Science-fiction juvenilia, in Robert Heinlein vein (or for nonreaders, George Lucas vein), about "humanity's last great hope" after the destruction of our planet by the dreaded Dredge in the 31st Century. The self-described "last great hope" is hardly more than a juvenile himself (voice of Matt Damon), and his foremost helpmate is, or sounds like, a displaced Valley Girl (drawling Drew Barrymore). The animation somehow underscores the childishness and ignorability of it all. And yet the mismatch of flat, Saturday-morning-television cartoon figures and three-dimensional computer-generated spaceships and backdrops is not terribly different from its Star Wars antecedents -- especially the most recent. The computer-generated surroundings remain much the same, but instead of flesh-and-bone actors who don't fit into them, it's simply a different style of animated figure who doesn't fit in. Co-directed by Don Bluth (not the Anti-Disney, just an Alternative Disney) and Gary Goldman. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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