Sunday, July 5, 2009

Blast from the Past: Titan A.E.


In the year 3028 A.D., Earth is being attacked by the Drej, which are aliens made of pure energy! The Drej mothership destroys Earth with an energy beam just as hundreds of space vehicles manage to escape with the last of mankind aboard! One of the escapees is Sam's young son Cale, who carries with him a ring given to him by his father. Fifteen years later, Cale works on a salvage station, eking out a rough life and hating his father for having disappeared aboard the Titan so long ago. Without a home planet, surviving humans have been reduced to outer space drifters and are constantly bullied and looked down on by other space-faring races. A human captain named Joseph Korso and his pilot Akima seek out Cale and explain that he must help them find the Titan which contains a mechanism that will create a new Earth and therefore unite all of humanity. Meanwhile, the Drej wants to find the Titan so that they can destroy it. It's never really clear why the Drej hat humans so much, but it doesnt really matter. The first thing I notice about Titan while watching it was that even though it was animated it was a serious sci-fi movie. The story was great, the action was intense, and the movie itself was overall epic. Speaking of this film being animated, the style of animation is incredible, it is a 2D style with a 3D animation backdrop. The result is eye-popping. The way this story plays out is almost as if this was supposed to be a live action film and then they decided to go with animation. Its just a great ride, and I'm pretty sure that if this was a live action film, 13 would have followed the PG in the rating. If you like sci-fi movies than I think that you would b pleasently surprised by Titan A.E. as I was.

Agree or Disagree? Leave a comment and let me know what you thought about this movie.

one luv, Toinne

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