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Titan A.E.
20th Century Fox

Titan A.E. reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 48 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.8 out of 10
based on 30 reviews
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based on 7 votes
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MPAA 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)


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: DVD: November 7, 2000 
Video: November 7, 2000 
Theatrical: June 16, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 94 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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100
San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
It is impossible to take your eyes off the screen.
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88
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A modern digitized lollapalooza concocted out of old-fashioned slam-bang space opera elements.
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88
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Pure slam-bam space opera.
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75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It moves so fast you almost forget it leaves the characters in its wake.
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75
Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
An impressive array of themes, stories and sequences.
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70
Variety Robert Koehler
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 Kevin Maynard
What ultimately keeps Titan A.E. from taking off is an ordinary script.
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63
San Francisco Examiner Walter Addiego
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 Jay Carr
A space shot worth taking.
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63
USA Today Mike Clark
Visually impressive but woefully dumbed-down.
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60
TV Guide Steve Simels
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 Luke Y. Thompson
Is it worth the goofy characters and weak story for the effects and action sequences? Absolutely.
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50
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
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 Jami Bernard
The real star of the movie is the background work.
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50
Time Richard Corliss
When it shifts into action mode, the movie can be a spectacular rush.
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50
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
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 Rene Rodriguez
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 Stephen Holden
Despite some gorgeous sequences. . . Titan A.E. is bland.
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50
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Unabashed "Star Wars" clone.
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50
Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
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 Chris Kaltenbach
Like watching a 90-minute game of the video game Asteroids - all bang and no buck.
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40
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.
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40
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
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 Lawrence Toppman
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 Desmond Ryan
Plunges into a void created by a stale and incredibly derivative plot.
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30
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It continually crashes and burns on its own banality.
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25
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
In the end, it is inadequate, juiceless storytelling that deprives Titan A.E. of any dramatic force.
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20
Village Voice Dennis Lim
Suggestive of nothing so much as Saturday-morning TV.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

[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?

Gilbert Mulroneycakes Fights The Flab gave it an 8:
I feel compelled to fight a monstrous injustice. People keep insisting Titan AE is not a good film. Even the normally-reliable William Gallagher on BBCi gave it one out of five. On the contrary. Titan AE is no great classic, but it's a great little space opera o' shooters and ships, corridors and big old humanoid dingo chaps with loose skin. It won't tax your brain, but by THUNDER it'll awaken your adrenalin. Besides, Joss Whedon was involved in the prelimanary storyboard, and nothing that Whedon touches can possibly be bad in any way, shape or form.

Blanco A. gave it a 7:
Nice animation, sound, etc. Much better than Disney, but still a kid's movie.

Henry B. gave it a 7:
Talk about modern animation. This movie certain's got the eye candy cartoon freaks are looking for.

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