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Blast off with Jake on a live-action, musical, outer space adventure featuring ten original songs! Traveling inside his toy rocket, Jake's survival depends on the help of nine friendly planets, who magically talk and sing. Will Jake make it through the dangerous asteroid belt? Can he get back home before his mother discovers that he is gone? Songs combine fun lyrics about the planets with memorable melodies for one big whopping, planet-hopping experience that's out of this world!
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Give it a Chance.......2007-05-01
Okay, this video is really cheesy. The first time I watched it I really didn't like it! But guess what, my 4yo is CRAZY about it and after the 4th or 5th time it really grows on you. The songs are catchy (though I hate to admit it, LOL) It's pretty basic, which is perfect for a child who doesn't know anything about the solar system - they focus on one key point for each planet, easy for them to remember. But even my son, who enjoys Discovery Channel space programs, did not find this boring. I think it's worth the $$. You might get sick of being asked to put it in all day long, though! LOL
NICE DVD............2007-03-26
I bought this dvd for my 3 yrs old son .First i was scared that...he will like it or not....but really he enjoyed it too much .
VERY COOL!.......2007-03-16
My almost three year old son has been showing a huge interest in the solar system so I purchased this video. He LOVES it and I'll admit I've also been re-introduced to some long-lost solar system facts. We watch this often and the songs are catchy (which I find myself humming all day long). I hope to find more videos for this age range that educate and entertain kids in regard to the solar system. I'm very happy with this purchase.
amazing teaching tool.......2007-03-09
When I first got this DVD and previewed I knew two things: 1. it may be annoying as heck for the adults in the classroom, thus 2. the kids would LOVE it. I teach in a classroom of students with special needs. THEY ALL LOVE IT!! and more importantly, they all learned from it. I designed some activities around it and still use it as a reward now that the unit is over b/c it is their number one favorite.
the tunes are a bit musical-esque and irritating, but they area catchy and filled with some useful info. I wish they illustrated the rotation and orbiting around the sun more b/c that is difficult to teach without visuals. It would have made it perfect. Also the bonus feature is a cute quiz, but its not that thrilling.
my 3 yr old loves it.......2007-01-31
hi!
I live in India..and saw this online at amazon.
since my 3 yr old daughter has interestin space and planets..I odered it online from amazon.
It took almost a month and a half to reach here ..but it was definetly worth the wait.my daughter is hooked to it and so am I.
I love the songs , especailly the saturn and jupiter one.
I gave it 5 stars coz it really deserves it.
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René Laloux's mesmerising psychedelic sci-fi animated feature won the Special Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and is a landmark of European animation. Based on Stefan Wul's novel Oms en série [Oms by the Dozen], Laloux's breathtaking vision was released in France as La Planète sauvage [The Savage Planet]; in the USA as Fantastic Planet; and immediately drew comparisons to Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Planet of the Apes (both the 1968 film and Boule's 1963 novel). Today, the film can be seen to prefigure much of the work of Hayao Miyazaki at Studio Ghibli (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) due to its palpable political and social concerns, cultivated imagination, and memorable animation techniques.
Fantastic Planet tells the story of "Oms", a human-like species, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue giants called "Draags". The story takes place on the Draags' planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood. He manages to escape enslavement from a Draag learning device used to educate the savage Oms - and begins to organise an Om revolt. The imagination invested in the surreal creatures, music and sound design, and eerie landscapes, is immense and unforgettable. This release includes the early LaLoux short "The Snails".
Special Features: English Language version, Original Subtitled version, photo gallery, trailer, Fantastic Laloux, the new 26 minute documentary on director Rene Laloux, short animated film Les Escargots (The Snails), an animated segment of Sean Lennon s music video for Would I Be The One , inspired by Fantastic Planet
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- Has not aged well.
- 5 stars for the film ONLY, not the DVD
- Don't Panic!
- Jennifer Drake?
- AMAZING Film, TERRIBLE version of it
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Fantastic Planet
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Based on French science fiction novelist Stefan Wul's Oms en Serie ("Oms by the Dozen"), René Laloux's La Planète Sauvage (its title changed to Fantastic Planet for the U.S. release) paints an animated tale of humans kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of blue humanoid giants called Traags. The story takes place on the Traags' planet Ygam, where we follow our narrator, an Om called Terr, from infancy to adulthood, when he escapes his subjugation with a Traag learning device with which to educate the savage Oms and incite them to revolt. As a French-Czech coproduction, this story had much resonance for its makers as an allegory of Czechoslovakia's invasion by Soviet troops in the late '60s, and had to be completed in Paris due to political pressure. While the story does not distinguish itself in the annals of science fiction, the imagination invested in the surreal backdrops, with its eerie creatures and landscapes, does. The animation technique--moving paper cutouts across backgrounds--contributes to the overall feeling of other-worldliness. Fantastic Planet won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. Included on the DVD are three early short subjects by Laloux showing his evolution toward Fantastic Planet. You have your choice of audio: French with English subtitles, or English with English subtitles. But choose the latter so you can see how much the subtitles are cheating you. --Jim Gay
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Has not aged well........2007-08-01
Fantastic Planet (Rene Laloux, 1973)
When it came out, Fantastic Planet was visionary, cutting-edge, all those superlatives (even if it did seem to derive a great deal from Terry Gilliam's animations on Monty Python's Flying Circus). Nowadays, well, it hasn't aged well. The nostalgia crowd will get a serious kick out of it. If you haven't seen it before, though, you're better off not listening to the raves.
It's sometime in the far future. Humanity has been reduced to wild animals who co-inhabit their planet (which may or may not be Earth) with the Draag, a race of giants. The humans, now known as "om", are sometimes domesticated by the Draag and kept as pets; one of them, though the use of certain Draag tools, learns how to read their language. When he escapes and takes refuge with a tribe of wild om, he brings the disturbing news that the Draag are planning to step up their om extermination campaign, and he must therefore educate the wild om so they can either fight back or flee to another planet.
It's all quite pretty, if exceptionally retro-looking in these days of CGI and Pixar. Roland Topor's story and art, like much of his work, is stuffed full of sexual repression masking itself as permissiveness, which these days is the most interesting thing about the movie; still, Topor's obsessions tend to come off better in prose form (The Tenant is still as riveting today as it was forty years ago). That said, if you saw it long ago as a youngster, you'll probably get a nostalgia kick out of it. **
5 stars for the film ONLY, not the DVD.......2007-07-12
I saw this movie on cable in the mid-90s and thought it was PHENOMINAL! Yes, the animation was far inferior to mid-90s techniques, but I really enjoyed the retro feel. The film had a dream-like, surreal quality that I have never experienced with a film before. The story was great and the music was fantastic. So, why am I not buying this DVD?
I am holding out, with great faith, that it will be given a proper DVD treatment in the future. Anamorphic widescreen, if not 5.1, at least a decent stereo track, and the option to eliminate the subtitles.
The current version can be found easily, but it is expensive. I refuse to pay that much money for a product that I will ultimately be unsatisifed with. If and when a proper DVD release comes to pass, I will happily pay good money for such a unique and enjoyable film.
Don't Panic!.......2006-09-15
If you are dismayed by the revelation that the U.S. Anchor Bay DVD edition of this animated sci-fi classic is now out of print and only available via typically price-gouging independent sellers, I have good news. There is a lovely new UK-issued edition out in summer of 2006 that I was able to pick up at one of my more discriminating local video stores (I see you can also order through Amazon UK). This latest reissue (from the Eureka studio) features an anamorphic transfer of the film. Unfortunately, the film has still not been restored, so there are artifacts and "dirt" here and there; but after an "A/B" comparison with my old Anchor Bay copy, I discerned a definite improvement. Another plus: the Eureka edition gives you the option of deleting the subtitles if you wish. Also included: The complete soundtrack (audio only) and two short films by director Laloux-"L'Escargot" (from 1965) and a beautiful 1987 piece based on a Chinese parable, "Comment Wang-Fo Fut Sauve" ("L'Escargot" was also included on the Anchor Bay release; "Wang-Fo" was not). There are two other Laloux shorts on the Anchor Bay release which are not on the new UK package, so I suppose that still gives the Anchor Bay version some degree of collectibility. For overall quality, however I would recommend the Eureka edition. The only caveat: it does require a multi-region player.
Jennifer Drake?.......2006-07-24
Thirty years ago I fell in love with a "Voice"...the Hypnotic (but meaningless!).."The Uvas of Gome are dominated by an inland fibulous sea.."etc., and wonderfully, the subtitles generally say something different again! If this was intended as allegory, I suppose that we ARE "hypnotised" by repetition in our youth, so that we are reluctant to QUESTION...It is an ironic joke therefore, that for 30 yrs. I have actually longed to be once again hypnotised by this Beautiful Voice: a veritable Siren-Song.BUT..who IS Jennifer Drake?.Does anyone know?There MIGHT have been a record version of this soundtrack at one time, because all the music is SO "familiar"..but then, so is the imagery...it's as if it has been secretly playing in my deeper mind all these years. Incidentally I got the VHS tape. Does the DVD mention THE VOICE?
AMAZING Film, TERRIBLE version of it.......2006-06-10
This film is completely spellbinding and amazing. The Terry Gilliam/Monty Python-esque animation is totally stunning. The only PROBLEM is that this is a HORRIBLE, I repeat HORRIBLE, version of it. I own a VHS copy and was thrilled when it first came out onto DVD, but little did I know my VHS VERSION IS ACTUALLY SUPERIOR. The color on the VHS version is better and on the DVD release YOU CANNOT TURN OFF THE SUBTITLES!! The subtitles even overlay the picture and do not stay in the black letterbox bars and at times DO NOT EVEN MATCH THE DIALOGUE OF THE CHARACTERS. I cannot BELIEVE this is going for $99 now when it's such a horrible version of the film. Save your money and buy the VHS version! The DVD is only in stereo anyway, so you won't lose any sound quality. I really hope another distributor gains the rights to this film and releases a version worthy of its caliber as the masterpiece it actually is, because this version is so substandard it makes me sick.
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My Fantastic Field Trip to the Planets, Special Edition 2 Disc DVD/CD Set
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- 20 kid-friendly bonus videos from NASA
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This outer space adventure features nine friendly planets and ten original songs, in the tradition of "Schoolhouse Rock." Kids will learn the songs and know the planets! Bonus features include 20 kid-friendly NASA videos. Bonus CD is an awsome edition to this delightfully entertaining educational Special Edition. Parent's Magazine says this production is "Definitely a stellar find!"
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or "Oms"have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them...But will the deomizing destroy them?
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I remember it. .......2007-02-05
I saw this when it was released. There was a special debut for it because of it being the sequel to Fantastic Planet. It was very good but not quite as good as Fantastic Planet. I would like to have them both but Savage Planet is not available. I don't remember to much about it other than a war was fought. The animation and creativity behind these movies is remarkable and rivals the Japonese. Its unfortunate that it has not been released considering it was made in the 90ties.
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Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. LANGUAGES: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), SYNOPSIS: A French/Czech co-production, the dream-like La Planete Sauvage concerns the degradation of the Oms, human-like creatures on the futuristic planet Yagam. The Oms are kept as pets and beasts of burden by the Draggs, 39-foot beings who comprise Yagam's ruling class. The status quo is upset when Terr, one of the Oms, accidentally receives an education, whereupon he organizes the other Oms to demand equality with the Draggs. Based on Stefen Wul's novel Ems En Serie, Fantastic Planet was the winner of a 1973 Cannes Film Festival grand prize.
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Great Animation, Bad Production.......2007-08-19
I loved this Animation when I saw it Years ago in College. Since I have a Multi Region DVD player, buying this DVD was not a problem. However, The English Subtitles are a major Disappointment! You cannot turn them off and they Subtract from the overall quality of this Great Animation.
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Fantastic Planet
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