With a marketing blitz that started a full year before its release (Don't you remember those teaser snippets when Star Wars was released?), they were really trying to blow this movie up to mythic proportions. And when it finally came time to sell the film for opening weekend, well let's just say the efforts were misguided. Tragically! In an attempt to market to as broad an audience as possible, they failed to raise an eyebrow altogether. The biggest mistake was initially marketing to sci-fi fans, and then to the kiddies, thereby scaring off the sci-fi fans...

$80 million to produce and only grossing $16.7 million at the box office after three weeks of release, this is the film that put the final bullet in Fox Animation Studios.

It's a shame really. It was a descent movie, and any fan of Don Bluth, or animation in general will be absolutely amazed at the quality and detail in this animated flick.

The story is pretty lame though. Falling trap to just about every bad sci-fi cliche that the screenwriter could muster. The only original hook is the ship itself. The Titan. As we wait to find out exactly why it is mankind's salvation?

Past the plot line, there's plenty of eye-candy here. With fast paced and original action sequences, and some really cool villains, with really cool ships. And I must say, the chase through the space ice sequence is absolutely amazing.

One quick major problem here. Why would the guy who selling Cale so hard on "helping all of humanity, and not just yourself", be the one who sells out to the Dredge? A serious rewrite could have made this movie stellar, because there's good stuff in it.

Easy on the eyes, low brain power fare. The perfect lazy Saturday afternoon movie. Or something you can watch with your kids, and not feel like a total retard. It could have been more. It just wasn't.