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Titan A.E. (Special Edition) | Year: 2000 Classification: Science Fiction Directed: - Art Vitello - Don Bluth - Gary Goldman Actors/Actresses: - Drew Barrymore - Matt Damon Excellent movie!! I don't know what happened at the summer box office in 2000, as this movie flopped. I must admit though, Titan AE is probably one of the strongest films that came out this year. From beginning to end, this film is pure eye candy. Once the adventure gets started the pace of the film really picks up and action doesn't stop until the end of the movie. Titan AE is a good science fiction story, with some of the best animation I have ever seen. The voices of the characters include a top notch cast such as Bill Pullman, Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, John Leguizamo and Janeane Garofalo. At the end of the movie (VHS Version) there is a video by Lit for Over My Head, and the making of Titan AE (which is facinating). This movie will likely appeal to Star Wars and Science Fiction fans! Highly recommended!! Titan AE: Means well but misses something. Synopsis:<BR>In the 31st century, humankind has reached a pinnacle of knowledge, but a vicious energy-based race known as the Drej find the creativity of humans to be a threat to their existence. To stop it, they destroy Earth, sending the few human refugees that escape to scatter across the galaxy with little hope left for the future of humanity. Twenty years later, a young man named Cale (voiced by Matt Damon) is pulled unwittingly into an unexpected adventure to find the Titan, the last hope for humankind, and incidentally, the life work of his father. Only Cale has the key to finding. With two other humans, Akima (voiced by Drew Barrymore) and Korso (voiced by Bill Pullman) and an odd alien crew and the interstellar ship Valkrie, he must find the Titan before the Drej find him. About the Movie:<BR>Titan A.E. is an interesting film in that it attempts to blend traditional hand drawn animation with the newer art of computer-drawn 3D animation. Though the effort is something of a novel enterprise, it turned out to work quite well. Titan AE is a beautiful movie with a great deal of animation skill behind it. It couldn't have been easy to so seamlessly integrate 3D and traditional animation, and even harder to make the human characters come off as human, rather than silly caricatures. You feel these characters, rather than just look at them. The 3D adds a lot to the film as well. The very beginning of the movie where the Earth is destroyed is chilling in its effect, especially when the moon gets totaled by a piece of it. You watch that whole sequence and it hits you hard because of the semi realism and impact of the event of our home planet blowing up and destroying the moon. The use of 3D makes the many spaceship sequences fantastic as well, especially near the end. While these sequences could have been done with traditional animation, the impact and power of them would have been deeply undercut if done that way. 3d added a futuristic feel and a touch of realism that traditional animation can't match. Perhaps this sort of thing is the future of animation, hybrids. It's hard to tell. Pontificating about the beautiful animation aside, this film is marred by its poor plot progression. It's not the plot itself that is bad, it's how the story was put together. They try to do too much in too little time. For instance, the director tried to jump the audience to too many locales. If you watch many of the other major sci-fi films out there, the formula is to go to no more than 4 locales in the film. Star Wars sticks to 4, as do almost all of the Star Trek movies. In the course of Titan AE, we have at least 7 major locales that the heroes visit. The audience is jumped around to so many alien places that it's hard to keep your feet on the ground. As a result you start to lose track a little. Another issue is the characters. There are 6 major characters in the movie. Three of them get fleshed out, but the othe A Steal From the Budget Bin I'm always astounded when I see this dvd offered so cheap. It's usually thrown in the same budget bin with really bad movies. To cut to the chase, the story is ok; not great, but not bad either. What really separates this one into the pile of DVD's that I like to watch are the stunning visuals and the even more stunning (DTS) sound. If you have a home theater, then this dvd will pay for itself in the first few minutes of the movie. An indicator of the excellent sound on this dvd is that when I finally added a subwoofer to my home theater, the first dvd I put in to try out was Titan AE (and it left my whole family with mouths agape). The story itself is fine, though it would have been better if it were developed more. There is a good story there, it's just not fully presented. Some of the secondary characters are very forgettable. In other words, it's pretty much on par with most SciFi movies. I could have written this same paragraph about any Star Wars or Star Trek movie. That may not be high praise, but it's no indictment either. It's SciFi; enjoy what it gives you and don't be overly critical. Titan AE: Means well but misses something. Synopsis: Twenty years later, a young man named Cale (voiced by Matt Damon) is pulled unwittingly into an unexpected adventure to find the Titan, the last hope for humankind, and incidentally, the life work of his father. Only Cale has the key to finding. With two other humans, Akima (voiced by Drew Barrymore) and Korso (voiced by Bill Pullman) and an odd alien crew and the interstellar ship Valkrie, he must find the Titan before the Drej find him. About the Movie: Titan AE is a beautiful movie with a great deal of animation skill behind it. It couldn't have been easy to so seamlessly integrate 3D and traditional animation, and even harder to make the human characters come off as human, rather than silly caricatures. You feel these characters, rather than just look at them. The 3D adds a lot to the film as well. The very beginning of the movie where the Earth is destroyed is chilling in its effect, especially when the moon gets totaled by a piece of it. You watch that whole sequence and it hits you hard because of the semi realism and impact of the event of our home planet blowing up and destroying the moon. The use of 3D makes the many spaceship sequences fantastic as well, especially near the end. While these sequences could have been done with traditional animation, the impact and power of them would have been deeply undercut if done that way. 3d added a futuristic feel and a touch of realism that traditional animation can't match. Perhaps this sort of thing is the future of animation, hybrids. It's hard to tell. Pontificating about the beautiful animation aside, this film is marred by its poor plot progression. It's not the plot itself that is bad, it's how the story was put together. They try to do too much in too little time. For instance, the director tried to jump the audience to too many locales. If you watch many of the other major sci-fi films out there, the formula is to go to no more than 4 locales in the film. Star Wars sticks to 4, as do almost all of the Star Trek movies. In the course of Titan AE, we have at least 7 major locales that the heroes visit. The audience is jumped around to so many alien places that it's hard to keep your feet on the ground. As a result you start to lose track a little. Another issue is the characters. There are 6 major characters in the movie. Three of them get fleshed out, but the othe Buy Titan A E at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Titan A E Search with the Priority Search Engine on Titan A E This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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