Titan A.E. (June 16, 2000)

I had high hopes for this movie when I first saw the animation style but Titan A.E. was very disappointing. First of all, the Dialogue bad. It wavers between on the nose to non sensical and unrealistic. The overall plot is uninspired and confusing (I saw the ‘twist’ coming and it stretches the realm of believability) An example of this unbelievability is the central part of the story wherein the Earth has been destroyed by an alien rac

e who is afraid of humanities potential for evil (this is never elaborated further). But Earth has only been gone for 16 years and yet there are so few humans left? And they are so spread out throughout the universe? And many of them do not remember earth at all? The rest of the plot is the protagonist Cale’s father was a scientist working on Titan, a ship that can create a new planet for humans and a map to its location is embedded on the back of Cale’s wrist (which provides for some stellar visuals) Moving on, the Characters are unremarkable. I do not feel connected to any of them and the romance between Cale and Akima is forced and unnecessary. The voice acting quality also varies from fairly good to stilted and wooden and takes me out of the movie several times. Additionally, the music is a bit overkill, occasionally distracting, and is coupled with too many montages, but I mostly enjoyed it. Overall, Titan A.E. strongly reminds me of Treasure Planet, one of my favorite Disney movies, which was released two years later in 2002. It has an interesting world and great character design which is wasted by stunted dialogue and bland characters. My recommendation is to just watch treasure planet instead as it is lightyears better than this.

Final Rating: 3.5/10