However, as poor examples of female empowerment as M. Night's women characters are, I agree with SchumacherH8ter's comment about Neil LaBute. If you watch any one of his movies, you can plainly see that if his female characters mirror what he thinks about women, then he must think that ALL women are the direct spawn of Satan!

SchumacherH8ter: I find the bolded sentences below to be very unreasonable. Ivy in The Village is one of the strongest female characters ever portrayed on screen. M. Night continues with his strong female characters in Lady in the Water with Story, played by the same actress. The same goes for TLA. I don't know what movie you saw, but Katara kicked all kinds of ass and Princess Yue, although short in screentime, is one of the more emotional characters in the film. Just because the female characters were "easily defeated" doesn't make him hate women. Wasn't Katara against the all powerful and evil Prince Zuko, and wasn't she just learning how to practice her ability to waterbend? So isn't it reasonable that she lost that battle? Jeez. That's like saying Hermione sucks as a female character because she lost a battle with Lord Volemort. If anything, she was the one pushing Aang to fulfill his destiny.

Yes, yes, yes ... a thousand times yes! That is spot-on where the blame should be pointed. As for the so-called fart jokes, hey, the series is called "Air Bender" after all.  

 

 

Shaun Toub: Toub isn't spectacular, but he's fine as Iroh. He's not Mako, but only Mako was Mako.

 

 

Noah Ringer: Ringer's stiff as Aang. To be fair to him, he was OK in Cowboys & Aliens, so maybe it's Shamwow's doing that he sucks in this.

 

Jackson Rathbone: "It's trying to eat me!" Disturbingly, this is one of Rathbone's better scenes! That's something that Sokka would, maybe, say if he has a lobotomy. At least he isn't head-butting anyone this time!

 

Dev Patel: Patel's career is like him when he was a little slumdog: in the bottom of a port-a-potty! Also, does anyone else find it funny that his Slumdog Millionaire co-star Freida Pinto made a perfect example of a good summer movie while he blew it with this?

 

 

The special effects and the 3D: Crap 3D post-production tinkering strikes again! But as terrible as the 3D was, it's over-shadowed how terrible the other special effects are! Seriosuly, in a couple scenes, the water-bending isn't even animated!

 

Nicola Peltz: This is some Pia Zadora sh*t right here!* She's a terrible actress and her performance is just terrible!

 

M. Night Shyamalan: It's a stock, criticism cliche that all the blame falls on the director. Here, on the other hand, it's 9001% true! With the exception of the special effects, everything wrong with this falls on his shoulders! He wrote this. He wrote every single dumb line of dialogue in this. He wrote every single scene that defecated all over the show's ideas. He said that the movie wouldn't have the fart jokes that the show had.** He derailed all the characters. Also, he's kinda sexist. Take notice of how every female character is inept, easily defeated, and needs a push to get to conclusions. He's not quite at Neil LaBute's level, but still!

 

WOW! That was a bad one! Also, does anyone else think that Nicola Peltz looks like Daveigh Chase? Maybe, Jackson Rathbone got S. Darko related PTSD and head-butted her! Grade: F

 

Next-up: The Cat In The Hat!

 

*There's a rumor that her dad bought her this role. Considering how Pia had her career, the similarity is un-canny!

**I can't remember a single fart-joke from the show, but it's been a while since I've seen the show, so maybe I'm mis-remembering. The point still stands that he's an idiot, though.