Titan A.E. (Special Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Don Bluth
Actors: Drew Barrymore, Matt Damon, Nathan Lane, John Leguizamo, Ron Perlman
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  281 reviews
Sales Rank: 4598
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Special Edition, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D2000924D
UPC: 245430092458
EAN: 0024543009245
ASIN: B00003CXDS
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: November 7, 2000
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A visual knockout, Titan A.E. is an ambitious animated feature that combines traditional animations, computer-generated imagery, and special effects in the service of a science fiction adventure plotted with narrative conventions familiar from Star Wars and Star Trek. Credit directors Don Bluth (An American Tail, The Secret of NIMH, Anastasia) and Gary Goldman with crafting a vivid, convincing look to this deep space saga, which conjures some stunning images. A tense opening sequence climaxing in the destruction of Earth, a watery planet where delicate but deadly hydrogen trees float, joyriding in a starship while pursued by playful "space angels," and a nerve-wracking journey through a lethal maze of massive ice crystals each qualify as mesmerizing sequences in any film context. What's visually stunning proves intermittently stunted on the narrative front, however. Orphaned when the evil Drej atomize Earth, protagonist Cale (voiced by Matt Damon) must journey across space to unlock the mystery of his late father's final project, the Titan spacecraft, in a test of faith and filial identity that echoes Star Wars. The Titan itself ultimately poses a cosmic potential familiar to admirers of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Comical sidekicks (Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, John Leguizamo), a sultry love interest (Drew Barrymore), and a roguish mentor (Bill Pullman) all verge on the generic, narrowly redeemed by dialogue from a writing team including Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon. It's likely that Titan's target audience of young males prompted the filmmakers to walk a tightrope between softer family features and more violent, hard-edged anime. Titan's brief bloodshed and coy nudity stop short of PG-13 terrain, though younger viewers might be unsettled by the violence. Young teens will find the proceedings tamer than the video games and anime fantasies that have influenced it. --Sam Sutherland
Description
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. In the year 3028 the Drej, a vicious alien race, has 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 secret to the salvation of the human race. With the Drej in hot pursuit, Cale blasts off with the crew of the Valkyrie in an attempt to find the Titan before the Drej destroy it - and with it, 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.
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 Embarassment to humankind September 30, 2008
Zachary (Somerville, MA United States)
If Titan AE is our last hope then the human race is better off dying. This insipid story follows an unlikable brat and a crew of incompetents in their attempt to save humanity. The story is ham-fisted the characters unlikable. Children might like this movie but adults will need Novocaine to make it through the operation.
Good kids movie. September 12, 2008
Shayna Grove
Titan A.E. has an interesting premise of a post-apocalyptic scenario for humankind in space. With a grunge/punk soundtrack, this appeals to a more modern generation than some other animated space films. I would say this fits in the same genre as Disney's animated Treasure Island (the one set in space). It's clean enough for small kids, and still entertaining for teens or adults, if predictable. I was really impressed by the seamless integration of both 3d generated graphics and traditional 2d animation. The plot is easy to follow, the characters realistic and engaging. I also liked that the aliens are more interesting than humans with extra features. I didn't like the hive mind villain idea, but that doesn't make the villain any less scary for younger viewers. All in all, it's a good find for light sci-fi that everyone in the family can enjoy.
 Finally saw this movie 8 years later and... September 7, 2008
G. SORRELL (antarctica)
Coulda waited another 8. No wonder this movie sank Fox Animation studios.
This movie was so predictable. No matter how much special f/x you throw at a movie, if the story isn't there people over 11 y.o will not pay attention to the screen for very long. The character development was non-existent, you just KNEW someone was tipping the Drej; and since the movie cam never leaves the main characters, you knew it was one of the crew. This is ironic since all the time spent listening to the ham-flled script could have provided an opportunity for the audience to connect to the characters.
Biggest example of predictable: bad guy man (redeems himself at the end to work the Titan, THERE'S a surprise) remarks how the Drej are unstoppable because they are pure energy, just 2 minutes after the hologram message left for Cale states the Titan's energy cells are depleted. Well guess what the Titan uses to power the Genesis project (er, I mean the Titan)? The traitor/protagonist at the end redeeming himself is SO Joss Whedon, as this is how Spike dies at the end of Buffy and Angelis at the end of Angel.
Plot holes? If the human race is so dangerous, why didn't the Drej pick them off after blowing up the planet? Where did the rest of humanity wind up? Humanity was smart enough to create a Genesis project, but all that tech blows up with the creation of a new planet. How hard could it have been to create a separate piece of storage media to hold humanity's science, art, literature, et al? Couldn't be on the Titan, it blew up.
Then there's the rock soundtrack that is put in place of a typical orchestra to build suspense and carry the emotion of the movie. Sorry, but there is only one HEAVY METAL movie, and this is a sorry attempt at recreating that cult-ish movie follwing that still gets the it watched nearly 30 years later.
Movies like Pulp Fiction, Blair Witch project, and Swingers all prove you don't need A list celebs, big budgets, and hammy, WAY over the top scriptwriting to sell a movie. You just need to hire decent screenwriters and directors who aren't former Disney B-material.
 Titan A.E. August 23, 2008
Robert S. Rubin (Arizona)
The graphics were excellent, the storyline was very good and overall the dvd was very interesting to watch.
Not perfect but still a most enjoyable ride July 20, 2008
Irikefe Okonedo (London, England)
Animated sci-fi adventure set in the 31st century in which evil alien forces known as the Drej destroy the earth, wiping out most of mankind (hence the 'A.E.' in the film's title, which stands for 'After Earth'). Fifteen years after the earth's destruction a handful of the dwindling human survivors from that awful day seek out the fabled Titan, a spaceship that represents mankind's last hope. But they must find the ship before the Drej do. This was a very enjoyable animated adventure, with Matt Damon providing the voice of the hero of the film Cale who leads the search for the spaceship Titan and Drew Barrymore the voice of his main female companion Akima. The beginning and end of the film are magnificent, both in terms of storytelling and animation. In this film we get to go on a journey of personal growth with the main character Cale, who starts off as a selfish and quite frankly not very pleasant person but matures as the film goes on as the quest to find the Titan becomes the making of him as a hero. The Drej are indeed frightening villains who destroy the earth near the beginning of the film but I felt that these characters were not fully fleshed out during the course of the film as their reasons for trying to wipe out the human race are never explained by them but merely speculated on by the film's human characters. Because of this the film is not perfect but it is still a most enjoyable ride which is even more impressive considering that most of the film's characters are rendered in traditional 2-D animation, as opposed to the computer generated animation which has taken over from 2-D animation in recent years. A good effort.
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