{"id":10997,"date":"2010-05-14T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T19:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2020-12-09T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T01:29:18","slug":"fantastic-planet-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10997","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Planet (1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I was just a live plaything who sometimes dared to rebel.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Fantastic-Planet-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Fantastic-Planet-Poster-197x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-56651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Fantastic-Planet-Poster-197x300.png 197w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Fantastic-Planet-Poster-674x1024.png 674w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Fantastic-Planet-Poster-84x128.png 84w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Fantastic-Planet-Poster-178x270.png 178w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Fantastic-Planet-Poster.png 763w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA domesticated Om named Terr escapes from his Draag captors and encourages a group of wild Oms to fight against their oppressors.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aliens<\/li>\n<li>Animated Features<\/li>\n<li>Revolutionaries<\/li>\n<li>Science Fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nIn his review of this &#8220;curious animated feature, sci-fi for adults&#8221; &#8212; winner of the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival &#8212; Peary comes across as less than enthusiastic. He complains that the story &#8212; which &#8220;makes the key point that education is vital to revolution&#8221; &#8212; is &#8220;slight&#8221;, that the &#8220;quick, vague ending is not satisfying&#8221;, and that the &#8220;animation is often static&#8230; and tends to give [the] film a sluggish pace at those times when the excitement should be building&#8221;. He argues that while it&#8217;s &#8220;worth seeing&#8221;, it&#8217;s &#8220;disappointing in that with only a few changes [it] could have been a really terrific film&#8221;. For the most part, I agree with each of Peary&#8217;s points above, yet I don&#8217;t think he gives the film quite enough credit. <\/p>\n<p>While the storyline <em>is<\/em> rather simplistic, it packs a terrific punch overall, and is surprisingly horrific for an animated film. From its opening sequence &#8212; in which a tiny female Om carrying a newborn baby is mercilessly harassed, then brutally killed by callous Draags &#8212; it&#8217;s clear that director Rene Laloux and Roland Topper (&#8220;who provided the original artwork&#8221;) are telling a no-holds-barred allegorical tale of extreme oppression and tyranny. And while Peary&#8217;s complaints about the &#8220;static&#8221; animation are valid to a certain extent, he fails to reveal how truly stunning and original the visuals are throughout the story &#8212; this is a film you&#8217;ll want to watch again and again, simply to appreciate the wildly imaginative world Laloux and Topper have created. (Indeed, Peary does acknowledge that &#8220;best of all are the weird animals that inhabit this savage planet&#8221;, though he argues that &#8220;there are too few&#8221;.)  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consistently creative animation<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11002\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11003\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11004\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11005\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fantastic-planet-still5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"592\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11006\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes. This cult favorite merits multiple viewings for the visuals alone. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cult Movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070544\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1973\/12\/19\/archives\/fantastic-planet-is-animated-feature.html\">NY Times Original Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeforfilm.co.uk\/reviews.php?id=5142\">Eye for Film Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1922&#038;aff=13\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moriareviews.com\/sciencefiction\/fantastic-planet-1973.htm\">Moria Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was just a live plaything who sometimes dared to rebel.&#8221; Synopsis: A domesticated Om named Terr escapes from his Draag captors and encourages a group of wild Oms to fight against their oppressors. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Aliens Animated Features Revolutionaries Science Fiction Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: In his review of this &#8220;curious animated feature, sci-fi for adults&#8221; &#8212; winner of the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival &#8212; Peary comes across as less than enthusiastic&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=10997\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56653,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions\/56653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}