I can understand where the critics are coming from cause most are not aware of the original show (or hears it was on Nickelodeon and cringed since many of their films are a little..."kiddie") and the plot does feel disjointed cause it jumps around the story of the first season and cuts out a lot of the supporting casts so if you are not familiar with the source material; the story is constantly all over the place and the cast is mostly irrelevant beyond the leads. If you have knowledge of the show, the story makes more sense.

I'm not saying this movie is great, I'm just saying it wasn't bad. People are treating it like it was X-Men 3 and that film is utter . I would probably hate The Last Airbender if I was not familiar with the show or if it made several changes to the central plot. It was good for a kids film if nothing else and I sometimes feel people forget the films target audience are 10-14 year olds and not us bitter "old" guys. Not that a kids film can't be just as wonderful for adults but only a few people can pull that off consistently (SPOILER)(PIXAR, Don Bluth, and Jim Henson to name a few).