I just got back from seeing the movie. The above article misrepresents it so badly it's sickening. I'm not going to go into every single inaccuracy, but...no, wait, I will go into every single inaccuracy!"He may well smack himself with a light sabre and say, 'Why didn't I think of that?' once he views the expected healthy box-office grosses for this agreeable Titan, which is as close to being an unauthorized Star Wars clone as the law would allow."
This movie resembled Star Wars about as much as it resembled Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The details of the plot were nothing alike.
"It has a similar storyline (plucky rebels imperilled by fascist aliens in the year 3028)"
Star Wars had rebels opposing their government; the characters in this movie didn't have a government to oppose. Also, it's spelled "imperiled."
"So does Bill Pullman's Korso, who otherwise is more of an Obi-Wan Kenobi mentor."
This statement alone indicates that the writer of the article only watched the first 15 minutes of the film.
"Drew Barrymore's exotic Akima, meanwhile, is very much like Princess Leia."
Why? Because she's female? The resemblance stops there.
"Stage vet Nathan Lane voices a sinister sidekick called Preed, who looks like Jar Jar from The Phantom Menace"
About as much as Luke Skywalker looks like a golf club.
"Janeane Garofalo voices Stith, a weapons specialist who combines Star Wars' cranky C3PO and stout Wookie in one kangaroo-shaped alien."
I'm beginning to think that the reviewer watched less of Star Wars than Titan AE. The character's personality resembled neither.
"Clever robot R2D2 is recalled by Gune, a bug-like creature (voiced by John Leguizamo) that can read three-dimensional maps and program computers for impossible missions."
All of the characters in the movie can read three-dimensional maps. Not to mention that, again, Gune is more of a mad-scientist type than anything R2-D2 every resembled.
"The villains here are a glowing mass of blue-crystal humanoids (way cool) that think as one, like Star Trek's Borg"
I didn't see any indication that they "think as one" in the movie, nor are the Borg like blue crystals.
"(don't even get me started on the Star Trek rips.)"
All two of them?
"Titan A.E. is a treat for the eye, not the brain, unless you want another mental workout in dreaming up the title for the inevitable sequel."
Or unless you pay attention to the movie, which is apparently something that was beyond this reviewer's attention span.
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Akima: "What are you going to name it?"
Cale: "Bob."
Akima: "What?!"
Cale: "What's wrong?"
Akima "You can't call a planet 'Bob'!"
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[This message has been edited by The Shadow (edited June 28, 2000).]
], I want to see that movie.
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