Battle for Terra (2009)

Touches You

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This is actually a pretty good and watchable. Even for a kids movie this has good story, a few dark moments and good action.But the only reason why I watched this movie was because Chris Evens (the actor for Captain America from the MCU) was in it. All I have to say is even though this movie came out when I was 7 I never watched it until I was 17.

Even for a children's story, it's not that great and hardly believable. I have a tough time thinking that humans, even on the brink of extinction, would invade another planet without first trying to talk to the natives: Especially when THEY DID HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO. Even in parts of our history, which we aren't too proud of, we made a little more effort than these people to make arrangements. And it's hard to believe that it took one @sshole to pull rank to overthrow the president, the council, and all of the soldiers. Every single person in this movie thought he, on some level, was being unreasonable but, what are you gonna do? He's the general and orders are orders. And the best way to keep the aliens' history from repeating itself was to...keep it a secret? Sorry but keeping your citizens ignorant is not a preventative of violence. So this is basically a list of what would have made the movie good:1. Peace attempted but failed. 2. Maybe a group of high ranking human elitests are the reason things go down hill instead of just one. 3. Aliens not turning to religion when they see something new and unknown. Give them more credit than that. I mean, what is this? "The elders will decide what we should think of this." "But what if their wrong?" "GO TO YOUR ROOM!" 4. The actual solution to this movie was so simple that it was horrible. At the very least, the humans could have taken a moon or tried to. That would have been a lot better. 5. Give the humans a bit more integrity than this movie did...

Usually I tend to judge a movie based on the trailer. Bad idea sometimes. Usually the trailer takes the funniest parts of the movie and puts them together. Then when I watch the movie, it really isn't as funny as it could be.In this case, the trailer was really cheesy. I doubted it would be good, but decided to look it up anyway. To my surprise, it was actually done quite well.The movie basically consists of the future, humans are evil and are trying to take over a planet to repopulate and settle. The planet they chose is inhabited by aliens. One human manages to end up being with one of the aliens, and they get along. The human has a robot as a companion. After a lot of discovering, they finally end up in a giant battle. Then the main human hero sacrifices his life to stop his own race from destroying the humans.I actually found it to be a lot better than I thought. I was expecting another bad movie like Romeo and Juliet. But it was a lot better.Rated 8/10.

There are so many good reviews here, I was actually tricked into watching this disaster. Many here say that the plot is very mature, the characters well developed and the movie overall is interesting both to children and adults.Let me be the voice of minority here and say that I was completely and unexpectedly bored for the entire duration of this movie. Perhaps my 6 year old self would have enjoyed it, but at 25 it's really a wrong cartoon to see.The plot - predictable, the characters - dull and annoying, the movie - a complete failure in the "animations that adults appreciate too" department. I watched it in full hoping it would get better but it did not.There is a chance that you will be like so many others who liked it, but if you feel bored and disinterested 20 min into the movie - turn it off, you will not like the rest of it either.