Toon Zone Talkback - "Titan A.E.": "Drej" Is A Pretty Good Description

Joss Whedon is not the original writer either. Rather, he was brought in later in the writing prcess, basically to save the film. He turned in a script, and while Bluth liked it, Fox didn't, and the script got rewritten over and over again by different writers. That's why the film feels disjointed, it's a "too many cooks spoil the broth" type of thing.
 
Not a headbanger. You can survive for up to half a minute without injury, at least, and it's a common thing in science fiction movies. Dave makes a no-helmet space jump from one ship to another in 2001. I've seen it in the new Battlestar Galactica, too.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html
How long can a human live unprotected in space?

If you don't try to hold your breath, exposure to space for half a minute or so is unlikely to produce permanent injury. Holding your breath is likely to damage your lungs, something scuba divers have to watch out for when ascending, and you'll have eardrum trouble if your Eustachian tubes are badly plugged up, but theory predicts -- and animal experiments confirm -- that otherwise, exposure to vacuum causes no immediate injury. You do not explode. Your blood does not boil. You do not freeze. You do not instantly lose consciousness.

Various minor problems (sunburn, possibly "the bends", certainly some [mild, reversible, painless] swelling of skin and underlying tissue) start after ten seconds or so. At some point you lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. Injuries accumulate. After perhaps one or two minutes, you're dying. The limits are not really known.

You do not explode and your blood does not boil because of the containing effect of your skin and circulatory system. You do not instantly freeze because, although the space environment is typically very cold, heat does not transfer away from a body quickly. Loss of consciousness occurs only after the body has depleted the supply of oxygen in the blood. If your skin is exposed to direct sunlight without any protection from its intense ultraviolet radiation, you can get a very bad sunburn.
 
I recently watched this movie for the first time a few months back and I generally agree with the reviewer. I, too always felt confused on what target demographic this film was aiming for. It has a mature tone that makes it suitable for older folks, but not enough that kids can't watch it, but I felt it always had trouble trying to balance between the two. And yeah, the CGI is a mixed bag: some are VERY nice to look at (the giant ice spikes), others are...eh (the ending with the new planet's flora/fauna).

Otherwise, it's a somewhat decent movie, just not a great or even very good one. I saw the betrayal coming a mile away, the leading female may kick butt, but her personality is basic at best (though much of Korso's crews are painfully one-dimensional with possible exception of Stith who is hilariously angry incarnate), and I know this is fiction, but for some reason, how the new Earth was formed really, really questioned how far I can stretch my suspension my disbelief. I don't know why this bothers me, but I just couldn't take the idea of a spaceship having the ability to create an entire planet, complete with trees and water, in mere seconds!
 
It was actually in the span of a little under a year. I went through that scene a few times for the sake of the review. Still, one year is pretty darn fast. Forget the fact that the planet would be molten rock, but trees can't even grow that fast.
 
I wish I'd seen this in the theater. Was one of the first movies I rented from Netflix in 2005, and I loved it. One of my favorite animated movies. It's like an action movie that just happens to be animated. I wish there were more like this.

As for the ship-to-ship jump in space, it didn't bother me on my first viewing. I was just enjoying the movie. But the filmmakers state on the commentary that they researched it beforehand and discovered that such a short exposure, as per the info in the link Shawn provided, would make the scene possible.
 
Despite some of the script flaws, this is the only one of the spate of boy-oriented, anime-inspired action 'toons from the early '00s I actually liked (whereas Atlantis and Treasure Planet both blew). Great design and action sequences (especially the chase through the field of ice crystals), and it pushed its PG rating pretty far in terms of on-screen blood and casualties depicted. Some of the song choices have dated very badly (this needed a more traditional orchestral score), but overall it was a strong movie, and it's a shame it performed so badly and essentially ended Don Bluth's career. :(
 
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