The Last Airbender Movie Rant

I had this almost done, but then I got kicked of the computer -___-
Anway here is my ridiculously long The Last Airbender movie rant.

I was reading reviews for "The Last Airbender" and some of the reviewer were saying that they "liked it", or it "wasn't the worst movie of the summer". I was going to write my own review, but because I lack and account I couldnt.

I know I've already ranted and raved at everyone about this movie, but why not have a record of it?

First off, I have to say I absolutely love the TV series as most of you know. But I can say, if you love Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV) do not, repeat NOT see this movie. Yes, the proceeds go to the creators and blah, blah, blah, but it just killed it.

It's not unreasonable to cut out a lot of the first season. I can understand why they cut out King Bumi, Jet and his Freedom Fighters, the people who now live at the Northern Air Temple, The Storm episode, The Fortuneteller episode, Jun the bounty hunter, the pirates, the episode with Hei Bai (the forest spirit), the fire temple and the winter solstice, meeting Avatar Roku, The Great Divide episode, meeting Bato (a member of the Southern Water tribe), meeting Jeong Jeong (Aang's first firebending teacher), Katara not being allowed to learn waterbending at first, and the Kyoshi warriors.

All those things being cut out, I can forgive.

Zuko having hair, I can forgive. The change in name pronounciation, is completely understandable (it throws me for a loop, but it's understandable). Having firebenders unable to create their own fire makes sense. I mean no one else can "make" earth or water or air. (I use the word 'make' loosely because katara learns to pull water from the air and plants, but that's later)

I can even look past the fact that in the TV series everyone is mainly your generic type of Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc.) and were replaced with Caucasians and Indians. That's fine.

And I completely understand why Sozen's comet needs to come in three years instead of a couple months. (cant have the actors age a few years in what's supposed to be less that a year in the movie)

What I cant get past is listed below

1. Iroh is not the fat jolly person we all know and love.
2. He only mentioned tea once...only once
3. Appa and Momo have no personality
4. You didnt even learn Momo's name until the siege on the Northern Water Tribe
5. Sokka wasnt sarcastic. At all.
6. He's the meat and sarcasm guy, that's all he is. He didnt have either.
7. Sokka was just kind of there, not really predominant. Sometimes I forgot he was in the movie.
8. The actor for Aang looked like Aang and sounded like Aang, but he didnt act like him
9. Aang stole Katara's "hope" speech
10. You cant steal Katara's "hope" speeches, it's her designated job
11. Katara only had one hope speech...but it was about responsibility.
12. Zuko was not as angry and did not have a one track mind of restoring his honor and capturing the Avatar. (Side note: When he did mention honor or capturing Aang, he sounded like Zuko which was good)
13. Haru was about seven or eight years old. (How's he supposed to grow a moustache later?)
14. The movie was not funny. I laughed...maybe once, and it wasnt a laugh out loud moment. More like a chuckle. I cant stop rolling on the floor with laughter whenever I watch the TV series.
15. Admiral Zhao wasnt as...cunning as he was in the show. He was going through the motions, but the hotheadedness and impatience wasnt there. (That being said he had some really good insults in the movie.)
16. In the spirit world, all Aang ever does is talk to a dragon spirit.
17. Aang was a lot more angsty and scared. (It's understandable if you look at it the way the movie portrayed it, but if you've seen the show you see how Aang tries ridiculously hard and usually his talent gets him through it)
18. There was no awesome koi fish water fighting.
19. The koi fish avatar state Aang was replaced by a giant wave. (I can kind of look past that if you think of how hard it would be to create with computer graphics)
20. The giant wave rose up, and did nothing. (Sure it's intimidating, but couldnt it have...I dunno crashed onto the battleships or something?)
21. The bending wasnt synched at all (The actors doing martial arts, that was fine. The CG, that was fine. But put it together and it looked silly)
22. The actors would go through their stances and it would look really cool, but then after they were done, the rock or water would go flying. It lacked the fluidity of motion that the TV series had when someone was bending. (The firebending was slightly better, if only because it's fire and movie people have more expertise with explosions)
23. The voice over narration. Was it really necessary?
24. Everything that didnt need to be explained with narration. It would have been easy and add maybe a few minutes to the length of the movie to show what was going on, instead of telling us. And either way we would've figured out most of what the narration covered.

Those are just the things that kind of nagged at me. Yeah I know it's a lot, and it seems like I'm more upset about those things than just miffed. But my ultimate number one reason for being super annoyed at this movie is Azula.

Ok so if you've seen Avatar: The Last Airbender (TV), then you know Azula. Evil fire nation princess. Here's a few words to describe her

Fire bending prodigy
Confident
Cruel
Rules with fear
Manipulative

I could go on, but I'd have to say those ones are pretty up there. Anyway the actress that plays Azula has about...five seconds air time right at the end of the movie. Fire lord Ozai is most displeased with Admiral Zhao's failed attack on the Northern Water Tribe. His banished son, Prince Zuko, and his brother General Iroh have disappeared and failed to capture the Avatar (Aang). He fears that the Avatar will learn earth and fire bending before Sozen's comet returns in three years time. The comet will give them the power to create their own fire, and nothing can stand in their way of ending the hundred year long war by total domination.

He turns to Azula, with whom he entrusts foiling the Avatar. Azula looks up at him, says "Yes, Father." Then smirks. But then her smirk twitches like she's going to stop, but then the smirk comes back, then it stops, then comes back.

And my face is like >:O WHAAAAA?

Azula is not supposed to falter. Never (at least till she goes crazy and stuff). but she's supposed to be full of confidence. That she can succeed where others have failed because she is the so freaking awesome. I mean come on! Where's that overly cruel and evil Azula I've come to consider the greatest villian of all time? Sure she's evil, but there's a person in there! If this actress cant live up to my expectations of Azula, I dont know what I'll do. Makes me wish I could have auditioned for the part myself. I can do an evil laugh like its nobody's business. I've been thinking that maybe I should audition for Toph for the second movie...

Anyway, I'm getting sidetracked. I thought that ultimately this movie failed to represent the plot, and the characters. Also I think it failed as a movie in general. It was way too rushed at the beginning, the characters were two-dimensional (when they originally werent), there was little if any character development, and the ending was long and drawn out.

And that's it for my ridiculously long rant. :D