It's Elementery

Last night we found out how long it takes to drive to the Megaplex 20 in West Jordan. It was 10 minutes to 9:00 PM and I was playing a video game when I suddenly had a thought and blurted out "We should have gone to see a movie tonight." My wife "We still can." Me "We would have to hurry." It turned out that there was a showing of "Avatar: The Last Airbender" in 3D at 9:20 (approx 30 minutes). So we bought our tickets online, threw on some shoes, jumped in the car and were on our way to Salt Lake within 10 minutes.

I was trying to drive quickly, without risking a ticket. I was also going over the first Avatar movie, I had seen in 2009, in my mind. For the record it took about 27 minutes to drive to West Jordan, get our tickets, get to our theater, find some 3D glasses and take our seats. 7 minutes is pretty much the same amount of time it takes to get through all of the previews so it worked out pretty much perfect.

I have to say I was surprised that they had already made a sequel of Avatar since they just released the last one on video not that long ago. I may never understand why, but they recasted all of the actors, changed the setting completely, and started the story in a way that it didn't even pick up where the other one left off. The only thing I can think is they are doing some fancy film school thing like Star Wars where you go back in time to show how they got where they were in the last one. I guess I am just not sophisticated enough for the type of thing as I had difficulty following it. I finally decided to forget the first Avatar and just enjoy this one as it's own film. I figured I would have weeks to figure out how they go together after the movie is over.

The Last Airbender is the tale of a 100 year temper tantrum. King Air decides to grow up and finds out that Prince Fire no longer needs Air. King Air decides to join up with Princess Water (who is sporting a surprisingly falic hair doo...really...check it out), the arch enemy of Fire of course, to douse the flame of elementism. By the end of the movie King Air has learned to make his tattoos glow and princess water has died her hair darker.

I was a bit disappointed in the "3D". I really didn't compare to the first Avatar movie. I kept feeling like I was not seeing much "3D Action" so I kept pulling my glasses off and sure enough it wasn't. At least they had the decency to make it so the whole movie was visible through the 3D glasses unlike Superman....LAME. The movie went by fast though and the special effects were amazing.