film: Interstella 5555

Interstella 5555

Daft punk upon releasing of thier album "Discovery" also released an anime movie that syncs up with the enitre album, amazing i hear u say? amazing is right. It is an awesome tale, of how an evil, evil man kidnaps an intergalactically aclaimed band and tuns them into the Crescen Dolls. he wipes thier memories and makes them his slaves on earth. if ur into anime u should check it out. the bass player for the Crescen Dolls is quite the hotty to.

they run the movie with each song accompaning a different scene of the movie, and it has an awesome twist/ending. anyways, if u have seen it, what do u think of it, and if u havnt seen it.................see it.

This film is amazing!

The product of a meeting of minds between France and Japan, aka two of the most obtuse nations in existence, Interstella 5555 is everything you could have hoped for and everything you could have dreaded. First off, it helps if you liked Discovery. If its '80s electro-pop overload left you cold then no amount of blue-skinned aliens getting funky will persuade you otherwise. Likewise, it's a big plus if you're familiar with the style and conventions of anime; otherwise you might as well just be watching CBBC with the sound down.

But assuming that you're the sort of person who thought that Discovery was a soft focus, synth pop classic, and whose shelves are buckling under the weight of Dragonball Z DVDs, then you're in for a treat. Once you've got used to the anime style, absurd plot, randomly moving mouths etc, Interstella 5555 really is a thing of beauty. The animation is, in its own way, gorgeous, whilst some of the drawings of the vast vistas of space are just stunning.

The plot is pretty much standard mental anime fare: blue-skinned alien pop band are kidnapped and pulled through space into our universe where an evil Svengali attempts to use them to complete his plans for universal domination.

So far, so bizarre. However, at the end of the day, the plot is irrelevant. Instead, what we have here is a superior slice of eye candy and fans of Discovery will find much to enjoy. As well as the movie, the DVD comes complete with all the sort of essential watch-once-and-forget-about features we've come to expect on this format, namely biographies, stills and other bits and pieces.

Interstella 5555 is definitely a must for Daft Punk completists.