Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender review – engaging TV-to-movie adventure
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A feature-length continuation of the much-loved animated series provides enough for fans as well as the uninitiated Avatar just can’t catch a break at the movies. Not the blue-cat-people franchise that makes at least a billion dollars each time, mind you – though that mega-successful series is part of what vexes big-sc
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A feature-length continuation of the much-loved animated series provides enough for fans as well as the uninitiated Avatar just can’t catch a break at the movies.
Not the blue-cat-people franchise that makes at least a billion dollars each time, mind you – though that mega-successful series is part of what vexes big-screen versions of Avatar: The Last Airbender, a Nickelodeon animated series that predates the release of the similar-named, different-premised James Cameron film.
Following the anime-inspired, fan-beloved show’s three-season run on cable, the material was adapted into a live-action feature, The Last Airbender, by no less than M Night Shyamalan, released six months after Cameron’s megahit.
The Last Airbender was a decent-sized hit, but loathed by fans and critics alike – even today’s crop of Shyamalan boosters can’t find much positive to say about it – and failed to kickstart the hoped-for live-action film series.
(Netflix has since made an unrelated live-action adaptation as a TV show .) More recently, Paramount announced that an animated sequel film, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, following the characters years after the events of the series, would arrive in movie t
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