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Plot: An evil force from a 1000 years in the future begins to destroy an idyllic paradise, where the citizens are in perfect harmony with nature.
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MCT:July 8, 2008
French animater Rene Laloux of "Fantastic Planet" renown, attempted to make another surreal sci-fi adventure with the 80's "Ghandar" or as Isac Asimov and Harvey Wienstien decided to call it for those of us in the states "Light Years", which since no...(read more) space travel takes place, and since the movie is about a fictional country called "Gandahar" is probably a bad title. "Light Years" I guess sounds more sci-fi-ish, and if this film was to succed in the states(it didnt) it was gonna need every bit of conventionality it could muster.
The story is a complex one involving the standard sci-fi tropes of eugenics, time travel, death, and utopia, and though it's certainly more involved than most animated sci-fi (a good deal of the time were watching the characters talk), it's really the visualization of the world and it's inhabitants which makes this movie worth seeing.
Like "Fantastic Planet" before it, Laloux's enviornments are some of the most alien that have ever been imagined. The landscape is often undulating Daliesuqe deserts, which strange trees which resemble simultaneously bodily organs and guysers, a young girl offering her breast to a new born who looks like a tapir, born out of a grown embryonic plant, a city of underground mutants who resemble Blemmyes, ancient african monsters with heads beneath their shoulders, an army hollow soldiers who turn people into statues, video camera like birds who can lift entire buildings in swarms, and of course a collossul mile wide sentient brain in the middle of the ocean.
Laloux uses sci-fi story structures to create, very evokative images that do not look like anyone elses, ever, something few filmakers in any medium or genre, can claim with straight face.
That being said the English voice acting is just decent, not great but decent, it keeps the story moving, but doesn't draw you into any of the characters. "Light Years" like "Fantastic Planet" or the animated films of Svankmajer are more concerned with form than content, but not oblivious of the latter.
So if you like heady sci-fi, visually stunning design, and unique animation, this is not to be passed up. If not it's probably not bad to see once anyway, just for the visual treat of it all, and the more I mull over the story, not the plot, I'm more impressed with how well and vividly it told me a story Ive heard a hundred times before. -
MCT:June 28, 2008
A vastly underated & virtually unknown movie. I found it interesting that there were two version's of the movie, each with their own screenplay, which seems to be quite similar to a regular version and a directors cut. Isaac Asimov wrote the screenplay for the American version & that was probably the version that I saw and I would love to see the original version. If anybody has it & can share it on winmx or limewire, or anywhere, leave me a message on my profile.
I also take pride in the fact that when I first searched for this movie on Flixter they didn't have it! I had to find it on imdb to confirm the actors that were in the film & with a picture I submitted it to them they added this movie to their site bc I requested it! I'm so proud of myself... -
MCT:March 29, 2008
Not quite the mindfucking headtrip that Fantastic Planet was, but it's still got it's fair share of surreal madness and hey, the main villain is a giant brain with a robot army! Can't go wrong there, can you?
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MCT:May 29, 2007
The artwork sucks, but it has a great science fiction story! I watched it numerous times when I was a young teenager, I can't find it anywhere now, but I remember it being good.
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MCT:April 5, 2007
Rene Laloux's film that he made after Time Masters. Though not as good as its predecessor this film again benefits from brilliant and unusual animation and imagery and with a great simple storyline.
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MCT:March 30, 2007I give this film 2 thumbs up, one of the most original animated films that has a beautiful animation. In a utopian society of Gandahar, a danger is arriving and it is up to Sylvain to stop it. A classic and underrated 1988 film.
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MCT:March 13, 2007
still can't find a copy of this amazing film. but if you can find it get it! you wont be sorry. Not for kids.
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jordan124posted 305 days ago -
I also take pride in the fact that when I first searched for this movie on Flixter they didn't have it! I had to find it on imdb to confirm the actors that were in the film & with a picture I submitted it to them. I'm so proud of myself...
posted 320 days ago -
For anyone wanting to see it (again or for the first time) it's being released on DVD in the UK this October. This will be the first time it has been available with the original French soundtrack and English subtitles. Their Fantastic Planet DVD was NTSC and Region 0 (so would play pretty much anywhere) but I don't know about this one yet.
posted 363 days ago -
A vastly underated & virtually unknown movie. I found it interesting that there were two version's of the movie, each with their own screenplay, which seems to be quite similar to a regular verision and a directors cut. Isaac Asimov wrote the screenplay for the American version & that was probably the version that I saw and I would love to see the original version. If anybody has it & can share it on winmx or limewire, or anywhere, leave me a message on my profile.
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