Movieline

The Last Airbender Doesn't Need the Super Bowl to Release Its Super Bowl Spot

Back in the day, you'd have to actually watch the Super Bowl to see its buzzed-about ads, but eventually, YouTube made that need moot. Now, movie studios are doing us the service of releasing their vaunted Super Bowl spots ahead of time -- hence this brief ad for M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender. You can glimpse some good effects work and what looks like some well-executed large-scale action, but I can't help but be disappointed that it doesn't include what a recent AICN test screening review described as a scene where "a certain baddy punches a fish to death." Gotta save something for the full trailer, I suppose.

<param name="flashvars"

value="autostart=0&playlist=none&config=http://www-movieline-com.vimg.net/playlists/config.xml&provider=rtmp&streamer=rtmp://streaming.movieline.com/ondemand/video/bc-archive/&file=429149625_64736546001_TLA-TVSpot01-Chosen30.flv"/>

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="player-52" name="player-52" src="http://www-movieline-com.vimg.net/_/jw/player-licensed-viral.swf"

width="585" height="495" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="autostart=0&config=http://www-movieline-com.vimg.net/playlists/config.xml&playlist=none&provider=rtmp&streamer=rtmp://streaming.movieline.com/ondemand/video/bc-archive/&file=429149625_64736546001_TLA-TVSpot01-Chosen30.flv" plugins="acudeojw,gapro,viral-2&viral.callout=none&viral.onpause=false&gapro.accountid=UA-1915907-26&gapro.trackstarts=true&gapro.trackpercentage=true&gapro.tracktime=true&acudeojw.progId=4af229940e9cc"

/>