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Interstella5555 is the collaboration work of a band with an anime legend: It all begins in the 90s, when music videos were original (no offense to the current works); Daft Punk, a techno group, made a music video for their song "One More Time," the video animation was done by an anime artist known as Leiji Matsumoto. The video featured a band of four extraterrestrial characters, looking human with blue skin. The video had them playing the song as the whole alien world was dancing to their beautiful music. While this is going on, some mysterious villain shows up and spies on them, soon after sending soldiers to the planet. The video continued when the song "Aerodynamic" had a music video featuring the same animation, showing the band being kidnapped. Then another came with "Digital Love," and finally the series of music videos ended with "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger." Notably, all these videos used songs from the bands second album, and in the order they were listed on the album so far. In 2003(I think), there was a full movie made for the videos, using the first four in the beginning of it. This movie was basically like one huge music video, using the entire album. It was known as "Interstella5555: The 5tory of The 5ecret 5tar 5ystem." Now, onto the review!

STORY
The story is about a villain who kidnaps an alien band and makes them look human, using them for profit as he puts mind control over them. The story takes a twist as their fellow alien allie comes to release their minds from this villains control, so they can escape... A very original concept, one I'm sure not many people would think of doing. That just makes it worth seeing.

ART
The style of the anime legend Leiji Matsumoto is one that will always be timeless; It has the look of an old anime, as if the movie came straight from the 80s. Such a feel to it will please all nostalgic anime and cartoon fans.

SOUND
Rather than voices - since the movie has none - this will be about the music. All of it is from Daft Punk's album "Discovery," with songs like "Something About Us," "Face To Face," and "One More Time." All of these, like the movie itself, have a retro sound to them and will please many techno fans, as well as those who just want to hear something different.

CHARACTER
Even when there's no spoken word, these characters say a lot by their expressions and actions. There are those you love for their heroic choices, and those you love to hate for what they do to one another. Such a quality comes straight from the genius of a true story-teller.

ENJOYMENT
Whenever I see this movie, I feel like I've been taken right into the 80s. It's such a wonderful film, I never tire of seeing it... I'm very nostalgic when I watch it. I love it.

OVERALL
Though I love the movie, one thing saddens me; Rarely anyone knows of it. I've rarely heard anyone speak of it like I do, nor do I see any fanart most of the time. It's a shame this movie is so underrated, because it has true potential to be a #1 anime film.