Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
ecstasysymphony
Haven’t seen this in so long but holy shit how did they fucking do it? Other animes can give you 20 episodes detailing every single detail of a character origin and I still wouldn’t give a fuck. A movie with 0 fucking dialogue made me care for these characters more than most anime are capable of. Also the great Leiji Matsumoto (rest in peace) character designs are once again brilliant. He’s one of my fav manga authors ever, he has a genius brain and a creative vision modern manga authors can’t emulate. The animation was amazing from beginning to end (Toei Animation won’t ever be this good again) and of course the music was top notch.
TLDR: you get a free cool anime with your Daft Punk Album.
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As someone who's grown to regard visual albums as some of the greatest pieces of media film has to offer, I'd place Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 at the top of any I've ever seen, and by far in the threshold as one of my favourite movies of all time.
What is there to say about Daft Punk's 2001 masterpiece of an album 'Discovery' that hasn't been said before, an album which will go down in history as one of if not the best electro dance albums of all time. Music has never serrinated with me more than the works of Bangalter and Homen-Christo, Discovery is a Journey of The Soul to find love and meaning in an endless world of mayhem, that has to many incredible reasons to listen to over and over again. An album which jumps between moods, tones and atmospheres to create one of the most flawless…
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Short review, there isn't really much to talk about tbh
STORY - 3:
I literally had 0 investment in the story, granted it's hard to when daft punk is playing so my focus is on them
ART - 5:
Not really an artstyle I love but I don't have any problems with it either tbh, more or less just indifferent to it.
CHARACTER - 2:
Genuinely don't remember anything about any characters except for the fact they were blue, one guy died and there was an evil manager, all character felt quite blank to me, the characters only existed for the sake of giving is something to look at, not to make is feel invested in their personalities.
ENJOYMENT - 8:
Enjoyment is a lot higher than other aspects for one reason I'll get into in a minute. Not much to say here as I'll explain why I enjoyed it so much in the ne…
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Discovery is a masterpiece, but I feel like this kind of misunderstands the appeal of Daft Punk and their music which was that the world was futuristic and cool but you were still just a normal guy doing boring things, so it would have been cool if space fanboy got more focus.
I also feel like the movie comes more from a love for the individual songs and an overriding commitment to perfectly emulating whatever aesthetic the album was going for, which makes for a really unfocused and weird film. It’s not bad, though! HBFS and Something About Us were highlights, though they tried to make Veridis Quo into Castlevania for some reason. I think the gothic stuff was where they lost me.
Read at the sourceJefumaru
This anime is pretty meh. The story is told with no dialogue or sound other than the overlay of Daft Punk’s “Discovery” album. It is an extremely simple story, which made it hard to be invested in at all. There is, however, one tragedy in the story that I was not expecting. It was effective in making me feel at least somewhat connected to the characters. It is an hour long romp that was overall inoffensive, but hardly engaging.
The art is standard fare and nothing special. It is vibrant enough to be a fun watch but it is otherwise not notable. The character designs were pretty appealing, though, and made me wish that the Crescendolls (the band of characters in the anime) were a real band because of how cool they were.
Obviously, the driving force is Daft Punk’s music. If you’re a fan of…
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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…
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holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have no words to describe my feelings but i have never expected this anime/movie/1h-music video to be THIS good!! absolute masterpiece!!! daft punks music is just legendary and the story was so original, my emotions were changing every 10 minutes from goosebumps to almost crying to laughing to dancing. you didn't even need dialogues to understand the story, the visuals were so intense and the music underlined every second of the movie. watch this, people!!! i wish more artists would use anime art, especially in this kind of way, for their music visuals.
so apparently i have to write a longer review, so my favorite song from this whole masterpiece was "something about us"
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Right off the bat, this can automatically be in the running for best anime film of all time simply because its soundtrack is one of the best albums of all time. But it's the combination of Daft Punk's semi-ironic/completely-sincere disco house and Leiji Matsumoto's 70's style character design that makes this so stunning. It's a match made in heaven.
The story features an alien disco band who get abducted by the earth's record industry, get's "human-washed" and has their song "One More Time" commodified into a hit single. The story is carried by the expressiveness of Matsumoto's design and the mood of the music, which is blended into each scene perfectly. I was fascinated at how on-beat the cuts are, which makes the entire film have a distinct rhythm. The BPM literally matches the intensit…
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Ahh, Daft Punk; easily one of my all time favourite musicians. Up until now I’ve considered myself a reasonably massive fan of theirs, but that has temporarily changed as I have now discovered something that I should have long known before—they have an anime feature. I didn’t even find out about this by browsing their Wikipedia page, or looking at random Daft Punk facts, but rather, by randomly entering their name into MAL’s search engine on a whim. I mean, Kanye goddamn West is on here, so what’s stopping my other favourite artists on here? I casually type in Gabrielle Aplin, John Legend, Drake… nothing, until “Instant Crush” starts playing on my Spotify playlist, and I decide to type “Daft Punk” in… and bam, I discover Interstella555.
The film is essentially an hour-long music video of…
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This is the first time I’ve reviewed anime for this site, so I’m still getting used to the whole deal. But I think on the surface Interstella 5555 is a film I’m excited to review. Being a fan of house music from way back, I can easily say Daft Punk is one of my favourite acts from the genre, making this film a lot more enjoyable from the very beginning.
Story: 9
As I alluded to above, every segment of the film was a perfect complement to the music that accompanied it. However, without any extra sound effects or exposition, the narrative was confusing at times. It’s only through joining the dots together do you get the whole picture as to what’s happening (most notably the main antagonist Earl de Darkwood’s master plan). Not that it takes away from the story however, because if you underst…
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For the first ten minutes of INTERSTELLA 5555 I really didn't know what to think. The animation by Kazuhisa Takenôchi is really cool. Mixing old school formulas of 70's and early 80's art styles. With more realistic looking people while still giving it that goofy, anime feel. But the fact that it pretty much was a long ass Daft Punk music video wasn't helping much. I have nothing against Daft Punk, but rather that this film felt like it had no conventional story and the fact that there was no dialog hindered it a lot too. But after awhile I started finding a story within the music, Daft Punk songs that where synced almost rheumatically to the imagines and the story unfolding. And soon, INTERSTELLA 5555 became a fun, emotional and almost spiritual ride.
I think though, that Kazuhisa Taken…
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Music videos don't really NEED a story. The point of a music video, first and foremost, is to look cool. I would worry more about it looking nice and flashy before trying to tie in a narrative. Narrative would only be a problem if it was trying to be political, and good news: 5555 isn't trying to push an agenda, so that's a green checkmark in my book. However, I am regretful to have to dish out big red X's from here on out.
The animation is really bad and janky as you would expect from Toei. If this was made in 2015, I would be laughing and would then ask to see the actual music video/movie made by a legit animation studio company and not some independently made anthology made by 25 people in a week and a h-wait a minute I just described the animation process at Toei fuck never mind
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Sometime in late 2013, I came across the name of this movie in a Daft Punk forum. Back then, I was a newcomer in both anime and music, and this movie, particularly Daft Punk's involvement in it, caught my interest. As such, I decided to watch it and, at that time, I absolutely loved it. Now that I've re-watched it again, that feeling has not gone away; rather I've been able to judge it better thanks to the fact that I'm more experienced in anime now. Now, to the review.
Story:
The story isn't anything extra-ordinary. It's a typical anime-ish case of kidnapping and brain-washing of the main characters. However, that doesn't mean the story is bad. What makes it interesting, though, is the usage of extra-terrestrial characters. The pacing is fast but this isn't overdone. Hey, there's even a…
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Background :
Fans of Daft Punk and AMV in general will easily enjoy this. There is a lot more history behind this particular anime than most realize. For classic anime fans (and I use the term classic to refer to anime pre-1980. Albeit a surprise to many, all anime made before 2005 is not 'old', shows like Testsuwan Atom (black and white version), Kimba, or Gigantor are old anime) this is a trip down memory lain, and for many a dream come true. This is (and sadly will probably be) one of Leiji Matsumoto's last works of anime. To get the full effect of the story, characters and what the hell is going on at times you should be familiar with his work.
Story:
Storyline is pretty basic, its execution is what makes it stand out. A worldwide popular band is kidnapped by THE MAN in order to ful…
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So here we are with another anime review! This time around, it seems that I'm reviewing not so much a series, but a single one shot movie.
This movie in question is called Interstellar 5555(which I found out of luck), and I have to say that it was something very unexpected.
Story: While this movie is really a visual representation of the Daft Punk album Discovery, it actually had a pretty good story. The basis of the story involves four extraterrestrial musicians who get kidnapped from their home world and brought to Earth. They end up having to be rescued by a fan/spaceship pilot, and the rest turns out to actually be a pretty enjoyable movie. As a note, I'd like to point out that there is absolutely no dialogue in this movie, so everything is pretty much told with body langauge, facia…
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Although it lacks story and character depth, Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 is a visual and techno thrill ride that shouldn't be missed.
The Good:
Daft Punk's music and the animation work hand in hand. Creative approach with the music narration.
The Bad:
No sound effects or voice overs. Lack of story and character development puts a heavy reliance on the animation and the viewer.
Story: 7/10
With a story that has no voice overs my main issue is that plot development lacks. The story is heavily reliant on the viewer and what they see and take away from the story. Normally things are explained and the plot gets deeper but with no voice over, this doesn't exist. Its up to the animation to provide the plot and thats why it lacks depth.
Art: 8/10
The art in this movie was pretty well done.…
Read at the sourceMimmey_maroui
Unlike most anime, there is no dialogue in this movie. The story is told by Daft Punk's album Discovery. I thought the film was great and had an awesome plot (though I think if there had been speaking parts it would've been AMAZING!!!) Having been a big fan of the parisian robot duo I had much respect for the work and tried to correlate the songs to the story. I think that if you have previous experience with their work, the movie is a slightly more enjoyable (well, more easy to understand if you're familiar with their odd film style), but the love between Stella and Shep is enough to whet the average otaku's appetite! (Call me a daftopihle...but,) I highly recommend this film! If it turns out not to be your bag of chips then at least you can say you listened to some of the group's best hi…
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Interstella is not your average anime movie. The main reason for this, its really a long music video with a storyline.
Thats not to say the storyline is bad, or it lacks developed characters, it actually has them. Maybe not the greatest story ever told, and without dialog its hard to have the characters develop too much, the the movie manages.
In fact, I believe that if this wasn't a music video it could have been much better. Much of what the characters were thinking and feeling could be assumed by the situation and music, but the characters did seem one dimensional because of this. The actual plot line seemed to have some interesting background, but this background never gets fleshed out, and it could have been with the vocalization of some thoughts.
Being a music video, there needs…
Read at the sourceMalunis_T
Interstella5555 is the collaboration work of a band with an anime legend: It all begins in the 90s, when music videos were original (no offense to the current works); Daft Punk, a techno group, made a music video for their song "One More Time," the video animation was done by an anime artist known as Leiji Matsumoto. The video featured a band of four extraterrestrial characters, looking human with blue skin. The video had them playing the song as the whole alien world was dancing to their beautiful music. While this is going on, some mysterious villain shows up and spies on them, soon after sending soldiers to the planet. The video continued when the song "Aerodynamic" had a music video featuring the same animation, showing the band being kidnapped. Then another came with "Digital Love," a…
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Story:
The story is a fairly normal thing. Several musicians get kidnapped and brain washed by an evil doer.
The most interesting thing about this story is the fact that said musicians are aliens.
Which makes things very interesting.
The story moves along quickly but doesn't skim things either.
And if you like AMVs you'll find this to be very much the best one you'll ever see as things make sense!
An 8 on story from me.
Art:
While the movie aired in 2003, the art looks very much like something from the late 80s.
That is not to say it isn't well animated. It's very smooth, but looks like cleaned up 80s arty work. I think it fits with the mood quite well.
A 9 on art from me.
Sound/Music;
Something I did not know before I first watched 5555 was that there is NO TALKING! That's right. No vo…
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