Titan AE

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Movie
German title Titan AE
Original title Titan AE
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Don Bluth ,
Gary Goldman
script Ben Edlund ,
John August ,
Joss Whedon ,
Story: Hans Bauer ,
Randall McCormick
production Don Bluth,
Gary Goldman,
David Kirschner
music Graeme Revell ,
Tim Simonec
cut Bob Bender ,
Fiona Trayler ,
Paul Martin Smith
synchronization

Titan AE is an American science fiction - Cartoons directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman . In the English-language original, the main characters are voiced by well-known actors such as Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore . The film was at the box office the biggest flop of Fox Animation Studios : at a cost of $ 75 million, the film played worldwide only 36.7 million US dollars. 20th Century Fox also rated Titan AE as a huge flop internally, which ultimately led to the closure of their animation department. The film was shown for the first time in Germany on August 5, 2000 as part of EXPO 2000 .

action

At the beginning of the 31st century, mankind has developed in many ways: One is on the trail of the secret of creation, and the scientist Sam Tucker is working with his team on the top-secret "Titan" project, which explores the possibilities of mankind in up to should drive unimagined distances. But this puts the earth in mortal danger: The Drej, a race of shimmering bluish energy beings, attack the planet because they fear that people will gain power. Professor Tucker can just put a ring on his son Cale and put him on a rescue ship, only to make off with the Titan - a huge spaceship. Shortly afterwards, Cale and the other refugees have to watch how the Drej's mother ship destroys the earth with a powerful energy weapon. The explosion is so powerful that many escape ships are destroyed in the process.

Fifteen years later, in the year 15 AE ( After Earth , "after the earth"), Cale works on the space junkyard "Tau-14" and is - like all humans - harassed as a second-class way of life, as a "stray". When he broke up another argument with some of his colleagues, a stranger came to his aid: Professor Tucker's deputy Joseph Korso had been looking for him for many years, since only Cale and his father's genetically encoded ring could find Titan , which was lost somewhere in space . Cale, who never forgave his father for abandoning him, doesn't feel like helping. However, when Drej patrols arrive shortly afterwards and want to kill him, he flees with Korso on his ship, the Valkyrie .

There Cale meets the crew: the llama- faced first officer Preed, the spirited, kangaroo- like engineer Stith, and Gune, a highly intelligent but absent-minded reptile who constantly invents new things in his sleep. The last of the group is the quick-witted Akima, a young human woman who cannot understand Cale's indifferent attitude towards his own species.

Korso can activate Professor Tucker's ring, who shows a map with the way to the planet Sesharrim in Cale's palm. Besides a lot of water and highly explosive hydrogen trees, there is only one thing of interest here: the Gowl, an ancient species of wise birds. They show Cale and his friends the way to the next stage of their journey when suddenly the Drej attack. Despite the selfless help of the Gowl, Cale and Akima are kidnapped by a Drej ship and carried off to the mother ship. While Akima is abandoned in a capsule in space and falls into the hands of slave traders, the aliens coax the secret of the map from Cale and lock him up. However, he recognizes the functioning of the energy walls and can flee.

Meanwhile, Korso and his crew have freed Akima from the slave ship, and the reunited crew sets off for the last station, the Tigrin ice rings. Cale and Akima get closer and accidentally overhear a conversation between Korso and Preed, who apparently have common cause with the Drej: they are supposed to lead the energy beings to the Titan so that it can be destroyed. Since Korso no longer believes in a future, he wants to get the best out of himself. Cale and Akima flee to the New Bangkok space colony, where Akima grew up. Akima is shot, but helpful people immediately take care of the necessary medical care. Cale meets life among beings of his own kind for the first time and is soon determined to fight for their cause.

With an old ship, the Phoenix , Cale and Akima fly to the ice rings of Tigrin, where they are pursued by the Valkyrie . You can escape and find the Titan in a huge ice cave . It turns out that if given enough energy, it can create a new homeworld for humanity. However, their energy is used up, and when Korso and Preed appear, all seems to be lost. However, Preed turns out to be a double traitor and also wants to kill Korso, whereupon the latter fights him and kills him with a broken neck. In the meantime all of the Drej's spaceships have arrived, including the mother ship with the queen and all her troops.

Cale has an idea for an energy source. He reprograms the Titan's relays so that they can tap into the Drej's life energy. When they attack, Korso helps to get the last defective relay going by pushing himself as a conductor between the contacts. When the machines start, he is killed, but his victim activates the Titan . She sucks in the Drej mother ship, which consists of pure energy, and creates a new world from stardust, the water from the Tigrin ice rings and the DNA profiles stored by Cale's father in the Titan .

At the end of the procedure, Cale and Akima stand on the surface of the planet, which Cale wants to call "Bob" despite Akima's objections. Finally, stray ships from all parts of the galaxy slide towards the new homeworld of humans.

synchronization

role English speaker German speaker
Cale Tucker Matt Damon Holger Speckhahn
Akima Kunimoto Drew Barrymore Alexandra Neldel
Captain Joseph Korso Bill Pullman Detlef Bierstedt
Preedex "Preed" Yoa Nathan Lane Mirco Nonchev
Stith Janeane Garofalo Anke Reitzenstein
Gune John Leguizamo Tobias Master
Prof. Sam Tucker Ron Perlman Tilo Schmitz

reception

Desson Howe wrote in the Washington Post on June 16, 2000 that the plot was "lengthy", the characters were "uninspired", and the special effects were "lackluster". Howe only praised the portrayals of Matt Damon and Drew Barrymore.

Luke Y. Thompson of the New Times wrote that the characters were "annoying, loveless" and that the effects couldn't compete with other films like Star Wars or Star Trek .

Jay Stone of Ottawa Citizen: "The best part of the movie is the animation."

Roger Ebert emphasizes this because it depicts the "strangeness of the universe" in a way that is not possible in real films, and praises the "rousing plot".

Der Spiegel wrote about Titan AE "The film advertised as the 'future of animation technology' will never hold a candle to Disney and is so disappointing and devoid of all poetry that nothing remains but anger."

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Titan AE . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ^ Box Office Mojo
  3. ↑ Desson Howe: Crash of the 'Titan'. In: washingtonpost.com. The Washington Post , June 16, 2000, accessed February 26, 2017.
  4. ^ Roger Ebert : Titan AE In: rogerebert.com. Ebert Digital LLC, June 19, 2000, accessed February 26, 2017.