While the animation is awesome, the storyline is out-of-this-world confusing.
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07/09/04
Kaena: The Prophecy (2004)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:2
Rotten:28
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: Though Kaena: The Prophecy is visually inventive, its story is incoherent, derivative, and dull.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Axis, the "tree world's" life is in danger. Its sap has almost all run out and its people's efforts to implore the gods, are in vain. Kaena has strange visions and she is convinced that Axis is... [More]
Reviews for Kaena: The Prophecy
Simplistic writing and one-dimensional characters do in this animation film.
07/15/04
My prophecy is: Kaena will play better on an X-box than at the theatres.
07/16/04
Its target audience will more likely watch this on DVD than in theaters...[but] only the desperate will find Kaena entertaining.
06/29/04
Despite several striking images and a high technical polish, this picture is just generic fantasy.
06/24/04
Top CriticIt's a standard science-fantasy fable, but the visual effects are mighty impressive.
06/24/04
However startling Delaporte’s images are, not only do they lack emotion, but a theoretical and philosophical foundation as well.
04/29/04
Feeling for all the world like an extended video game made by teenage boys with no girlfriends and a lot of free time, this sci-fi fantasy doesn't exactly make sense, but it sure looks cool.
06/25/04
The ending makes little sense, the characters are badly sketched out, and we can’t really figure out what the hell is going on.
06/26/04
Thought the animation and scenery is dazzling and really manages to become candy for the eyes, this is a pretty terrible movie with a nonsensical plot, senseless story, and boring confusing plotline surprisingly aimed towards children.
04/29/09
The images are opulent but the story's an incoherent bore.
07/25/04
A creamy-colored yet derivative sci-fi fantasy with a few rip-offs so blatant ... that even kiddie fans not yet mentally agile enough to make sense of the loopy plot could pick them out.
06/30/04
Has a more genuine SF premise behind it than most of today’s so-called sci-fi offerings . . .
12/07/04
The folks who go in for this sort of Asimov-ian blather will probably contort themselves reading allegorical meaning into it all. The folks who don't will drift off to sleep.
06/24/04
Derivative and aimless filmmaking by directors and 'writers' who know only how to craft eye candy.
08/01/04
The monsters are derivative, the attempts at humor are mostly feeble and the story, in the end, lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.
08/06/04
If Kaena's alternate universe isn't nearly as fully realized as Fantastic Planet's, the 3-D imagery is often gloriously turbocharged.
07/08/04
The film's plot, themes and dialogue are markedly less inspired and original than its imagery.
06/25/04
send your 15 year old to see it first and then prepare you for it
09/22/04
Stunning eye candy but little by the way of a fresh story.
06/06/04
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