Bon moi suit suit le big fan de cette série(que je me refait actuellement,en voyant ça
)j'apporte avec moi de bonne critique histoire de ne pas tomber dans l'anti"maitre de l'air"est pour nous(me)remonter le moral(un ptit peux).
Well, just saw the movie with my whole family of 7 and here's what we all pretty much think;
I'll start out with the
good.
The actors: Jackson(Sokka), in my opinion was a great choice for him. He was funny in the movie and his attitude was very Sokka.
Nicola(Katara) was really really good. Her acting was perfect. She even sounded and looked like Katara.
Seychelle(Princess Yue) was surprisingly a great actress for this role. I really liked her.
Aasif(Admiral Zhao) was THE most PERFECT actor to play this role. He was the ultimate villian that any good movie needs.
Dev(Zuko)
was epic as a Zuko. I don't think there could have been anyone more
perfect to play our troubled ex-prince. His stunts and attitude made me
feel like I was watching the cartoon Zuko.
Shaun Toub(Uncle
Iroh) was, I think, one of the best actors in the film. He was so dead
on to who Iroh really was in the show. I mean, how he acted made you
completely miss the fact that he's not a cute chubby grandpa.
Noah
Ringer(Aang) was a really really great action star in this film. He
never ceased to look bad ass. He sounded like Aang a lot of the time.
The Plot:It
was a really great way to introduce the storyline to newcomers of the
series. It wasn't confusing. It explained the parts needed and just
went really well. The storyline itself is a rich, epic long run--which
is hard to come by nowadays. It kept the important parts of the show
and blended them to where they made as much sense as possible.
The best part of the story was the parts at the Northern Water Tribe-- it was so packed full. But the
most outstanding and "
WOW"
part of the movie was at the ending after the A-team(nickname for Aang
and co.) beat the fire nation at the water tribe. I won't say it but if
you're a fan you'll definitely be wanting more!
The Music:James Newton Howard did a fantastic job on this soundtrack. It was powerful and epic and held such a strong emotion to it all.
Sets & CGI:I
thought the sets were amazing! Absolutely stunning. They looked so
lively and real. And about the CGI, my dad said we should watch it in
3D but I insisted on 2D... All I can say is,
watch this movie in 3D.The CGI was beyond brilliant. It looked so real and there were tons of
scenes where 3D glasses would have really made you say "wow!" as
oncoming water, earth, fire, and air came at you.
Action & FightsThe
action was epic. Just very fast, swift moments of tons of attacks from
every element. It really got you pumped to see Aang kicking THAT much
ass.
Director:Night.
did a great job on directing this movie. His views and ways of
directing was a perfect fit for the storyline. His added scenes that he
came up with were amazing.
And now for the
bad:
Actors:Jackson(Sokka)
was a bit too serious at times. Although he still kept his funny bone
intact, there wasn't THAT many jokes or sarcasm.
Nicola(Katara) she was a bit too emotional at times. It seemed like she was always crying.
Noah(Aang)
he was a bit stiff in the beginning and he wasn't as happy as our
lively hero was in the show. We didn't get to see him truely be Aang
until about 35 minutes into the movie.
The Plot: It
was really rushed in the first half of the movie. It felt like they
were jumping from city to city just to hurry it all up. We didn't get
to see Aang, Sokka, or Katara become friends they just automatically
liked eachother and were close. There were no cute moments like penguin
sledding or shots of Aang staring at Katara with wide eyes of love. We
just saw them meet and carry on with the story. Also, there wasn't
enough dialog.
Action & Fights:Frankly,
there wasn't enough action scenes. Don't get me wrong, when there was
it was amazing but there just wasn't enough. It was really one of the
biggest downers of the movie.
The Verdict:I
highly suggest seeing this movie for a fun action movie. It was a very
brilliant storyline, great characters and good actors. The sets and CGI
were perfect and the action scenes were epic. But because of the
rushness of the beginning, stiff actors at times, and few fight scenes
I'm gonna have to rate this movie a
7.5/10Rating: 7.5/10une autre bonne critique:
It has been a long time since I saw a good fantasy
hero story that I actually enjoyed enough to enthusiastically
recommend. Appropriately enough, the same may be said for movies by
writer and director M. Night Shyamalan. Both streaks have ended, though
with the emergence of “The Last Airbender” and Shyamalan finally has
the franchise he always wanted (“Unbreakable” was supposed to be the
first in a film series, but its commercial failure prevented the
director from continuing with that). In many ways, “The Last
Airbender,” which is Shyamalan’s 2010 entry into Summer Blockbuster
Season is a very typical hero story, but the density of its opening
instantly clues the viewer into the beginning of a franchise, whether
or not Shyamalan wanted that feel to it. In other words, even from the
beginning, there is an appropriately epic quality to the film.
It ought to be noted right up front that: 1. “The Last Airbender”
is a remake or reimagining of the anime work “Avatar: The Last
Airbender,” and 2. I have never seen an episode of “Avatar: The Last
Airbender,” read any of the manga nor even seen any of the new action
figures that accompany this film. I went into the preview screening of
it a complete blank slate. That said, “The Last Airbender” is an
ambitious start to the franchise, even if it seems like Shyamalan and
his production crew had to pull punches at certain moments.
There are four known elements in the world: Fire, Air, Earth and
Water. The world has been devastated by a long war waged by the Fire
Nation upon the Earth and Water Nations (Air has pretty much already
fallen to the Fire Nation and those who identify with Air are now
nomadic and spread thin). Hope, however, comes in the form of Aang.
Aang appears to be only twelve years old, but he is actually far older
and he is the last of the protectors and manipulators of Air, an Avatar
known as an Airbender. Aang finds himself in the company of the Water
Tribe and Sokka and his younger sister, Katara. Aang has the ability to
airbend, manipulate air to do its bidding, but he soon learns that the
other elements may be within his grasp with the right training.
As a result, Aang, Sokka and Katara set off for the north pole
where they hope to find a master of waterbending who might be able to
teach Aang how to waterbend and help them to repel the Fire Nation.
Unfortunately for the heroes, they are hunted by the disgraced Prince
Zuko, who hopes to regain the natural line to the throne by capturing
Aang and prove himself to Lord Ozai. But just as Zuko is hunting the
young Airbender and his friends, so too are other Fire Nation leaders
and all signs point that if Aang falls, the world will fall to Fire!
“The Last Airbender” is an ambitious start to a fantasy series
that feels incredibly familiar in some ways. M. Night Shyamalan, who
wrote the movie, is clearly not attempting to reinvent the wheel with
the hero narrative and the plot for “The Last Airbender” is simple and
direct in a way that will not surprise most moviegoers. Given that this
film was co-created by Nickelodeon Movies, it is no surprise that the
plot is kept somewhat simple with reversals that one suspects even
young people will see coming. Even so, it is not unenjoyable and there
are moments that certainly seek to push the envelope of a fantasy film
geared toward youngsters.
Even so, there is very little that is truly bothersome for parents
in “The Last Airbender.” Despite having pretty incredible special
effects at moments, the relationships are kept very much platonic. Aang
appears to be 12 and his friends are only a few years older than him.
The movie plays much more like a buddy film than a movie that is
building romantic interests between the protagonists (much like the
early “Harry Potter” films). And like many movies with a hero in the
process of becoming, Aang goes through a lot of training and dispenses
and receives a great deal of expository dialogue. The movie is packed
with enough information to make the universe it is set in seem
plausible without it ever slowing the pace down or feeling the like the
viewer is being unnecessarily lectured.
Aang is a likable protagonist as well. He has all the
characteristics of the archetypal hero, including the desire to do good
and to help those around him. What Shyamalan manages to do well with
Aang is present the idea of responsibility and the way it clashes with
Aang’s inherent desires to have fun and do his own thing make him a
much more compelling and realistic protagonist. Similarly, Prince Zuko
is appropriately fleshed out for a villain who might otherwise appear
monolithic. Zuko is the disgraced leader and while there are moments he
seems like he might simply be acting out of a sense of entitlement, his
desire to regain his position as legitimate heir to the throne seems to
truly come from his desire to see his people excel.
Zuko is played by Dev Patel, who might still best be known for “Slumdog Millionaire” . In “The Last Airbender,” he sublimates his good guy nature and
presents a character who is hurt, angry and works masterfully as a
villain. In fact, the only real difficulty with Patel’s performance is
believing his character is so young. Similarly, Jackson Rathbone
(Sokka) and Nicola Peltz (Katara) give decent supporting performances
that make one want to see where they might go in the future.
But much of the film hinges on the performance of Noah Ringer, who
plays Aang. Ringer is actually a tween and he is charged with
portraying a character who only appears to be so young. Ringer has
moments when he stares, when he sets his jaw and when he speaks where
he effectively connotes his character’s true age and that type acting
ability is certainly uncommon. Ringer succeeds with what he has to and
he holds his own as well in the physical scenes.
As far as the special effects go, they work in “The Last
Airbender,” but are nothing groundbreaking. Fans of big special effects
films will be pleased, just as fans of drama will be happy that
Shyamalan does not go over-the-top with them.
Ultimately, “The Last Airbender” does just what one hopes a summer
popcorn movie will do: it entertains and makes one care about the
characters. Who could ask for more?
re-autre bonne:
The Last Airbender is a
of exquisite beauty and, in its best moments, sublime visual clarity.
It also contains some of the worst dialogue ever allowed on screen.
It’s based on an animated series in the mold of Japanese-influenced
anime, and if you’ve ever watched any anime, you know that when it’s
dubbed from Japanese the translated dialogue often sounds strange,
stilted, and composed mainly of unnecessary exposition. For some
unfathomable reason writer/director M. Night Shyamalan has applied that
same, awkward speech pattern to what’s supposed to be an English
language movie. It’s as if he wrote his script in English, translated
it into Japanese, and then translated it back again.
Airbenderis the kind of movie where characters use twenty or thirty words to say
something even when it could probably have been said better with one or
two. At times, it’s exhausting.
It’s not just dialogue that’s the problem, it’s the way he’s put the
story together too. In theory this is an epic journey across a massive,
landscape in an alternate world, but you never really get a sense of
what that world’s about or the size of the journey. The movie sort of
jumps from one scene to another, as if it doesn’t know how to convey a
sense of movement, and when all the time lapsing leaves holes in the
plot Night the director is forced to fix the problems of Night the
writer by injecting narration to explain what’s going on. That does
work to avoid confusion, but it’s a cheap trick and one which wouldn’t
have been necessary with a better script. With a few notable
exceptions, which we’ll get to later, most of the movie’s characters
fare little better. They’re cardboard cutouts there to spout ridiculous
sentences in which they repeat portions of the plot which we already
know or recite the names of people we’ve already met at least a dozen
times before. I can’t think of a better way to describe the writing
here than just awful.
So, if you’re someone who thinks great writing is all that matters in a movie, you’ll think
The Last Airbender is the worst movie of the year. But I think there’s more to than words written on a page and in
The Last Airbender,
while Shyamalan the writer may be at his worst, Shyamalan the director
delivers one of his best efforts yet. He does that, in spite of the way
he’s been hamstrung by M. Night, the writer. It helps that he didn’t
come up with this concept. The blow of his bad writing is blunted by
the source material, which has already laid out where this movie must
go, preventing M. Night the awful writer from turning it into a story
about mildly annoyed house plants. That means no matter how bad his
writing is, as a director Shyamalan has something worthwhile here to
work with, and work with it he does.
Set in a fantasy world where people have the ability to control the natural elements,
The Last Airbenderrevolves around Aang, just a kid, but also the only person with the
ability to control them all. The world has divided itself up by
elemental powers. Those who can control the elements are called
Benders, and the Fire Benders live in a militaristic place called the
Fire Nation, full of smoke belching machines and heat. The Water Nation
opposes them with its ability to control all things wet, while the
Earth Benders have fallen beneath the Fire Bender boot heel. Air
Benders long ago became a group of monks, and it’s from there that
Aang, the last Airbender and the only person with the power to control
all four elements at once, sprung.
Aang is the Avatar, which is a lot like the Dalai Lama with
super powers, and the casting of unknown 13-year-old Noah Ringer to
play him was a stroke of genius. It’s more than just the way he manages
to make the movie’s awful dialogue seem nearly credible, there’s a
calmness that surrounds him, even when he’s at his most direct and
intense. A lot of it is in the way he moves. Ringer’s role is a very
physical one, but he pulls it all off with an unbelievable sort of
grace. There are moments, great moments, in the movie where M. Night’s
camera simply stops and lets him move, performing a complicated martial
arts dance on screen as if there’s nothing else in the world but him
and the blowing wind.
Dev Patel’s Zuko works too, as the movie’s most complex character. A
prince abused and cast off by his father, he wanders the world in
search of the Avatar, his only means of regaining a place in his
father’s household. Guided by a gentle uncle, Zuko wrestles with a
desire to do the right thing, and a burning need to regain his place in
the world by doing his father’s bidding. Patel, in spite of the
horrible dialogue he’s forced to spout, brings a sort of sympathetic
anger to the character.
It’s more than just Noah or Patel’s solid performances that make
Last Airbenderworth seeing. It’s also how much fun M. Night seems to be having with
opportunities the movie’s bending powers afford. Water flies around the
screen in perfectly propelled blobs or leaps out of the ground in
great, tentacled rivers. Flame artfully gouts from a fire bender’s
hands, framing the screen and creating a breathtaking image. Put to use
in battle those powers are thrilling, yes, but in Night’s hands also
heart-wrenchingly gorgeous. It's imaginative and immensely creative.
Almost every frame of Night’s movie is a work of art, with perfectly
used camera techniques and luscious wide shots that let you see what’s
going on even in the film’s most frantic and frenetic moments.
These aren’t just stunning, empty images.
The Last Airbenderuses its visual prowess to push itself beyond the miserable constraints
of its script. We learn almost nothing substantive about Aang from the
movie’s misguided, exposition filled dialogue, but his enthusiasm for
life oozes out of every frame. It’s in the way he walks or the way he
goes down a flight of stairs, taking four steps at a time propelled by
tiny bursts of energetic air. Aang feels alive and, visually at least,
it all seems to happen effortlessly.
This isn’t an easy movie to praise.
The Last Airbenderseems as though it’s daring people to hate it. It’s hard to believe
anything could be this badly written by accident. In order to get to
what’s good in it; you’ll have to endure a lot of M. Night Shyamalan
missteps. In the hands of a better writer, this could have been the
next
Lord of the Rings. The material behind it feels that good.
Should someone else take charge of writing the heavily teased sequel
for him, I fully expect to give it five stars.
The Last Airbenderthough, is the kind of movie that’s only good in spite of itself. If
you’re able to get past Shyamalan’s failings as a writer, this is an
achingly beautiful film full of stunning
driven by a powerful score, and based on material so good that even the
worst script of the year couldn’t entirely ruin it. It’s worth putting
up with M. Night the writer to enjoy the work of M. Night the director.
re re bonne:
Epics can be ponderous and plodding, but “The Last Airbender” manages
the difficult trick of being both epic and exciting, a fantasy
adventure that is visually striking and emotionally accessible.
The source material is Nickelodeon’s popular series “Avatar: The Last
Airbender,” in which Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko melded
elements of martial arts, Japanese anime and relatable young
characters. That material is neatly transformed by the film’s
writer-director, M. Night Shyamalan, into a compelling adventure in
which a world’s future rests in the hands of a child.
In
this mythical land, the four elements — earth, air, fire and water —
are represented by different tribes. The most talented members of those
tribes have the power to “bend” those elements to their will.
The movie begins 100 years after the last airbender mysteriously
disappeared. In the interim, the warlike Fire Nation has subjugated the
other tribes and imprisoned anyone with bending powers — for fear that
an airbender would return, master the other elements and end the Fire
Nation’s reign.
On a frozen field, two members of the
Southern Water Tribe — the fledgling waterbender Katara (Nicola Peltz)
and her brother Sokka (“Twilight’s” Jackson Rathbone) — discover an orb
buried in the ice. They crack it open and find two creatures: a young
boy, Aang (newcomer Noah Ringer), and his flying bison, Appa. Aang
bears the arrow-shaped forehead tattoo of an airbender, and soon Katara
and Sokka are protecting Aang as he ventures to the other kingdoms to
learn to bend water, earth and fire.
Aang’s release catches
the attention of the Fire Nation’s exiled prince, Zuko (“Slumdog
Millionaire” star Dev Patel), who must prove his courage to the king
(Cliff Curtis) by capturing the airbender. But an ambitious Fire Nation
warlord (played by “The Daily Show’s” Aasif Mandvi) aims to catch Aang
first.
The epic qualities of “The Last Airbender” will be
familiar to any child who’s seen “The Chronicles of Narnia,” with the
young protagonist forced to grow up too fast to fulfill his
world-saving destiny. Shyamalan embraces that giant sweep, mounting
impressive battle sequences and powerful special effects. But Shyamalan
also keeps focused on the human story, drawing natural performances
from his young cast.
Using the backbone of the Nickelodeon
series, Shyamalan succeeds in developing a story with a deep mythology
— something he failed to do with “Lady in the Water.” He also
understands, as he proved in his comic-book homage “Unbreakable,” the
importance of the origin story, and smartly delivers everything this
opening chapter needs.
The only “twist” ending Shyamalan
provides in “The Last Airbender” is the revelation that this is not a
one-off, but the beginning of a franchise. It’s an auspicious
beginning, well-done and promising even better to come.
est une plutot bonne:
The Last Airbender
Dir: M. Night Shyamalan
Paramount Pictures
6/10Who would have thought to take a goofy anime made by white people
about a bald kid with a magical construction sign tattooed on his head,
give it a dark spin, a multi-million dollar special effects budget, and
have M. Night Shyamalan direct it? If someone told me that before I
would have puked in a bucket and thrown it at whoever pitched it to me.
Though it seems I would have had that same shame-filled puke bucket
thrown right back at me, because that idea turns out to be pretty
decent looking on screen.
The world of
Airbender is divided between 4 major races,
each based on an element- earth, fire, water, and air. And no, unlike
in Captain Planet, heart doesn’t count. Our hero Aang (Noah Ringer) is
the last of a race of Airbenders, and it turns out he’s also to inherit
the role of the Avatar and become the lone person to have the power to
control not only his own element, but all three others. Oh, Aang not
only has the power to control all four of the elements, but he can
apparently trip balls and talk to dragons. However, with sweet-ass
power comes bitter-sweet responsibility, as well as people wanting to
kill yo’ ass all the time.
Disgraced Prince Zuko (Dev Patel of
Slumdog fame) is vying
to regain his place as leader of the Fire Nation, a tribe of industrial
minded, power-hungry, war mongers who are none too pleased with this
Aang kid cramping their plans for world domination. Katara (Nicola
Peltz) and her more useless brother Sokka (Jackson Rathbone of
unfortunate
Twilight fame) are from the waterbending tribe
and act as the plucky sidekick duo and pals to our hero Aang. There
are also some earthbenders, but they aren’t that important.
The movie is based on the Nickelodeon cartoon
Avatar: The Last Airbender,
and is not to be confused with the recent trivial billion dollar
blockbuster that squeaked in there and snapped up the name. While it
doesn’t feature the same brightness, comedy and goofiness that can be
found in the original series, this faithful reconstitution of the show
brings the tale to a wider audience while still showing respect to the
fans of old. Shyamalan successfully stays to the show’s storyline,
curtailing its side-plots in order to shrink it down to feature-length.
Falcor on steroids.
Teaming up with Industrial Light and Magic, Shyamalan, and visual
effects supervisor Pablo Helman, made sure that if they were going to
do a film about people with the power to control the elements, it was
going to look fucking bad ass. In many ways, the visual effects are as
much a part of the story as the actors. For being based on a Saturday
morning cartoon, the level of realism brought to the film visually is
mind blowing. I mean, seriously, there’s a six-legged flying albino
water buffalo with a beaver tail and it looked like something that
looked
believable. Yeah, it’s that good.
ILM had to develop both new hardware and new software to create the
“bending” effects. I’ve long been impressed with the visual work
they’ve done in the past, and as always, they have pushed the limits to
a new frontier. Creating water and fire has always been a daunting pain
in the VFX ass, but ILM tackled the task delivering jaw dropping
results. There were parts I had seen in studio at ILM during a sneak
preview visit during production, like when Aang jumps off the boat and
rides his kite and when he is fighting alongside the Blue Demon, and I
KNEW that they were CG and seeing them on screen, they looked seamless.
For some reason, I'm also pumped for Tron
One of the drawbacks of the film was the acting. At times, as a
viewer you are made painfully aware that until a month before the film
started shooting, 12 year old Ringer was not an actor, just a badass
kid who knows Taekwondo and could easily kick my fat ass. I guess when
you need a team of children who can handle performing fast-paced
advanced martial arts action, you are going to have to accept some
sacrifices in their ability to perform as actors. Character development
I felt was kept to a minimum. I would have enjoyed to see a bit more
done with it.
So you may be asking, what’s the signature Shyamalan gimmick “oh
snap!” plot twist this time round? Nothing. There is none. Shyamalan
breaks his reputation as the twist trick-pony prince and delivers a
film that holds up as a story from start to finish. In doing so,
perhaps delivering the biggest surprise to his audience yet.
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).Le film est donc trop vite expédié,il n'en n'ai pas moins inintéressant(avec des scènes superbement réaliser(notamment quand les maitre de la terre se rebelle,l'entrainement de Katara est Aang,est la fin :eek: .)
