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To me, this movie is perfection.

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I really wanted to like this, mostly because unlike most of CGI animated films, this movie wasn't a comedy, but something more ambitious: A science fiction epic that deals many serious issues, such as the consequences of war, prejudice and ecological destruction…Sadly, most of those themes are poorly treated in this film, being handled in a preachy and simplistic way. At several moments, this movie is even preachier than movies like "Avatar" from James Cameron.Even with the somber post-apocalyptic elements included in the story, most of the film feels flat and unmotivated, without anything remarkable. The ethical conflicts experimented by the main characters are shallowly explored, missing yet again another chance to introduce complex themes into this kind of animated films. It's like the makers of this film were afraid to do something truly dramatic or intense. Even the scenes that were supposed to be "dramatic" were unable to cause any emotion on me.While I can appreciate "Battle for Terra" as a meritorious effort to make something different with CGI animation, I can hardly enjoy this film. Personally, I think that it is way too preachy and simplistic to be interesting for the adults, but at the same time, it is too heave handed and dull to keep the interest of the children. That's a shame, considering the great potential of the plot.

Battle For Terra is quite unusual in some ways for an animated feature film. Its themes are quite weighty, its questions probing and its answers surprisingly ambiguous. This is not typical kiddie fare: for one thing, the good guys make mistakes and bad choices from time to time, while the bad guys have legitimate reasons for committing the wrongs they do, rather than merely being evil for evils' sake. And on top of all that, the film remembers to be entertaining, meaning that all the weightiness and thematic ambivalence doesn't become a bore. It's not a perfect film but it's certainly worth a look, especially if you crave an animated film with a different 'flavour' than most.Terra is a distant planet populated by a cultured and sophisticated alien race. It also happens to be the planet which the survivors of a civil war which destroyed planet Earth choose to invade and take for their new home. The humans are struck by Terra's similarity to Earth, with rain, snow, wind and plant-life, but one key difference is that there is no oxygen in Terra's atmosphere. A young Terrian girl named Mala (voice of Evan Rachel Wood) manages to capture a human fighter pilot, Jim Stanton (voice of Luke Wilson) when his fighter shuttle crashes during a raid. She builds an oxygen tent for him and nurses him back to help, and soon a bond develops between them as they learn to appreciate each other's culture. Mala learns that the humans have travelled across the galaxy aboard an Ark, intending to seize Terra from the Terrians. Later she and Jim make an even worse discovery – that the war-crazed General Hammer (voice of Brian Cox), who is in charge of the Earth forces, plans to use a machine they possess to make the atmosphere breathable by injecting huge quantities of oxygen. Alas, oxygen will prove fatal to any remaining Terrians and they will quickly die out. Jim and Mala eventually find themselves reluctant participants in an epic-scale war for Terra, Jim fighting to destroy a race that he has come to care for, while Mala must defeat her human friend and all his compatriots in order to save her home planet.Battle For Terra is at its best when the focus is on the rich and wonderful world of Terra – the detail that has gone into creating this believable alien society is packed with ingenuity and imagination. Throughout, the film is a visual treat. The story itself is told simply, with fairly routine dialogue, but the main conflict which drives the story (the survival of the human race .vs. the Terrians right to live in peace on their own planet) is dealt with interestingly. Perhaps the bravest decision of all is to tell the story from a Terrian point of view, making the invaders from Earth almost the villains of the piece. It takes skill to make the audience root for an alien society over their own kind, but by-and-large the film pulls it off. Overall the vocal acting is pretty good, although the need for so many bona fide stars (Dennis Quaid, Danny Glover, James Garner, Luke Wilson, Mark Hamill, Brian Cox, Amanda Peet, Beverly D'Angelo, Rosanna Arquette) is debatable. The film's ending quite cleverly manages to avoid sentimentality (with an unexpected death for one of the main characters) and, although the ultimate resolution could be accused of being a little too pat, there are enough thought-provoking moments along the way to make the film a worthwhile watch.

I saw this movie on Netflix. I was just browsing through some titles, and I saw "Battle for Terra". I clicked on the title and saw that it was animated. At that point, I almost just went to the next movie, but then I saw some of the star-filled cast.......so I started watching the movie, thinking that I would turn it off after 10 minutes, but it got me. It sucked me in, kept me there, and left me with a few happy tears at the end. This movie surely could have been better if it wasn't animated and had the budget of Avatar, but my 9 out of 10 shows that I have no major complaints. I will be recommending this movie to a bunch of my friends.

Battle for Terra has the elements of a great sci-fi flick but suffers from flawed delivery. Although slow and predictable, it comes through on an emotional level in the end.Battle for Terra is similar to Avatar, but in Battle for Terra the stakes for the humans are no less than survival or extinction. After generations traveling through deep space the human ship is falling apart and oxygen is running out. Earth has long since been destroyed (by war, what else?) and now only chance of survival for the human race is to alter the atmosphere of Terra, which is composed primarily of helium, allowing humans to live there.Aside from the poor pacing and aged CG, which resembles A Bug's Life, the movie would have benefited from more subtlety. By the end of the film the humans only have a few weeks of oxygen left, setting the fate of the human race against the destruction of every living thing on planet Terra, most of all the benevolent and intelligent terrians. Sounds exciting, right? Unfortunately, the human general is almost as over the top as Colonel Quaritch from James Cameron's Avatar, making the climatic battle's outcome near obvious from the beginning.Most kids will probably be too bored to make it through this movie. The world of Terra is surprisingly dull; the alien dwellings are a bleak, bone-like color surrounded by white clouds, inhabited by pale terrians and other various pale creatures. Have you ever been depressed on a cloudy day? That's how you'll feel after visiting Terra. Still, there's enough here to keep you interested if you're willing to look.You have to use your imagination to truly enjoy Terra and because of that some people won't be able to stand this film, some will find it fascinating, and others (like me) will see it as the great film that could have been.