I just watched this movie and I was surprised on how bad it turned out to be. The first mistake was character focus.  The story starts with Katara doing some water bending and hitting his brother Sokka.  They then found Aang (or “Oong” as I keep on hearing on the movie) frozen under suspended animation in an iceberg below them. Sokka breaks the ice sheet that trap the iceberg below the water and Katara breaks the Ice-Air bubble.

This is great but who was that guy on the navy ship? Well that was Zuko, never introduced and I have no idea what he wants. Luckily I watched the whole series so I am guided but I frankly get lost on the movie.  Prince Zuko attack the tribe (gosh, I finally learned who that guy was) and then Aang come out and presented himself to the fire prince Zuko from an igloo.

The director made a pride choice of changing how the name was pronounced into Ahng  from Aang because he wants it to be more racial accurate. He base it on an aspect that Aang was an Asian, true but why Ahng? Well the director was an Indian who speaks Hindi. It may work well if all Asian speaks that same way as Hindi does.

Problem is, if he wants it to be accurate then why do the crown prince Zuko, General Iroh, the firelord and Azula are not japenese? The series portrayed them as a country resembling  Japanese people and culture which can be concluded that the upper fire country members are Japanese.

The story have stripped a lot of critical parts and inserted non important ones. Showcase a non chronological order of events and modified some parts which never happened on the original series. One of this was on Kyoshi Island (the place where Avatar Kyoshi was born), there are no Kyoshi warriors. Instead they are replaced by a mob of earth benders.

Also it is worth noting that on Aang’s travel to the air temple, the dead are scattered on the grounds while on the series they are cramped and burned in the nearby fire nation camp. Aang found Momo  or shall I say Momo found Aang but the named Momo was never been mentioned on the movie. It was also funny that Aang never found out about the avatar series of statues that alerted the fire nation about him instead the avatar statues was discovered by Aang by himself when he ran away from Sokka and Katara.

This is where a monk betrayed him and showed him and explained about the avatar statues where he got captured and then rescued by the phantom who is Prince Zuko. This never happened on the series and the absence of the discovery for these statues is a key point on the story. If the fire nation did not know that he was alive since this was triggered by the statues then how did they know that they are facing an air bender without displaying his air bending first? Surely Aang was betrayed by some fire temple mages but he was not sold and he was not captured here and also he was not alone.

A far more search on how the movie was on movie review sites, fan sites and independent bloggers gives a total film failure. And almost everyone said that the movie was BORING.

From a random comment

“i have a friend who just loved the movie. i think she may be the only one in the whole world.”