Just saw Fantastic Planet, a 1973 animated film.* Overall, it was good, not great. The first third was the best part for me. I think if the movie had put all of its cards on the relationship between Terr and his child slave master, it could’ve been a classic.
Unfortunately, once Terr runs away from the Draags and meets his fellow Oms, the movie loses its way, and it devolves into a generic rebellion story instead. Maybe if I had been around in the 1970s, where rebelling against things was as popular as LSD, I might appreciate this one more.
It isn’t a bad film. The visuals are trippy for all the right reasons, the Monty Python-esque animation is more effective than you might think, and I’m a sucker for electronic music, which this film has plenty of. All in all, it’s worth a watch if you love watching crazy stuff by people who may or may not have been on drugs. I just wish it was greater than the sum of its parts.
*Not a kids film. An animated film. There’s a difference.