Fantastic Planet (1973)

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A French-Czech Production. The Language Spoken is French with English Subtitles.Do Not let that Dissuade. This Wonderfully Imaginative Animated Movie from 1973 is a Visual Presentation (and what a WOW it is) First and Foremost and the Dialog is Minimal.It is done with Limited Animation. Think Terry Gilliam (Monty Python), Ralph Bakshi, South Park, etc.But "Limitation" does not come to Mind after Viewing this Surreal, Dali-Esque, "Twilight Zone" Vibed Trip to Another Planet-Dimension-Universe. It's as Out There as it gets.The Stunning, often Disturbing, Images Dominate the Simple Story and it keeps the Viewers Attention with a Mesmerizing Display of an Off-Kilter Reality that is Off Our Planet for sure, but keeps the Connection with its Humanoid Characters at the Center.But there is an Array of Absolutely Bizarre Creatures that come from the Realm of Nightmares that Invade the Proceedings with Regularity and are so Unique They Demand Attention and Fixate the Viewer with not only a Hallucinatory Appearance but Bizarre Behavior Beyond Belief.The Film Holds Up Completely in 2017 and Once Seen its Indelible Images Remain in the Brain and a Freeze Frame is Instantly Recognizable as Captured from this Stand Alone Movie.The Musical Score is Worth Mentioning because it Underscores with a Jazz-Rock-Electronic Mood that Meshes so Magnificently Massaging the Movie with Tones that at First Presents Itself and then Fades in the Background but is Forever Reaching on an almost Subconscious Level.

Fantastic Planet is a French-Czechoslovakian animated science fiction film. The story is simple and allegorical (which is more obvious when the French origin of some of the names is considered): the tiny Oms are tolerated as pets but ultimately seen as vermin by the towering, spiritual Draags. The imagery is outstanding: colourful, stylized, imaginative, and surreal. Not surprisingly, the movie had a rep (at least in my circles) of being best watched while stoned. I remember seeing this in the theatres in the 70's (straight) and the final images of the dancing statues stuck with me for decades. Definitely worth watching, if only for the artful (albeit not very 'hard scientific') depiction of an alien world. Note: the animated humanoid characters are frequently partially nude.

I had wanted to see this film for years, and when the film begins it's pretty jarring watching human beings get treated as pets by gigantic blue aliens. As a social commentary the theme is still relevant, given that the world is controlled by an increasingly smaller number of super-rich people, but the twangy street-style music that you might find in any 1970s blaxploitation film is a failed experiment in contrasts. No music at all would have improved the film, I challenge anyone to prove me wrong. One thing that bothered me is the inordinate amount of time that the aliens spent publicly talking about the humans, when really they amounted to little more than pests like cockroaches or houseflies; time and time again it's demonstrated that the aliens have evolved far beyond humans, so why devote so many resources to talking about them?In the end, the aliens and the humans find a way to work together, which seems like a rather optimistic denouement for a European film. For you reviewers who dropped the m-word on this film, does the word still have any meaning when you encounter a true masterpiece like citizen kane or the mona lisa, or do you have some other superlative tucked away in your brain?

I originally watched this film because it was a strange looking animated film that attracted my attention in a weird sort of way. To my disappointment, I found this movie boring, dull, and uninteresting. The storyline was so slow and completely unengaging. It was a unique concept for a plot but was not executed well at all. The quality of the film was extremely poor, especially the terrible animation. If you liked The Beatles' Yellow Submarine, this is probably a film for you. The film was a waste of my time and was worthless as far as I am concerned. I am struggling to draw this out because it was not even worth the ten lines of text that is needed to post this review.