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My review of "The Last Airbender"

This post is about what the reviewers didn't tell you, so I'm going to ignore all the furore about the ethnic representations in the movie and the acting abilities of the cast.   I, or rather "we", Lucas and I, fall into the camp of those patrons who have seen the entire animated series.  Be warned. Book 1.   So how come none of these adult reviewers cared to mention that this was "Book 1" ?  Did they not understand what that meant?  For us it meant that we had a pretty good idea of what we were going to see, and likely where it ended.  And as far as the ethnicity goes, well, Lucas didn't notice anything unusual. Names .  This is by far the biggest mark against the movie.  Why didn't they pronounce the names correctly??!!  Lucas and I cringed every time they said Aang. They pronounced Aang as "ung" vs "ang" as in "bang".  Aarrggh!!.   They pronounced Sokka as "soak-ah" instead of "sock-ah" ...