Titan AE **** (2000, voices of Matt Damon, Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Tone Loc, Alex D Linz) – Classic Movie Review 2646

Animation king Don (Anastasia) Bluth shows his versatility by heading for space this time in 2000 in a highly imaginative, explosively paced, gleamingly dark-looking adventure.

Matt Damon provides the voice of the hero Cale, an inventor’s son who sets off on a quest to find a map to his father’s spacecraft Titan, which can take Earth’s few survivors to a new planet in the 31st century after mankind is all but destroyed by an alien race.

Pounded along with a trendy pop score by Graeme Revell, this rare American venture into sci-fi feature film animation is simply one of the most intelligent and exciting computer-animated adventures for ages, and a worthy successor in the field to The Iron Giant (1999).

It is co-produced and co-directed by Gary Goldman, with a screenplay by Ben Edlund, John August and Joss Whedon, from a story by Hans Bauer and Randall McCormick.

Other voices by Bill Pullman, Drew Barrymore, John Leguizamo, Nathan Lane, Tone Loc, Janeane Garofalo, Ron Perlman, Jim Breuer, Jim Cummings, Tsai Chin and Alex D Linz.

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