible for him since she found him in the ice *eyeroll* Also, they morphed Haru into a little kid not much bigger than Ong. Lame. Zhao I didn't recognize as he did not have epic sideburns and was kinda one of those pathetic sub-bosses you get sometimes. E-roh looked like an aging badass not a silly old man. He also seemed to insist Zuko needed a girlfriend, did not drink nearly enough tea, but at least seemed geniunely kind hearted. Appa was a little uncanny valley in the face. But its not as bad since he moves about. Momo was cute. Also, Azula was more like a girl scout than axe-crazy.
What was right: Not much but, there were a couple of things I did like. For one, Grandma had a little throw away line I happened to be "ooh! there! shout out!" about. I also liked how they handled Ong realizing he's the last of his kind then freaking out. The acting bit not so much on the freak out.... But the events of them being there at the southern air temple and Ong not going realizing that everyone is gone meant bad things... That I did like. It seemed fairly in character for Aang even if the kiddo who played Ong couldn't really convey things properly.
For the most part... I'd say rent this so you and your friends could go all MST 3 K on it and generally goof about. So long as you don't maintain any high hopes you'll be okay.
The Last Airbender?
Yeah just saw the movie.. and I gotta say, not worth the $13 dollars I had to pay to apparently see it in 3-D. I say apparently because aside from the Nerdtastic 3-D glasses... there was no 3-Dness. It wasn't beautifully handled like How To Train Your Dragon. It just made things blurry whenever the camera decided to move faster than Matrix Bullet-Time.
The characters were bland, there was FAR too much exposition going on to just shove plot down our throats. Grandma seemed to think "Ong" could bend people's hearts to stop the war...
Anyway, onto characterization fail: Ratbum wasn't the best Sewka, his wolf tail was way too long (probably so he can hide the shaved side of his head. No dyeing for your art here) and he was so flat and wooden about his lines. Hell, everyone was on the hero side of things. Except for maybe this one exasperated "katarrraaaa!" on Sewka's part. Katara, man I don't even know why she WENT on this trip. Her only motivation for following Ong appears to be because she feels responsible for him since she found him in the ice *eyeroll* Also, they morphed Haru into a little kid not much bigger than Ong. Lame. Zhao I didn't recognize as he did not have epic sideburns and was kinda one of those pathetic sub-bosses you get sometimes. E-roh looked like an aging badass not a silly old man. He also seemed to insist Zuko needed a girlfriend, did not drink nearly enough tea, but at least seemed geniunely kind hearted. Appa was a little uncanny valley in the face. But its not as bad since he moves about. Momo was cute. Also, Azula was more like a girl scout than axe-crazy.
What was right: Not much but, there were a couple of things I did like. For one, Grandma had a little throw away line I happened to be "ooh! there! shout out!" about. I also liked how they handled Ong realizing he's the last of his kind then freaking out. The acting bit not so much on the freak out.... But the events of them being there at the southern air temple and Ong not going realizing that everyone is gone meant bad things... That I did like. It seemed fairly in character for Aang even if the kiddo who played Ong couldn't really convey things properly.
For the most part... I'd say rent this so you and your friends could go all MST 3 K on it and generally goof about. So long as you don't maintain any high hopes you'll be okay.