Titan A.E. (Special Edition) |  | Directors: Art Vitello, Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
Actors: Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Rating:  299 reviews
Sales Rank: 14992
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2000924D
UPC: 024543009245
EAN: 0024543009245
ASIN: B00003CXDS
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Publication Date: 2000
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Product Description
Earth has been destroyed by an alien race and the surviving humans have fled. A young Earthling must fulfill his destiny, to find the space ship Titan.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG
Release Date: 16-DEC-2003
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com
A visual knockout, Titan A.E. is an ambitious animated feature that combines traditional animations, computer-generated imagery, and special effects in the service of a science fiction adventure plotted with narrative conventions familiar from Star Wars and Star Trek. Credit directors Don Bluth (An American Tail, The Secret of NIMH, Anastasia) and Gary Goldman with crafting a vivid, convincing look to this deep space saga, which conjures some stunning images. A tense opening sequence climaxing in the destruction of Earth, a watery planet where delicate but deadly hydrogen trees float, joyriding in a starship while pursued by playful "space angels," and a nerve-wracking journey through a lethal maze of massive ice crystals each qualify as mesmerizing sequences in any film context. What's visually stunning proves intermittently stunted on the narrative front, however. Orphaned when the evil Drej atomize Earth, protagonist Cale (voiced by Matt Damon) must journey across space to unlock the mystery of his late father's final project, the Titan spacecraft, in a test of faith and filial identity that echoes Star Wars. The Titan itself ultimately poses a cosmic potential familiar to admirers of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Comical sidekicks (Nathan Lane, Janeane Garofalo, John Leguizamo), a sultry love interest (Drew Barrymore), and a roguish mentor (Bill Pullman) all verge on the generic, narrowly redeemed by dialogue from a writing team including Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon. It's likely that Titan's target audience of young males prompted the filmmakers to walk a tightrope between softer family features and more violent, hard-edged anime. Titan's brief bloodshed and coy nudity stop short of PG-13 terrain, though younger viewers might be unsettled by the violence. Young teens will find the proceedings tamer than the video games and anime fantasies that have influenced it. --Sam Sutherland
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Top-notch animated space opera... September 2, 2010
Alan Holyoak (In the shadow of the Tetons)
Don Bluth (The Land Before Time (Anniversary Edition), All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Secret of NIMH (2-Disc Family Fun Edition), Anastasia) and Gary Goldman put together this tale of humanity's struggle to survive after a race of beings called the Drej who are made of pure energy, and who feel threatened by humanity, destroy Earth.
Bluth and company used multiple animation techniques to film this story. These differnet animation styles are evident when you see the film. One style is traditional 2D animation, and is used in this film for the characters and their interactions with each other. The other method uses a computer animated 3D rendering method, and is used for large scale shots of space and space ships, etc. While Bluth does both methods well, they seem to me to clash with each other as you jump from one style to the other. Even so, this is still a noteable film for 2000, even though by this time Pixar had run away with a new approach to feature length animation techniques (starting with Toy Story, in 1995).
One of the things that Bluth did that was, in 2000, something fairly new for feature length animation was to choose not to make this story a musical, but he employed a soudtrack of rock music to build on the space theme (similar to what was done for the Disney film Treasure Planet in 2002). Titan A.E.'s soundtrack hits early and obviously in the first scenes of the movie and reappears in several later scenes, though it is mainly background music for most of the show.
Even though the animation now appears somewhat dated, this is still a fun film that is worth watching. All in all this is a solid film worth 4 stars.
Recommended!
Titan A.E. September 1, 2010
Severedlimbs
This is an American made anime, that said its very good, maybe that's just because I loved it when it first come out. That was quite a few years back, I picked it up because my vhs copy died on my. It looks great in the dvd format. Definitely a great addition to any movie collection
 my kids love 5 & 9 love this movie August 15, 2010
anonymous
My kids truly love this movie. And it is something I can watch again and again with them and actually enjoy. The soundtrack accounts for about 75 percent of what I love and then there's the voices. That Barrymore voice is so wonderful to listen to (especially without the distraction of some of the ridiculously facial expressions that are a part of her regular acting, sorry Drew!) and the other voices are wonderful and the colors are magnificent. There is a scene on a red planet with the blue antagonists that is just eye popping. The story is actually an epic tale played out so even the very young can enjoy it. There is no manipulation of the heart strings as is so common in disney movies and so tedious for parents. The worst thing that happens is a bad guy insect gets zapped by the really bad guy droids. I tell the kids he's an alien bug and who knows what his life cycle is? Actually the worst thing that happens is the destruction of the planet earth but that is in the first 3 minutes or so and every character the story introduces up to that point flees on escape pods.
I don't have to skip any scenes.
great movie August 9, 2010
CRhodes03
great movie, my boys love it. always watching it over and over. action, adventure, space, alien beings, and a fight to save human kind. what more could a lil boy ask for?
titan July 19, 2010
Dennis Malkowski
this is a great animation. The story line is good and kinda funny. I had previously bought this on vhs but i wanted it on dvd thats the only reason i bought it.
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