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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.
Theatrical Release:Jun 25, 2004 Limited
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]
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.
Has a more genuine SF premise behind it than most of today’s so-called sci-fi offerings . . .
send your 15 year old to see it first and then prepare you for it
An animated film without a hint of anima.
E-Mail This Article to a Friend KAENA: THE PROPHECY Words of wisdom: "You don’t need wings to be free! There’s another world with a blue sun and so much sap you can swim in it!" Maybe it sounds better in the French version.
The monsters are derivative, the attempts at humor are mostly feeble and the story, in the end, lacks a certain je ne sais quoi.
Top CriticDerivative and aimless filmmaking by directors and 'writers' who know only how to craft eye candy.
Top CriticThe animation in Kaena is so ham-fisted that it distracts even from the fairly tedious story.
The images are opulent but the story's an incoherent bore.
My prophecy is: Kaena will play better on an X-box than at the theatres.
Simplistic writing and one-dimensional characters do in this animation film.
Top CriticWhile the animation is awesome, the storyline is out-of-this-world confusing.
There are moments in Kaena that are absorbing, but too much of the time it simply becomes tedious.
Top CriticAugurs well for dazzling visual work but struggles mightily on the storytelling front.
Top CriticIf Kaena's alternate universe isn't nearly as fully realized as Fantastic Planet's, the 3-D imagery is often gloriously turbocharged.
It's a valiant effort, if not quite successful.
Top CriticA 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.
Top CriticWith George Lucas’ lawyers eager to justify undoubtedly Jabba-sized retainers, writer-director Delaporte may want to start the tie selection now for his court appearance.
Its target audience will more likely watch this on DVD than in theaters...[but] only the desperate will find Kaena entertaining.
The ending makes little sense, the characters are badly sketched out, and we can’t really figure out what the hell is going on.
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