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01/26/06
Fantastic Planet (1973)
83 %
Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 10 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Runtime: 72 mins
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 awards at several prestigious film festivals (most notably, the Grand Prix in 1973 at... [More]
Genre: Foreign Films
Director: Rene La Loux
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05/24/03
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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.
07/01/08
The animation is crude, but the artwork is never less than astounding.
11/15/07
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.
07/06/07
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05/09/05
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01/01/00
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.
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