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I was surprised to see an almost full theater for The Last Airbender.  After endless horrible reviews, people are still going out to see this (including myself.)  Just like every other M. Night Shyamalan movie, I hoped for the best but expected the worst.  I loved his older movies, just like most people.  The Sixth Sense was brilliant.  Then, he started to lose me with Lady in the Water, but I still somewhat enjoyed it.  However, The Happening was atrocious and I’m a HUGE Zooey Deschanel fan.  Although I don’t want to say it, The Last Airbender was as well.

The problem with the movie was the whole story trying to be told with dialogue.  That said, the dialogue seemed so dumbed down that it became intolerable.  It’s one thing to make it easy to understand; it’s offensive to assume everyone watching the movie is stupid.  This is be how almost every problem played out in the film:

Person one:  Something is happening.

Person two: This is why it’s happening.

Person one: Should we do something about it?

Person two: Yes.

Then they do that thing.  Terrible.  The story isn’t hard to follow either: There is a kid who is very powerful and the last of his kind.  Bad guys try to find him, while the good guys keep him safe.  Pretty standard, which is what makes so much of the back-story rushed and just plain unnecessary.

Presumably because of the writing, the acting itself was hard to stomach.  Every character was pretty much one dimensional, especially Aang, the Avatar/Airbender who didn’t actually do much of anything over the course of the film.

Overall, I wouldn’t advise anyone to see this movie. Admittedly, this is just another bad review in a sea of bad reviews for The Last Airbender.  Though some of the people in the theater with me clapped as the credits rolled; I sat there wishing I was watching Toy Story 3 again instead.  THAT was a great movie.