Don Bluth, previously an animator at Disney, made a name for himself in the '80s with the intense animated features "The Secret of NIMH", "An American Tail" and "The Land Before Time". In the '90s, Bluth tried to be more family friendly with "Rock-a-Doodle" and "Anastasia". His last movie as a director was 2000's "Titan A. E.", which I've only now gotten around to seeing.
It doesn't have the most original plot - humans fighting against aliens - but it's got some impressive animation. It leads me to wonder whether Bluth will ever make another movie. I guess part of it is financing: this movie underperformed, and in Hollywood you're only as good as your last movie (or at least how much money your last movie earned).
Anyway, worth seeing. The voice work includes Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore (who recently tried to restart her show amid the writers' strike but had to cancel her plans due to a backlash), Bill Pullman, Janeane Garofalo (who that same year played 1960s radical Anita Hoffman in "Steal This Movie") and John Leguizamo.
It doesn't have the most original plot - humans fighting against aliens - but it's got some impressive animation. It leads me to wonder whether Bluth will ever make another movie. I guess part of it is financing: this movie underperformed, and in Hollywood you're only as good as your last movie (or at least how much money your last movie earned).
Anyway, worth seeing. The voice work includes Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore (who recently tried to restart her show amid the writers' strike but had to cancel her plans due to a backlash), Bill Pullman, Janeane Garofalo (who that same year played 1960s radical Anita Hoffman in "Steal This Movie") and John Leguizamo.