A lot of people (for example, O Filthy Grandeur) have reviewed the live-action movie Avatar: The Last Air-Bender, which is an adaptation of "Book One" of animated series Avatar: The Legend of Aang. For the many reasons of rubbishness and race-fail outlined by those others, I have opted not to spend any money on seeing the movie, but am re-watching the DVDs of the series instead.
Book 3 episode 17 of the series, predicts the movie. Only they called the movie team "The Ember Island Players", the name of the movie (play) is "The Boy In The Iceberg" and as near as I can figure, Shyamalan has been called "Pu Wan Tim". The heroes of the story go to see the play.
The play has: poor, one-dimensional characterisation; a very loose adherence to the storyline of the series; and very little to recommend it (and most of the characters hate their portrayal on stage).
Perhaps the best comment on the movie (judging by the reviews I've read) is given by the characters in the series as they go home after watching the play:
Zuko: "That... wasn't a good play."
Aang: "I'll say!"
Katara: "No kidding!"
Suki: "Horrible!"
Toph: "You said it!"
Sokka: "The effects were decent."
On the box-set DVD, there's a commentary track for this episode, with the co-creators and the actors for Toph and Sokka. They introduce it as being their version of a clips show, recapping the story to date. It was also their chance to (in their words) "make fun of ourselves before anyone else did".
The commentary ends with "I'm not sure, but I feel like the writers might have thrown this reference in for the M Night [Shyamalan] movie that's coming out" (when Sokka makes his remark). If they hadn't then commented, "Not that we don't think it's going to be awesome" - because then this would have served as a great hint for M Night NOT to mess things up...
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