Titan A.E. (2000)
SPOILERS AHEAD
The good: Akima’s character design.
The bad: the Drej’s weak-as-piss reason for destroying the Earth; the tepid characters; the bland/cornball alien designs; the fact that there’s nothing to stop the Drej from destroying New Earth, since its location doesn’t appear to be kept secret (Or were the Drej supposed to have been completely wiped out by film’s end? If that’s the case, the damn movie certainly didn’t make that clear.).
The ugly: the fusion of traditional animation with 3D animation. I just didn’t care for the final result at all.
6/10
I’ll watch Titan A.E. over TPM any day of the week. (Noted SF artist Wayne Barlowe designed a lot of the aliens. The prequels could have used him.) I think the Drej function like an ant colony. Kill the Queen, and they all eventually die.
Funny how when Disney did CGI backgrounds it’s praised as genius.
And why the hell is this not on Blu Ray yet?
Balto (1995)
I have only two things in particular to say in regards to this movie:
- Any movie which features talking animals shouldn’t claim to be based on a true story (inspired, sure, but not based).
- “No animals were injured or harmed in the making of this motion picture.” Well, seeing as this is an ANIMATED film, that’s bloody obvious!
8/10
It’s called a joke?