Will The Last Airbender Movie bend your eyes into a smile?

Aang is ready to leave the "cartoon style" just take on the big screen as The Last Airbender

Aang is ready to leave the "cartoon style" just to take on the big screen as "the real" Last Airbender

What do you get when you blend in Neo’s “free your mind” defying powers from the Matrix, mixed with a Bernardos Bertolucci’s little kid inspiration from the Last Emperor Movie, stirred up with a high dose of Shaolin Monk Kung Fu style on steroids? Avatar!!! Besides Sponge Bob Square Pants, it seems that Nickelodeon is pretty serious in filling Aangs pants with a lot of balls and power for the movie.

Thanks to James Cameron’s copywritting’s issues, the movie cannot be released using its original name: Avatar. Instead, it will be called The Last Airbender. Thanks Cameron, for giving the audiences your share of movie confusion. The Last Airbender will be directed by the filmmaker who likes to put his “John Hancock” signature in every movie poster he directs: Night Shyamalan.

Question is: Can Shyamalan deliver the true Avatar cartoon spirit? Just for a start Shyamalan along with Nickelodeon should’ve chosen an Asian looking actor to resemble the famous Avatar named Aang. Instead they choose a Texas kid who goes by the name of Noah Ringer, this kid happens to be a very skilled Tae Kwon Do student who made it thru audition by sending a kick ass cd to win the famous Avatar’s main role. No question Ringer can pull off his stuff, in his first movie title, I’ll give the guy credit. On the other hand, I have no doubt what so ever, that an Asian looking kid who practices real Kung Fu would’ve been a better done deal, to resemble The Last Airbender look.

For those of you who know Avatar, be my guest. For those of you who don’t have a heck of a clue on who is this Last Airbender, here’s a brief description: Aang is a 12 year old super hero, who happens to be the last of his kind as an Airbender. That is people who can bend wind to their will. Aang belongs to the Air Nomads Monks, where he was his last survivor. Mastering 1 out of 4 ain’t bad, but through out his training Aang will fully master the remaining 3 elements: water, fire and earth to bend the 4 elements at his own will. With his superior straight “A” grades in the mastery of the 4 elements, Aang becomes the Avatar. In Sanskrit Avatar stands for an incarnation of a higher spirit for a superior spiritual purpose. Speaking of purpose, Aang’s own one, is to solely keep the Four Nations at peace, until the Fire Nation breaks loose to submit the Avatar world into destruction, becoming a serious threat to the other remaining Nations. With this said, Aang’s training is put to the maximum test, as he enters the Avatar state and tries to restore order as his showdown with the Fire Nation is imminent.

So far the movie trailer looks fine and appealing, let’s hope that Shyamalan doesn’t screw up the adaptation by leaving true Avatar events around the corner, as other comic book adaptations have failed in doing so. Good thing is that Avatar’s creators: Michael Dante Di Martino and Bryan Konietzko are behind the movie, and on its release around July 2010, they are not planning to leave The Last Airbender details into the “air”.