Titan A.E. Movie
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Storyline
TAGLINES
Get ready for the human race
Prepare for life after Earth.
When Earth ends, The Adventure Begins.
The Next Generation In Filmed Animation
One thousand years from now, aliens destroy Earth in fear of the Titan project. Some humans escape, becoming a downtrodden Diaspora, living in impoverished settlements. The mysterious Titan spacecraft also escapes, and its inventor has hidden it before dying. A spacecraft captain and its pilot, Korso and Akima, two humans, seek out Cale, the youthful son of the dead scientist and explain that he must help them find the Titan, which holds a mechanism to unite and save humanity. Cale refuses, but the arrival of the killer aliens persuades him to join Korso. Can he avoid his pursuers, know friend from foe, find the Titan, and embrace his humanity, a nature he has despised until now?
| Matt Damon | Cale Tucker |
| Bill Pullman | Capt. Joseph Korso |
| John Leguizamo | Gune |
| Nathan Lane | Preed |
| Janeane Garofalo | Stith |
| Drew Barrymore | Akima |
| Ron Perlman | Professor Sam Tucker |
| Alex D. Linz | Young Cale |
| Tone Loc | Tek |
| Jim Breuer | The Cook |
| Christopher Scarabosio | Queen Drej |
| Jim Cummings | Chowquin |
| Charles Rocket | Firrikash/Slave Trader Guard |
| Ken Hudson Campbell | Po |
| Tsai Chin | Old Woman |
| Don Bluth |
6.30 out of 10 (13318 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Explosive with lots of eye candy!
posted on 11 Aug 2009Gotta love this movie,It had more special effects then Star Wars (Maybe).It had a great futuristic plot with believable characters... The music set the scene very well.The song Lit - Over my head - Is stuck in my head.I am not a fan of sci fi but this one captured my interest.10/10 for this baby!"New Earth (Planet BOB)"
Fun eye candy- who cares about the rest?
posted on 26 Jul 2009I have seen Titan twice now, and I am thoroughly surprised to read some of the reviews on the film. Granted, the story is cliche sci-fi, a narrative pulled together from every other space movie you've ever seen. But to say that it has no heart, that the Drej are not a formidable enemy, or that viewers need to be slow to enjoy it are just off base. If there's anything Titan has it's tons of heart, in many ways that's what obscures the plot. The characters are not so dull that we don't cheer for them, or feel pride in their victories. The Drej are just plain scary looking, and their leader is a force to be reckoned with. Finally, I saw this movie with other twenty-somethings, who all really enjoyed it, not some 5 year olds. It's just fun people! Cast aside your pretensions about art and film, suspend your disbelief, and immerse yourself in the spectacle of it all.
Biggest Surprise of the year
posted on 26 Jul 2009Ever since I saw the first teaser trailer for Titan A.E. over a year ago, I have been dreading the release. Three other trailers that I personally thought were hokey have come and gone and until I saw the film I was convinced that it would be mediocre at best. Wrong. This is definitely the best animated sci-fi film I have ever seen. I also think that this is Don Bluth's master work (even though topping Land Before Time seemed impossible). The story is interesting, original and there are enough plot twists to keep me completly enthralled. The digital animation is awesome, and puts the lame CGI battle from the Phantom Menace to shame. I would recommend this to anyone with kids or to anyone that claims to still have a spirit of adventure. Other than a little blood shed and an alien that gets vaporized, the film ends up with a happy note that is sure to fill everyone with a sense of hope for the future of mankind. The cast is great, the music is excellent and the film itself is just beautiful. If you're planning to see this movie, I recommend finding a theatre that carries "premier" prints. That was what I saw and the image was very clear and crisp, making the digital shots so much more real. I can only hope that everyone gets a chance to see this movie.
It's not just a cartoon, guys...
posted on 16 Jul 2009I loved it. I hated that Fox shut down their animation studio as a result.People (read: critics) were very quick to slap the word "CARTOON" on this film and debase it instantly on that premise alone. This movie would have been fantastic if isolated from every other animation. Or just done live-action. It's not anime. It's not Lion King. It's a space epic, it's animated, and it's much more than any other sci-fi cartoon on film has ever been.This movie was visually thrilling, inventive, and had a plot that did itself a huge favor by not being Disneyesque and explaining itself every second of the way. This is what critically acclaimed cinema is. It leaves you to guess, fill in the holes, and explore the movie as wish.Titan AE requires that you actually use your brain while being awed at the stunning eye-candy. Unraveling the loosely tied mystery at a feverish pace and energy that becomes part of the experience, drawing you into their world. The music is pop but its slick tempo just accentuates the thrill ride at the right times. The transitions don't make sense at first but synergize into the plot soon enough.The "plot holes" are straightforward, if you think about it with a scientific mind. Many technical aspects of the movie have a backing in real life science (ok, not Bob), and this adds to a believability that is key in the movie. And the Drej's motivation's absence from the film puts the audience in the shoes of the heros in a way that has never been done before. "But why? We don't know. And it scares us." Good movies don't come in neat packages.The characters may seem to be copies of other characters, but instead they are a collection of archetypes of your average sci-fi ship crew. Scientist, gunner, pilot, commander, captain. Looking beyond the unavoidable urge to label them as their counterparts in every other sci-fi movie, the characters are developed slightly in a way that is subtle and easily missed, but more importantly they are uniquely complex in an obfuscated way and revealed bit by bit.Why did this movie flop? People saw only veneer-thin eye-candy and wrote off the rest, missing the enchanting complexity of this fast-paced ride through space. It disappoints me that critics in general flamed this movie. It was just too smart for animation. If it were live-action, it would have been an unstoppable at the box office, though a visually less vibrant thrill ride.Saddest of all is that there likely won't be another movie like this one for some great while since it was such an abysmal commercial demise of Fox Animation Studios. This movie was a push in the right direction for animation. If done again with a "better" story, there would be an unstoppable transition in the animation industry.In short, see the movie with an open mind. And spend your mental energy nitpicking the good things that make it feel like an amazing triumph it is instead of shredding it to oblivion.And as a final note, let's just pray Final Fantasy kicks us into an age where "cartoons" can be serious vehicles of film and story, like Titan AE could have.
I'm alright with it.
posted on 06 Jul 2009It's a good step in the right direction, imo, that Titan A.E. has good character detail (reaction-wise), and superb animation. The story was cool, but noticibly rushed, and had a lot of dry aliens in it. It did not have a musical, nor grandeur memories, but rather a straight forward "let's get into action" plot. I'm not going to rate it, but it was well worth seeing how the North American market is realizing the ultimate quality of true anime.
Simply put: awesome
posted on 04 Jul 2009As stated above this movie, simply put: is awesome. The animation is awesome. It left me in awe the first time I saw it. Sure, the love story in it doesn't exactly make sense, but there's plenty to make up for it.Unlike what the critics said, I found the plot original and creative. The characters seemed real and 3-D (both in animation and personality) to me, you have enough of the background to tell you what's going on, but not enough to bore you out of your skull. The voices they chose are great. The animation is awesome. The alien races are inventive and awesome. Seeing this movie somehow made me wish that I could live in deep space. Don Bluth did an excellent job.
Top-Notch Production
posted on 02 Jul 2009How can anyone not like this movie? It has some of greatest animation ever from the greatest animator ever (Don Bluth), an exciting plot, characters with more life than almost any "real" actors, and an energetic soundtrack. I feel so great after seeing this movie.I own the Titan AE Widescreen DVD, and it is quite a site to see. The opening, escape, wake angels, and ice crystals scenes are some of the best ever. See it on dvd if you haven't already because it is awe-inspiring.I think that the problem with all of the bad reviews for this movie is that people don't think for themselves. One person says that they don't like the cgi and classic animation blend or the story and then everyone follows their lead like ignorant sheep. It's is a tradgedy that the low box office figures will most likely prevent a sequel from being made. At least, we will always have this 85 minutes or so of superb Sci-Fi animation.
Ship of Fools
posted on 30 Jun 2009I am a life long SF connoisseur and I had high hopes for this movie. It was promoted as a significant event in the genre and a step forward in animation. It is neither. It is garbage. The animation style is no better then a typical saturday morning kid's show - in fact several kid's shows wipe the floor with it. The legendary 'Reboot' in particular. The mixture of cell animation and CGI clashes violently and removes all the merits of each technique. I audibly moaned when I spotted background after background with poor finishing and implausible imagery eg: the opening sequence of a star field - we're in deep space yet the stars are twinkling - DOH! The concepts and plot are third rate and derivative (Star-Wars, Battlestar Gallacticrap, even the opening titles use kettle drums to get that '2001' feel) and the 'cute' nature of some of the supporting characters is nauseating. The biggest problem is the target audience. NOTE: you do not make a great SF film by appealing to 12 year old boys - you make a great SF film and then likely as not, 12 year old boys will like it anyway. Titan AE is aimed squarely at an American youth market too brain-dead to appreciate REAL Manga and too stupid to care. Lousy music too! I hated it!
One of the *worst* films I've seen in a long time
posted on 28 Jun 2009*Titan A.E.* is a horrible movie. Why? It's so deriviate, it's not funny. I was bored through 3/4ths of it. By the end, when things pick up, I'd really stopped caring about what was going on up on screen.Some reasons:1) The animation is *horrid* in places. It's very herky-jerky at times, as if you're watching a film on the Internet via RealPlayer. It seems as though this project was either rushed, or Don Bluth employs hacks for artists. Or both. It even seems as though some Fox executive came to Bluth and said, "OK, listen, we need four or five really good set pieces to sell this flick. Everything else is fodder. Just ram this one through as quick as you can."2) The annoying character that John Leguizamo voices. Can you say Jar Jar Binks knock-off?3) This film has the same "missing father/mother/sister/family" element to it as every other Don Bluth film. Ever see *The Land Before Time*? Or *An American Tail*? You've seen *Titan A.E.* then, just without dinosaurs or Russian field mice as main characters.4) Zero character motivation, which probably has something to do with points raised in 1). Characters do things without any rhyme or reason. There is no "shading" or back-history, except we know from the outset that the protagonist has some big-time abandonment/father issues. But, then again, who doesn't? (Does Luke Skywalker ring a bell?)MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD:Also: two characters are believed to be dead and then, oops!, they're not dead and come to save the day! Yes, this happens *twice*! And good guys turn into bad guys -- and, in one instance, become good guys again! *Titan A.E.* easily wins the "Most Bi-Polar Character Award" for a flick released this year.5) Grossest misuse and overuse of hard rock music in a film (animated or not) this side of *Heavy Metal*. There are no less than three longish music montages that go on for no plot-motivated reason. Is this a musical or is it not?6) *Titan A.E.* can't figure out its audience. Is it a film for small kids? From the amount of bloodletting and brief nudity, no. Is it a movie for teens and twentysomethings? Not really, because it's far too silly at times and/or cutesy. So who's gonna watch it? Nine and ten-year-olds???Avoid this movie. It's a mess. Rent it, if you *must* see it.
A Stylish Repackaging of Anastasia
posted on 24 Jun 2009For all it's gloss and special effects, the story is basically a rehashing of Don Bluth's semi-successful 'Anastasia'. The background special effects were worth watching though the characters, themselves, appeared flat and lifeless. The fact that we've seen these same characters in the same situations removes what little interest there might have been. I didn't feel there was any real chemistry between the Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore characters like there was in Bluth's previous movie. In all, it was barely watching once. I was sorely disappointed because it appeared to have the makings of another 'Heavy Metal' in the beginning. But the movie loses it's tempo quickly and you were left with nothing more than a prolonged chase scene with little real interest in what happened in the end. Wait for this one to come to HBO.
Entertaining, but nothing that stuck with me.
posted on 18 Jun 2009I saw Titan A.E. this weekend. How was it? The best I can say is that it was OK. Here in the US we're still under the impression that animation (with the exception of South Park) is for kids. So, the plot was very simple and nothing was left to the imagination. It was one of those movies where after the lights come back up, you just stand up and walk out of the theater. You don't really comment on the movie, or talk about it. At dinner afterwards you don't discuss your favorite parts or anything, maybe you talk about the weather or something. It was just unremarkable, an entertaining way to spend two hours, but not something that lasts with you at all.Of course, no American animation can make it without a some cute comic relief, something that will make a good happy meal toy. Well, in Titan they even told us who was going to be the funny one by naming him Gune (goon). I'm surprised they didn't name the Dredge - "The Bad Guys"They do get some bonus points for the great idea of giant ice crystals, but they may have overdone it it bit. The sequence with the Angels was really quite pretty, but again, it seemed like it went just a little too long.
The best movie to come out of Fox Animation Studios so far.
posted on 31 May 2009I watched this movie multiple times already and it is great. I believe this is because Don Bluth has gone back to what he is famous for and that is killer Sci Fi with creative, funny, and amasing characters. The posters and the advertising do not give the movie justice. The 2d characters were spectacular (except for stupid Gune. The 3d was much better than their previous feature films. All and all I would say this is the best animated film of the decade. So prepare yourself Star Wars fans for the movie Episode 1 should have been and race to see TITAN A.E.
a million spent on the eye and not one penny on the ear
posted on 29 May 2009oh dear oh dear. it all looks so lovely and even though matt damon sounds as though he really was in a studio, the sound and music are great. but my god, the script and worse (even) the story...!a great mixture of computer animation and cartoon action really dazzle the eye and can begin to lull you into a false sense of security...right up to the point in which people begin to actually talk to each other. 'character is action' (so said f.scott fitzgerald) and this is true whether you're talking about the film which managed to close down fox's animation department (i can only hope that they threw away the scriptwriters too) or the film is a 30 second short. and what characters we are given here...this follows the same well trodden disney path in managing to make any non-human character a grotesque stereotype in the most cliched and lazy way possible. a good case (even apart from the floppy fringed, square jawed all-american hero lead character) is the intelligent buggy character. how likely is it that in a thousand years if youre intelligent not only will you still be a nerd...but that you'll wear glasses?! not really is it. ooops, almost forgot to mention the feisty leading girl, managing to hit all her marks as action girl...with attitude (stop me if you've heard of all of these characters before). the human characters are just as bad. they are all cliches, the bad guy with the change of heart, the evil, wicked fairy queen...ooops, i mean pure energy queen. i can't even begin to imagine what the bad guys motivation was for chasing these layabouts, boredom perhaps.and then there was the story, or more correctly the non-story. it managed to go all the way from a to b...stopping everywhere in between. part star wars (cliched 'good' vs. nasty old 'evil') and part star trek (cliched characters and cultural propaganda) and is as bad as both of them. no surprises, no twists, no character development (certainly not the leads volte-face in deciding to save the human race...gee thanks mate). just soooo predictable, unengaging and that word again...lazy. heres an idea to anyone who wants to make a good film (notice, good, not just a film but a good film): write a good script. thats it. if you do that then you have a chance. but if you dont have that then you are doomed regardless of whatever else you do.im sure that many people reading this will think 'give it a break, its just...' and as soon as that word is used then you have no leg to stand on. because if this is a cartoon which wishes to be a film then it must be judged on its merits, i.e. as a film. and it is lacking, badly lacking. it is a film with a story that 6 year olds could follow. forget what it looks like. close your eyes and listen to the dialogue (but not for long, you may go deaf...if you're very lucky) and then tell me if its a good film. maybe fox were really pitching at the family territory with this film but the problem is that the market for this type of film (animated/manga) is just a little too old and sophisticated to really care about a boy who just wants to *sniffle* see his dad again. Akira is being re-relased on DVD in july, THAT is what an animated film should be. that is not to say they should all be disturbing (perfect blue) or violent (ghost in the machine) but to be taken seriously they have to be good. this is not, this is rubbish and should be treated as such. judge with your mind, NOT your eyes. 1/10
An engaging, exciting movie-- the graphics are as good as "Star Wars"
posted on 25 May 2009Put aside your preconceptions about cartoons, and prepare to enjoy this movie. This is a real movie; this is a worthy movie. The characters and action mean something; you care about what is happening. It is as exciting, moving, and thrilling as any sci-fi flick made with "real" film. Especially now that so many movies are substantially computer generated cartoons anyway-- the only thing slightly different about "Titan AE 2000" is that the human and and animal characters are drawn as well. Otherwise, the scenery and backgrounds aren't any different from those used in "Star Wars," or "Gladiator."This movie is uplifting-- it's an engaging and rousing movie most folks will really like. So go see it! I gave this a 10 out of 10.
Awesome animation, well-done fast-paced adult-themed story.
posted on 29 Apr 2009I went to this movie with my wife, my 2 sons (9 and 12) and my 73 year old father...and we all liked this movie! It was fun. It was loud (which, since my dad is a bit hard-of-hearing, turned out to be a good thing), the music was great and really helped amplify the story, and the quality of the animation was exquisite.I wished I had known in advance who the voices were for the main characters. I became distracted a few times because I knew that I recognized these voices, but I just could not place them definitively.The story had some unexpected twists, and the character development, although predictable, was well done. The action was fast paced and took up quite a bit of the movie, so the plot itself was fairly simple and straightforward, but the cliffhanger scenes and inevitable last second rescues (and there were many) were a blast.I definitely urge you to see Titan A.E.
I will see it again and again and again...
posted on 25 Apr 2009After hearing about this movie about a year ago, i've been quietly anticipating its release since then.. After watching the movie, all that built up excitement didn't fail me! It was everything i had expected and more.. for some reason i was getting shivers after the first minute!
Food for thought.
posted on 05 Apr 2009I absolutely loved "Anastasia" when it came out, so I was eagerly awaiting Fox Studio's next animated project, Titan A.E. Unfortunately I missed it at the cinema, but just today found it at the department store and being the animation buff that I am, decided to blow some cash...I enjoyed this movie. This has to be the first animated film of its kind, in that it's sci-fi. The story was pretty interesting and the concept provided a little food for thought. For once we're not stuck with the usual orchestrated score and there are no random show-stopping Hollywood musical pieces, but a fairly contemporary and rocking soundtrack. The animation was standard fare, and the character design was very similar to Anastasia...almost in a bad way. Straight away I could see the resemblance between Cale (the lead) and Dimitri (of Anastasia). Perhaps they could have tried a different style...? As for the special effects, they were stunning. For the most part, the CGI integrated seamlessly with the traditional 2D animation, so kudos to the artists for doing such a good job...My gripes with Titan A.E. lie with the story and the voice-acting. As I mentioned before, it's quite an interesting concept, but as with so many Hollywood productions these days, the story just didn't seem to have any substance...As for the voice-acting, Drew Barrymore's portrayal of Akima seemed flat and emotionless at times, it was almost cringe-worthy. Don't get me wrong, her voice has a lot of character, she just failed to inject her onscreen persona with...much.I realise that I'm getting all down and dirty with this review and it mind sound a little negative, but don't be put off. I'd give it 7 out of 10...only because I have a thing for animated flicks.
Soo close...
posted on 30 Mar 2009This is one of those movies where I walk out of the theater thinking 'that was great, but...' I really hate when that happens. I can deal with really great movies, or really bad ones, or ones that are so bad that they're good, or even movies that are simply too weird to be judged at all. But when a movie is so good in some ways, and a let-down in others -- even a little -- it tears me up inside. It really does. Long story short, this movie has only two things wrong with it: the story and the soundtrack. Visually, this movie is a knockout. The acting is great -- not a single casting mistake in the bunch. Characters, dialogue? Great, brilliant. Even a couple of fairly accurate sciency scenes. But the story just doesn't add up. The overarching plot is that a bunch of evil aliens single out Earth and its inhabitants for destruction, apparently because we built something called the Titan Project, which is a device specifically designed to deal with the problem of what to do if Earth gets destroyed. How's that for cause and effect? Of course, the problem is that we don't really know why the aliens hate Earth so much, or why the main character decides to accept his destiny and fight for humanity, or why one of the characters turns traitor midway through the movie (oops, uh, SPOILERS!) or much of anything. It's all just sort of accepted that these guys are good, and these other ones are bad, and this one other guy was good but now he's bad but (SPOILER!) he turns good again just in time to save everybody and etcetera. The thing is that the actual writing is excellent, but the plot doesn't hold up. I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that several minutes of footage that would have made this all clearer, or foreshadowed some of the abrupt twists, wound up on the cutting-room floor... Or in this case, the Deleted Items Folder.
Which just makes it all the more painful to think about.Then there's the soundtrack. Not only do they bring the movie to a screeching halt to play some godawful disposable top-40 tune by Jamiroquai, but the song is actually directly related to what's going on on-screen. It's like they decided at the last minute to try and make this a musical. Seriously, the main character, a refugee from the destroyed planet Earth, is first introduced to us over the strains of a little number called 'Cosmic Castaway'. Later, they halt the film so he can practice piloting a spaceship while they play a song called 'It's My Turn to Fly'. I'd say it's like a Disney cartoon, except that Disney usually includes songs which at least attempt to be timeless, whereas these tracks are going to show up in a Not-Available-in-Stores-6-CD-Set-With-Free-Poster sometime before this film hits video. Feh. Now that I've got that off my chest, I actually like the movie better. Yeah, it's pretty good. Go see it. But you'll probably feel better about it if you catch a matinee.
Great animation and surround sound, story and "acting" just OK.
posted on 30 Mar 2009After watching this film and discussing it with my 24-yr-old son, we came to the conclusion that animation is not particularly suited to a serious story.
My favorite animated films are all comedies - Tarzan, Toy Story 1 and 2, A bug's Life, Chicken Run - I guess there's just something in most of us that associates animation with fun."Titan A.E." tries to tell a serious story, the destruction of the earth in the 3000s, followed by Cale's search for the Titan which his dad had hidden when the Drej attacked earlier. He has to find it, and destroy the "pure energy" Drej, to preserve the human race. The animation is very well done. "Name" actors, like Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, Jeananne Garafolo, Drew Barrymore, nathan Lane, John Liguezamo, voice the main characters. But animation just can't capture the real emotions and movements of real people, so I found myself being aware of this throughout the film. Contrast "StaWars" films, for example.Still, I enjoyed it very much and rate it 7 of 10. Much of the outer space effects are done really well. However, many of them are not. As most Sci-Fi films do, they still "fly" spacecraft as if they were in air. That may have worked in the 1950s, but now we know so much more about how ships really move in space, it is obvious when they violate the laws of physics.The DVD has both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks selectable. I found the DTS one better. The picture is always beautiful and detailed. There are several extras, my favorite being the Fox Kids special which is actually a "making of" documentary. Of note, missing, is a section on the actors, writer, and director.
Would, could, should...
posted on 15 Aug 2009Maybe I should preface my comments by saying that I'm a pretty big fan of anime, and so my view of this movie is colored by the viewing of a lot of fantastic stuff. That said, this isn't of the same caliber as Ghost in the Shell, Macross Plus, or Akira. I'll spilt this up into a few sections:Voice Acting - On the whole, excellent. The only voice I thought wasn't quite right was Janeane Garofalo's. Partly, it just didn't sound as bang-on as the others, and partly, it seemed like the sound was off on a lot of her lines.Dialogue - Related to the above, of course, but also taking the script into account. Again, a good job with only a few flaws that I won't point out to save others noticing them.Animation - This is a tricky one. At some points in the movie, it was fantastic, and at others, borderline poor. Let me explain. I watch a lot of animated entertainment, so I'm used to Disney, where everything is of consistent, typically high quality, and to anime, where the art is always of incredible quality but the frame rate shifts from low to high for dramatic and action sequences, respectively. But this movie was odd in this regard. The hand drawn animation was quite good throughout, as one would expect from a Bluth film. It's integration with the CG art was highly variable, from indistinguishable to obvious to painfully bad. And scenes involving CG only were the most curious of all; about 95% were brilliantly done, but every once in a while there was a serious flub where the CG would become quite choppy for a second or two, typically at the beginning or end of a scene. Why these weren't rendered smooth is beyond me, but it hurt what was otherwise an extremely well drawn film.Plot - Well, I won't give specifics, but it borrowed heavily from a number of pretty obvious sources. That being said, the general thrust was good, but some of the twists were unnecessary and cheapened the overall effort.General - There seems to be a great deal of disagreement on this one, but my take is that (regardless of how down I might have sounded above) the movie was decent, but could have been a lot better. I hope it does well enough at the box office that we get the chance to see more mature animated features on the big screen. And for the commentary above where it is hypothesized that some critical scenes must have been chopped out, I agree. I just hope they end up on the DVD.