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63This sci-fi fantasy doesn't exactly make sense, but it sure looks cool.
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63Visually stunning.
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60Kaena resembles the Jim Henson fantasy in many ways, from its visual imagination and creature design to the hideousness of its more humanoid characters (except Kaena, who's a babe) and the general mediocrity of the voice acting.
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50It's a standard science-fantasy fable, but the visual effects are mighty impressive.
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50Has the distinctive Heavy Metal magazine meets "The Neverending Story" (1984) vibe of Euro-science-fiction comics, complete with ponderous philosophical noodling, weirdly whimsical aliens and seriously creepy creature sex.
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Originally conceived as a videogame, Kaena is now, instead, a creamy-colored yet derivative sci-fi fantasy with a few rip-offs so blatant (''The Empire Strikes Back,'' ''Alien,'' etc.) that even kiddie fans not yet mentally agile enough to make sense of the loopy plot could pick them out.
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50If Kaena's alternate universe isn't nearly as fully realized as "antastic Planet'," the 3-D imagery is often gloriously turbocharged.
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50There are moments in Kaena that are absorbing, but too much of the time it simply becomes tedious.
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40Augurs well for dazzling visual work but struggles mightily on the storytelling front.
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40No "Triplets of Belleville," this French animated feature was hatched as an idea for a video game, and it shows.
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40Has no local cultural history behind it. Its secondhand imagery and ideas seem to have barely involved its makers; it definitely does not involve its audience.
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30With so many plot hooks and so many story demands, it's incomprehensible that Kaena spends so much time on meaningless action.
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Lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.
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16Clumsily animated feature; probably better as a video game than as a movie.