The Last Airbender Movie: (I feel like my soul was raped) Part 1: The Characters

To say it's worse than the Holocaust wouldn't be an exxagerration (no innapropriateness meant) This was honestly the worst movie I've ever seen. The 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.com is incredibly generous. None of the characters are anything like in the show. All the names are mispronounced. The plot is screwed up, and they changed EVERYTHING.
There's so much too dissect we have to do it bit by bit.

We'll start by discussing the characters that are IN the movie.

Characters

From Happy to Dopey.

Aang: Pronounced "Ahng" in the movie. Our lovable, sunshiney Aang in the show has turned into a mopey, emotionless, helpless, wimp. He is literally the complete opposite of his character. He is violent when it isn't necessary and peaceful when action needs to take place. He is a complete abomination to the character from the show. He's basically Mai's personality, only mopier! His character was massacred. He's also AFRAID to use his waterbending. It frightens him, instead of him being excited about it. He struggled with the bending instead of being immediately good at it like in the show.

Gave birth to Aang, apparently.

Katara: Was an extreme version of herself. Was incredibly dramatic and constantly making speeches. She was never laid back or sarcastic, she's constantly doting over Aang and basically up his ass every second. She is never far from him at all. It's like she's literally his bodyguard who can't be away from him for five seconds. They took her characters personality and squared it by thousands. She's immediately a good water bender, makes a couple stupid, unfunny mistakes in the beginning, but then suddenly transforms into master waterbender who contributes nothing to the battle, just sort of wanders around and occasionally uses her water to block things. She acts like she is literally Aang's mother instead of a motherly figure.

Hi, not funny. Go away.

Sokka: Pronounced "Sohkuh" in the show. Pretty terrible acting, considers opening his eyes wide a dramatic face, reminiscent of his character "Jasper" from Twilight. Sokka basically acts like he was literally Katara's father. He barely fights in the movie (you see him raise his boomerang once) and the biggest problem: HE'S NOT FUNNY AT ALL. NOTHING about Sokka is funny. He is a totally flat character. He has about 2 funny lines that make one emit a mere cough of a laughter. And even those aren't silly, goofy Sokka, they seem very forced. He is of no importance in terms of the movie. They could have eliminated him, that's how little he was used in the movie. His ponytail was an absolute disgrace.

I AM MILDLY ANNOYED THAT MY HONOR IS DESTROYED!

Zuko A terrible, terrible disgrace to my favorite character. The angry, aggressive, passionate Zuko we all know doesn't exist. This Zuko was mildly annoyed and mildly mopey. It's almost felt like he was a ten year old who was annoyed that his favorite toy was taken away. In the show he's obsessed about regaining his honor and talked about it constantly. In the movie he mentions it once. It literally felt like his honor getting taken away was only a mild annoyance to him. Like "You too my honor away? You poopy face!" That's literally this Zuko. Just...terrible. Zuko's scar looked like a light scratch on his face. I can't write any more about Zuko, I love him so much.

I'd rather cry in a corner than defeat Aang.

Zhao: WOW. Probably the most DESTROYED of all the characters. The angry, aggressive, fearless, impulsive Zhao we know...not even a TRACE of him exists. This Zhao was nervous, afraid, passive, flat, and NEVER impulsive. The actor for Zhao was probably the worst actor of the bunch, and the worst represented as a character. Zhao is literally a wimp who is terrified of the Fire Lord and literally seems to cringe in his presence. He has no bravery or fire within him. His personality is equivalent to the scared old man Jet attacks.

I'm stiff and don't really know what the hell is going on.

Ozai: OH HEY! We totally get to see Ozai's face three seconds into this movie! So much for that mystery of not knowing what he looked like. This Ozai also had no passion or fire, and mentioned his son multple times. In this movie, Ozai was WORRIED about his son and kept talking about him, and definitely demonstrated he still loved his son. In the show, we ALL know Ozai doesn't give two shits about his son. The guy who banished Zuko does NOT match up with the guy we see.

Personality? WHAT'S THAT?

Iroh: Pronounced "Eeroh" in the show. Not jolly or fat. Didn't make one mention of food. Had no obession with tea. Never cracked jokes or didn't even seem to care about Zuko. Treated him more like a kid he was forced to watch, but was still pleasent too, rather than being sincerely worried and caring about Zuko's feelings. Was also an extreme wimp who never fought. Never made jokes about his laziness or flirting. Just wasn't Iroh. This Iroh just seemed to be a mopey (a common theme among the characters), somewhat cared, but didn't really want to do anything about it.



And that's the only beginning of the flaws in this movie. Tune in for Part 2 Later.