On the distant planet Axis, rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl Kaena defies the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take a perilous journey and discover what dark secrets l... Read allOn the distant planet Axis, rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl Kaena defies the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take a perilous journey and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.On the distant planet Axis, rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl Kaena defies the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take a perilous journey and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
- Kaena
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Queen of the Selenites
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Opaz
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Kaena
- (voice)
- (as Cécile De France)
- Opaz
- (voice)
- La Reine
- (voice)
- Voxem
- (voice)
- Assad
- (voice)
- Gommy
- (voice)
- Le Grand Prêtre
- (voice)
- Voxem
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Assad
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Gommy
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Essy
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Ilpo
- (English version)
- (voice)
- The Priest
- (English version)
- (voice)
- Enode
- (English version)
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFirst French CGI film.
- Quotes
Voxem: And if something were to happen to you, all our race would be extinguished forever: as Queen; you must protect your future...
Queen of the Selenites: I know what you want Voxem; I know you are the last male and you crave fusion with me!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #39.7 (2008)
While a little lacking in plot, Kaena mostly succeeds as pure eye-candy. Since the representation of realistic humans is still out of reach for computer graphics (Cf. the mixed results in Final Fantasy), the authors have chosen a half-comic-book style (like in Ice Age) which is quite pleasant, at least if you like people with really big eyes. The movie creatures are quite nice, particularly the talkative worms with their tired faces and their walking and flying devices. But it's the sets which are the most beautiful, with a particular attention to lighting, colouring and texturing: many scenes are shot in a golden light, slightly overexposed with lens flares and other atmospheric effects. The mixture of quasi-photorealism and more traditional CG style works quite well. The vine forest, the village and the spaceship scenes are exceptionally rendered, and among the most beautiful seen in a CG-rendered movie so far. The world of the gods, by contrast, has a dark, liquid and sticky feel (the gods themselves are liquid, gigeresque creatures) with bright shining reflections, and is truly original. Sometimes, there's a little too much of everything, as if the movie was a demo for CG effects (hair, particle systems, volumetrics.), not unlike the first Technicolor movies where everything had to be brightly coloured. But that doesn't detract from the WOW! Factor of the movie.
All in all, Kaena is a very recommendable movie, and one can hope that the authors will follow with a bolder script.
- gtran
- Jun 8, 2003
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,593
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,173
- Jun 27, 2004
- Gross worldwide
- $465,618