I got slightly suspicious of The Last Airbender when we didn’t hear a word from the main character until the third or fourth trailer. Aang’s first words were “I don’t deserve their praise”, and looking back it’s quite funny considering The Last Airbender has received hardly any from critics who have seen the film. And when I say ‘hardly’ I mean it is currently the worst rated film of 2010, with a measly 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I guess this could have been foreseen (well…Aang does have a huge down arrow on his forehead). Each film from M. Night Shyamalan has been progressively worse than the previous one following his hailing as the ‘next Spielberg’ thanks to The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. Many thought that The Last Airbender could be a chance for M. Night to redeem himself as a huge summer blockbuster has never crossed his path before, but he seems to have dug himself into a deeper hole by making the worst critically received movie of the year.

Here’s what a few critics are saying:

The New York Times:

The long-winded explanations and clumsy performances are made worse by graceless effects and a last-minute 3-D conversion that wrecks whatever visual grace or beauty might have been there.

Roger Ebert:

The dialogue is couched in unspeakable quasi-medieval formalities; the characters are so portentous they seem to have been trained for grade school historical pageants. Their dialogue is functional and action-driven. There is little conviction that any of this might be real even in their minds. All of the benders in the movie appear only in terms of their attributes and functions, and contain no personality.

Variety:

Even without one of Shyamalan’s trademark twist endings, “Airbender” easily fits into the helmer’s portfolio of brooding genre inversions: Here, we expect an epic martial-arts movie and instead get a soul-searching adolescent’s decision to spare his enemies — a character-driven approach that’s ill served by the largely amateur cast.

Metromix:

Tedious, overstuffed, visually flat … emotionally inert, filled with painfully expository dialogue and mostly poorly acted, it’s simply an all-around misfire.

But of course bad reviews don’t necessarily mean a poor box office. With The Twilight Saga: Eclipse taking over the weekend young males may be inclined to see The Last Airbender, however with a budget of over $280 million ($150 million to make, $130 million to market) Paramount will need Airbender to generate more than $580 million worldwide at the box office and on DVD to turn a profit.

I think M. Night Shyamalan may want to halt work on that sequel…

Read similar posts to The Last Airbender sucks according to everyone on Filmonic

I thought we had seen all of the big special effects shots from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender given the amount of trailers and TV spots that have been released, however it seems Paramount still have a few more they’ve been holding on to.

The Japanese marketing team have created probably the most epic trailer to date which is full of all the cool scenes we’ve seen before, along with some new ones.

Watch below:

The Last Airbender stars Noah Ringer as Aang, Dev Patel as Zuko, Nicola Peltz as Katara, and will be released on July 2nd. Will be you seeing it opening weekend?

Read similar posts to Final Japanese trailer for The Last Airbender on Filmonic

The trailers for The Last Airbender have been impressive so far, and even though I haven’t seen one single episode of the original cartoon they still get me quite excited to see the film.

Today Apple released the third (and hopefully not final) trailer, and it’s probably the best one yet. The special effects are on the verge of completion, which means we get to see some cool money shots such as Aang controlling a tidal wave, Aang creating a mini-tornado and a great shot of Aang freezing an enemy mid-flight.

Other cool scenes include shots of Appa (the Sky Bison), a Fire Nation lizard creature scaling a wall, and a talking dragon.

Watch below!

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan The Last Airbender stars Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone and will be released on July 2nd (in 3D!).

Read similar posts to New trailer for The Last Airbender on Filmonic

A new TV spot for The Last Airbender was shown during the Kids Choice Awards yesterday. We have seen most of the footage before in previous trailers although it does feature a cool little fight scene between Aang and Zuko, as well as a shot of Aang, Sokka and Katara riding on Appa (the only known living Sky Bison. Yes, a bison that can fly).

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan The Last Airbender stars Noah Ringer, Dev Patel, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone and will be released on July 2nd.

Read similar posts to The Last Airbender Kids Choice Awards TV Spot on Filmonic

Paramount has released another trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. It’s quite similar to the second trailer that was released last month, but there are a few new scenes and some more fire vs. water special effects shots.

The most interesting 3 seconds, however, is when Aang (Noah Ringer) speaks. So far we’ve had two trailers and a TV spot yet they haven’t included the main character talking. After hearing him I’m sure why not, he sounds normal enough to me.

We heard earlier this month that a second official trailer will be released with Iron Man 2, so this trailer may be an international one. It’s a good trailer nonetheless, and just confirms i’ll be purchasing a ticket for its opening weekend.

What do the fans think of Aang’s voice? (if it’s even an issue)

Read similar posts to New Last Airbender trailer contains new scenes, sentence from Aang on Filmonic

Good news Avatar fans (fans of the cartoon that is), The Last Airbender director M. Night Shyamalan is in it for the long run! I guess we can decided whether this is actually ‘good news’ after we see the film this summer, but I’ve been quite impressed with all the trailers that have been released up until now, so hopefully M. Night doesn’t disappoint.

In an interview with UGO the director spoke about the film and it’s sequels. He mentioned he wants to make a small film before making the follow-up, and he sees the trilogy as one big arc, comparing it to The Lord of the Rings.

- The Last Airbender is very much the first in a planned trilogy. Night compares it to Lord of the Rings in that it is all one story not, “more adventures” with your favorite characters. The three films will mirror the three seasons of the series, with some tweaks.

- Night plans to direct all three, but before the second one he wants to bang out a smaller-budgeted thriller.

- The thriller is *not* Unbreakable 2, though he still hopes one day to get to that. And he knows Bruce Willis feels the same way.

-Night hopes the CG in The Last Airbender will be unique in that there isn’t as much quick-cutting as in commonly seen in CG-heavy films. Go back and look at his other films and you will see a lot of long takes. This means the CG is going to have to be really top notch, because it can’t be hidden away with cutting.

Last year we heard that M. Night Shyamalan was already working on the script for the second movie, so if the first film is a success it shouldn’t take too long before the second can begin production. Producer Frank Marshall said they are aiming for the trilogy to take place over 6 years, which means the films should be released around 2-3 years apart.

We can expect another trailer for The Last Airbender to be released alongside Iron Man 2 in May.

Read similar posts to M. Night Shyamalan plans to complete Airbender trilogy on Filmonic

We saw a brief glimpse at The Last Airbender last week with the Super Bowl TV spot, and now Paramount has released the first full trailer for the film. We get to see more of those cool ILM visual effects, along with a brief look at the other characters (I haven’t seen the cartoon do I have no idea who they are).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iwh70CLHiM

The film’s hero, the reluctant young Aang (Noah Ringer), is the “Last Airbender” — the Avatar who, according to prophecy, has the ability to manipulate all of the elements and bring all the nations together.

Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. Dev Patel plays the Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko. Exiled from the Fire Nation by his father, Zuko is sent to capture the Avatar in order to restore his honor and right to the throne.

The Last Airbender will be released on July 2nd 2010, and if it’s a hit a sequel will get the greenlight pretty quickly. Kids don’t stay young forever!

Read similar posts to Second trailer for The Last Airbender on Filmonic

UGO got their hands on a TV spot for The Last Airbender which will be shown during the Super Bowl, and I think the word ‘epic’ would be an appropriate word to use. All we’ve seen so far is a few images and a teaser where a small guy blows out some candles. However this short trailer should definitely get people interested.

Watch below:

We should be getting another trailer sometime this month, so keep an eye out.

The film’s hero, the reluctant young Aang (Noah Ringer), is the “Last Airbender” — the Avatar who, according to prophecy, has the ability to manipulate all of the elements and bring all the nations together.

Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. Dev Patel plays the Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko. Exiled from the Fire Nation by his father, Zuko is sent to capture the Avatar in order to restore his honor and right to the throne.

Read similar posts to This other Avatar film looks quite good too! on Filmonic

Things have been quiet on The Last Airbender front recently. We were supposed to be getting a trailer in December, however it got pushed back till February so that ILM could finish some key scenes. Now it looks like Paramount are starting to turn up the marketing gears, with the release of two new banners. One features Noah Ringer as Aang, and the other shows Dev Patel as Zuko.

From Yahoo!

Click here to check out the other one!

The film’s hero, the reluctant young Aang (Noah Ringer), is the “Last Airbender” — the Avatar who, according to prophecy, has the ability to manipulate all of the elements and bring all the nations together.

Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. Dev Patel plays the Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko. Exiled from the Fire Nation by his father, Zuko is sent to capture the Avatar in order to restore his honor and right to the throne.

Read similar posts to The Last Airbender banners on Filmonic

/Film received a hi-res image of Dev Patel as Zuko from The Last Airbender. The image has been floating around the net for a few days, however I’ve waited till it was officially released before posting.

Based on the hugely successful Nickelodeon animated TV series, the live-action feature film is set in a world where human civilization is divided into four nations: Water, Earth, Air and Fire.

The Fire Nation is waging a ruthless, oppressive war against the other three nations. The film’s hero, the reluctant young Aang (Noah Ringer), is the “Last Airbender” — the Avatar who, according to prophecy, has the ability to manipulate all of the elements and bring all the nations together.

Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka, Aang proceeds on a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world. Dev Patel plays the Fire Nation’s evil prince Zuko. Exiled from the Fire Nation by his father, Zuko is sent to capture the Avatar in order to restore his honor and right to the throne.

Read similar posts to New image of Dev Patel as Zuko in The Last Airbender on Filmonic