The beloved Nickelodeon cartoon doesn’t deserve a crappy live-action adaptation—let alone two of them.
. Despite its $150 million budget, a decent box office gross, and its writer-director’s characteristic ambition,flopped so hard among audiences and critics that it was enough to scrap a planned live-action movie trilogy altogether.
will explain the premise to you no less than four times an episode to make sure that you’re following. The series has no qualms about laying out its concepts plainly, which would be welcome if its scripts were slightly more subtle. In every other scene, a character is tasked with reminding the viewer exactly what is at stake , who the Avatar is , or what happened to Katara and Sokka’s parents .
lacks much sting. The violence and drama are limited, and when they do appear, they’re hokey and absurdly performed. Characters immolate at the Fire Lord’s will, but their deaths sound as if they accidentally got into a hot bath too fast, rather than had their bodies burnt to a crisp in screaming terror.
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