インターステラ5555：THE 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET 5TAR 5YSTEM

INTERSTELLA 5555: THE 5TORY OF THE 5ECRET 5TAR 5YSTEM

MOVIE

MOVIE
Dubbed
SOURCE
ORIGINAL
RELEASE
May 28, 2003
LENGTH
67 min

DESCRIPTION

This film is a visual companion piece to "Discovery", an album by Daft Punk. It tells the story of a band of four extraterrestrial musicians who are kidnapped and brought back to Earth by an evil manager. Their only hopes lie with a space pilot from their home planet who, after receiving a distress call broadcasted during the abduction, seeks out to rescue them.

CAST

Shep
Stella
Arpegius
Octave
Baryl
Mr. Darkwood

REVIEWS

megafat
70/100
Daft Punk: The Music Video: The Movie.
Back in the "good old days", when MTV was actually Music Television and not a channel for "Reality TV", Kazaa and Napster made piracy popular, and you had to go out of your way to record your favorite music off the radio just so you could have a tape of your favorite music in one place, music videos were awesome. And they were so huge that they would draw in huge ratings to channels with music programming, and studios would sell music videos on VHS so people could have them along with their vinyl, cassettes, and/or CD collection

Studios would invest a ton of money into them because they doubled as promotional material for the band, and as a result, you would get music videos that were essentially awesome short films with an awesome song attached, such as Michael Jackon's Thriller, A-ha's Take on Me, and Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Interstella 5555 hearkens back to these days by essentially being a 60 minute music video.

Interstella 5555: The 5story of the 5ecret 5star 5system (what a mouthful) is an hour long music video telling the story of an alien band to the music of Daft Punk. Interstella 5555 was developed by Daft Punk along with legendary creator Leiji Matsumoto, and was released by Toei Animation.

The story follows a group of blue-skinned extraterrestrial group of musicians who are kidnapped right after one of their concerts, and are brainwashed and altered to look human by an evil music manager. Soon after, a space pilot from their planet, who happens to be a huge fan of the band, tries to save them after receiving a distress call sent out during their kidnapping.

As far as stories go, it's on the simple side, but it doesn't need to be more complex than it needs to be. It is, after all, an extended music video. Any more complex and it would get in the way of the music and feel completely unnecessary. It's also completely void of any dialogue, letting the visuals and music do all of the storytelling.

The music, which consists entirely of Daft Punk's Discovery album, doubles as both the soundtrack and some of the storytelling. The rest of it is told through the visuals, letting the characters actions and expressions do most of the work, which is done masterfully. And considering the complete lack of any dub, anyone can understand whats going on.

It's animation and art style looks fantastic, with Leiji Matsumoto's style shining through. It definitely feels like a '70s era anime, considering that quite a few of the directors works were released.

That said, with all of the praise i gave Interstella 5555, it's not for everybody. If Daft Punk isn't your thing, or having a simplistic story puts you off, you probably won't like this. If you can get past the band, maybe pretend this is a silent film. Interstella 5555 is worth checking out.
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Chili6
88/100
Pleasant experience but mostly for those fond of Daft Punk
Before I jump into this stellar Interstella review, I want to say that the viewer's experience of this movie probably largely depends on if you like the Band Daft punk or not. This is is a movie that is supposed to be a big music video to Daft Punk's album Discovery, and will be coming from a guy who has loved Daft Punk since 2016-17ish.

PLOT: Pretty simple, basically an alien band that is beloved by their planet is abducted by humans and are forced to perform and release their music for an avaricious businessman. I will admit it was little predictable but there were a couple turns that were unexpected. The hour length of the album makes sure that it doesn't overdo its stay, no time is wasted nor does it feel like anything is rushed. The overall flow of the story feels very natural, and the album matches the sequence of events almost perfectly, at some points it felt like the album was made with the movie in mind with how well put together it is.

CHARACTERS: Again, the characters are also pretty simple. We have The band which consists of 4 members, an evil music producer, and a hero. They all get the job done. I've heard that a lot of people think that the band members didn't get much characterization but I think the point was that they weren't supposed to stand out but more stand together as a band. Not only that but at the end of the day it's an hour long music video so I don't think it'd be too necessary to expand anymore then they could have.

AESTHETICS: I'd say this is where the movie shines the best. First off it has that charming older art style, back when animations weren't really distinguished as "anime" or "cartoons". The color palette is also really vibrant and pretty, it was never boring to look at in that regard. The animation wasn't some eyegasm that most people expect when they hear the words "good animation" but by no means was it bad in any way. Lastly if we want to count Discovery as an "Anime OST" then dang i guess Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo have finally been trumped when it comes to my favorite anime soundtracks, as this is one of my favorite albums.

BOTTOM LINE: INTERSTELLA 5555 is an impressive feat for a music video and as a Daft Punk enthusiast I'd say that it captures Discovery's energy in a profound way. Some people find it very authentic in a child-like way and some will find it cheesy. I don't expect everyone to like it the way I did. I never really liked music videos (which is why it took me like 5 years to finally check this piece out) and I will say that INTERSTELLA 5555 is a solid thumbs up from me, thank you for reading this through

Thank you very much for reading this review through! This is my first review written so I decided to choose a more simple movie for this
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