The Last Airbender (2010): 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. (4.5)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz and Jackson Rathbone
I'd only seen bits and pieces of the animated series, so the movie, at least for me, was a fresh story. As a single story it held together, even though the kids said that this movie is trying to cram 4 seasons of the animation into 2hrs, it is missing so much, etc. etc. The acting wasn't bad at all, and the special effects were quite good. Unlike those who may have followed the series on TV, I'd give the movie high marks. [Interesting to see a couple of Indian actors portraying fire-nation people. It would have been better, IMHO, if the main characters were Asian.] My rating: 6.5
