There is a small glimmer of hope in my heart now for this movie. Let's hope it doesn't get squashed.

More ninjas than I expected, but still very good. ^^

They seem to have the Northern Water Tribe templey thing from the end of season one down pretty well there.

I would have liked to see more of the other characters, but at least the bending doesn't look terrible. A small seed of hope!

30 seconds of any trailer is not enough to get me excited. Visually looks nice though. But then, so did that other Avatar.

I'm sold already.
I'm calling it now: THIS Avatar will be better than the "blue balls" Avatar.

As someone who owns all three seasons on DVD, I am happy to see it's visually good, but I'm still skeptical. I refuse to get my hopes up for this, just like Sonic 4.

Oh yeah, Rob, when are you going to tell us the news about Sonic 4?

Right, because we all know that a movie can be accurately judged by a 30 second preview. You’ve got way too much faith in M. Night Shyamma-banna-fofanna-alan: Maybe watch “The Happening” or “Lady in the Water” again to remind yourself that he’s become among Hollywood’s most unwatchable, incompetent directors.

It looka OK. It's not that great.

BTW, I can't believe you liked Voyage of the Damned, Rob! How could you like it? It's so shittyargghhhhhh

Man, the whole Kataang/Zutara stuff is gonna get EXTRA creepy when this comes out...

oh god i think i got wet =D that looks awesome!!!!! i cant wait for the movie

Tears of joy!!!

Check out Appa in the top left corner around 0:10!

well the trailer to The Village looked "AMAZING" and that movie blew dick. This chump hasn't made anything good since Signs

Goddammit, M. Night. I'm supposed to hate you. Looking like a day one here.

Skip Dr Who for Avatar already!

this is Shyamalama-ding-dong's favorite show. he loves this cartoon and has resources and the passion to make it... so i think he's gonna try his best to do it right.
man i hope it all works out.

I'm fangirling having watched this show since it started and squealing with joy when I heard there would be a live action I'm happy.

Ain't it Cool's got two reviews of it up. One guy likes it, the other, sharkfarts, doesn't. Both agree that Jackson Rathbone blows hard.

I personally don't trust a movie review by a guy calling himself sharkfarts

Oh, my sister will be so mad this doesn't look terrible!

ok, i took a lot of flak last time rob posted about this movie for saying that just because its a pan-asian inspired world didn't mean all the characters were asian in ethnicity...people said i should watch the show, and i admit, that was a valid suggestion.

so i watched the show, quite a bit of it actually...there was a marathon the other day...and now, armed with much more information, i STILL don't see anything that points to any of the characters i saw being ethnically asian. the entire world is influenced by asian themes and culture, combined with inuit and native american stuff, but this is a mythical fantasy world, so the ethnicity of the characters within said world are certainly not limited to the east asian variety. not stepping on any toes, you're all entitled to your opinions, just thought i'd let you guys know, i've informed myself a bit more, but my stance has not changed.

The biggest question I had about this endeavour was whether or not Shyamalan could direct action since he's never, you know, directed action. But I've gotta say, that looks like some pretty serviceable bending, to me. Of course, there wasn't a lot of punchy-type fighting going on in the trailer, just Aang twirling about a bit. Still, I think contrived wirework might actually make sense for Aang's fighting style, since he's working against gravity, anyway.

Way better than anime. I'm actually impressed. This might make it possible to salvage other decent ideas from otherwise lousy and cliche anime flicks.

Teaser or not I'd take this over the shitty Dragon Ball/KOF movies any day.

okay, first Sonic 4 and now this?! M. Night, you better not fuck this up! i know it's just a teaser, but dammit, it looks pretty cool so far. i can see that this may just be accurate enough to the show and storyline. still upset with casting, but let's see what they bring to the table when another trailer come out. i'm hopeful, but i'm not putting all of my eggs in one basket just yet.

"The last airbender" is actually a far better title than "avatar".

Also, don't miss out "The last Assbender", the unavoidable porn spin-off.

This movie actually looks better than the cartoon, which is good but nothing I ever really got into.

WHAT A TWEEST!!!

That doesn't look like Philadephia at all. But it must be. And I sure hope it has a character who's lost his faith that goes on a journey of redemption, and climaxes in a twist ending. That would be pretty exciting and original.

Two random white kids in a village full of Inuits. How are they going to explain that?

So you like one movie named Avatar and another movie that's titled the same you absolutely loathe??? This blog needs to stick to useless comic book information and disturbing fan fiction, you fucking suck, Rob.

"...The last hope for peace
In a world consumed by dark people darkness"

I SEE WUT U DID THAR M.Night/Nick/Paramount.

Also, I see that all the bad guys - in addition to being dark skinned Indian, Middle Eastern, and Asian - are all wearing turbans. Greeeeaaaat.

"at least the effects were decent" - Bryke and Sokka called it.

This trailer shows every one that said M. Night wasn't going to do a good job, that they were WRONG. This looks PERFECT. APPA looks perfect, Ang looks perfect, and all the bending looks perfect. AH! CAN'T WAIT. I'm actually super excited for the Super Bowl now lol, just so I can watch this on my big screen!

As much as I would love/hate to comment on all the stupid ass comments on this post, I think I'll have to restrain myself. Since the beginning of time... things have been awesome, and d-bags have said they sucked to try and look cool.

I don't know how you handle all the d-bags Rob, I really don't.

The problem is this: According to Box Office Mojo this movie (which I am looking forward to...good, God Rob. Just watch the fucking cartoon already...saying you're gonna get around to it is actually more annoying than you having not watched it yet...and heaven forbid you netflix it and get one disc at a time...you'll be kicking yourself at the end of every disc...just buy the sets)

Anyway....where was I. Ah yes...it's set to be released on the July 4th weekend....the same weekend as the next goddamn Twilight movie. It will get absolutely fucking buried that weekend. And forgotten.

And we will never see the rest of the trilogy.

Is there a way to start a petition to get this bumped back to an August release and (hopefully) make it one of those "late summer" surprise hits....like District 9 or something?

http://boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=2661&p=s.htm

Well, I call it promising at least. Even if it is released on the 4th of July weekend, this movie should attract a different audience (ie, one with brains) than the Twitard movie.

Seeing the bending makes me wonder if they were able to get Sifu Kisu to choreograph the bending again? In other words, Tai Chi for water-bending, Shaolin Kung-Fu for fire benders, etc.

Nice..., but still not spending a dime or giftcard to see the flick and encourging my friends to do the same.

Wow! This... this teaser is just jam-packed with cool. The bending looks excellent, and the same goes for what I can see from the world of the movie. I have to agree with Gleeman though, I hope they followed the show's martial-arts inspirations for the bending movements.

I do hope the generic hard rock soundtrack is just for the teaser, though. Not that I don't enjoy hard rock, but with ATLA... no. No.

fanboy dickriding madness... shit looks weak
site is failing hard lately

Ok M. Night Shyamalan...I almost forgive you for The Happening.

I'm actually pretty impressed. They seem to have even recreated scenes from the show with somewhat faithful accuracy. The characters' makeup and dress looks about accurate and I've got a good vibe about this. I'm still absolutely terrified that it's being made by M. Night Shyamalan but he's not tried his hands at an action movie (much less an anime film) so maybe he has a secret talent for it? (yeah, I know I'm reaching).

Given TR's reaction to The Clash of the Titan's trailer, the enthusiasm about this one confuses me. It's the movie's most expensive scenes crammed into a 30 second trailer over hard rock music, which is pretty much exactly what Clash's was. None of the clips are long enough for anything to actually happen in them.

Jury's still way, way out, I say.

Shyamalan is a great director. What killed his last few movies was his writing.

Dude. I'm really, really shocked that you are not up to date on AVATAR. It's been around so long!

It is, by far, my absolute favorite show my kid watches. It has excellent worldbuilding, compelling characters, very strong voice acting. The music and sound effects are so cool. It is a tremendous piece of television art.

I'm not convinced that M. Night won't screw it up, but I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt until I see good evidence that it sucks.

Damn.. That looks pretty faithful. As a friend said, a joke he read online, it turns out that the twist is that the movie is actually good.

Still, I still am bugged by the typical Hollywood racism. Heaven forbid you actually use Asian actors and designs from the actual cultures each element tribe was based on. Instead they replaced the Japanese based enemies with Middle Easterners and Indians. The tribes at the poles are played by generic white kids. Are the Earth benders at least still Chinese?

Plus, really, is Hollywood so desperate that they're remaking a TV cartoon from barely five years ago? If so.. where the hell is my Mighty Max or Exo Squad movie?

While I didn't like Avatar, The last Airbender at it's initial release, it slowly grew on me. But I can say that this makes me want to cry * the sad kind of tears* because the world of Avatar is colorful, kind and geeky. I guess you can only find that in anime, but this just looks like an Asian(and not much at that) Lord of The Rings.

Another thing that bothers me is that it has M Night Shabalabadingdong written all over it, but doesn't mention Nick or the developers at all.

Humor doesn't seem like it'll play a part, and that was what Avatar had going for it.

However, as long as Uncle Iroh turns out okay, I'm happy. Oh yeah, and the sand wolf things from the giant library.