People hated it. They said all manner of negative things about it. Boo hoo for you because this movie didn't suck at all. We watched it at home tonight and while we were quick to point out things that weren't the perfect homage to the tv show, as fans of said show, knowing it was the first book: Water, we thought it was pretty good.

The kids turned us on to the show a bunch of years ago and we loved it so we would all watch it together whenever we could. If you never saw it it's a real treat. Going into the movie we were a bit cynical but we all knew that M. Knight made the flick for his daughter. That's cool. We went into it knowing that, too, and having done so made it pretty easy to enjoy the flick.

It's a short movie in that we could have used another 20 minutes or so to flesh the characters out a bit more and provide for a better fluency delivering the sequence of scenes. By the time I had seen Prince Zuko twice I was sick of him. What a brat, I thought. Too angry. But when 3/8's of the movie had gone by I had forgiven him. His plight was serious.

Which brings me to my last dig at the movie. The tv show was funny. Charming, even. There was a lot of humor in it and some of the characters used it frequently which made us like the show more as there were less body parts and heavy-drama. I'll take that any day. But the movie barely had any of this. It was serious from the beginning although Saka's character did try to let some of his tv show character's humorous nature show. It was limited and rare but you knew that even though M. Knight decided to make it serious and short that as a fan of the show he knew it was important to try to get some of it in there. The kids didn't say anything about this but I wanted a little more levity.

The colors and scenery were terrific. Great sets, costumes. The Fire Nation's ships were awesome but pretty gross, too. The North Water Kingdom was awesome. It was easy to get sucked into the flick and enjoy all the pretty. Even though the dialog wasn't as epic as the epicness of the flick you really can't fault much of it. Someone said something about adding a few more pronouns and I chuckled and agreed.

So that's my $0.02. Fully 80-something % of the reviews I have seen since the movie was first released have been very negative. Nothing of substance, of course, like this post, but severe negativity surrounded the film. 'Course, we payed it no mind. We were just psyched to see some of the wonder of this great tv show brought to live action. We weren't let down.