Name this strange 70's animated film for me

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In the film there are two humanoid races.

One race is blue and gigantic in relation to the other. Completely bald they are a “master race” possibly alien. They keep the other, more humanoid race as pets and exterminate feral colonies of them.

The other race is seeminly human, with body hair and I think I recall different races (black, white, etc). They are trying to escape the giant beings and rebel against them with what I recall is lost technology. They live underground when feral and with the giants when kept as pets.

I think the movie was French but translated to English. The movie contained nudity and sex so I think it was considered an adult film even though it was animated.

Any help would be great.

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You are talking about Fantastic Planet , a France-Czechoslovakia co-production, based on a book by Stefan Wul based on his novel Oms en série

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How did I know this was going to be about Fantastic Planet when I saw the thread title?

I need a copy of that movie.

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I also knew this was going to be a thread about Fantastic Planet when I read the title. My parents brought me and my sister to see this at the drive in when we were younger. It was very bizarre, but my dad was all into seeing it.

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Strange… I, too, knew this was about Fantastic Planet before I even opened it. Are there no other ‘strange 70s animated films’ out there?

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That was it. :slight_smile: Thank you all for your quick response. I can now order if from Amazon and have it in time for my birthday gift to myself! yay!

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Heh, I’m late, but I just had to chime in and say I also read the thread title and instantly thought “Fantastic Planet! Yes!” One of my friends got it on video at Wal-Mart for $5 two years ago. Great movie. An acid trip w/out the acid.

Just a note pertaining to FP… in the Jennifer Lopez movie The Cell(tiny non-plot-related spoiler ahead, perhaps), there is a scene in which J.Lo’s character tokes up (I think) and sits down and watches Fantastic Planet.

Good movie.

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Bakshi’s Wizards also came to mind.

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Damn, me too! (Knew it was going to be about Fantastic Planet.) Apparently that weird French flick sticks with people at some level. It’s really a dreamlike movie, in that there are a lot of striking images, but it doesn’t make any sense.

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Yup. I knew it as well!

I saw it years and years ago (back in the '80s) at a revival house. I bought it as a Christmas present for a friend of mine a few years ago. Gotta get my own copy!

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Erm… I bought a tape of the film for a friend. Not the revival house.

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Just a bit of trivia, Stefan Wul, the author of the novel on which the movie was based, was the nom de plume of a French dentist named Pierre Pairault

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I knew it too.

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I did wonder briefly if the thread would be about the animated short Skywhales, but that was 80s IIRC.

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I knew this would be about Fantastic Planet–but I didn’t remember the title of the movie. I saw it on some cable chanel when I was in my teens and was just fascinated by it–that was probably my intro to science fiction and (in general) all things weird (well, actually my family was my intro into that, but that’s a whole different kind of thread! :slight_smile: )

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another “this is gonna be Fantastic Planet” right here!

I read about it, I think, in Famous Monsters of Filmland & was fortunate enough to catch it on the late night SciFi movie a local station aired on Saturday nights in the early 1980s

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I used to watch Night Flight (back when the USA Network still sucked, but sucked a lot less) a lot in the 80’s and got turned on to this flick then.

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Fantastic Planet? Now to go read the OP. Yep, Fantastic Planet.

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Pretty funny; I knew from the OP that it would be Fantastic Planet, though I wondered for a second if it might be that freaky Raggedy Ann movie.

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Hm. Yeah, good point. When I think “weird-assed Seventies movie,” I generally think “Fantastic Planet,” but that Raggedy Ann flick WAS pretty peculiar…