Titan A.E.

Directed by: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman

Screenplay by: Ben Edlund, John August and Joss Whedon

Story by: Hans Bauer and Randall McCormick

Produced by: 20th Century Fox Animation

Release Date: June 16, 2000

Lenght: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Don Bluth's last film before semi-retiting from animation and film making. Which is almost as tragic as the fact that the company he spent so many years of his life challenging, Disney, now currently owns it as part of the Fox acquisition.

Titan A.E. has a ton of parallels with the similarly ill-fated at the box office, Treasure Planet. A space opera where a young man and a group of rouges follow a map that sends them on a trip throughout the cosmos, featuring a mix of hand-drawn and cel-shaded CG animation as well as a soundtrack that involves then-contemporary rock music. Difference being that Titan A.E. is a much colder and darker movie, seemingly aiming for a more general audience rather than solely marketing itself as a family picture. A fair amount of death, instances of blood, slave trade and last but certainly not least, the fact that it takes place after the destruction of planet earth, putting humanity near the brink of extinction in the years since.

Since I'm not very acquianted with his filmography, I can't say for a fact that it is Bluth's best movie. I did however enjoy it far more than 'All Dogs Go to Heaven.' All in all, if you haven't seen it, I highly suggest checking it out, especially to those that love science fiction and have a fondness for this experimental era of early-2000s animated hollywood films.