Avatar: The Last Airbender Review: Star Rating:
Cast: Gordon Cormier, Kiawentiio, Ian Ousley, Dallas Liu, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Ken Leung, Elizabeth Yu, Maria Zhang, and Daniel Dae Kim.
Creator: Albert Kim
Director: Michael Goi
Streaming On: Netflix
Language: English (with subtitles)
Runtime: 8 episodes, around 1 hour each.
Avatar: The Last Airbender Review: What’s It About:
Netflix’s new live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender brings Aang and his friend to the streaming service to retell the story of the animated show’s first season, bringing with it high production values, a cast of big-name actors and also the classic tale of a reluctant hero out of time trying to find the strength to battle the tyranny of an empire, all the traditional stuff that we loved from the original series.
Avatar: The Last Airbender Review: Script Analysis:
Yes, the original Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series raised the bar for TV storytelling overall thanks to its unique characters, tight narrative structure, and fascinating world-building, so it wasn’t a surprise when Hollywood decided to adapt the TV series as a blockbuster film, which sadly fell into the hands of M. Night Shyamalan who directed one of the worst live-action adaptations ever, losing everything that made the original series a modern classic. In this sense, the Netflix creators have a fine example of what not to do.
In this regard, the series feels the most faithful to the source material while also diverging from it in good and bad ways. Thankfully, and unlike the Shyamalan film, …read more
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