Search - Daft Punk - Interstella 5555 on DVD

Christine Z. (Zenverse)
Reviewed on 4/14/2008...

If you like Daft Punk or Techno/Dance music and you like anime, then you are going to love this movie!

Subarashi! Best viewed when not sober...

Justin Ratcliff | S.Pasadena, Ca. | 04/26/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I bought discovery a few years back, and to be honest I wasn't impressed, so into the back of the collection it went. Then I saw Interstella 5555. Now I can't stop listening to the damned thing, and smiling when certain tracks come on, because Discovery finally has a context that is pleasing. Interstella 5555 really is an over the top, sentimental piece of anime, and that's what is so great about it. The fact that the hero of the story flies around in a gigantic space guitar only really bothers you the first time you see it.

I really liked that there is zero dialogue in this movie, just Discovery as the soundtrack, and lots of non-verbal communication, meaning that there's no need for translation, or bad dub-overs. One can view it in any country. The animation is trully top notch, if not heavily 70's themed. It's deffinately a cheesy movie, but that cheese pays off big time in the form of charm, and in the end a kind of sci-fi optimism, which is kind of nice in an age when everyone is surly, sarcastic, and irony ladden. This movie will leave you feeling good, so why not buy it?"

Daft Punk is playing at my house

Maxim St. Pierre | Pretoria, IL USA | 12/24/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an anime cartoon set to the soundtrack of Daft Punk's "Discovery." There are NO other words, dialogue or songs!



If you like "Discovery" and don't particularly care about anime one way or another, you will still like this movie. If you love anime but don't have any particular feeling about Daft Punk, you will also like the movie.



If, however, you happen to be someone who really likes anime AND really likes Daft Punk, this movie will make you wet yourself. Go nuts."

Excellent

Robert Huffstedtler | Cary, NC United States | 01/26/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I was amazed that this movie works as well as it does. I first became acquainted with Daft Punk when I was living in the UK and the first bits of the movie were released as the videos for the first four tracks on the album.Discovery doesn't sound particularly like a concept album when one listens to it, so I was expecting that they would have to at least insert dialog or rearrange the tracks for the film, but they did not. The visuals carry the story, but the songs are so well integrated that there is never a clash, nor does the viewer find himself wondering what is going on. Even the motivation of the villain is clear.Matsumoto's visuals are beautiful. I think this film is accessible even to those who are not normally fans of anime or house music."