# Name this strange 70's animated film for me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281 "2003-07-23T00:46:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/1 "2003-07-23T00:46:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/2 "2003-07-23T00:54:33Z")
You are talking about [Fantastic Planet](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0070544) , a France-Czechoslovakia co-production, based on a book by Stefan Wul based on his novel _Oms en série_ ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/3 "2003-07-23T01:03:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cmonidareya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cmonidareya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmonidareya)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/4 "2003-07-23T01:11:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/5 "2003-07-23T01:13:52Z")
Strange… I, too, knew this was about Fantastic Planet before I even opened it. Are there no other ‘strange 70s animated films’ out there? ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/6 "2003-07-23T01:21:19Z")
That was it. 🙂 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! ---
**Author:** ![AntaresJB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/7 "2003-07-23T02:02:29Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/8 "2003-07-23T02:26:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \* > \*\*Strange… I, too, knew this was about Fantastic Planet before I even opened it. Are there no other ‘strange 70s animated films’ out there? \*\* Bakshi’s _Wizards_ also came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/9 "2003-07-23T02:45:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/10 "2003-07-23T02:51:51Z")
> [@](#): > > 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!” 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! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/11 "2003-07-23T02:53:02Z")
Erm… I bought a _tape of the film_ for a friend. Not the revival house. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/12 "2003-07-23T07:43:01Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/13 "2003-07-23T10:52:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tengu \* > \*\*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. \*\* I knew it too. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/14 "2003-07-23T11:00:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \* > \*\*Strange… I, too, knew this was about Fantastic Planet before I even opened it. Are there no other ‘strange 70s animated films’ out there? \*\* I did wonder briefly if the thread would be about the animated short _Skywhales_, but that was 80s IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/15 "2003-07-23T11:07:59Z")
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! 🙂 ) ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/16 "2003-07-23T13:52:30Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/17 "2003-07-23T14:41:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorkusmalorkusmafia/32/7266_2.png) [@dorkusmalorkusmafia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorkusmalorkusmafia)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/18 "2003-07-23T15:10:35Z")
Fantastic Planet? Now to go read the OP. Yep, Fantastic Planet. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/19 "2003-07-23T15:36:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281/20 "2003-07-23T15:42:48Z")
Hm. Yeah, good point. When I think “weird-assed Seventies movie,” I generally think “Fantastic Planet,” but that Raggedy Ann flick WAS pretty peculiar… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-strange-70s-animated-film-for-me/190281.md?page=2)