Who says animation is kids stuff?
By STEVE PERSALL, Times Film Critic © St. Petersburg Times, published June 16, 2000 One way an animated film can succeed is by devising a plot that could work as well with live actors as it does with drawings. Titan A.E. does a pretty good job of that, even when the animation gets a bit too Scooby Doo for its sci-fi dilemmas. Disney defector Don Bluth and his Fox Animation team have a nice idea going: Earth is destroyed in the 31st century by an alien race known as the Drej. Some humans escape before the final big bang, including a boy named Cale. His father was a scientist in charge of the secret Titan project, a “life star” of sorts that can create another Earth for refugees. Cale grows up as a galactic minority, shunned by creatures with more social status. Same goes for Korso, a space cowboy who knew Cale’s father, and his shapely assistant Akima. They discover a map to the Titan mystically imprinted in Cale’s palm. The Drej know it’s there, too. A race begins to destroy the Titan
