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Kaena: The Prophecy

Play trailer Poster for Kaena: The Prophecy PG-13 Released Jun 4, 2003 1h 25m Fantasy Adventure Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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A village faces destruction when a gigantic plant that reaches to the sky starts dying. Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena (Kirsten Dunst), a rebellious teenager, defies the elders and travels up the giant plant to find out why it is dying.
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Though Kaena: The Prophecy is visually inventive, its story is incoherent, derivative, and dull.

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John McMurtrie San Francisco Chronicle The monsters are derivative, the attempts at humor are mostly feeble and the story, in the end, lacks a certain je ne sais quoi. Rated: 1/4 Aug 6, 2004 Full Review Janice Page Boston Globe Derivative and aimless filmmaking by directors and 'writers' who know only how to craft eye candy. Rated: 1/4 Aug 1, 2004 Full Review Angela Shah Dallas Morning News Simplistic writing and one-dimensional characters do in this animation film. Rated: C Jul 15, 2004 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed A pretty terrible movie with a nonsensical plot... Apr 29, 2009 Full Review James O'Ehley Sci-Fi Movie Page Has a more genuine SF premise behind it than most of today's so-called sci-fi offerings . . . Dec 7, 2004 Full Review Jules Brenner Filmcritic.com send your 15 year old to see it first and then prepare you for it Rated: 2/5 Sep 22, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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Max H Not very good. I really liked the concept and world building, which would've worked for a video game rather than a movie. But with the execution as is, it falls incredibly flat. The plot goes nowhere, the characters aren't very interesting, nothing exciting really happens, and the climax is disappointingly forced and the ending was flat. The animation looked like that of a PS1 cutscene (for an animation project made on a $25 million budget, I'd expect more). Some of the creature designs were cool looking though the human characters looked pretty hideous. The voice acting is pretty decent. Overall I found this to be a mediocre animated film. 4/10 Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Clearly a dated CGI animation I can live with that. But the story is a bit all over the place. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Kind of a lifeless, dull anime with an overly convoluted plot. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review harry r The first thing I would say is that you should NEVER go by what the critics say about a film. The only good critics of the moves were Siskel and Ebert and when Siskel died Ebert became more of a typical reviewer. Although, they supposedly did not talk often before reviewing a movie, I think they had some good influence over each other because you could count on their reviews being fairly if not very accurate. From what little reviews I could find it is obvious that none of the critics understood this movie and compared it to movies that were NOT really similar. What do you expect from small minded critics. Movie did not do well because it is a very dark movie. You can read up on all the negative criticism in the other post, of which I agree with some of them, so I will concentrate on the good. The main character has a dream that drives her through the story. She overcomes obstacles to find what the dream means which she finds is not exactly what she had hoped for. Still, she continues because her people depend on her whether they know it or not. It takes a very realistic approach to how reality might react to someone like this. It is not the best story line, nor does it follow through with the most enticing events to the end. But it is still worth watching once. I think it will grow on you as it did me. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Science-fiction animation with impressive visuals superimposed on a videogame-grade storyline and many unnecessary, "accidental" sexy poses. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member Charming little sci-fi fantasy film about a girl who leads her people to a new world. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A village faces destruction when a gigantic plant that reaches to the sky starts dying. Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena (Kirsten Dunst), a rebellious teenager, defies the elders and travels up the giant plant to find out why it is dying.
Director
Chris Delaporte, Pascal Pinon
Producer
Denis Friedman
Screenwriter
Chris Delaporte, Tarik Hamdine
Distributor
Universal Pictures
Production Co
Chaman Productions, Studio Canal
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language
Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 4, 2003, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$7.7K
Runtime
1h 25m
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