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Titan A.E.
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Based on 10 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Sci-fi
Written by:
Randall McCormick (story)
Hans Bauer (story)
Ben Edlund
John August
Directed by:
Don Bluth
Gary Goldman
Art Vitello
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 16, 2000
DVD: November 7, 2000
Running Time: 94 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG for action violence, mild sensuality and brief language
Starring Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, Nathan Lane, Tone Loc, and Jim Breuer
The year is 3028 and mankind has conquered space. However, with new freedom comes new enemies, forcing Earth to prepare for an attack by the Drej, a vicious alien race. (20th Century Fox)
What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
It is impossible to take your eyes off the screen.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It moves so fast you almost forget it leaves the characters in its wake.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
An impressive array of themes, stories and sequences.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Despite occasional awkwardness in character motion, viewers will be swept away by the luxuriant creation of alternate universes.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
What ultimately keeps Titan A.E. from taking off is an ordinary script.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
The glory of the picture is the eye-popping, surreal backgrounds that blast the conventional characters off the screen.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Steve Simels
Not only one of the most spectacular cartoons ever made, but also a reasonably adult piece of sci-fi.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Luke Y. Thompson
Is it worth the goofy characters and weak story for the effects and action sequences? Absolutely.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
It's not the story that's the story here, it' the film' bravura visual look.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jami Bernard
The real star of the movie is the background work.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Corliss
When it shifts into action mode, the movie can be a spectacular rush.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Titan A.E. is ''Star Wars'' pulped and mashed into flavorless kiddie corn.
Read Full Review >TNT RoughCut Pauline Adamek
Redeems itself with a bold and grungy action-adventure flavor.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Never feels like anything more than a Saturday morning cartoon pumped up to big-screen dimensions.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
Despite some gorgeous sequences. . . Titan A.E. is bland.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The modeling of human figures and the sense of depth are both impressive; the characters themselves are mainly idiotic.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Like watching a 90-minute game of the video game Asteroids - all bang and no buck.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ernest Hardy
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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Stephens
An overproduced cartoon without a freeze-dried ounce of wit.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Visually compelling, relentlessly loud and so shallow you need just a fragment of your brain to follow it.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Desmond Ryan
Plunges into a void created by a stale and incredibly derivative plot.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It continually crashes and burns on its own banality.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
In the end, it is inadequate, juiceless storytelling that deprives Titan A.E. of any dramatic force.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 10 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Titanium Dragon gave it a6:
This movie is the definition of the Animation Age Ghetto. Its target audience wasn't interested in it, so it flopped. Its not a kids movie; its a movie for preteens and teens. But it didn't really quite ever make up its mind. The movie is overall quite decent; while it got poor reviews its really not bad. Its a decent movie. It also has the ultimate bit of Fridge Logic - years after the fact, I finally got that the Drej, the energy beings, had been entirely justified in attacking the Earth as they ended up doing exactly what the Drej were afraid of, using it as a weapon against them. The movie is not amazing, but its not terrible. It has a decent enough plot, and the characters are fine. Its worth watching, but its not a must-see movie.
kitty gave it a10:
I love this movie. it is a pretty original storyline and is also very entertaining.
[Anonymous] gave it a7:
Really? 48? I thought this was pretty good, if a bit cliched a times. But, again, no one outside of the Village cares what the Village Voice thinks.
Jeff C gave it an8:
It's a great movie with an excellent soundtrack. The voice acting is top notch with people like Matt Damon, Bull Pullman, and Nathan Lane. The characters were fun and you can relate to them in some way. I believe that this is one of the most underrated movies of all time. It was a fun concept and the CGI was awesome. The only complaint I have is that it should have been live action or 100% animation, not something in between. It was a little disorienting to watch because of the mix of CGI and hand drawn cartoons. If you can get past that, this is a great film for any Science Fiction fan!
[Anonymous] gave it a6:
It nails the visuals almost perfectly, save for some drej parts. Casting is nice. Unfortunately, hollywood is spilled all over everything else, especially story, characters and dialogue. It's not a BAD movie, but a mixed bag that ought to be named Cliche A.E.. It starts off decent, but once that plot twist enters, the cliches almost destroy the film.
elizabeth gave it a10:
This movie has an awesome storyline that could be pheasable in a real live movie. not only do the characters seem real to life but the plot is never boring and brings a sense of longing we all have to discover what lies beyond our earth, but also why we should treasure it.
Yoon C. gave it a 2:
What i found most jarring about titan ae, however, was the uneasy blending of traditional animation with state of the art cgi. i suppose it suggests cgi isn't advanced enough to create fully satisfying human characters. but it also suggests the makers of this movie didn't have a clue as to what works and what doesn't. the two styles of animation undermine the other and we never lose ourselves into a congruently believable world. do i want to see a turtle-faced creature that looks like peter lorre and a squatting half kangaroo girl(both belonging to saturday morning cartoons)in a movie that promises the coolest in the latest sci-fi technology?
