Production
Company: 20th Century Fox Producers:
Brian Rosen Directors:
Don Bluth and Gary Goldman Screenplay:
Ben Edlund, Randall McCormick Editor:
Bob Birchard Cast:
Cale: Matt Damon
Joe Korso: Bill Pullman
Akima: Drew Barrymore
Preed: Nathan Lane
Navigator: Hank Azaria
Cale's Alien Boss:
Jim Breuer Stith: Janeane Garofalo
Gune: John Leguizamo
Sam Tucker: Ron Perlman
Awards:
Academy of Science Fiction,
Fantasy & Horror Films: Saturn Award nomination for Best Science Fiction
Film.
Annie Awards:
Annie nomination for Outstanding
Achievement in an Animated Theatrical Feature.
Annie nomination forOutstanding
Individual Achievement for Effects Animation.
Annie nomination for Outstanding
Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production.
Golden Satellite Award nomination
for Best Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed Media.
Motion Picture Sound Editors Awards:
Golden Reel Award for Best Sound
Editing.
Golden Reel Award nomination
for Best Sound Editing - Music - Animation.
Release
Date: June 16, 2000
Comments:
This particular movie has been
fun, really fun, for me because I've never really gotten to build a science
fiction film, said Don Bluth, director of the film. With animation, one
of the things you try to do is convince the audience that your characters have
weight and that gravity is there holding them down. Out there in space there's
no gravity. So this is the one case where we said, 'Animations rules? Let's
park them at the door because everybody's going to float a little bit.' So we've
had to abandon some of the thoughts that we'd always had about animation.
Set in the future, after Earth
has been destroyed by a devastating alien attack, Titan A.E. is the story
of an orphaned young man who suddenly finds himself on an incredible adventure.
As he travels the far reaches of this unknown galaxy, he must find the strength
within himself to survive the perilous journey. He will also face his greatest
challenge as he struggles to unlock the secret of a legendary planet which is
believed to hold a hidden treasure that could ultimately save mankind. This
story to me has been so compelling because what if you lost everything you had
and you don't have any hope? The planet's gone, Bluth said. The planet
is blown up and a few survivors get out there and they just sort of drift about
on little colonies. They glue their spaceships together so they can be a little
community. And there's no way that they can go home. So all the things that
we know are really not there. I thought 'Wow, that's a really neat concept'.
You can tell that idea in just a moment. And then there's a young kid whose
father was a brillaint man. He knew that this horrible catastrophe was coming
so he created this 'Titan', which is a fabulous instrument and he took it out
into outer space and hid it where the enemy couldn't find it. And it has the
power to make a planet. So can you find it? It's sitting out there. The scientist
got killed and so his son comes along and it's said, 'You're the map. You are
the only kid who can find it'. But can they get it before the villains come
to them?
In developing the film's villains,
a hive-minded energy life form, the artists looked to popular genre films of
the not so distant past. We looked at a lot of reference material, trying
to fashion it after other predators -- and actually Predator is one to keep
in mind. We looked at the invisibility of Predator, combining it with the forcefullness
of Terminator and even the always there feeling of Stormtroopers from Star Wars.
We tried to put something together that would give us a unique villain,
said animator Tom Miller.
Reviews:
Date:
11/4/01
Name:
Ragamuffin
* * *
Review:
A big budgeted and watchable, but
mediocre and cliched sci-fi cartoon.
