Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
2 |
The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. |
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips |
4 |
It's a tough sit. |
E!
Luke Y. Thompson |
4 |
...the most boring summer-action epic in ages. |
filmcritic.com
Sean O'Connell |
3 |
...the Signs and Sixth Sense director turns Nickelodeon's beloved animated series into The Last Snore-bender. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
0 |
Shyamalan, whose films have gotten progressively worse over the past decade, finally hits rock bottom here -- stilted dialogue, wooden acting, glacial pacing, cheesy special effects, tacky-looking sets, ugly costumes, poorly staged and edited action sequences, all shown in murky, cut-rate 3-D. |
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager |
2 |
...merely a work-for-hire effort, which might have benefited the filmmaker by compelling him to drop his more pompous habits if, of course, he was actually adept at handling this sort of big-budget spectacle. He isn't. |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
5 |
...keeps throwing things at you, but its final effect is, in every way, flat. |
New York Times
A . O. Scott |
3 |
After 94 minutes — was that all? I could have sworn it was days — of muddy 3-D imagery and muddled storytelling, the idea that this is just the first Last Airbender seems either delusionally optimistic or downright cruel. An astute industry analyst of my acquaintance, who is 9 and an admirer of the Nickelodeon animated series on which the movie is based, offered a two-word diagnosis of its commercial prospects on the way out of the theater: “They’re screwed.” |
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan |
4 |
By specifically critical and broadly adult standards, this film is undoubtedly a disappointment, but it is disappointing in a way that its intended audience may not notice. |
LA Weekly
Robert Wilonsky |
3 |
...a muddled attempt at franchise-making: confusing, drab, sluggish. |
Village Voice
Robert Wilonsky |
3 |
...a muddled attempt at franchise-making: confusing, drab, sluggish. |
Onion AV Club
Keith Phipps |
0 |
...isn’t that much different from the rest of this summer’s generally dire multiplex fare -- from The A-Team to Jonah Hex—which started with established properties and half-decent ideas, then cranked up the volume, velocity, and effects to the point where neither sense nor tender moments could escape. But it is remarkable in one respect: It’s the worst of them. |
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer |
3 |
...like a Care Bears movie that got waylaid in the fourth dimension. It’s insufferably silly. |
Variety
Peter Debruge |
4 |
All the elements are there for a hit franchise starter... so why does The Last Airbender feel like the last Airbender movie auds will ever see? |
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