The Last Airbender Full Trailer

[Amaris]

It looks terrific. I am very anxious and excited to see this movie.

 

[Rii]

Registering mild interest.

 

[clint g]

Never got into the show but the trailer looked pretty cool. I might give it a shot

 

[Christopher]

Me, I'm looking forward to the inevitable fan mashups using footage from the animated series to mimic the movie trailers shot by shot.

 

[Mr Light]

Momo looks good but Appa looks too scary. Are his horns that big in the cartoon?! He looks like one of the Wild Thing creatures or something.

 

[Christopher]

Momo looks good but Appa looks too scary. Are his horns that big in the cartoon?! He looks like one of the Wild Thing creatures or something.

Appa looks pretty authentic. If anything, the cartoon Appa's horns are a bit longer and thicker, as well as more curved.

http://rafaelnanet.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/appa.jpg

 

[Unicron]

I might go to see it next month. I've never watched the show, but I thought the trailer looked decent when I went to see Iron Man 2.

 

[Christopher]

To the people who are saying "I never saw the show but the movie trailer looks interesting," I'll just say that no matter how well the movie turns out, it's unlikely to be anywhere near as rich and fulfilling as the show. If nothing else, the show had ten times as long to tell the same story and could go into much more depth.

 

[Mr Light]

Yeah the series was absolutely brilliant and never disappointed. If the movie is half as good as the show I'll love it.

 

[clint g]

To the people who are saying "I never saw the show but the movie trailer looks interesting," I'll just say that no matter how well the movie turns out, it's unlikely to be anywhere near as rich and fulfilling as the show. If nothing else, the show had ten times as long to tell the same story and could go into much more depth.

I'll probably get around to the show at some point. It's just that there is a large pile of anime, videogames, etc that it needs to go to the bottom of

 

[Reverend]

To the people who are saying "I never saw the show but the movie trailer looks interesting," I'll just say that no matter how well the movie turns out, it's unlikely to be anywhere near as rich and fulfilling as the show. If nothing else, the show had ten times as long to tell the same story and could go into much more depth.

I'll probably get around to the show at some point. It's just that there is a large pile of anime, videogames, etc that it needs to go to the bottom of

Trust me, you need to slide Avatar to the top of that pile. It blows just about any anime you care to name right out of the water...and it's technically not even an anime.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I've been looking forward to seeing this for some time now...I have my own expectations on what this will be like but I'm also not deluded that it will be near as epic as the animated series. I'm going with a friend who's more into Avatar than I am so I'll be more interested to see her thoughts on it afterwards.

 

[Amaris]

To the people who are saying "I never saw the show but the movie trailer looks interesting," I'll just say that no matter how well the movie turns out, it's unlikely to be anywhere near as rich and fulfilling as the show. If nothing else, the show had ten times as long to tell the same story and could go into much more depth.

I'll probably get around to the show at some point. It's just that there is a large pile of anime, videogames, etc that it needs to go to the bottom of

Trust me, you need to slide Avatar to the top of that pile. It blows just about any anime you care to name right out of the water...and it's technically not even an anime.

I agree completely. I remember watching the first episode (available on Netflix) just as a lark, and I was hooked. I watched the entire first season in two days. Then, when seasons two and three were put on Netflix Instant Watch, I watched both seasons over the course of 3 days. Now I want more seasons and there are none. I was just completely sold on the series.

 

[clint g]

Well, if the movie does really well, I suppose there is always the chance that they will make more episodes

 

[Mr Light]

They ARE. They announced a few weeks ago they're making a new mini-series. We don't know if it's post-finale or not.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Isn't this also the first of a trilogy?

 

[777]

A positive review at http://www99.epinions.com/review/The_Last_Airbender/content_514464714372

A snippet from the article:

Aang is a likable protagonist as well. He has all the characteristics of the archetypal hero, including the desire to do good and to help those around him. What Shyamalan manages to do well with Aang is present the idea of responsibility and the way it clashes with Aang’s inherent desires to have fun and do his own thing make him a much more compelling and realistic protagonist. Similarly, Prince Zuko is appropriately fleshed out for a villain who might otherwise appear monolithic. Zuko is the disgraced leader and while there are moments he seems like he might simply be acting out of a sense of entitlement, his desire to regain his position as legitimate heir to the throne seems to truly come from his desire to see his people excel.

Zuko is played by Dev Patel, who might still best be known for “Slumdog Millionaire” (reviewed at: http://www.epinions.com/content_453693705860 ). In “The Last Airbender,” he sublimates his good guy nature and presents a character who is hurt, angry and works masterfully as a villain. In fact, the only real difficulty with Patel’s performance is believing his character is so young. Similarly, Jackson Rathbone (Sokka) and Nicola Peltz (Katara) give decent supporting performances that make one want to see where they might go in the future.

But much of the film hinges on the performance of Noah Ringer, who plays Aang. Ringer is actually a tween and he is charged with portraying a character who only appears to be so young. Ringer has moments when he stares, when he sets his jaw and when he speaks where he effectively connotes his character’s true age and that type acting ability is certainly uncommon. Ringer succeeds with what he has to and he holds his own as well in the physical scenes.

 

[777]

Isn't this also the first of a trilogy?

Yeah, they intend on adapting each of the 3 seasons into a movie.

 

[Christopher]

Isn't this also the first of a trilogy?

The series was three seasons (or "Books") long, and this is an adaptation of Book One: Water. Whether all three films actually get made, though, depends on how well the first one does. Consider that A Series of Unfortunate Events never got past its first movie.


Arrghh, that reviewer makes the common mistake of assuming that Avatar: TLA is an anime, even assuming there must be a manga version too. Which is weird, given that the reviewer is aware it was a co-creation with Nickelodeon, which is not a Japanese company.

 

[clint g]

Isn't this also the first of a trilogy?

The series was three seasons (or "Books") long, and this is an adaptation of Book One: Water. Whether all three films actually get made, though, depends on how well the first one does. Consider that A Series of Unfortunate Events never got past its first movie.


Arrghh, that reviewer makes the common mistake of assuming that Avatar: TLA is an anime, even assuming there must be a manga version too. Which is weird, given that the reviewer is aware it was a co-creation with Nickelodeon, which is not a Japanese company.

Well, there is a manga. Sort of

his panel covered the company’s manga and comic divisions. A lot of the new titles announced are not scheduled for release until next year. The X-Men franchise will be seeing a shojo-inspired manga called X-Men Misfits. Other shows will be seeing manga adaptations like Ben 10: Alien Force, The Secret Saturdays, and Bakugan. M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, the film based on the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, will also be translated into manga form. Existing titles to be released include Ninja Girls by Hosana Tanaka, Moyashimon by Masayuki Ishikawa, and Four-Eyed Prince by Wataru Mizukami. Several other projects were announced like a historical prospective of CLAMP and a manga adaptation of the hit book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. There will no doubt be more announcements reported now that the convention has closed.

http://www.examiner.com/x-16203-Orl...m7d26-Manga-at-ComicCon-2009-Friday-to-Sunday