Sadly this "rest of the film" is the vast majority of the two hour running time and it is pretty poor. Well, I guess I'm done providing the critical balance here, so onto the parts of the film that are not the "pretty good" effects. The effects are pretty decent and as a result some of the sequences are decent if only on a technical level. So I guess it is understandable that I come out of the film saying "c'mon – it's not THAT bad" because it is not the crime against humanity that some have suggested. So basically I had no preconceptions of how the film should look or be but at the same time my expectations were low due to all the criticism I had heard. Normally this would mean that a poor version might still be a good film but obviously in this case I did come with the knowledge that it had been universally slated by critics and mostly ignored by audiences. I've not watched the original series so in a way I came to this film free of the built-in criticism of those who love the series and were always going to be upset by a poor copy. They join him in his quest to learn to be bend the other elements and also free the kingdoms from the tyranny of the fire nation. When sibling waterbenders Katara and Sokka discover a child frozen below the waters near their town they rescue him only to quickly learn he is the Avatar. With the air benders gone and the Avatar nowhere to be found, the benders are all under the thumb of the fire nation, with bending outlawed (like it used to be in the Isle of Man). The wars have been led by the flaming benders (seriously, stop it) who control fire and wiped out the air benders because they knew the Avatar was one of their number. It has been 100 years since this Avatar vanished and in this time the various benders (stop it) have all been in conflict. These benders (stop tittering at the back) are held in balance by the influence of the Avatar, a being who can control all elements as well as being a link to the spirit world. The world is divided into four kingdoms with each being able to control (bend) an element to their will.
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