The Last Airbender: A Monument to Ego
Channel: Daniel Goldhorn
Date: 10/06/2021

Guess it really was the last Airbender movie.

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The Last Airbender is a 2010 American action-adventure fantasy film written, co-produced and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Based on the first season of the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the film stars Noah Ringer as Aang, with Dev Patel as Prince Zuko, Nicola Peltz as Katara, and Jackson Rathbone as Sokka. Development for the film began in 2007. It was produced by Nickelodeon Movies and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Premiering in New York City on June 30, 2010, it opened the following day in the rest of the United States, grossing an estimated $16 million that day.

In contrast to the widespread acclaim the animated series received, the film was universally panned by critics, audiences, and fans of the original animated series upon its release, and is widely considered to be one of the worst films ever made. Many reviewers criticized the screenplay, acting, direction, whitewashing, plot holes, unfaithfulness to the source material, visual effects, editing, characters, and 3D conversion. The Last Airbender opened in second place at the box office behind The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Produced on a $150 million budget, the film grossed $131 million domestically and $319 million worldwide. It is the fourth highest grossing Nickelodeon film, behind The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), and The Adventures of Tintin (2011). The film was originally envisioned as a trilogy of films each based on the three seasons of the series, but due to the unpopularity and the low profits of the first film, the planned trilogy was left in doubt for several years and was ultimately canceled in favor of a live-action remake of the animated series for Netflix.