Titan A.E. |
  • USA • 2000 • 94m •    • Directed by: Don Bluth, Gary Goldman. • Starring: Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, Drew Barrymore, Ron Perlman, Alex D. Linz, Tone Loc, Jim Breuer, Christopher Scarabosio, Jim Cummings, Charles Rocket. • Music by: Graeme Revell, Tim Simonec.      One thousand years from now, aliens destroy Earth in fear of the Titan project. Some humans escape, becoming a downtrodden Diaspora, living in impoverished settlements. The mysterious Titan spacecraft also escapes, and its inventor has hidden it before dying. A spacecraft captain and its pilot, Korso and Akima, two humans, seek out Cale, the youthful son of the dead scientist and explain that he must help them find the Titan, which holds a mechanism to unite and save humanity. Cale refuses, but the arrival of the killer aliens persuades him to join Korso. Can he avoid his pursuers, know friend from foe, find the Titan, and embrace his humanity, a nature he has despised until now?
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Movies need certain things. And in America it's a good guy, a bad guy, a comic relief, and some silly unrealistic violence. Bluth did a rather good job of breaking some of the Disney created requirements. We still got comic relief, good and bad guys and so on but at least this time around we got some blood and realistic violence with consequences. My god, if you break someone's neck they die...Gasp, Disney was wrong.
I think that the best combination of animation would be between anime and American animation. I have problems with people who lean heavily to one particular side. Though typically more action packed anime has its flaws. Such as everyone has about thirty gallons of blood that is under high pressure, dang near every city can be destroyed by some big evil guy that the hero inevitably fights and one or both are killed, every person has some rare illness that causes their eyeballs to swell to ungodly proportions. How do you even blink grapefruit eyes? There's also the soap opera plots, big breasted girls who are always too weak to do anything, the punks that become heroes, bad mix of future and present, the much loved elders, giant power suits, laser weapons, bad portrayals of Americans (were all surfer dude cowboys), repeated animation (look there goes his car, look its his car again, look its the same six cars in a four frame loop), sound effects for every action, sun with glinting sound off of every shinny object, unoriginal plots (crap they have guns, lets infiltrate and destroy something vital), mouths that can shift shape to cover 90% of the face, ect, ect. Don't get me wrong I love anime, but it's just as flawed as ours.
Anime one side of a coin and ours the other. ours has its problems, namely it's plain, has kiddy plots, the annoying habit of being made by Disney and usually gives teens a great deal of shame when they have to watch. Animation could benefit greatly from having films with both influences. The surrealism of Japan and the realism of America. Titan A.E. is a start in that direction. Some voices weren't hot and the movie lacked the violent power of some anime but it's a start.
I think that Bluth made a valiant effort to break the cliche. People who are aggravated with our animation should give him slack and a helping hand. You can't expect the American animation to be anything great when you sit complaining without helping.
What will we do without our planet? That has been done before, true. However never like this. A few of the things that this movie could have changed are the soundtrack, editing, camera angles, and pace. The pace should have been quicker during action, the camera could have been more dramatic in chases, the editing, such as when Gune and Stith get blown up, could have waited to cut, without so choppy a transition. Finally the sound track. I think that they picked the right bands but had them play the wrong songs. Powerman 5000 is a great choice. Their CD "Tonight the Stars Revolt" Is practically a rock space opera. I recommend it to anyone who passed it up. Instead of creating new songs they should have used older songs that fit the mood. During the leaving earth scene "Blast Off to No Where" by PM5K would have fit very well. "Last Day on Earth" by Marilyn Manson would have fit excellent for the introduction. It has no swearing or satanic references, and is hard rock with an acoustic guitar intro that would have fit perfectly for when young Cale is playing with his invention. Several songs used in the previews were not used in the film. Great songs that would fit the movie well and gave the previews their sticking power. I still plan to buy the soundtrack because it wasn't horrible, But I could have done better.
I think a few other things could have been changed around to make it more dramatic. Rather then Korso being the traitor that redeems himself I think it should have been Preed. Preed redeeming himself would have given his character more depth. Although Preed is all ready one of the deepest characters. Considering Korso BuckRodgers meets Duke Nukem, Akima was poorly voicecast, Stith and Gune didn't have enough airtime, and our hero was a bit typical of American animation. (Still, I loved the movie and want my own ship of alien sidekicks. Just FYI)
Overall I would say that this movie is a great example of a film. It has American traditions but is sampling Japanese style. Bluth made a film that has a nice stack of positives to smother the negatives. Of 10 stars I would give it 7 for mechanics and 1010 for personal enjoyment. I recommend it to everyone, including diehard Anime fans. Have any of you tried to draw something like a comic strip? It is near impossible to create something consistent. Try forty installments of a comic strip. It's not easy and it gives you a lot of respect for animation like Titan.
Review by Dark Gryf from the Internet Movie Database.
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