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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The novelization had a lot less cut from it and was said to be far superior in comparison.

* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: [[Role Reprisal|Aang and Zuko]]'s Polish dubbers returned for the movie as their regular characters.

** Zuko. He goes from the angsty but determined powerhouse in Season 1 and turns into a whiny, [[Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]] type. His [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] from Season 1, defeating rival Admiral Zhao and proving his worth as a Firebender, is instead given to a handful of random Waterbenders. And unlike Zuko, {{spoiler|they KILL Zhao}}.

** The Fire Nation in general. Not only are its soldiers somewhat wimpy ("It really hurt!"), [[Smug Snake|Zhao]] finds more time relying on the Fire Lord ([[Memetic Mutation|and the scroll from the great library]]) rather than be ambitious and power-hungry, '''[[Big Bad|Fire]] [[Complete Monster|Lord]] [[The Sociopath|Ozai]]''' is not as menacing as his animated counterpart.

*** Firebenders can only manipulate pre-existing flames. Sozin's Comet, which previously allowed firebenders to wipe out entire civilizations in a day, now apparently only makes all firebenders roughly equivalent to a normal, non cometed firebender in the series.

** While not a Badass until the end of Season 1, Katara underwent this via Chickification.

*** The fact that she seemed five minutes away from Tear bending at any moment.. really didn't help matters any.

** Sokka in particular is much closer to his [[What Could Have Been|initial idea]] of being a wannabe macho-man twat as opposed to a clever funny guy, and doesn't crack any jokes throughout the film, or even much of a smile. Sokka's fans were equally unamused.

** Aang in particular.

** Katara: At least Aang shows ''some'' emotion for about 2 seconds in the Water Tribe. Katara, however, is (to quote a fan review) "like the secret love child of [[Keanu Reeves]], [[Kristen Stewart]], and a brick wall."

* [[Fan Nickname]]: For the [[Fight Scene Failure]] below. Everybody do the Pebble-Dance!

** From the same scene, Katara pushing one soldier to the ground and then just standing there doing nothing else is called the Ka-Tackle.

** Worse, the fight scenes are all shot with a single camera, with no jump cuts. This leads to the problem of showing the audience a large number of mooks standing in the background, not doing anything while their friends are getting knocked senseless.

* [[Ham and Cheese]]: Aasif Mandvi plays Zhao pretty similarly to how he always plays himself on ''[[The Daily Show]]'', only, well, evil.

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Zuko, when he's not [[Large Ham|yelling or being his general angry self]].

* [[Large Ham]]: The Fire nation seems to be a [[World of Ham]]. Seemingly to contrast the [[Dull Surprise]] people from the Water nation.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Before the movie had even come out, early test screening reviews mentioned a scene that has turned the phrase "punching the fish" [http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/063/7/3/PUNCH_A_FISH_IN_THE_FACE_by_Booter_Freak.png into a meme]<ref> He actually stabs it with a knife.</ref>. Other gems include the pebble dance (the most notorious example of the [[Flynning]] mentioned above <ref>Six earthbenders. Four seconds of ''kata''. One rock, slightly larger than a human head.</ref>), Kat-tackle (Katara pushing over a random guard and then just standing there), Zhao constantly mentioning the secret library, Ozai's glowing ass (from a screenshot in which the source of light appears to be Ozai's rear end), Yue's [[Department of Redundancy Department|line about believing in beliefs]], and her penis hair (how it looks like when viewed from the [http://i747.photobucket.com/albums/xx111/aangthony/wtf-tla/101.jpg back].)

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5J7inpYSoE AANG! JUST ONCE!]

** X, there is Y under your feet! Why don't you fight?

** {{smallcaps|X scene was cut from the movie because it was too "distracting".}}

** Though the blame has been shifted back to M. Night after the deleted scenes were revealed to be...less than stellar, potentially worse than what got left in. People blaming M. Night now also say that the studio only cut it down to its short runtime because the longer version was worse.

* [[Plot Induced Stupidity]]: Everyone who isn't a part of the Fire Nation suffers from this. Unlike the series, Firebenders (who aren't masters) need an available source of fire in order to bend it. This is all well and good, except none of the other characters ever think to ''put them out!'' Granted, some of the fire sources are fairly large, but nothing that couldn't be doused with a little effort. Taken to truly ridiculous extremes in the Earthbender camp when several Firebenders are literally bending from a single source they could not conceivably protect. Someone ''does'' give the order to douse the flames when the alarm bells sound... but apparently, they never got around to it, because all of the fires are still going during the battle.

** Then there's what happens during the Siege of the North. In the ''planning stage'' the Water Tribe said that they needed to douse all of the torches in the city. Fire Nation comes, ''THE TORCHES ARE STILL LIT.'' Granted it would have made a moot point because of all the flaming boulders the Fire Nation was tossing in, but really?

* [[Special Effects Failure]]: There is one scene at the beginning where Sokka is splashed with water and then is immediately dry. Also, it's an arctic area and you can't see anyone's breath.

** Also, the waterbending is sometimes not even animated.

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HB8u3p3o4M SLOW MOVING JELLY!]

** The firebending is pretty much nothing but poorly composited live-action fire elements with some CG that even the film version of ''[[Spawn]]'' would reject.

** And they weren't pleased because A. "Ah-vatar" doesn't exist because Sanskrit (the language that the word Avatar comes from) doesn't have a stressed "Ah" sound in it and B. the changes in pronunciation were arbitrary and downright stupid (where in the bloody hell do you get "Ki" from the word "Kai"?)

*** Not to mention that the names Aang, Katara, and Sokka were ''made up'' by the creators. When they found out Katara was an authentic Inuit name, they were surprised. Aang and Sokka don't ''have'' "proper" Asian pronunciations. Besides, [[Fridge Logic|why would you care how Asian the names are]] [[Race Lift|and not care how Asian the characters are?]] Insisting on "real" Asian pronunciations is stupid and pointless when you cast white actors.

* [[They Just Didn't Care]]: Take a good, hard look at the [[Race Lift|unnecessary changes]], the [[Compressed Adaptation|nonsensical adaptation]] of the first season, and the downright stupid direction Shyamalan brought the film in. Needless to say, [[Stillborn Franchise|it'll probably be nothing short of a miracle that a sequel would even be greenlit,]] much less with Shyamalan still attached.

* [[Took the Bad Film Seriously]]: Shaun Toub and Dev Petel, though at least the latter was somewhat close to the original character portrayal.

** [[Fan Nickname|Racebending]], as horrible as it was, seemed to drown out the heavy sexist tone in the film, too.

** White kids Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, and Noah Ringer as the dark-skinned, Inuit-based Katara and Sokka and the Tibetan based Aang. [[Unfortunate Implications|Surrounded by Asian extras and fighting dark-skinned bad guys.]]