The Movie: It's the dawn of the 31st century, and Earth has been destroyed by a race of evil human haters called the Drej. Humans are scattered throughout the galaxy in refugee camps and other places, where they find that they are not exactly well-liked by the other aliens. It's up to a rag-tag group of rebels and an unwilling savior-type to save mankind (hmmm... that part actually sounds a bit like The Matrix).

To tell you the truth, I only watched Titan A.E. because I knew it had Drew Barrymore as the voice of an Asian cartoon character. You'll also hear the voice of Matt Damon as the aforementioned reluctant savior, as well as other characters voiced by Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Janeane Garofalo, Nathan Lane, and even Ton Loc.

The plot of this movie seemed incoherent, and borrowed bits and pieces from a lot of other places, like Star Wars, some aspects of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and aspects of a bunch of other sci-fi movies and shows. I mean, there are major, major plot holes here, but if you can ignore them, you just might be entertained.

Throughout the movie I was constantly distracted by the clash between stylized sci-fi digital backgrounds with characters that looked like they just jumped right out of An American Tale or The Land Before Time... well, Don Bluth is credited with directing this movie. But yeah, the two styles of animation did not mesh well in many spots.

So yeah. This wasn't the absolute worst movie I'd ever seen, but the plot didn't flow too well, and the weird mix of animation was just... weird, and at times the voice performances weren't exactly convincing either. It just didn't have a lot going for it... I mean, the ending just left a huge, huge, gaping plot hole, that I guess you're not supposed to think about. So no, I don't think I can really recommend this movie.

Also as a note to someone who may think this might be a good movie for their kids, I would caution you, that this movie isn't really for young children, and there are a couple of rather violent scenes.

The DVD: This DVD features an extremely clean film transfer that wasn't exactly the sharpest transfer I'd ever seen, but it definitely showed off some awesome color, and you'd be hard pressed to find any compression artifacting in there. You get your choice between DTS and Dolby Digital audio, both featuring heavy, heavy usage of surround and subwoofer effects with starships and laser blasts and explosions and all kinds of things happening all around you. It wasn't exactly the smoothest or most natural soundfield, but there's plenty of "gee-wiz" type surround effects for those who like that sort of thing.

This DVD also has a number of special features, including a bunch of trailers and TV spots, deleted/alternate/longer versions of scenes, a music video, a director's commentary track, a couple of featurettes, and a bunch of still images of production artwork.

This, I would say, is one of the rare cases where the quality of the DVD production exceeds the quality of the movie. But if you are a fan of this movie, I cannot see how you could be disappointed by this DVD release.