Fantastic Planet

Name: Fantastic Planet
Genre: Science Fiction, Animation
Released: 1973-12-01
Duration: 72 min
Rating: 4.5
Cast: Jennifer Drake, Philippe Ogouz, Madeleine Clervanne, Éric Baugin, Michèle Chahan

A sublime trip to a fine new world

Rating

4.5 (1)

Release Date

12/1/1973

Runtime

72 mins

Genres

Science Fiction Animation

Overview

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

Status

Released

Original Language

French

Budget

Revenue

Homepage

How It Feels

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A hallucinogenic journey through an alien world of exploitation and subjugation, rendered in dreamlike stop-motion animation that transforms body horror and dystopian cruelty into something weirdly beautiful and disorienting.

Mood

UnsettlingBleakAbsurd

Themes

SurvivalPower

Tone

Matter-of-fact

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Stop-motionPainterlyStylized genre

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violenceBody horror

Gérard Hernandez

Master Taj (voice)

Jean Valmont

Adult Terr / Narrator (voice)

Jennifer Drake

Tiwa (voice)

Yves Barsacq

Om (voice)

Jeanine Forney

Terr's Bride (voice)

Éric Baugin

Young Terr (voice)

Jean Topart

Master Sinh (voice)

William Coryn

Teenager Terr (voice)

Sylvie Lenoir

Additional Voices (voice)

Philippe Ogouz

Additional Voices (voice)

Irina Tarassov

Additional Voices (voice)

Yvette Robin

Additional Voices (voice)

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

fantastic planet not only qeustions our status in the universe but also how humans will always rebel when faced with a bigger force that handles them in unjust ways.
these blue aliens don't feel any emotional connection to humans because they view them as nothing more then animals. so many of us treat people like animals and in some ways that also shows how we treat animals.
the blue people also use tactics and ways that resemble what dictatorships would do. these blue people are not in many ways sympathetic.
whats the correct way to handle our fellow people and how will the natural totem poll aka animals-humans be effected over time by new species and new life? will they just be the same?
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