YOUR SUMMER MOVIE SUCKS: Does The Last Airbender Suck Air or Just Blow?

"It saddens me that I can't like a movie which has vampires fighting werewolves because they spend most of the movie having those classic monsters fighting over a girl who seems about as interesting as a thumb tack. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is actually the best film of the three thus far...How sad that fact is, since it's still just a pile of adolescent garbage that I will apparently never fully understand or care about. It's sad that something this trite and boring can be considered the best of anything. The fact of the matter is, though, these films are arguably the most critic-proof movies in at least the past decade."

"The Last Airbenderis a bad movie. It's one of the most catastrophically bad movies ever made. Director M. Night Shyamalan seems to have continued his process from The Happening, in which he apparently intentionally makes every wrong choice. He has cast the film almost exclusively with terrible actors incapable of even delivering lines. I feel bad railing on kid actors so much, but they are just so completely fucking terrible. Many of his shots are listless, and without life. The film is filled with jagged, rotten edits. A non-movie."

"The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D. You know something is wrong when the screen is filled with flames that have the vibrancy of faded Polaroids. Its special effects are atrocious. This plot is incomprehensible. Shyamalan has failed."

"He has made a really bad movie. He has made a dull, boring, poorly acted, limply written and thoroughly unappealing fantasy, featuring bland characters locked in a struggle of no interest. It's off track from its first seconds. The movie is in 3-D, and it's the worst use of 3-D in the modern era. It's unimaginative, not eye-catching and ends up actually emphasizing the fakeness of the effects and the landscape. Scenes are shapeless, without punch and usually without point."

"Mind-numbingly dreadful live-action adaptation of a popular animated TV series. Shyamalan finally hits rock bottom here. Stilted dialogue, wooden acting, glacial pacing, cheesy special effects, tacky-looking sets, ugly costumes, poorly staged and edited action sequences, all shown in murky, cut-rate 3-D. Tweets suggest its fans at early screenings hate the movie. It's easily the worst of the many overplotted, would-be fantasy franchises launched. It all anticlimaxes with a boring, confusingly filmed attack on a city of waterbenders"

"The dearth of racially appropriate casting in the U.S. simply means that fewer Asians were humiliated by appearing in what is surely the worst botch of a fantasy epic. Oh, the humanity! Where is it in this movie? The lack of vitality and even surface plausibility numbs the senses. Actors wander through sets, speak their lines and battle computer-generated beasts without ever convincing the viewer that they are the characters they're playing, let alone that these characters are worth investing an evening in. bland and murky; it's not a world that rewards the search for visual grandeur or eccentricity."

"Stiff, fuzzy-looking, cloddish and disastrous in nearly every way. Simply stupendously bad. It never connects emotionally, offers little if any character development as it races through its ridiculous plot lines, screeches to a halt with little resolved and looks absolutely awful. A movie about magic that is wholly lacking in magic."

"Lousy filmmaking. This is one muddled attempt at franchise-making: confusing, drab, sluggish. Written entirely in fanboy shorthand. But to those of us who lose patience quickly with blurry, poorly acted, clunky kung-fu movies, (this) appears to have been shot using stereo instructions. Worse still: This could have been directed by anyone. Or no one."