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‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Review: Netflix’s Live-Action Remake Is a Major Letdown
The streamer's take on the beloved animated series centers on a young boy tasked with saving the world by mastering all four elements: earth, air, water and fire.
The choice renders the update more tightly serialized than the source material, and more superficially mature — all the better to appeal to folks who adored this tale as kids and are revisiting it now as adults, perhaps, or to draw in viewers looking to fill the time between Game of Thrones spinoffs. Avatar continues to distinguish itself from Eurocentric fantasies like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings with its Asian- and Indigenous-inspired setting, this time complete with actors who (unlike most of those from either of the earlier iterations) actually hail from Asian and Indigenous backgrounds. Not all the stops are equally interesting — and the middling CG visuals lack either the striking compositions of Apple TV+’s Foundation or the solidity of Disney+’s Andor — but in combination they suggest an expanse with no end of new places to explore or new people to meet.
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