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Titan A.E. (Special Edition)

Titan A.E. (Special Edition)

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Maltin doesn't know what he's talking about
Review: For anyone that may have read the review Leonord Maltin gave on this movie, do not listen to anything that that ***** has to say about this, or any other movie. Titan AE was a well done animated flick that explored some interresting aspects of apocolyptic-genre-type films. It has everything that a good drama should have, such as adventure, love, betrayal, an inner conflict, and a nail-biting climax. If you were one of the many people that were turned away from this film because it was animated, you missed out big time. Preorder this movie now on DVD or video.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Titan AE is horrible. horrible for Sci FI Lovers. Horrible .
Review: The teen cartoon with the voice talents of Matt Damon & Drew Barrymore... made by the guys that did Anastasia... and suppose to knock your socks off animation. blah blah blah

It sucks. story was thin, dialogue sucked, the animation was good but after 15 minutes I was bored. The dialogue was horrendous! It was lame dialogue after each part of the movie.

The characters in the movie was even worse! They tried to hit the kids genre by placing in some cuddly creatures that ended up looking disgusting and unmarketable.

boring.... even the kids didn't care too much..... I went to a theater, and the kids were really bored out of there mind! the people behind were nearly falling asleep and my friend went to the washroom like 5 times cuz he was so bored. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! STAY ATLEAST 10 FEET AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A totally entrancing experience
Review: Outstanding visuals, great soundtrack, superb animation and a great science fiction story. So why did this do so poorly? Well, word of mouth does sink ships I am afraid. The only problem is, the word of mouth for this movie was all lies. People were comparing this movie to the totally lamo movie "Battlefied Earth," what a shame because this movie is light years ahead of Battlefield Earth and it has a far better story. Kids and parents will enjoy this one as long as parents can look past a few scenes that are little more than what "the mouse" would allow. This movie is simply fun and a great array of eye candy that is a joy to behold for years to come.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Super Bowl Commercial
Review: Well Rams Vs. Titans... da da da a preiview for a new movie the first glimse at it and i had to go see it I then waited 6 months and then when it came out I went it was great! noticing Final Fanasty The movie coming out June 15th 2001 reminded me could this be a yearly event 2 great movies....come out on nearly the same day year apart. lucky old June the best month of the year!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One Of The Best!
Review: Why did this movie not do well in theaters? Battlefield Earth stayed longer in theaters than this movie! Anyway i thought this was better than any mushy disney flick ive seen and far more action packed with a faster-paced story line and a great soundtrack.The theatrical trailers promised all and a little more. U can still catch this movie at a dollar theater if ur lucky or just wait till it comes out on video and ENJOY!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Titan Rocks
Review: Titan AE is a really fun movie to watch, with its spectacular visuals and well-done action sequences. This film reminds me of the very old (30's style) sci-fi flicks, such as "Flash Gordon", with it's whooshing spaceships and naive implausibility. For example, there is a scene where the heroine is jettisoned from the enemy spacecraft and ends up to be sold as a slave in a floating space colony. Never mind that the odds of her getting picked up anywhere are quintillions raised to the zillionth power to 1. Similiarly, the hero escapes from the same ship and then manages somehow rendezvous with his group, never mind the odds against. Never mind the ice-fields (should they be called icesteroids?), the vacuum swim sans spacesuit ala. 2001 (yet this one looks about as implausible as 2001 actually seemed believable.), and other insane feats. Yet this is the stuff of which 30's sci-fi is made.

Graphically, the series has the feel of the "Star Wars" saga, with the ancient, decrepit look of the spacecraft, the style of weaponry, etc. And it also reminds one of Star Trek, with the godlike technology employed - most especially the spaceship "Titan" which is the "Titan A.E." equivalent of the Genesis device from Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan. However, the sci-fi series this reminds me most of is "Flash Gordon", "Buck Rogers" and the lensmen novels because of it's cheerful implausibility, and uncomplicated plot and characters, which even surpasses "Star Wars".

The soundtrack of this movie is downright annoying, with it's use of blaring rock music. The most incongruous scene in the movie occurs where our hero is flying the spaceship through a nebula, flying with the galactic equivalent of dolphins, and doing so with blaring rock music in the background. The music IMO did not match the feeling of the scene at all, and a more majestic "John Williams" type score would have been more appropriate. I'm not a big lover of Rock anyway, so I would have been much happier if the soundtrack employed none at all, but that one scene in particular suffered the most.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Great visuals, weak characters, insipid plot
Review: I wanted to like this movie. I really did. And some of the computer generated visuals ARE stunning - I left the theater feeling I'd got $8 worth of visual stimulation. And I might rent it once on DVD.

But the characters are paper thin - both the character animation and the character development. The plot is a chase-movie amalgam of Star Wars with broad concepts from other sci-fi standards thrown in. Titan didn't bomb at the box office because it wasn't marketed well. Iron Giant bombed because it wasn't marketed well. Titan bombed because it wasn't a particularly good movie.

Other reviewers have compared this with:

= Star Wars Ep. 1 - similarly visually stunning, and similarly lacking in plot and character development. But hey - it's a Star Wars movie. The plot has been established already, this is just backstory.

= The Matrix - another movie with great visuals and bizarre plotting, but here at least the plot is somewhat original and makes you think a bit. The characters had depth.

= Ghost In the Shell - anime marrying CGI and hand drawn techniques, for adults. Great visuals with plot nobody can follow, but what you can figure out seems pretty intellectual.

= Disney's Movie of the Year - Disney aims a bit lower in minimum audience age than Titan, but most of Disney's neo-classics are well drawn and plotted. The best of the bunch handily beat Titan as a movie (Beauty, Tarzan, anything from Pixar), and a few match it in visual appeal as well (Tarzan, anything from Pixar).

= The Iron Giant - another mix of hand drawn/computer generated animation, also without song and dance or animal sidekicks. Unlike Titan, this one has not only a good plot, but even a strong message. True, it's a bit derivative from E.T., but it does more than just copy the plot - it gets the tone right, too. The characters grow and learn from one another, and by the end of the movie you care about them.

-avi

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Groovy, cool, decent animation & great music!
Review: Well, despite the fact that this movie didn't receive the hottest reviews and my good friend's kids hated it, I really enjoyed it. I saw it three times. Cartoon animation mixed with high-tech computer animation was an interesting combination that gave this movie a unique, non-typical feel. The music sequences were also great (enough to make me want to buy the CD - which I did by the way).

I don't know exactly what could have been done to make this movie more popular at the box office. Most of the complaints I heard had to do with the fact that the cartoon animation was very basic and the sequences featuring computer-animation made the cartoon animation look cheap. I guess that's true to some extent. But it kinda grew on me as the film progressed. I liked the fact that the creators didn't turn the movie into another CG dominated kid-flick. This movie also has more drama than it does action/adventure and all the groovy special effects that most people (especially younger kids) expect from movies these days. Personally, I thought it was great. As a matter of fact, I liked it better than Star Wars Episode 1, which I thought was a major disapointment.

Titan A.E. was just a cool flick, from my perspective. I liked the story, the characters, and the music was hot. The computer animation scenes were great but the cartoon animation was totally cool too. My favorite scenes (to name a few) were the flight through the hydrogen trees, Cale's chase with the Wake Angels (featuring the kickin' tune "It's My Turn To Fly - by The Urge") and also at the beginning of the movie when he's riding his "rocket bike" through all the space junk (with the jammin' tune "Cosmic Castaway - by Electrasy" blasting in the background).

This wasn't the hottest flick I've ever seen and, yes, there were a few yawn moments throughout the pic, but overall I loved it! I will certainly ad this one to my collection of vids when it's released.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Titan A.E. rocks the house!
Review: Okay let`s get one thing clear hear before I start my review of "Titan A.E." this super animated movie is NOT "a copy of other sci-fi films" like most people have been saying about this movie! I`m a big fan of Sci-fi movies (Star Wars, Indapendens Day, ect...) and I don`t see anything that are the same with Titan A.E. and other sci-fi films! Well anyways back to what I think about Titan A.E. The movie as a sweet story to it, it`s directed by one of my favorit directers Don Bluth (All dog`s go to heavin, The secret of NIMH, and The land before time) and the animation is out of this world! I`v seen this movie in theaters 3 times, and I still never get board of it! Well just forget what other people say about Titan A.E. this movie is a great Sci-fi and for you animation lovers out there (including me) it is the animated movie of the year, so do your self a favor and buy a copy of Titan A.E. when it comes on video and DVD because it`s a great movie!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Titan A.E. Fun, But Not Stellar
Review: It's a shame that an animated full-length feature such as Titan A.E., one that clearly took a great deal of time to produce, couldn't have had a more interesting story to accompany it. In a nutshell, Earth is destroyed by aliens made up of pure energy. A number of humans escape, to take up a position as the dregs among the other lifeforms in the universe. One young man holds the key to what could be a new home planet for mankind, and hope for the future.

Granted, there are few new ways to explore the unlikely hero plotline, but execution can still be done with more originality than introducing the turncoat antagonist, motivated solely by money, the rough-going relationship between the lead character and his/her love interest, and the evil aliens who seem to have no real reason to destroy everything they see.

That said, the animation is stupendous. Bluth performs as he always has, lending an air of magic to animation in a way few animators can. Computer rendered effects are also tremendous, if their meshing with traditional illustration is a bit awkward at times, making the latter seem pasted-on.

Overall, for an animated film that allegedly was supposed to appeal to a slightly older market than usual animated fare, the writers offer some pretty shaky physics; in one scene, two characters float quickly through space without any environmental suits on, a feat that would be almost instant death no matter how much air you expel from your lungs. Additionally, some dialogue and story points are a bit on the childish side. If this was intended for children, on the other hand, some themes are much too adult in nature for the average ten-year-old. Titan can't seem to decide what its audience is.

And yet, the movie is overall well-crafted, and if your reality button comes with an "off" position, it's enjoyable enough, and certainly worth a look on tape or DVD.


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