Fantastic Planet

1973, Movie, 1h 12min

Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux's animated marvel FANTASTIC PLANET, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes from his gigantic child captor, he is swept up by a band of radical fellow Oms who are resisting the Draags' oppression and violence. With its eerie, coolly surreal cutout animation by Roland Topor; brilliant psychedelic jazz score by Alain Goraguer; and wondrous creatures and landscapes, this Cannes-awarded 1973 counterculture classic is a perennially compelling statement against conformity and violence.

Country: France,Czechia

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7.6

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Critic Alan Morrison

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...proof that Euro animation occasionally throws up an oddity to stem the flow from the US and Japan.

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Michael Thomsen

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Måske LIDT overvurderet fransk sci fi animationsfilm for voksne. Visuelt flot, men også LIDT kedelig.

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In a distant future, a powerful alien race known as the Traags has brought humans from Earth to a planet called Ygam, where they are kept as pets or hunted for sport. One human, a young boy named Terr, is adopted by a Traag leader and raised as a pet. However, Terr discovers a way to learn the Traags' advanced technology and escapes into the wilderness to join a group of wild humans. Together, they use their newfound knowledge to fight back against the Traags and eventually negotiate a peaceful coexistence.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Fantastic Planet include Robin Hood, The Rescuers, The Aristocats, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Pete's Dragon, The Twelve Tasks of Asterix.