Titan A.E. (2000)
Directed by Don Bluth
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.
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(One is an homage to Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai , using a field of giant ice floes like a house of mirrors.)
Also, it's surprising how lame the character banter and dialogue is, considering the script writers were Ben Edlund (the "Tick" animated series), John August ("Go") and Joss Whedon (TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer").
"Titan A.E." was written by three men who should have done something incredible: Ben Edlund (TV's "The Tick"), John August (1999 indie hit "Go") and Joss Whedon (TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"; "Toy Story").
Amazingly, the screenplay is by three talented writers: Joss Whedon of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (both the 1992 movie and the current TV show) and Toy Story (1995), John August of Go (1999), and Ben Edlund, creator of the comic book and cartoon series "The Tick".
The plodding story (written by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Joss Whedon and a gaggle of others) is an uninspired, nonsensical muddle that pilfers freely from the Star Wars movies and a bit from Star Trek II and III.
This animated feature from Don Bluth and Gary Goldman (the two former Disney guys who teamed up for a series of features, including "The Secret of NIMH" and "American Tail," is kind of a tweener.
Bluth and Goldman, who have staked out a reputation as a counter-Disney with films like "The Secret of NIMH" and "The Land Before Time" most notably and the excruciating "Rock-a-Doodle" least notably, aren't nearly so gifted or visionary.
"Titan A.E." is the latest feature from Don Bluth, the onetime Disney animator ("Robin Hood") who broke loose and, with another Mouse Factory refugee, Gary Goldman, produced a string of middling-to-good full-length cartoons: "The Secret of NIMH," "An American Tail," "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and more.
Bluth, whose pictures include The Secret of NIMH, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go to Heaven, codirected the movie with Gary Goldman, and it's clear that he's trying to advance his technological artistry along with the times.
Legendary animator Don Bluth ("All Dogs Go to Heaven") shows some signs of maturity, connecting to an audience older than what he's used to, while Fox Animation proves that it can compete with the big guns over at the Mouse House (that's Disney, folks).
It was directed by on Bluth and Gary Goldman, the team behind the excellent The Secret of NIHM (1982) and the questionable All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) and Anastasia (1997).
"Titan A.E." is the latest feature from Don Bluth, the onetime Disney animator ("Robin Hood") who broke loose and, with another Mouse Factory refugee, Gary Goldman, produced a string of middling-to-good full-length cartoons: "The Secret of NIMH," "An American Tail," "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and more.
Bluth, whose pictures include The Secret of NIMH, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go to Heaven, codirected the movie with Gary Goldman, and it's clear that he's trying to advance his technological artistry along with the times.
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Titan A.E.'s co-director Don Bluth is a former Disney animator who formed his own animation studio in the early 1980s and produced and directed films like The Secret of NIMH , An American Tail , and The Land Before Time .
Bluth and Goldman, who have staked out a reputation as a counter-Disney with films like "The Secret of NIMH" and "The Land Before Time" most notably and the excruciating "Rock-a-Doodle" least notably, aren't nearly so gifted or visionary.
While the production company founded by former Disney animator Don Bluth has turned out several notable films set in the past (An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Anastasia ), his newest opus, Titan A. E., takes place about a millennium from now.
Bluth, whose pictures include The Secret of NIMH, The Land Before Time, and All Dogs Go to Heaven, codirected the movie with Gary Goldman, and it's clear that he's trying to advance his technological artistry along with the times.
While the production company founded by former Disney animator Don Bluth has turned out several notable films set in the past (An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Anastasia ), his newest opus, Titan A. E., takes place about a millennium from now.
"Titan A.E." is the latest feature from Don Bluth, the onetime Disney animator ("Robin Hood") who broke loose and, with another Mouse Factory refugee, Gary Goldman, produced a string of middling-to-good full-length cartoons: "The Secret of NIMH," "An American Tail," "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and more.
And unlike Bluth's first work for the Fox Animation Studio, "Anastasia," this film features no musical numbers.
It was directed by on Bluth and Gary Goldman, the team behind the excellent The Secret of NIHM (1982) and the questionable All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) and Anastasia (1997).
While the production company founded by former Disney animator Don Bluth has turned out several notable films set in the past (An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Anastasia ), his newest opus, Titan A. E., takes place about a millennium from now.
The Bluth-Goldman team was hired in '96 to set up Fox's new animation arm in Phoenix, and released the promising "Anastasia" the next year.
Produced and directed by veterans Don Bluth and Gary Goldman ("Anastasia") from a script by Ben Edlund, John August and Joss Whedon, the film employs conventional hand-drawn artwork for the human and animist characters, while using computer imaging to create the space environments, spacecraft and the Drej.
A mere three years later, Titan A.E. killed both of these dreams, but now is not the time for that; now, let us sit with Bluth and Goldman in the full glow of their last triumph.