Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto's Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

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Daft Punk & Leiji Matsumoto's Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

Released May 28, 2003

1h 33m

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Four talented alien musicians are kidnapped by a record producer who disguises them as humans. Shep, a space pilot in love with bass player Stella, follows them to Earth. Reprogrammed to forget their real identities and renamed The Crescendolls, the group quickly becomes a huge success playing soulless corporate pop. At a concert, Shep manages to free all the musicians except Stella, and the band sets out to rediscover who they really are -- and to rescue Stella.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

It just resembles any number of Saturday morning kids’ cartoons based on popular bands, familiar stuff like Josie and the Pussycats, or even the hated S Club movie Seeing Double. Couldn’t Daft Punk have thought of something more unusual than this?

Jan 28, 2025

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Nick Dawson

Empire Magazine

Fine if you like the band - you'll be treated to some cartoons playing over the top of their Discovery album. For everyone else, just daft.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 30, 2006

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Jamie Russell

BBC.com

Effortlessly cool, this is not to be missed by either fans of Japanese animation or Daft Punk's techno beats.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 9, 2003

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

This dialogue-free sci-fi fantasy adventure is a delight -- and I’ll admit the music is at least sometimes pretty great, too.

Dec 19, 2024

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

…sheer music industry indulgence, but commendably to the point at 70 minutes and offering a delicious retro accompaniment to the music of one of dance’s most perennially popular acts in Daft Punk...

Rated: 3/5

Apr 30, 2024

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Jeremy Heilman

MovieMartyr.com

A futurist Fantasia that incidentally beats the pants off of Disney's own Fantasia 2000.

Rated: 74/100

Mar 29, 2004

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bwi11

definitely a great animation with the best soundtrack, but the ai really threw me off and made some things look super funky at parts.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/19/25

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Delilah

I loved this movie so much!!!! The soundtrack is so beautiful and is so telling through visuals! All-time favorite!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/15/25

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Andres

Bring this back again but with effort in remastering. Not AI

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/05/25

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Matt B.

I've loved this movie since I was a kid. I was super excited to have the opportunity to see it in a theatre. It was also cool that they played some of their music videos after the movie with a special goodbye message. My only disappointment was that they tried upscaling the quality using AI. It was noticeable and it looked bad.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/15/25

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Antania T

Just watch the original, and avoid the remastered mess. Fantastic music!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/03/25

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Tomas

Truly a masterpiece from the music to the visuals.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

12/23/24

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Four talented alien musicians are kidnapped by a record producer who disguises them as humans. Shep, a space pilot in love with bass player Stella, follows them to Earth. Reprogrammed to forget their real identities and renamed The Crescendolls, the group quickly becomes a huge success playing soulless corporate pop. At a concert, Shep manages to free all the musicians except Stella, and the band sets out to rediscover who they really are -- and to rescue Stella.

Director: Daisuke Nishio, Kazuhisa Takenouchi, Leiji Matsumoto, Hirotoshi Rissen
Producer: Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, Hiroyuki Sakurada, Shinji Shimizu
Screenwriter: Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo, Cédric Hervet
Production Co: Toei Animation Company
Genre: Action, Adventure, Music, Sci-Fi, Anime
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 28, 2003, Limited
Rerelease Date (Theaters): Dec 12, 2024
Release Date (DVD): Oct 4, 2011
Runtime: 1h 33m
Sound Mix: Dolby SR, DTS
Aspect Ratio: Academy (1.33:1)