Oh, the pain. So much pain. If you ever enjoyed the original cartoon, please don't see this film. Not even on cable. Just don't. Turn it off. Youtube a couple of the fights, but even most of those weren't good. Just don't see it. Hope that Shyamalan gets fired and a competent director picks up Book 2, because the actors were mostly decent, but horribly directed. Please someone save this trilogy. Otherwise, stick to the cartoon.
To clarify: Even if you didn't see the show, this is a poor movie at best. The plot is horirbly paced, there are plodding and clumsy scenes of 2 minutes of dialog straight while you do nothing but stare at closeups of a character's face, and even the fights, which should have been the one thing not screwed up, were dull and lifeless. This is not, in any way, a competent film. It's just even worse for those who saw the award-winning cartoon because they know what could have been.
