Daft Punk - Interstella 5555

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Daft Punk is playing at my house   December 24, 2005
Maxim St. Pierre (Pretoria, IL USA)
38 out of 38 found this review helpful

This is an anime cartoon set to the soundtrack of Daft Punk's "Discovery." There are NO other words, dialogue or songs!

If you like "Discovery" and don't particularly care about anime one way or another, you will still like this movie. If you love anime but don't have any particular feeling about Daft Punk, you will also like the movie.

If, however, you happen to be someone who really likes anime AND really likes Daft Punk, this movie will make you wet yourself. Go nuts.


Good Mix of Music and Anime   October 28, 2003
Dark Depths (Humboldt County, CA United States)
18 out of 20 found this review helpful

Animation done to music is nothing new, but "Interstella 5555" does a great job of breathing new life into this tradition. Essentially an hour-long music video animated to Daft Punk's album "Discovery", it tells a good story about kidnapping, theft, rescue, love, and adventure across space. Music being the central theme, the highly stylized anime (brought to life by the legendary Leiji Matsumoto of "Harlock", "Space Cruiser Yamato", and "Queen Emeraldas" fame) and music mix makes this a fun way to spend an hour. Epic almost on the scale of Chage and Aska's Studio Ghibli animated video "On Your Mark", "Interstella" is something relatively new, something fresh in both anime and music circles. Hopefully the success of this DVD will inspire a new generation of stylish and fun music videos. While the album itself has its high and low points, and the movie lacks any major dialogue, mixed together these minor flaws really don't matter. I would recommend this video for any anime fan or music video enthusiast. Enjoy!


Excellent   January 26, 2004
Robert Huffstedtler (Cary, NC United States)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful

I was amazed that this movie works as well as it does. I first became acquainted with Daft Punk when I was living in the UK and the first bits of the movie were released as the videos for the first four tracks on the album.

Discovery doesn't sound particularly like a concept album when one listens to it, so I was expecting that they would have to at least insert dialog or rearrange the tracks for the film, but they did not. The visuals carry the story, but the songs are so well integrated that there is never a clash, nor does the viewer find himself wondering what is going on. Even the motivation of the villain is clear.

Matsumoto's visuals are beautiful. I think this film is accessible even to those who are not normally fans of anime or house music.