General Zhao was killed in battle and my brother has become a traitor. My son's proven himself a failure, my dog bit some kid, netflix sent me the wrong movie.
"It's like having an Ice Cream Bender at Baskin Robins and then asking, 'How am I going to get out-' YOU'RE AN ICE CREAM BENDER! Use your fucking mind!"
K4RN4GE911 I wish I was a ice cream bender. That way I have all the ice cream in the world. Also thats what I assume every lazy person wants when their hungry.
Best part in the movie: 6 earthbenders do a ridiculously long dance, just to make a tiny rock float slowly at the enemy. Also, "We have to show them that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs."
My family went to a drive-in when i was in high school and it was a double feature airing this and twilight: new moon. A decade later and now I want a refund...
3:55 They need five guys to do a whole dance routine from STOMP in order to gently shove a torso-sized boulder very slowly through the air? No wonder these guys got conquered!
Spameggssausage He said he would watch it with his kids all the time. I still think he got caught up in his "great artistic vision" as usual and didn't take no for an answer like George Lucas did in the prequels.
he may have said he watched it but did he say he enjoyed it? when I was a kid my parents hated most of the cartoons I liked but they would watch them anyway and complain about them
Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" might have been absolutely horrible, and quite possibly the worst movie ever made, but it wasn't an adaptation of a beloved cartoon like TLA. This is the absolute worse movie in my opinion, for that exact reason.
I think the difference is, this film wasn't a low budget madman's creation that could have never worked. This looks like a lot went into it (well $150 million did), and does have a standard film structure. It's not head-smakingly humorous, it's teeth grittingly frustrating.
Also the Room was pants-on-head insanity trying to pass itself off as not only something sane, but the single most sane thing you have ever seen I your life. If nothing else that keeps it from being as freaking *boring* as this cavalcade of failure.
Heh, in MY middle school theater class, literally nobody gave the slightest hint of a crap about the production so the whole cast just acted all grandiose and hammy. Think Jeremy Irons in the DnD movie.
The question that should be asked about this film is how you manage to take one of the best TV shows ever made and turn it into one of the worst movies ever made. Did some brain parasite infect Shyamalan and just suck out all the intelligence that was once there. I mean the same thing seemed to have happened to Frank Miller.
They tried to compress 7 hours of TV into a 2 hour movie. So there's a lot of exposition. Plus they had to use kid actors for most of the roles. Don't base any live action performance with any emotional gravitas on 14 year olds. Also it's crazy difficult to get the kinetic action of a cartoon in a live ... anything.
snowden352 Actually the original creators wanted to help with making the movie. But both Shyamalan and the producers pushed them away, and THIS was the result. Not to mention that the kid who plays Aang- oh I'm sorry, I mean UNG. Was picked because of his martial arts... and nothing else... But in the behind the scenes, he looked like he had potential to be a good Aang though... So sad. The actions in the cartoon? Their based on real Chinese martial arts. One of which was freaking TAI CHI. And they get the moves by watching a REAL martial arts master. A man named Sifu Kisu- who many fans wished was hired to teach the actors. Even just the basics. Hell, fans can do it. Why not big budget films? The only thing real people couldn't do that's in the cartoon are the enormous jumps and flying. But that can be fixed with stunt people, strings and effects. Chinese movies do it all the time. Plus there IS a movie that proves that you can make a good TV series to movie adaptation, without the need of doing a lot of exposition. Rurounin Kenshin. And that movie... was made in Japan. Which makes fans of Dragon ball cry in frustration. Oh! And said movie was good enough to make it into a trilogy. So there. The last airbender could have been a good movie. But with more wrong choices that right, they pretty much cause their own down fall.
Antoninus Pius I'm guessing Shayamalan wanted to show his own version of Avatar. One of which was making the bending more "realistic" Plus, from what I've read on other comments this movie was his last chance to show people that he was a great director. Being that people started to not like his works.
I love Aasif Mandvi, he's brilliant on the Daily Show. But that's just it: he's a comedian, and definitely NOT the kind of guy to play a remorseless, hateful villain like Zhao.
At least he's the only actor who looks like he's enjoying himself. Shitty movie and all. But at least he has the decency to act like it's shitty, despite everyone else taking "We were forced under the water of the ocean" seriously.
Travis Vardy Dev Patel did well with Zuko at least. Had the part of an angsty, conflicted, and disgraced prince down pretty well. Outside of that, yeah.
fromolwyoming There is also Seychelle Gabriel as Yue. She definately looked the part. Besides, she later voiced Asami in 'Legend of Korra' so she has that going for her.
I like how early in the movie Katara said their mother was taken away when they were babies, but then she said that Kya had told her about waterbending scrolls. Because you obviously remember things from when you were an infant (although in the show she was 4, and Sokka was 5).
Yeah, I mean Avatar has never had a live-action adaptation. I think someone suggested it, but were quietly locked in a padded room where they couldn't do any harm to the world.
Sorry but it looks like a 2nd movie is going to become a reality :( www.movienewsguide.com/m-night-shyamalan-gears-sequel-avatar-last-airbender-amid-criticisms/88472
Five guys perform a brief interpretive dance...and it allows them to lift a chunk of rock about the size of a newborn. Real impressive, guys. Reeeaaaaal impressive.
Things I've learned: 1) RiffTrax can make ANYTHING funny. 2) Ozai has problems making eye contact with anyone. 3) Yue really likes the word "believe." 4) Shyamalan should never be allowed to so much as say the word "airbender" ever again.
It's been so long since I went to see this movie that I was starting to forget some of it's terribleness. Like how they apparently didn't find out his name until they went to the air temple...after at least a some odd hour long trip on Appa.
"My mom told me about these....But she never told me she loved me." "princess.....loser" "That's okay....I'm unconscious!" "Hive fives? Guys? High fives? Screw YOU!" "We all....dropped our contacts"
9:38 Why would he hold the bag that way to stick a knife in the fish? Hell, it doesn't even look like the knife got the fish! This movie's cinematography is fucking terrible.
He stabs it because striking it with fire was... too impressive. Of course, he didn't really need to strike it with fire, because Iroh (standing very deep in Zhao's personal space, because Shyalaman doesn't know what a good shot is) wasn't lifting a finger to stop him for some reason.
On the contrary, I loved the changes to the basic nature of bending. Imagine, say, 'Die Hard' with all the characters using their guns as clubs. Then, in a dramatic reveal, it's shown that Hans Gruber actually loaded his gun with bullets! And I especially liked how Shymalan took the earthbenders off the prison boat and put them on dry land instead. It's much better for them to be helpless before the shouty white girl shows up and states the obvious for them.
If this were the actual cartoon, it would've only taken ONE Earthbender, to lift and throw that rock, not six, but ONE. That's kinda how strong some Earthbenders are. But since the movie can't get it's lore right, they stupidly thought it would've taken 6 people to do something one earthbender by themselves could've done. 6 earthbenders could probably lift an entire mountain, and throw it at the bad guys. But in this movie, it just looks stupid. Like a bad parody of the cartoon, instead of a faithful adaptation.
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The idea of Iroh leaving nice notes in Zuko's lunchbox is actually really cute
seems like something he'd do
It absolutely does, it's 100% in character and I love it
+Riff Raff Vitus
"Don't forget to brush your teeth, Nephew."
"Goddammit Uncle. You're embarrassing me in front of Avatar Senpai!"
4:00 "Let us never speak of what just happened again." DAMN STRAIGHT.
General Zhao was killed in battle and my brother has become a traitor. My son's proven himself a failure, my dog bit some kid, netflix sent me the wrong movie.
I love the irony that the actress that played princess yue in this travesty is now voicing Asami in Legend of Korra
At leat one tiny sliver of something good slid out of this movie ass cheeks
DonnAchtenberg And she kept her lack of personality and charisma! But at least she's pretty. Asami was such a waste of resources.
not a good plan to make your earthbender prison where there are ROCKS.... EVERYWHERE
"It's like having an Ice Cream Bender at Baskin Robins and then asking, 'How am I going to get out-' YOU'RE AN ICE CREAM BENDER! Use your fucking mind!"
K4RN4GE911
Love the Nostalgia Critic reference.
3:55 "I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT SHORT AND STOUT!"
Erik Schwab
*Droopy voice*
"Don't worry guys, I'll get 'em. Mmm-Take that!"
K4RN4GE911 I wish I was a ice cream bender. That way I have all the ice cream in the world. Also thats what I assume every lazy person wants when their hungry.
He's pushing us back several feet, flee in terror! hahahahhahahaha
Best part in the movie: 6 earthbenders do a ridiculously long dance, just to make a tiny rock float slowly at the enemy.
Also, "We have to show them that we believe in our beliefs as much as they believe in theirs."
There are six emergency exits on this aircraft. That was too funny
My favorite riff:
Zhao: I killed you!
Mike: I got better.
I died laughing at the "there are six emergency exits.." bit
"You look like a very smart boy."
"I like turtles."
"Ok, maybe not..."
I don't believe that you believe in your beliefs!
*BELIEVE IT!*
DATTEBAYO
Don't believe in your beliefs. Believe in the me who believes in your beliefs!
This would probably be the only way I'd ever watch this movie.
Even with riffttrax, I had a hard time watching the whole movie.
My family went to a drive-in when i was in high school and it was a double feature airing this and twilight: new moon. A decade later and now I want a refund...
As a fan of the REAL Avatar: The Last Airbender, I was simultaneously laughing and crying hysterically while watching this....
This is the only way to make this steaming pile called an "adaptation" enjoyable.
"She's always on the verge of a sobbing melt down..."
M. Night stayed true to the show.
Tearbending, ladies and gentlemen...
"Love, Uncle Zhao."
It's actually Iroh, but considering how dumb and boring the movie seems to be, I don't blame them for making that mistake.
Bub the Zombie
"This pile of shit smells fresher than this other one."
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Not Anime
They didn't even get an Asian actor for Aang, you can't expect them to get character names right.
@@jupiterrising887 they turned Zuko into an Indian and this is what you're problem is?
The last airbender finally got entertaining
"Gay as a handbag full of rainbows" lol gotta remember that one
"Nothing will happen to her."
*"And I mean nothing; I'm as gay as a handbag full of rainbows!!"*
Wait, did the movie cut out Suki?! She's kinda a big deal later.
And he didn't get any straighter when he moved to Forks...
@@bobbyfeet2240 Yes
7:58 - 8:19 that flight attendant bit killed me!
3:55 They need five guys to do a whole dance routine from STOMP in order to gently shove a torso-sized boulder very slowly through the air? No wonder these guys got conquered!
Rumor has it Shamlayan deliberately fucked this up as much as possible because he was sick of his kid fangirling over the cartoon.
if that´s true then he´s a really shitty father
Spameggssausage He said he would watch it with his kids all the time. I still think he got caught up in his "great artistic vision" as usual and didn't take no for an answer like George Lucas did in the prequels.
he may have said he watched it but did he say he enjoyed it? when I was a kid my parents hated most of the cartoons I liked but they would watch them anyway and complain about them
No, he's just vastly overrated
If thats true its the dumbest reason i ever heard in my life.
Tommy Wiseau's "The Room" might have been absolutely horrible, and quite possibly the worst movie ever made, but it wasn't an adaptation of a beloved cartoon like TLA. This is the absolute worse movie in my opinion, for that exact reason.
I think the difference is, this film wasn't a low budget madman's creation that could have never worked. This looks like a lot went into it (well $150 million did), and does have a standard film structure. It's not head-smakingly humorous, it's teeth grittingly frustrating.
Then you should see Jem and the Holograms.
Also the room is able to work on the so bad it's good principal of comedy while this...this is just bad.
SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS ME
Also the Room was pants-on-head insanity trying to pass itself off as not only something sane, but the single most sane thing you have ever seen I your life. If nothing else that keeps it from being as freaking *boring* as this cavalcade of failure.
"No juicebox..?!....you monster"
:)
I don't often say this, but this movie would actually be _improved_ if Zuko just started huge Bollywood dance numbers out of nowhere.
"He is pushing us back several feet, flee in terror!!!!" I literally cried of laughter... so hilarious
Red Dawn! Right now I long for the subtle elegance of that film!
Gyah! It's like watching a crappy middle school play.
+TheBelieveit1 That's an insult to all middle schoolers
alice margereta It might be if they on average could do better than this.
Heh, in MY middle school theater class, literally nobody gave the slightest hint of a crap about the production so the whole cast just acted all grandiose and hammy. Think Jeremy Irons in the DnD movie.
Bowen Orcutt, may I ask what play was being performed?
I pictured Appa singing ABBA's "Dancing Queen" Now, I can't stop laughing...
When the blind serve drinks XD
Are the drinks hyper-realistic blood?
Shyamalan's got such a dead eye. Who thought he could ever pull off something like this?
They are going to be so annoyed when they find out how good the cartoon actually is.
The Last Airbender is one of the few movies that doesn't require Rifftrax to be laughed at.
"Believe it!" lol fuckin top notch
The question that should be asked about this film is how you manage to take one of the best TV shows ever made and turn it into one of the worst movies ever made. Did some brain parasite infect Shyamalan and just suck out all the intelligence that was once there. I mean the same thing seemed to have happened to Frank Miller.
They tried to compress 7 hours of TV into a 2 hour movie. So there's a lot of exposition. Plus they had to use kid actors for most of the roles. Don't base any live action performance with any emotional gravitas on 14 year olds. Also it's crazy difficult to get the kinetic action of a cartoon in a live ... anything.
snowden352 Actually the original creators wanted to help with making the movie. But both Shyamalan and the producers pushed them away, and THIS was the result.
Not to mention that the kid who plays Aang- oh I'm sorry, I mean UNG. Was picked because of his martial arts... and nothing else... But in the behind the scenes, he looked like he had potential to be a good Aang though... So sad.
The actions in the cartoon? Their based on real Chinese martial arts. One of which was freaking TAI CHI. And they get the moves by watching a REAL martial arts master. A man named Sifu Kisu- who many fans wished was hired to teach the actors. Even just the basics.
Hell, fans can do it. Why not big budget films? The only thing real people couldn't do that's in the cartoon are the enormous jumps and flying. But that can be fixed with stunt people, strings and effects. Chinese movies do it all the time.
Plus there IS a movie that proves that you can make a good TV series to movie adaptation, without the need of doing a lot of exposition. Rurounin Kenshin. And that movie... was made in Japan. Which makes fans of Dragon ball cry in frustration.
Oh! And said movie was good enough to make it into a trilogy.
So there. The last airbender could have been a good movie. But with more wrong choices that right, they pretty much cause their own down fall.
UsonoHoushi creators of the show pushed away? Does npt make any sense. Why would someone do such foolish thing?
Antoninus Pius I'm guessing Shayamalan wanted to show his own version of Avatar. One of which was making the bending more "realistic"
Plus, from what I've read on other comments this movie was his last chance to show people that he was a great director. Being that people started to not like his works.
UsonoHoushi still. Dumb decision on his part.
6:18 If Zuko's a traitor, that means he wanted Aang to escape and therefore he _is_ competent. It's Shroedinger's Competence.
Behold! My cowardly baby pants-wetting escape kite!
4:41!
"You look like a very smart boy."
"I like turtles!"
"Ok, maybe not."
X'D
"Just FYI that big flying panda thing of yours....he drowned"
I love Aasif Mandvi, he's brilliant on the Daily Show. But that's just it: he's a comedian, and definitely NOT the kind of guy to play a remorseless, hateful villain like Zhao.
At least he's the only actor who looks like he's enjoying himself.
Shitty movie and all. But at least he has the decency to act like it's shitty, despite everyone else taking "We were forced under the water of the ocean" seriously.
Travis Vardy
Dev Patel did well with Zuko at least. Had the part of an angsty, conflicted, and disgraced prince down pretty well. Outside of that, yeah.
fromolwyoming There is also Seychelle Gabriel as Yue. She definately looked the part. Besides, she later voiced Asami in 'Legend of Korra' so she has that going for her.
kuribayashi84
A fair point, I'd say her role as Asami has redeemed her part in this movie.
The actor who played Iroh did a good job, I think.
11:30 "You my beloved-ed decorative window."
I like how early in the movie Katara said their mother was taken away when they were babies, but then she said that Kya had told her about waterbending scrolls. Because you obviously remember things from when you were an infant (although in the show she was 4, and Sokka was 5).
"You're causing all the toilets in town to backup!" 🤣🤣🤣
Wow best movie ever! Hilarious! Amaz-.... wait, its not a comedy?...... Huh...
+Storm Wind That was a good one. I loved that joke
"Instadouchebag"!
That one knocked me on the floor! Perfect!
"A red sun rises...blood has been spilled this night." 9:45
Amazing that they could riff a movie that doesn't exist.
Yeah, I mean Avatar has never had a live-action adaptation. I think someone suggested it, but were quietly locked in a padded room where they couldn't do any harm to the world.
If you tossed "Quest of the Delta Knights" and "The Matrix" into a movie blender, this is what you would get
The matrix reloaded, not the matrix. It's worse.
"Worse" is a relative term. Which is worse: eating someone's vomit, or your own?
@@starspawn507 how?
Aang and Katara pointing out the exits on the plane--ROFL!
"Should've brought a Playboy. This just ain't doing it for me anymore."
Please for the love of god, don't let the second movie see the light of day
Sorry but it looks like a 2nd movie is going to become a reality :( www.movienewsguide.com/m-night-shyamalan-gears-sequel-avatar-last-airbender-amid-criticisms/88472
JEDIandMUSHplayMC i hope it fails
Grabnok The Destroyer We all do
A second movie obviously won't ever come out. All of the rumors in the past were false.
I’m from five years in the future and I can assure you the second movie has never seen the light of day.
The fire fart guy is a force to be reckoned with. 💨🔥
Five guys perform a brief interpretive dance...and it allows them to lift a chunk of rock about the size of a newborn.
Real impressive, guys. Reeeaaaaal impressive.
lIke hey man, what have you done with Cheech, man?
"They say he's on the verge of an evolutionary breakthrough>"
"I'm FLYING!!!!" (Hits the dirt)
"Some breakthrough."
Still better than the actual movie
“Mom, why did we pick an evil cruise?”
Things I've learned:
1) RiffTrax can make ANYTHING funny.
2) Ozai has problems making eye contact with anyone.
3) Yue really likes the word "believe."
4) Shyamalan should never be allowed to so much as say the word "airbender" ever again.
"Eat moderate patches of dampness" 😭😭😭 fucking crumbled
The Daily Show's Senior Taking-This-Role-For-The-Paycheck Correspondent
this is the second best version of this movie. the first exists only in the universe where it wasn't created. m night will never be forgiven.
I'll just go over here now..
7:58 HILARIOUS! I have to learn this dance and do it in my seat while the flight attendants are giving us The Talk.
"Ooh frozen Jawa!"
"Woo.. Teen... Ni..."
That flight attendant thing was just TOO perfect!
Hahahahah
Even without their commentary this is so bad it is hilarious.
+Mike Smale, "And for our next trick, we'll move sand around for shits and giggles.
I couldn't last through a showing of this movie in theaters. ;) But equipped with this RiffTrax, I think I can finally watch the whole movie through.
Min 10.15 Believe it! Naruto REFERENCE. I LOVE IT!
I’m not certain that was intentional, I don’t think the riffers like anime/manga.
@@fromthecheapseats7126 those guys know lots of shit!!!👍
"You look like a smart boy"
"I Like Turtles!"
It's been so long since I went to see this movie that I was starting to forget some of it's terribleness. Like how they apparently didn't find out his name until they went to the air temple...after at least a some odd hour long trip on Appa.
"My mom told me about these....But she never told me she loved me."
"princess.....loser"
"That's okay....I'm unconscious!"
"Hive fives? Guys? High fives? Screw YOU!"
"We all....dropped our contacts"
05:01 finally someone says Aang instead of "Ong"
At 9:38 i was waiting for Mike to say “What’s in the bag? A spirit or something?”
They should have had Aasiv Mandvi join them on this riffing!
"You must give us the time to get to that day."
"You, my beloved decorative window."
9:38 Why would he hold the bag that way to stick a knife in the fish? Hell, it doesn't even look like the knife got the fish! This movie's cinematography is fucking terrible.
He stabs it because striking it with fire was... too impressive.
Of course, he didn't really need to strike it with fire, because Iroh (standing very deep in Zhao's personal space, because Shyalaman doesn't know what a good shot is) wasn't lifting a finger to stop him for some reason.
7:57 Haha, I’ll always think of this when I’m on a plane.
On the contrary, I loved the changes to the basic nature of bending. Imagine, say, 'Die Hard' with all the characters using their guns as clubs. Then, in a dramatic reveal, it's shown that Hans Gruber actually loaded his gun with bullets!
And I especially liked how Shymalan took the earthbenders off the prison boat and put them on dry land instead. It's much better for them to be helpless before the shouty white girl shows up and states the obvious for them.
This was brilliant. I almost cried laughing during the airplane safety bit.
0:56 - Captain Airbendica
Omg I loved the Water-Style Airline Alert! XD XD XD
"Princess. loser."
This right here is proof positive that animation doesn't need to be a live-action movie.
So it took 6 guys to levitate a chunk of earth the size of a loaf of bread?
If this were the actual cartoon, it would've only taken ONE Earthbender, to lift and throw that rock, not six, but ONE. That's kinda how strong some Earthbenders are. But since the movie can't get it's lore right, they stupidly thought it would've taken 6 people to do something one earthbender by themselves could've done. 6 earthbenders could probably lift an entire mountain, and throw it at the bad guys. But in this movie, it just looks stupid. Like a bad parody of the cartoon, instead of a faithful adaptation.
a very slow moving chunk that could be dodged if one saw it coming. add in it looks like a dance number
@@toomanyaccounts A very bad and laughably stupid dance number. Probably the worst possible time for a dance number...
This took like an hour to watch, was laughing so much, I have to see the whole thing!
Eat moderate patches of dampness!
"When the blind serve drinks." LOL at that one
I'm not touching you.
The last rock kicker 😂
Almost a decade later, and everytime I watch the Blue Spirit episode of Avatar, all I think of is "The Masked Homo"
You finally made this movie okay. The funnies have beaten back the horror of its cr*pness. Thank you.
Steampunk Titanic! XD Irl lol!
How did I not find this till now? This is awesome!
WHO WANTS POPCORN!?! 8:19
LOL >D
BELIEVE IN THE BELIEFS THAT YOU BELIEVE IN AS THE BELIEFS THAT THEY BELIEVE IN THAT BELIEVE IN YOU!
-Kamina
I can understand why you're so into Rifftrax Damar, but don't you have a Cardassia to rebuild?
Just came here from the Nostalgia Critic review, I always love the waterbending commentary
Who wants popcorn
This was easily one of their best riffs yet