The Worst Movie Adaptation: The Last Airbender

Have you ever seen one of your favorite cartoons get absolutely butchered by a live-action film adaptation? "Avatar: The Last Airbender" fans sure have. From whitewashing to mispronounced characters names and more, here are Letterboxd reviews giving M. Night Shyamalan's 2010 film "The Last Airbender" their scathing (but very entertaining) opinions on what went wrong.

[sketchyskies]

I’ve never seen the movie but my dad, who had never even seen the series, did. I asked him about it, having seen the series, and he said it was the worst movie he’d ever seen. How bad is your movie when someone who’s *never seen the source material* despises it?!

[selmabm]

To this day, I'm still baffled by the six earthbenders moving a pebble

[lightcpkhfm]

A lot of people meme the 'That's rough, buddy' scene, but how the fuck are you supposed to react when someone teels you that her gf became the moon?

[softtacos]

“Made uncle iroh sexy” implies he wasn’t already

[thegayghost]

That’s not Sokka and Katara, that’s Zeke and Katherine

[minaminasstudios]

What would make this absolutely hilarious, is that for the live action adaptation that's coming out on Netflix, what they can do for the Ember Island Play episode is to use clips from the movie, and the theater could be a big stadium that changes with bending, hence why it looks like a movie, this would make the episode more hilarious
XD

[jojorose]

"The worst movie adaptation" that is saying alot lady. The fact that the internet comes together and agrees on that.

[whitebread]

I vaguely remember my school brought us to see this movie in theaters for a field trip, I didn’t know what Avatar even was at the time but I remember hating it anyway

[moomateus]

4:45 they say that like Iroh isn't already sexy

[svtpanda]

I went to see it in the cinema as a kid because I was OBSESSED with ATLA and I remember being really confused about who the firebenders at the start were. I genuinely got scared of appa because he did NOT look cute. I wanted to scream at the screen because everything was so wrong

[captainpalegg]

statistically, there was at least one kid for whom this nuclear dumpster wreck was their first exposure to the avatar franchise.

to that kid, wherever you may be now, i cannot apologize enough.

[liamOmoriEnthusiast]

Since this adaptation released me and my siblings just gaslight ourselves into believing this doesn't exist.

[disorganzedchaos]

this entire movie gives me the same vibes as Story of Undertale except you can’t even enjoy it ironically

[kenyastarflight]

The one positive of this film is that watching the Fire Island Players episode (where the gaang watches a terrible play based on their adventures) is much more hilarious now.

[bias]

I hadn't yet heard of the show when this movie came out, so I didn't know it was an adaptation. I did not like the movie and it actively put me off watching the show when I learned it existed. I have in recent years actually watched the show and I'm upset the movie made me not want to see it.

Also I am forever confused on how to pronounce Sokka because my initial reaction is to go with what I heard first. Don't know why it's only his name I'm switched up on, but that's just one more thing to blame the movie for

[LadyMajolish]

Now we need the live action dragon ball z reviews, Tonka Joey.

[Yoimiya_Lover]

2:38 The fact this review is 5 stars I'm crying 😭

[Digi-BlueFox]

I remember being so excited to see this movie in the store and I absolutely had to have it. Then I watched it and I remember vividly how annoyed I was at the fact that fire benders needed torches to fire bend, then I was even more annoyed when the fire benders were surprised that Iroh - sorry Eeroh - could bend fire without an already existing source of fire. Like... You can?! You should be able to?! Also the stupid slow fighting pissed me off.
Long story short, this was my worst purchase... or present... I might have gotten this as a birthday gift. Oh shit

[AvatarMimsy]

My middle school bully who made fun of me for being a fan of the show was likely involved in the making of this movie.

[Bd-qsbn]

not enough reviews about the 6 earthbenders moving a small rock