Instead of our traditional, well-developed bad guy that posses serious threats to the protagonist's mission, in 'Titan A.E.' we receive something of a different sort: an underwritten alien race whose motives and backgrounds are unclear and undeveloped. She and her captain, Korso (voiced by Bill Pullman), and the navigator, Gune (John Leguizamo), set out to locate the vital Titan before the evil Drej can exterminate it along with mankind's future hope of existence. Cale meets a young woman named Akima (voiced by Drew Barrymore), who cherishes conventional memorabilia of her late planet.

Cale doesn't know it yet, but he holds the key to the survival of the human race with a genetically coded map on his hand showing the course to the hidden position of a special spacecraft called the Titan. Cale (voiced by Matt Damon) is a young man working as a space dump attendant who believes his father abandoned him when he was a child. Planet Earth has been demolished by a cruel species called the Drej, who fear the potential intelligence of the human race. The production takes place twenty-eight years after the third millennium.

This is the kind of cartoon that is mature to the level in which the characters and set designs could have been replaced with live action filmmaking without changing the movie's perspective. Directors Don Bluth and Gary Goldman enthrall the audience with a sweeping sense of atmosphere and action. The film's animation is wonderfully spectacular, visually enticing and entirely convincing. (2000) *** (out of four) 'Titan A.E.' is like a giant looming over movie animation landscape it is one of the most visually bracing family fantasy adventures to come down the pike in years.

Super budget dredge