Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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.

Storywise, it doesn't hold up to the movies it borrows plot points from. As the story is basically every other "white man goes native" archetype, you'll know the entire movie scene-by-scene just by that description, however there are a few things about "Terra" that really bothered me: 1. The aliens are living in perfect harmony but are assaulted by humans for no reason. There's never any reason given why they would need to be abducted and studied, but that's what the humans do to them anyway. 2. The human fighter wildly changes size from scene to scene for the entire movie, to the point where it starts getting distracting. 3. For plot convenience's sake the pilot's personal Johnny 5 knows sperm lady's language and has a laser beam that can teach her human speak in a few seconds and knows how to build a working device for filtering out air from the native atmosphere, using clay and a plot convenience plant that the female lead gathers and assembles without any problem. 4. The human general (wisely I might add) takes control from the incompetent senate(?) which is unable to decide on the only course of action available at this point. This is supposed to be the cementing of the general's character as a power-hungry warmonger, but in the context of this movie he makes a lot of sense. Also, we never get to know anything about the aliens, other than that they shun technology but are somehow innately adept at constructing advanced mechanical constructs out of clay and wood. They are completely peaceful yet keeps a fleet of advanced warships and highly trained military somehow completely hidden from their public. This standing army makes no sense since they're completely peaceful (as war is an almost foreign concept to the main female character), have no natural enemies and don't have any crime. However, it's explained away in one sentence later on by the elder saying something about learning from the past to not repeat it, or something along those lines. They can apparently fly, without wings or any other way of actually doing so. The planet has gravity, as the other creatures that we're shown need wings to fly and the buildings are designed with creatures in mind who walk on the ground. They can also hear without having any ears, which doesn't make any sense. It doesn't help that they use mouths with similar enough human-like vocal chords and sounds to replicate our language, simply by being zapped by magical language-teaching lasers.As for the humans, they need the planet in order to survive as a species, as they've run out of time with their colony ship falling apart and their air supply failing fast. We're told they've got weeks to go before they asphyxiate, and that it would take seven days for the terraformer to make the planet's atmosphere breathable for humans. This is where the supposed dilemma for the main character in all of these movies comes is presented for the viewers. However, unlike films like FernGully, where the humans cut down rain forest for profit, or Avatar where they killed natives for unobtanium, here we are just trying to survive. So, our hero betrays *THE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE* and fires his missiles on the terraformer, murdering his commanding officer and a staff of completely innocent human beings, assuring the destruction of all humans, everywhere. Oh, but that doesn't happen, as now all of a sudden the human race doesn't need the terraformer, and the entire plot of the movie has been changed to try and not make its main character that much of a genocidal race traitor. Now everything is great because of his high treason, and not only do the humans live in harmony with the sperm people, they magically found a way to instantly construct an atmosphere shield. And as a final middle finger to the viewer we pan over a statue of the arch traitor himself.I don't get that. I don't understand why anyone would root for the non-humans when given the choice between humans or not. This isn't an analogy for real life intolerance, this isn't the white man holding everyone else down, it's just another "hate the humans"-flick. Personally, I don't care if the sperm people were there first, if every single one of them is a Gandhi sperm with a deep connection to nature. I'll stick with the survival of my race, thank you very much.I would not recommend this movie to any demographic as there are many more, better films out there with the EXACT same story and characters and setting and dialogue, only with better execution. Watch Pocahontas, Ferngully or Avatar instead.

I have seen many animated movies, most of which were very entertaining. There were some that were bad, and some that were good, but not great. This movie has to fall into the "bad" category. The plot of this movie was cliché, boring, half-hearted, and slow. It's almost like the writers just made it up on the spot, and decided to go with it without proofreading it. The most annoying thing about the plot was its slow (and I mean SLOW) pace. You would think that a movie involving aliens and spaceships and stuff would be full of action and suspense, but in the case of Battle for Terra, you would be dead wrong. The action scenes were appallingly boring, and the supposed "drama" surrounding the alien and the human pilot's forbidden friendship were bland and dull. The characters were flat, like cardboard, and I felt no connection to them at all. None of them had any redeeming qualities that made any aspect of the movie enjoyable. Every bit of the movie was a big cliché. You take Planet 51, Star Wars, and Avatar, and you have Battle for Terra, minus the awesomeness of Star Wars. There is nothing worthwhile to see in this movie. The animation is terrible, the plot is dumb, the movie moves at an extremely slow pace, the action scenes are lame, the characters are so dull it's unbelievable, and the emotion and heart of the movie was just nonexistent. Don't watch it, there are far better animated movies out there with far more original stories.

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.