The movie is choppy. It doesn't follow the cartoon/animation accurately but not really many adaptations do. I'd say for a better kick you might want to see it in 3-D and you might also want to be prepared for a lot more critics as the months go by. Hope for the best but be prepared for the...well not "worse", but "not too bad". Shall I hope for the next three movies?

great movie ! could watch several times over and always see something that i missed the first time, an the time before that . and so on-an so on :-)! great for young and old alike. i recommend that all should see this movie, if you don't you will be missing out on what i think will be one of the best movies in 2010.

M. Night may be in trouble with this one, effects were about the only good part to this movie. If you have seen the animation on Nickelodeon just walk away from this movie or pay the consequences. I myself was a fan of the animation and could hardly watch this. Too much movement was used to create bending attacks and when Aang goes into his avatar state it is nothing like the original. So very, very disappointing because the story has the potential to be an epic movie trilogy.

there are a lot of very unhappy “Airbender” fans right now. People who have seen the TV show, real fans if you will, who are not very happy with M. Night Shyamalan’s take on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon. Besides the movie’s general lack of awesome, there was also something very noticeably wrong with the film: the movie has, for some reason, changed the pronunciation of the lead character’s name. “Aang” (pronounced pretty much the way it looks, with strong accents on the “a” and “n”, and rhymes with “bang”) had somehow become … “Ahng”, with emphasis on the “Ah”, and rhymes with “hung”.
According to Shyamalan, he did this on purpose. The director tells IndiesMoviesOnline:
And I fought like crazy to have the pronunciation of the names to go back to the Asian pronunciation. So you say “Ahng” instead of “Aaang” because it’s correct. It’s not “I-rack,” it’s “ee-Rock.” I’m literally fighting for all this.
So yes, the actors didn’t start pronouncing Aang’s name “Ahng” because they wanted to, they were directed to do so by M. Night. It seems odd that Shyamalan would go to such great efforts to, from what he’s saying above, change up the pronunciation because he thinks this is how it should be pronounced rather than how the show did it. Ego much?

the film is notable because it is the first attempt by the once mighty M. Night Shyamalan to make a big-budget, effects-heavy fantasy film -- and one based on preexisting material at that. The Sixth Sense writer-director had once been known for crafting his own smallish but memorable thrillers, but as his work's quality has grown increasingly dismal in recent years (see Lady in the Water or The Happening… or rather, don't see them), Shyamalan finally decided it was time for a change of pace. Alas, this new direction does not seem to have revived his former great potential.

this was good sci-fi movie makes you wonder if this is really possible can wait till the next part comes out the special effects are great and the action was exciting it will keep you the edge of your seats good show for the family and the kids i give the thumbs up