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Titan A.E. (Special Edition)

Titan A.E. (Special Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WOW- Star Wars animated
Review: This film has it all: action, romance, special effects ect. This is a must see film. It is so beutiful made that you forget that it is an animated movie. This film is for adults, teenagers or muture kids. BUY IT NOW!!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The 3028 Drej
Review: A reluctant young hero holds the key to the future of mankind in the palm of his hand in this eye-popping, sci-fi adventure. It's the year 3028 and the Drej, a vicious alien race, have destroyed Earth. Fifteen years later a young man named Cale learns he possesses a genetically encoded map to the Titan, a spaceship that holds the secrets to the salvation of the human race. With the Drej in hot pursuit, Cale blasts off with the new crew of the Valkrie in an attempt to find the Titan before the Drej destroy it...along with mankind's last chance for a home of their own. Featuring an all-star voice cast that includes Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore and an edgy, out-of-this-world soundtrack, Titan A.E. is an intergalactic thrill ride for a new generation

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: great!
Review: Great effects and good storyliner. I don't normally like animated movies but this one really surprised me. Common themes that are the staple of science fiction abound but the aliens were unique and I liked the plot twists. I don't want to give too much away so I'll not go into details here. Not really for young children.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pick one: Young or Old
Review: Personally, I felt that Titan A.E. was too in the middle of the road. I could see parts where kids would get bored and I could see parts where adults were bored. I think that it would have been MUCH better as a "Heavy Metal" type movie (Rated R) or a kids movie (Rated G->PG). That is probably my only gripe about this eyecandy of a movie.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: i was bored
Review: i see that almost everyone but me liked this. oh well everyones differnt. I found the plot boring. the supporting alien chacter weerre ten time more annoying than jar jar binks. in fact in one scene where one of yhis aliens looks like it dead i almost cheered because that would mean no more ofhim and his annoyingness.i do agree that the animation was p[retty neat .

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Rock the Planet!
Review: Titan A.E. made me feel like a kid again, mainly because it was out and out fun. Sure there is nothing new in the film, though it does throw some concepts of alien life into the mix that most of the movie going public may not have seen before. What this film really did was inspire a degree of awe within me that I haven't felt since Starship Troopers. There are sequences in Titan A.E. that had my mouth open- the Valkyrie racing through a nebula as it dances with wake angels and leads them on a merry chase around columns of gas or the chase through the chase through the hydrogen trees as Cale and Akima attempt to escape from the Drej Stingers. The movie mixes traditional animation with computer graphics quite nicely, and while the meshing is not always perfect, it is for the most part exceptionally well done.

Titan A.E.'s story is simple. Basically it's the 30th century and Dr. Tucker has perfected a form of matter conversion on a planetary scale that has enabled him to utilize specific forms of energy to power a device that can create a planet. This device is a massive space craft know as the 'Titan', and as the movie starts we see the massive evacuation of the planet as a Drej capital ship decelerates from hyperspace and begins launching Stinger attack ships. The Drej want the Titan destroyed, because they are susceptible to its energy collectors since they themselves are energy beings spawned off by the Drej Queen. Young Cale Tucker (Matt Damon) is dragged away from his father after being gifted with a ring from his dad to remember him by. Cale watches in horror as the Drej Planet Smasher obliterates the Earth while Stingers destroy escape ships. The Earth explodes, its debris vaporizing other ships while other pieces smash into the moon. The Titan escapes by jumping into hyperspace.

Humans, as a species, have been reduced to the trash of the galaxy, slowly dying out they cluster in drifter colonies of old ships that have been welded together.

Fifteen years later Cale is working as a junk collector on a deep space salvage station. He is also a minority species in a galaxy of aliens. This enables him to experience racism on a cosmic scale and a nice play on our own world's racial problems. Cale is outside when a sleek starship drops out of hyperspace and is piloted by a beautiful Japanese girl named Akima (Drew Barrymore), instantly smitten Cale heads inside the station where he is met by Korso (Bill Pullman) who informs Cale that he is needed to fulfil his father's dream and recover the Titan. Cale is more than a little reticent since he feels as though his father abandoned him. Korso convinces him otherwise by showing him that the ring Cale's father gave him activates a genetic signal in his body to make a star map appear on Cale's hand that can lead them to the Titan and mankind's salvation. Cale reluctantly agrees, if only escape the attacking Drej.

Titan A.E. is a fantastic film for young and old. There are some messages contained here, but they are mostly common sense ones about friendship, survival, understanding and redemption. It is also, of course, a love story as Cale and Akima are drawn ever closer together from their less than auspicious beginning. The voice acting is above par, though the rock and roll music score left something to be desired and the film would have been better off with a purely instrumental score.

This movie succeeds in so many categories, whether it be a never ending series of gorgeous visuals to great action sequences, the film shines. It has good heroes and good, if under used, villains. Where it falls apart are the actual aliens themselves; they are uninspired, making me feel as if Bluth's team had gone for goofy rather than actually making them appear alien. I am also not convinced that I can actually see the $70 million spent on this film on the screen. The 1989 production of Otomo's 'Akira' cost over a billion Yen, about $12 million making it the most expensive animated movie ever made in Japan, and its quality and visuals match those of Titan A.E. However, this film is more than adequate to divert people's attention away from the sickly sweet Disney fare. More importantly, it's straight forward science fiction is pretty much flawless in its execution.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Astonishing animation, really bad acting
Review: I took my boy to this and we both loved it. Am I the only one who noticed the Heavy Metal-ish animation? The part where they end up in the ice crystal field is the best animation (and super sound effects to boot)I've seen in a long time. The story is cool, although it drops the ball towards the end, it is overall satisfying. I read in another review that because this movie tanked at the box-office, Fox animation was shut down. That is too bad, really because this film is very entertaining. The one low point of the film is the pathetic acting. Ive heard local radio commercials that had better dialogue delivery than this film did. It almost seemed that Damon and Berrymore fealt this cartoon was beneath them to do and it showed. With films like Bug's Life, you just knew all those involved were having a heck of a time playing their respective characters. I just with the two afforementioned had the same kind of time making Titan A.E. Overall, you will enjoy this film. My son cant wait for dad to pick it up on DVD so he can enjoy the surround effects we enjoyed in the theater, not to mention to also enjoy the adventure along the way.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: When will American filmmakers get it?
Review: Titan A.E. was a film I had been waiting eagerly for ever since I first saw it's previews on Star Wars I in 99. Although I admit I liked the movie, and would definately rent the DVD, I must say I'm still very dissapointed.

American Filmmakers - get over your fear of putting adult content into animated movies! It worked fine for Heavy Metal! I do not believe the movie does bad in theatres because it is animated, but rather because the content failed to appeal to it's target audience! We are starving for decent anime, and it would be really nice to not have to wait a couple years to get the English translation from japan for once.

thank you :)

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Nice effort, but I really didn't like it
Review: 2000 has really been a year for science fiction, with such great films as Pitch Black and the very underrated Mission to Mars. Of course, there are some bad ones, too, ranging from Supernova to the debacle that is Battlefield Earth (words can't describe how bad that movie is). Then there's Titan A.E., which while superior to Supernova and Battlefield Earth, is still not a particularly good, or decent, movie for that matter.

I had particularly high hopes for this film, considering the fairly good reviews it received, and the film does get off to a rousing start. But most of the material after that is dull and cliched. I can handle the unoriginal part, but the movie's mostly routine action sequences don't help get the blood rushing. Granted, the battle in the finale is an exciting one, but it takes quite a while to get there.

Everything in the film is predictable, all the way to the "traitors", though I will give the filmmakers credit for putting in an ending that does not hint at a sequel (though one could still be made, it would just feel rather pointless).

The actors used to voice the characters are also a problem. Damon does an okay job and Bill Pullman adds a lot of depth, intelligence, and integrity to the role, but man what an unwise job it was to bring in Nathan Lane and Drew Barrymore. Both voices are so distracting you can't help but just picture them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Do not underestimate this movie
Review: For what ever reason this movie didn't make much money on cinema. It's ironic since many movie critics gave this movie the thumbs up. Personally I think it's fantastic, and it's the only movie that comes close to Star Wars story. There are no real actors involved, and the whole movie is a cleverly done in 2D and 3D animation. This is the best sci-fi of 2000 and we should hear more of this during the Oscars.


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