The Last Airbender (2010) - MOVIE REACTION!! 

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"Is it a bad movie or a bad adaptation?" Well you'd be surprised to learn that it's both.

It takes a whole Bollywood dance number to slowly float ONE rock.

Ah, the famous "6 dancing men, and one slowly flying boulder". It gets everyone every time

The guy who played Iroh could be great portraying Avatar Roku.

The kid who played Aang in this move is actually SUPER cute and cheerful and sweet in all the behind the scenes clips I've seen. He's literally like a textbook copy of Aang in real life, but for some reason Shyamalan directed him to act the role as a stoic emotionless human doll instead.

“The villagers are Asian but they’re not???” Welcome to the Last Airbender 😂

"the full length is available" I think that, this time, I'm good with as little of this movie as possible

"the ember island players" play was better than this movie

"That... was not a good movie" "I'll say" "No kidding" "It was horrible" "You said it" "...But the effects were decent."

Eric saying earthbending was his favorite style immediately before THAT earthbender scene was maybe the saddest and most hilarious sequence of events I've ever seen 😂😂

Dragon in this movie, “the Avatar is not meant to kill.” The last 4 Avatars would disagree with you, dragon.

I just realized something. According to this movie, Zuko should've drowned because he couldn't burn the ice due to there being no fire around him. Odd.

I want to see earth bending - it's my favorite style! Me (cringes)

I fucking love how Eric points how there’s a lot of movement for a simple bending move then the infamous rock scene comes right after lmao

remember what sokka said about the play brfore the grand finale...."the play was shit but atleast the effects were good"....this was the best description of movie you could find.....sokka always being meta, man

I remember watching this movie as a kid. I had to have been about 8 years old, and it legitimately made me cry because of how bad it was 😂. I went in so excited to see my favorite show come to life, and it was so disappointing that it legitimately brought me to tears. To this day just the mention of this movie makes me cringe. I think the excuse that a kids movie can be bad cause its made for kids is flawed. Kids can tell pretty well if a movie is good or not.

No one: Absolutely no one: Calvin: Such a bouncy boat for being all metal.

I don’t care how difficult it is to fit an entire season into a two hour movie. There’s way too much in this film that is unforgivable. The mispronunciations, the acting, the casting/changes they made to the races, Zuko’s scar that is barely noticeable, the way they reveal the Fire Lord like he’s nothing, the AWFUL bending, the LACK of bending. I keep editing this comment to add things I’m remembering. M. Night should be as criticized as he is/was because he clearly wasn’t even trying to stay true to the show that so many people loved. He was just trying to make money off of what so many people loves.

The "tell don't show" movie. Such excellent source material and this is what we got.

Iroh: "My name is Eeroh" Eric *upset*: "I don't like change."

10:23 is what I was waiting for the whole reaction😂😂

"I want to see some Earthbending, that's my favourite Bending style." *Haunting pictures taken moments before disaster.*

19:47 "Look at them, the Yin and Yang Fish." "Don't you mean Yin and Yong." HAHA 23:38 "Yin and Yong" "OMG They DID pronounce it that way."

There is no Last Airbender movie within the walls... Here we are safe Here we are free

By far, the worst experience I've had in a movie theater. I was with my dad that day, and he knew that I loved the show, and middle-school me was pretty excited. I was so disappointed, but I didn't want to disappoint my dad and say that we'd wasted one of his days to be with me on a bad movie, so I pretended to like it. A few years later I told him the truth, and he was actually relieved that I didn't like the movie. Even though he hadn't seen the show, he knew it was a bad movie.

"It took all that to do one rock?!" 🤣 "Is that Ozai? I am...underwhelmed." Me too, Eric, me too.

Saw this was up... immediate reaction was "oh no" 😂

Katara's narration mentions Aang's name multiple times and then she asks him what his name is when they get to the temple (which is days away)

The Animated Series always seemed more like "Elemental Bending with Martial Arts". The Movie always seemed more like "Martial Arts with Elemental Bending".

She went from playing Sokka's girlfriend to playing Korra's girlfriend

The kid who plays Aang is definitely a very legit martial artist. I will give them that.

"Ahng", "Soaka", "E-ro". I'll never not facepalm at these things.

*Before June 30, 2010* FireLord Ozai: I'm the biggest and evilest villain in the entire Avatar franchise. Night Shyamalan: *I'm about to destroy this man's whole carrer*

Can your science explain why this movie sucks? *Yes it can!*

I know people always say don't watch this movie, but I for one support people going through the pain of watching it just to see how horrible it is and appreciate how great the show is.

The Kyoshi warriors aren't even shown. How are they going to make Suki appear so suddenly in the 2nd and 3rd movie without any viewers knowing how the team knows her? Exposition again?

Exposition: the Movie

2:51 Eric: "Well, the Katara is not... terrible." Me: "OHH BOY DIS GUN BE GUUUD!!"

Truth has been spoken. It's not bad enough to be good again, therefore it's just bad. Except for the rock bending scene of course, that one is pure comedy gold.

I was legit waiting for the scene of the army of earth benders moving that one little rock... I was not disappointed LMFAO

I'm actually in tears at the earth bending scene 😂 10:18 I've watched it like 20 times now

The girl who played Princess Yue was the voice for Asami Sato in Legend of Korra

Fun fact: they had the prison for waterbenders in the Seaworld.

I’m so hyped for the Netflix show. I just wish it didn’t take so long to produce, but perfection takes time

Nah, Its still bad for kids. I watched this when I was 10 and I thought it was trash.

10:20 “I’M A LITTLE TEAPOT, SHORT AND STOUT!” “Don’t worry guys, I’ll get em. Mmmm, take that”

What movie? There's no Avatar movie behind this walls.

Watching *Shane* during the replay (1:07:44) is so funny and even a little _sad_ (but more _funny,_ IMO), because it seems clear he actually likes it. It just shows how we all can view _the same thing_ but perceive it differently. Like *Eric* said, fans were so excited. They dressed up like a *Star Wars* premier. Then, they get _this._ So one can imagine just how devistated they were. Even if you consider that this was going to be several films, much of the exposition was actually kind of pointless. Zhao mentioning Iroh's son had no place in the film. And when Katara told Zuko that she's _the last waterbender in the Southern Water Tribe_ I wanted Zuko to say, _"Okaaaay. Why are you telling me this? And why should I care?"_ I understand why they probably made firebenders bend this way. Because from an outside perspective, every other bending power can only manipulate elements already around them. However, as *Eric* noted, it depowers the Fire Nation _a great deal._ In fact, if _most_ firebenders can't _create_ fire, then they're at a _huge_ disadvantage to every other nation. *Each technique that the other nations use is **_ideal for putting out fires._* Even though air can _feed_ fire, we also know that air benders can remove air from an area. So, I don't know how the Fire Nation could have become so threatening or become so powerful in this version of the world. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fun Fact: The actress who played Princess Yue in this movie ended up voicing Asami in Legend of Korra.

28:53 Shane's disbelief at that statement was hilarious 🤣

50:27 The avatar state wasn't special at all. I mean, you could've put 50, maybe 100 waterbenders to do the exact same thing. Or not, knowing how it took 7 people to lift a single rock. Go figure.

Ten years ago, all of the Avatar fans lived in harmony- that all changed when the Shyamalan attacked!

As a movie: very mediocre As an adaptation: awful just being honest

“Are you the Ahvatahr Ohng?”

10:20 “What the fuck” ERICS Reaction was PERFECT! 😂😂😂

"Earthbending is my favorite style!" Me: OH GOD...

I Kinda wish the fire was in sync with the martial arts movement. Like if he strikes with his hand the fire should come out then not a delayed reaction.

i don't know what everyone's talking about, this movie is an amazing adaptation of the Ember Island Players

I suffer from pretty bad depression, and I just want to thank you guys for this video. I haven't laughed as much as I laughed at 1:08:00 in literally years. My stomach hurt, I can't remember the last time that happened. I was laughing harder than Rick was, and it's at least 50% because of this reaction and not the movie itself (although I do laugh a good amount at the movie on it's own). THANK YOU.

Man Sokka was really serious in this Movie

The problem with the film is that it's bad, but it's not so bad as to be good. It's just.....bad. Add on the lack of respect for the source material (changing the pronunciation of the names as an example), the complete lack of understanding of the bending and the main characters. Glossing over things that are important to the story (We started a rebellion), the rushed plot, and the terrible pacing. It's just bad.

I really didn't like how Appa's feet looked. And I hadn't even noticed that while Sokka and Katara were white, the rest of the village was still Asian xD

Anytime you have the words: "As you know..." in your screenplay... delete it. Not-Zhao says it like 12 times in this film.

Fun fact: Princess Yue here voices Asami in Legend of Korra :D

Who else was waiting for that scene with the earthbenders and that one rock! Because it was gold

10:22 bruh those 6 guys almost shit themselves just to make a rock float.

I need to rewatch Nostalgia critic episode on this movie again, it's one of the best :D

The rock dance is easily the greatest scene ever put to film, hands down. Pure, cinematic masterpiece

10:21 My favorite moment in the movie

"Dont you mean Yaang?" he said jokingly 7 mins later: "Yin and Yaang" Yea everyone felt that disappointment

Welcome to the biggest insult to a show since dragonball evolution.

TV show: Throw a punch and a massive rock goes flying Movie: Six people do an elaborate dance to gently move a pebble

Rick's giggles to the one rock scene made this whole film tolerable to watch just for that

i really hope the netflix series is much better. At least it should be, it's directed by 2 of the 3 original authors of Avatar. They even contacted the same guy for the music.

For a person that loved the tv show, it was kind of outrageous this movie. It was a great concept, but a pretty bad execution. Glad you enjoyed it.

The thing is, if you watch the bloopers, or even some of the deleted scenes, the actors actually feel more like Aang and Sokka than they do in the movie. They look so excited and lively as they should be in character, but for whatever reason they were told to calm down.

Eric's reaction was my reaction in the theater.

I never thought id willingly re-live this hell again

What I really didn't like was how much exposition there was and how unpracticle the bending was with how slow it was.

10:19 No matter how many times I see this scene it never stops being stupidly hilarious

The actress who was Princess Yue in this, voiced Asami in The Legend of Korra

You poor unfortunate souls. Thanks for making this valiant sacrifice on our part

The earth benders pissed me off so badly there one of the most powerful benders next to air

Honestly, one of the most disappointing moments in this film for me was the introduction of Azula. In the show's first season, in the two extremely brief scenes you saw her, you could tell straight away that this was one seriously intense character, that you just know is going to be a force to be reckoned with. The Azula here looks like a nine year old who's hyped up on too much sugar.

Anyone else cringe when they saw that this is a reaction to the live action movie?? My reaction was “Oh dear God why in the crew torturing themselves?!?!”

Five guys: HA! HA! HA! HA! HAAAAAAAAAAA! Boulder: ... Big Rock: .... Small Rock: AAAAAAAAAAAAA

The promised day is here.....praise beboo

Now I NEED Blind Waves reaction to Nostalgia Critic: The Last Airbender!

I can't believe some people thought they shouldn't react to this because of how bad it is. I haven't laughed this hard at a reaction in a looong time. Even before it started I was already giggling at what was inevitably to come lmao Also, I don't know why I put myself through rewatching this in full length, but man is it a chore to sit through a second time. Literally like 95% of the dialogue is exposition, most of which isn't even freaking relevant... I do agree that it's easily a better adaptation of source material than something like DB Evolution, but it's almost like it tries to cram TOO MUCH source material into the movie and forgets to have a plot or character personalities instead. Evolution might be a far worse bastardization of the original material, but at least it's fun to laugh at. This movie is just so boring and droll and devoid of passion, that stupid slow pebble is the only good laugh in the entire thing.

I came back for 10:20 😂😂😂😂😂

People saying that this might be the worst movie they reacted to... Dragon Ball Evolution: Hold my 🍺 (CGI handfarts)

Everybody forgets my boy Jet, I mean they just skipped him. How awesome would the fight in the trees have been.

Well, Time to binge the Avatar reactions again

10:23 I knew Eric was gonna be mad at that! Lol

The day they do Dragonball evolution...good god

That earthbending tho ahahaha 😂😂😂

9:37 Well my friend, you are in for a treat...

You guys were the most charitable reactors to this movie that I’ve seen on RU-vid so far lol

Oh my god, when I saw this scrolling Patreon I freaked out