The last airbender - 2010

I didn’t like it, it was boring and superficial and without depth and I didn’t like it, I really thought I would have because I usually like this sort of things, fantasy stories, where there are people that can control the power of the elements, the water tribe, the air tribe, the fire tribe and the earth tribe, and I was prepared for some stereotype, like the fact that as it always happens the fire tribe is the villain, but I was disappointed by all the rest. The characters were all kids but the worst part was that there was very little ‘power’ in action. I didn’t like the main character, 

Plot:

A girl and her brother from the water tribe find a young boy who we’ll find out is the long-searched-for Avatar, the only one who can use all the four elements. Because of him their village is attacked by a Fire Prince that wants his father to like him by bringing him the avatar. The boy surrenders but then he escapes later, with the help of his two new friends. They go together to the air tribe to find out that all the monks have been killed while looking for him. They go to a earth village for help, but it’s under fire control. The boy reminds them that they control the earth and they are surrounded by earth (they hadn’t noticed??) so they rebel and send the fire people away. 

Even if he’s the avatar, the boy never learned to master the other elements, he only knows air, so they go to a water village seeking help and lessons. 

On route, he’s betrayed by a man and sold to the fire people, but a mysterious man helps him. It’s actually the fire prince, and the boy ends up helping him as well. 

The three friends reach the water village, and the water boy falls in love with the water princess, and the avatar starts learning to control water. The fire people attack, the fire prince is again trying to capture the avatar but is stopped. The fire real villain kills a sacred fish which is the spirit of the moon or something, so that the water people won’t have their powers anymore, but the water princess was once saved by the moon spirit so now she gives that life back, reviving the moon spirit, and she dies. 

The fire prince and the fire villain fight, but the uncle stops them, he’s strong. The fire prince and his uncle leave and the fire villain is attacked by water, and I guess he died?

The avatar is able to master the water moving the ocean to send the war ships back. 

The fire lord sends now his daughter to stop the avatar. 

The boy still needs to learn to master earth, so that will be his next move, but the movie ends here.

Now, reading it like this, one might think that it was something interesting, something I should like, and I would have thought so too, but I didn’t. Every time an ‘element power’ was used, there was a lot of movements like they were doing a martial arts performance, and then very little happened. 

I don’t know how else to explain it, there was very little ‘power’, very little action; there was a lot of talking around the child, the avatar, but he didn’t do much, there was nothing epic about it, nothing exciting. 

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