Jul 1, 2010 I took my two boys to see Avatar: The Last Airbender. They are fans of the cartoon series on Nickelodeon and both gave the movie two thumbs up. They told me that there should be three more Airbender movies because this movie only covered the first quarter of the cartoon series (Book One). My kids tell me that the movie followed the cartoon very closely, and they really liked that. My older son said that they changed the way Aang behaved because in the cartoon he was “a real goofball” and in the movie he took things more seriously. The kids tell me that in the end of the movie they changed the battle a little, too.

As for my Parent’s Review, I thought the movie was good and it kept me entertained.  I was happy to see a kids movie with no bad language and very little blood (prince Zuko had a bloody lip after a battle). I think this movie would be fine for ages nine and up. The only problem you might run into is that the movie seemed a little ‘complicated’. Some younger kids might have trouble following the polt, especially if they didn’t watch the cartoon. The movie was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, so I expected a little more violence and ‘scaryness’. Well, they did a good job. They succeeded in making a kids movie for the kids.

Noah Ringer did a good job playing the part of Aang. Dev Patel did a great job as Prince Zuko. Nicola Peltz played the part of Katara. I noticed that Jackson Rathbone, from Twilight, played the part of Sokka. In Twilight he is Jasper Hale. Airbender was released on the same day as Twilight Eclipse, so Jackson had two movies come out that he starred in on the same day.

About the cartoon, Avatar: Water. Earth. Fire. Air. Only the Avatar was the master of all four elements. Only he could stop the ruthless Fire Nation from conquering the world. But when the world needed him most, he disappeared. Until now… On the South Pole, a lone Water Tribe village struggles to survive. It’s here that a young Waterbender named Katara and her warrior brother Sokka rescue a strange boy named Aang from a cavernous iceberg. Not only is Aang an Airbender–a race of people no one has seen in a century–but they soon discover that Aang is also the long lost Avatar. Now it’s up to Katara and Sokka to make sure Aang faces his destiny to save the tribe–and himself.