# Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage) is grossly underated!

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**Created:** [February 5, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-planet-la-planete-sauvage-is-grossly-underated/611819 "2012-02-05T02:37:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-planet-la-planete-sauvage-is-grossly-underated/611819/21 "2012-02-07T23:26:49Z")

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You may know this, but parts of were shown in The Cell (Jennifer Lopez watches it)

Brian

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**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-planet-la-planete-sauvage-is-grossly-underated/611819/22 "2012-02-09T00:24:56Z")

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> [@Quimby](#):
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> Sorry for the tangent but that is another movie that scarred my childhood. There is a scene where some rats pull apart a sad Donkey toy with wrenches. As a kid that upset me so much I had to turn it off immediately. I never watched it again but I can still remember that scene vividly. Poor donkey…

[Kindertrauma agrees.](http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=422) Reader even mentions Watership Down too. As I recall it they only showed that scene in shadow, but I remember Peter Ustinov’s character saying, “Unhitch him!” and hearing the old toy pleading, “No, no! I’ll work!”

I’d still recommend it though (just not for really little kids).

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**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fantastic-planet-la-planete-sauvage-is-grossly-underated/611819/23 "2012-02-09T20:58:49Z")

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I watched the movie because of this thread. It is a good movie, unique, and has unusual and exciting visuals. It is a very slowly paced movie at times, and the thing that is missing is any character development, or emotional payoff. The best developed character is the young female Draag who is looking after the baby who is the main character, but when he runs away, she is never mentioned again.

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