Fantastic Planet may disturb...with its content, but it is also strangely fascinating and thought-provoking.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 12, 2024

More fantasy than science fiction, this strange, metaphorical portrait, adapted from the novel 'Om En Serie' by Stefan Wul, plays out in a world as psychedelic as 'Yellow Submarine' but far more predatory.

| Oct 6, 2023

A strange new world weirdly unfolds in Fantastic Planet...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2023

Beautiful French animated surreal dystopian sci-fi flick will mess you up. Trippy baby. Trippy.

| Original Score: A+ | Jan 27, 2022

Humor and pathos underline a fine adventure story.

| Jun 29, 2020

This is a beautiful work of art which combines serious sci-fi with fanciful designs, a distinct style and a big message. A classic which is very highly recommended.

| Jan 15, 2020

The whole thing is marvelously bizarre, highly imaginative but, alas, all too short.

| Dec 16, 2019

Fantastic Planet is one of the most intriguing movies of the animated and adventure genres. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 19, 2019

An outstanding classic of the European animation cinema. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 18, 2019

There's surprising depth to the images given this style.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2019

an utterly unique film

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 19, 2016

There is a strange, dreamlike placidity that hangs - like a silent, terrifying fog - over Ren Laloux's 1973 animated sci-fi classic.

| Jun 20, 2016

A jarring examination of racism and intolerance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Grotesque yet graceful, it's a hallucinatory vision quite unlike everything you've ever seen.

| Jul 5, 2010

A patchwork of cutouts from Soviet tech and science magazines pinned into druggy tableaux, with a genuine sense of placid terror to give teeth to its planar allegories

| Dec 17, 2009

Thirty-five years later, Rene Laloux's surreal animated film remains a singular psychedelic experience.

| Jan 9, 2009

Surreal and wonderful in a way not often seen from Europe.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2008

Eerie, surreal and a welcome respite from Disney-style animation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2008

The film has a flat quality that cannot entirely be overcome by the sensational animation and the obvious good intentions of its creators.

| Sep 9, 2008

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.

| Jul 1, 2008