| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It is impossible to take your eyes off the screen.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Pure slam-bam space opera.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It moves so fast you almost forget it leaves the characters in its wake.
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
An impressive array of themes, stories and sequences.
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| 70 |
Variety
Despite occasional awkwardness in character motion, viewers will be swept away by the luxuriant creation of alternate universes.
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| 65 |
Mr. Showbiz
What ultimately keeps Titan A.E. from taking off is an ordinary script.
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| 63 |
San Francisco Examiner
The glory of the picture is the eye-popping, surreal backgrounds that blast the conventional characters off the screen.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
A space shot worth taking.
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| 63 |
USA Today
Visually impressive but woefully dumbed-down.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Not only one of the most spectacular cartoons ever made, but also a reasonably adult piece of sci-fi.
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| 60 |
Dallas Observer
Is it worth the goofy characters and weak story for the effects and action sequences? Absolutely.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
It's not the story that's the story here, it' the film' bravura visual look.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
The real star of the movie is the background work.
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| 50 |
Time
When it shifts into action mode, the movie can be a spectacular rush.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Titan A.E. is ''Star Wars'' pulped and mashed into flavorless kiddie corn.
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| 50 |
TNT RoughCut
Pauline Adamek
Redeems itself with a bold and grungy action-adventure flavor.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
Never feels like anything more than a Saturday morning cartoon pumped up to big-screen dimensions.
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| 50 |
The New York Times
Despite some gorgeous sequences. . . Titan A.E. is bland.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
Unabashed "Star Wars" clone.
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| 50 |
Chicago Reader
The modeling of human figures and the sense of depth are both impressive; the characters themselves are mainly idiotic.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Like watching a 90-minute game of the video game Asteroids - all bang and no buck.
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| 40 |
Film.com
We should expect more of summer fare than that it merely be a visual junk-food snack as we cool off in the chill of a darkened theater.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Feels like a been-here-done-that dud.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Chuck Stephens
An overproduced cartoon without a freeze-dried ounce of wit.
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| 38 |
Charlotte Observer
Visually compelling, relentlessly loud and so shallow you need just a fragment of your brain to follow it.
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| 38 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Plunges into a void created by a stale and incredibly derivative plot.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
It continually crashes and burns on its own banality.
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| 25 |
New York Post
In the end, it is inadequate, juiceless storytelling that deprives Titan A.E. of any dramatic force.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
Suggestive of nothing so much as Saturday-morning TV.
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