Anyway, there were a few problems I had with Titan. Namely, the Hydrogen Tree Chase Sequence. I would think if one tree goes, they ALL go. That and the fact the Dredge mothership actually expended the effort to send attack ships on the Titan when they locate it rather than just use their primary weapon to destroy the ship in the first place. And the name for the new Earth is a bit of a groaner. But these problems didn't bother me too much.

But there were also a lot of cool scenes. The ice ring sequence to name one. The sequence with those wake creatures that chase the ship inside the gaseous landscape with all those huge gas columns to name another. And the Alternative music that is spread throughout is a cool selection. Anytime I pass this movie in the booth and decide to turn up the monitor and watch a little bit, I get hooked in and have to yank myself away. Go ahead. Laugh at me. Get it out of your systems.

Written by Ben Edlund (creator of The Tick series) and Joss Whedon (co-screenwriter of Toy Story and writer for Alien 4 {the script IS better than the movie}), I've looked forward to seeing this movie for a little more than two years (when it was known as Ice Planet). And while I wasn't blown away with the end result, I was far from disappointed.

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Titan AE wasn't anything groundbreakingly original as far as science fiction goes, but it still held your attention and had a feel of originality as far as the look and style are concerned. Its pure brain and eye candy, but done with a bit more intelligence than Gone in 60 Seconds or MI2.

he one thing that bothered me was that it was butchered. Characters would appear without any context of entering the scene and I could tell the pacing was meant to be a bit more epic, hopefully the dvd will have a directors cut (this will look great on dvd) I also would have liked to seen more of a dramatic score rather than the cheesy alternative music that was blatently (and poorly) written for the movie.
other than that, no complaints.

Ah well. Titan may be OK storywise (haven't seen the entire thing) but Transformers: The Movie even had much better animation (as do most anime features).

Bad animation is one of my major pet peeves (Chicken Run looks very herky-jerky to me at its "15 frame or less per second in some scenes" animation).

Also, does EVERY movie really need to have Matt Damon or Ben Assflex in it? I am getting sick of both of them. They make one good movie and suddenly no movies are allowed to be made without at least one of them. Somebody please make them go away!

Or Gwyneth Paltrow? Heather Graham? Drew Barrymore? Samuel L. Jackson? Natalie Portman?

Sorry for being away for so long, having computer troubles

And of course that's the problem. Animation features in the U.S. is targeted at the G rated audience. And it was either Don Bluth or Gary Goldman that said they were going for a Japanimation look and feel, and this IS by far their most violent film to date (i.e. blood globules floating in Zero G, a talking bug chef getting turned into goop, etc.). I can't remember how Princess Mononoke did here, or even if it's the typical Anime film since I didn't see it (I doubt it since it was PG-13), but if it was a fairly sucessful venture releasing it in the U.S., then that's the kind of commerical success they needed to duplicate for this movie. Of course it doesn't matter now since it's been release in glorious Bluthvision, but I would have died waiting to see this thing if it had the look of Ghost in the Shell.

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Stuff like Pokemon is anime "lite". They only give you 4 frames per second. No wonder it took less that 8 months to animate the sequel. I will have to admit that Titan AE's animation is better than Pokemon's Big Adventure (or whatever the movies are called).