Titan A.E. has probably the most amazing looking visuals ever put to film. The computer animation and the cell animation were godly. The sound effects were also very good. But then we get the story. It is okay, if a bit formulaic, throughout the first hour. The characters aren't anyone we haven't met before, but mostly they aren't awful. The only characters who were awful were the three aliens on the space ship. They were horribly annoying, and very unfunny. Their character design was really bad, too.
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The thing that really ruined this movie for me was the completely unnecessary and silly betrayal of one of the characters. A character completely changes for no reason whatsoever. It is unbelievable, and it made me cringe. And what is more, there is a second betrayal that is even more silly! Also, there was a continuity problem throughout the picture. Often, a character would appear somewhere where he was not without any explanation. The character Stilth (or something like that) was standing on a platform with Akima in one scene, but later we find that she went back to her ship later (much later, actually) without us ever seeing her leave from the platform. Also, there are a lot of resurrections in this film, i.e., a character would seemingly be dead but would reappear at the last moment to save the heroes. Oh well.
I'd still give the film a 7/10 simply because it is the best looking animation ever to come out (at least from this country. I think there are Japanese rivals, e.g., Princess Mononoke). It also contains the single best version of outer space ever put to film. It is a hundred times more beautiful to look at than the Phantom Menaced. I kind of hope the film is remembered at Oscar time for its special effects and sound effects, though, as an animated film, especially one that's released during the summer, it has little hope to win those awards.
SPOILERS
The thing that really ruined this movie for me was the completely unnecessary and silly betrayal of one of the characters. A character completely changes for no reason whatsoever. It is unbelievable, and it made me cringe. And what is more, there is a second betrayal that is even more silly! Also, there was a continuity problem throughout the picture. Often, a character would appear somewhere where he was not without any explanation. The character Stilth (or something like that) was standing on a platform with Akima in one scene, but later we find that she went back to her ship later (much later, actually) without us ever seeing her leave from the platform. Also, there are a lot of resurrections in this film, i.e., a character would seemingly be dead but would reappear at the last moment to save the heroes. Oh well.
I'd still give the film a 7/10 simply because it is the best looking animation ever to come out (at least from this country. I think there are Japanese rivals, e.g., Princess Mononoke). It also contains the single best version of outer space ever put to film. It is a hundred times more beautiful to look at than the Phantom Menaced. I kind of hope the film is remembered at Oscar time for its special effects and sound effects, though, as an animated film, especially one that's released during the summer, it has little hope to win those awards.