Fantastic Planet (1973)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:17
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 72 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: FANTASTIC PLANET is Rene Laloux's bizarre, enthralling adaptation of Stefan Wul's allegorical science-fiction novel. The eye-popping underground sensation was also a critical success, winning... [More]
Director: Rene La Loux
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Reviews for Fantastic Planet
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Thirty-five years later, Rene Laloux's surreal animated film remains a singular psychedelic experience. Full Review |
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The film’s images are phantasmagorical. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Surreal and wonderful in a way not often seen from Europe. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Eerie, surreal and a welcome respite from Disney-style animation. Full Review |
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The film has a flat quality that cannot entirely be overcome by the sensational animation and the obvious good intentions of its creators. Full Review |
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Anthropology meets surrealist art in a film about the coldly intellectual, logical Traags and the wild, passionate, heartfelt Oms. Manages to be both of our world and somehow not, shucking off any influences and finding a weird wonder all its own. Full Review |
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The animation is crude, but the artwork is never less than astounding. Full Review |
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The strange worlds elaborated by Laloux could hardly be described as utopian, but nonetheless he uses them as a staging ground from which to try to resolve his concerns about the folly and aggression to be found on our own savage planet. Full Review |
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Roland Topor's graphics create a world reminiscent of two of the greatest artists of the fantastic, Bosch and Odilon Redon. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
For original, thoughtful, often strong (but tasteful) animation, I recommend Fantastic Planet for family viewing. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
Period piece, polemic or tripped out hippy whimsy -- Fantastic Planet is all of these and lingers in the system long after ingestion. Full Review |
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2/5 |
Cult film that never was all that good and now looks pretty cheesy.
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Extraordinary animated feature. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
If there ever was a film that needed to be experienced in order to be appreciated, this is it. Reading critics' words about it just does not do it justice. Full Review |
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