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Too much of everything

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I always loved Daft Punk, and I was hyped to hear that they made a movie. In the Interstella 5555 movie, nobody talked. It was only the amazing music of Daft Punk. They made the characters likable and the movie was colorful and beautiful. It may look a tad bad, but this was made in 2003, so I guess this was good for its time. I was never really a fan of anime, but this is just beautiful. The movie begins all happy, so the music is upbeat and happy. As the movie goes, the music gets slower and emotional. One of my favorite tracks from this song, 'Something About Us', Went perfectly with the scene. Im trying my best not to tell you what happens, sorry if you didn't like this review. But if you watch it, and you like anime/Daft Punk, I know you'll love this.

This movie was awesome. It was so refreshing to see a movie without any dialogue. It doesn't hit us over the head constantly with exposition and melodramatic confrontations. We aren't told what to think or feel. We're free to analyse or just go along for the ride. It's very relaxed and easy to watch. The music is gorgeous and just doesn't stop. Each song flows beautifully into the next. There were no dull parts, no songs that sounded like mere filler. They matched nicely overall with the story and imagery. Sometimes they fitted perfectly with the visuals and other times they juxtaposed in an interesting way that still made sense and brought different, unexpected qualities out.The story was generally easy to follow. It's interesting as an allegory about the recording business (or corruption in general) but then it also works as just a made-up story with aliens and fancy gadgets and guitars. It creates worlds that the characters exist within. It sparks our imaginations to fill in the details about these people and their worlds. We want to believe they exist outside of the movie. The characters all have clear motivations and are always doing things for a reason. There are no vapid argument scenes, just good vs. evil, man vs. nature.I don't feel I have much else to say about this movie. It's short at only an hour but was one of the most enjoyable movies I've ever seen. I was in the right mood for it and it was highly satisfying. You can just sit back and let your mind wander. Bob your head or tap your feet. I really wish worlds like this actually existed, it feels like where humanity really belongs. Free, flying, traveling to all kinds of strange places, loving, listening to music. Alas, one can only dream...

This DVD has been around for a while now and I think has generally been overlooked.I am a Daft Punk fan, and caught their recent live shows, which made me go back through their work, and I spotted this, realized I hadn't seen it, so rented a copy.I'm not necessarily a manga/cartoon fan, yeah I was a fan as a kid, watched all the classics growing up in the 80's, including Ulysees etc, but I had grown out of it, so I'll admit I wasn't really expecting much, just a cartoon set to a classic Daft Punk album. Wrong.Off the bat you do need to know that there is no dialog, it's a story told in visual form with accompanying music but you know what, it' actually quite a gripping story of a successful band being kidnapped by an intergalactic music mogul, who has their identities erased and manipulated to make the mogul money from their songs on other interstellar planets, as he takes them on a intergalactic music tour in essence. Luckily, an interstellar bounty hunter guy, who is also a fan of theirs and has a crush on the female member, is dispatched to find them and get them back. In addition, despite the band members having their memories erased, elements of their past lives linger and they struggle to break free from there enforced identities and lives, with the help of the bounty hunter. The weird thing is, I actually found myself getting caught up in the story as there are some truly heartfelt moments, and at times the music was just background noise for me (pretty great background noise, but background noise nonetheless), you forget your listening to a Daft Punk album. Luckily, the accompanying music is from Daft Punk's album Discovery, which has some classic tracks, and when you are listening to the songs, you realize their are f-ing great songs, and the song style and visual style and story are totally harmonious, they work in total unison.At their live show, I realized how these guys had a really great visual as well as musical sense, and after watching this you realize not only can they gel the two together brilliantly in a live show, but they also do it on video and I can honestly say you don't need to be a Daft Punk fan or cartoon fan to enjoy this, I would recommend it to anyone.

I consider this one of my favorite movies. I love anime, and this has that. I love techno, and this has that. I like romance, and this has a little of that.Also, the music is great. It totally makes up for lack of dialogue. It is even good if you just turn it on and let the music play. the video is unnecessary to enjoy this. Me and my friends will be sitting around playing PSP and we just put this on in the background...Animation: 9/10Sound: 10/10Style: 10/10Overall, if you love techno, you MUST watch this movie. If you love anime, you MUST watch this. If you like music, you should watch this...Even people i know who said they didn't like the band, Daft Punk, loved this.This movie is even great for kids. my Brothers (9 and 12) love this movie, and it is perfectly kid friendly