History Animation / FantasticPlanet

* {{Technobabble}}: The learning headpieces deliver lessons in almost impenetrable technical jargon using a barrage of fictional nouns for concepts we as viewers have no concept of.

The film is famous for its imaginative visuals, frank sexuality and and overall trippiness.

''Fantastic Planet'' (French title: ''La Planète Sauvage'') is a 1973 Czech/French animated, experimental film. The story is set on Ygam, the alien homeworld of the Draags (or Traags), where humans -- known as Oms -- exist as both a population of troublesome vermin and also as pets. The film follows a young Om as he is captured by a Draag family and raised by a young girl, who inadvertently teaches him about Draag culture and technology. After escaping from the Draag home, he joins a clan of wild Oms, bringing with him the knowledge to reshape their society and relationship with the Traags.

* HumansAreWhite: The Oms we see do not get any darker than a deep tan. Humanity is Czech?

* HumansAreWhite: The Oms we see do not get any darker than a deep tan.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The film starts with trippy music and a tribal hunting/chase sequence containing some cool transition effects.

* NoNameGiven: None of the Oms are given names, even Terr's love interest.

* KillAllHumans: The Draags will occasionally "de-Om" their parks where wild Om reproduce, When Om start fighting back, they plan on stepping up their de-omization efforts and even banning domesticated Om, but [[spoler:they end up making peace with Oms instead]].

''Fantastic Planet'' (French title: ''La Planète Sauvage'') is a 1973 Czech/French film about... [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible various things]], and it's far too trippy and eccentric to do justice here. Basically, set on the homeworld of the Traags (or Draags), where humans -- known as Oms -- exist as both a population of troublesome vermin and also as pets. The film follows one of these pets from his captivity to later living among wild humans. Later still, things get [[TrippyFinaleSyndrome even stranger]], if that's possible. Let's just say that it involves a ritualized engagement in intergalactic out-of-body experiences, symbolically and probably literally a reference to both drugs and sex, which is threatened by an act of terrorism. All of which still doesn't make it sound half as surreal as the film itself.

Along the way, other stuff happens that you never really understand. It's almost indescribable, but just think ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on mescaline]], and you pretty much have it.

* AlienBlood: The Draags have dark blue blood:

* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Well, French in the original, and they still use French words as the basis of naming a human in the English.[[note]] "''Homme''", the French word for "man", is almost homonymous with "Om".[[/note]]

* BarbieDollAnatomy: Some of the nudity in the film, though we do get some genitalia.

* CompositeCharacter: Master Sinh is Tiwa's father in the film. In the book her father's name is Praw and he is a separate character from Master Sinh.

* DerangedAnimation: And how! (To some, the style is reminiscent of Terry Gilliam's surreal animated work for Monty Python.)

%%* EarthAllAlong: [[spoiler:After the Draags leave, humans are left to populate the Fantastic Planet, which turns out to be the third planet from Sol.]]
* EverybodyHasLotsOfSex: Although strangely. The Om have a lit-up orgy (tastefully obscured), and the less said about the Draag sex, the better.
%%* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Literally.
%%* GainaxEnding
* GRatedDrug: When the Oms eat the fruit in the desert and start to glow, and also the Draag "meditation". Or that thing they do where their bodies transform while sitting around. Some have suggested the name "Draag" itself may come from drugs. Look, half the movie, okay?
* HumanoidAliens: Draags are much bigger than humans, and blue skinned, but otherwise humanlike.

%%* HumansAreInteresting: As pets.

* HumansAreWhite: There's a conspicuous lack of darker-skinned Oms, to put it bluntly.

* KillAllHumans: Only the savage Oms, to be fair, and the Draags use the domesticated Oms to sniff out anyone trying to hide from the de-omisation. They briefly discuss getting rid of the domesticated ones as well once they realise that the ones they kept as pets end up joining the savage Oms when they run away and contribute to their increasing population. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well for the Draags when they learn too late that the Oms by that time have already gained intelligence. With the help of the Draags' technology, no less.]]

* SceneryPorn: The animators take great pride in their bizarre, ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat''-esque desertscapes.
* SexAsRiteOfPassage: [[spoiler: The Draag coming of age ceremony, wherein a child pictures themselves floating off in a bubble to sit ontop a naked statuette that dances with statues from other galaxies... well, it's getting stoned and having sex all at once. Only weirdly!]]

* {{Technobabble}}: The dialogue is so [[PurpleProse purple prose-y]] ''that even translated it needs subtitles''.
* ToServeMan: Subverted, the Draags are obsessed with humans as ''pets'' until they become seen as ''vermin''.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Inverted, given that it's a movie. Y

* KillAllHumans: Only the savage Oms, to be fair, and the Draags use the domesticated Oms to sniff out anyone trying to hide from the de-omisation. They briefly discuss getting rid of the domesticated ones as well once they realise that the ones they kept as pets end up joining the savage Oms when they run away and contribute to their increasing population. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well for the Draags when they learn too late that the Oms by that time have already gained intelligence. With the help of their own technology, no less.]]

* KillAllHumans: Only the savage Oms, to be fair, and the Draags use the domesticated Oms to sniff out anyone trying to hide from the de-omisation. They briefly discuss getting rid of the domesticated ones as well when they realise that the ones they kept as pets end up joining the savage Oms when they run away and contribute to their increasing population. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well for the Draags when they learn too late that the Oms by that time have already gained intelligence. With the help of their own technology, no less.]]

* KillAllHumans: Only the savage Oms, to be fair, and they use the domesticated Oms to sniff out anyone trying to hide from the de-omisation. They briefly discuss getting rid of the domesticated ones as well when they realise that the ones they kept as pets end up joining the savage Oms when they run away and contribute to their increasing population. [[spoiler: It doesn't end well for them when they learn too late that the Oms by that time have already gained intelligence. With the help of their own technology, no less.]]

* KillAllHumans: Only the wild Oms, to be fair, but it still counts when they realised that the Oms are gaining intelligence and they even briefly discuss getting rid of the domesticated Oms, but they ultimately decide to just use them to hunt for savage Oms that are trying to hide from the de-omisation.

** You'd be forgiven for thinking that Tiwa's name is spelled "Tiva" since they pronounce the 'w' like the English 'v.' Justified in that the movie was animated and partly produced by Czechoslovakia, and both languages (Czech and Slovak) in that country pronounce the letter that way.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Inverted, given that it's a movie. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Tiwa's name is spelled "Tiva" since they pronounce the 'w' like the English 'v.' Justified in that's how that letter is pronounced in the Czech language, and that the movie is co-produced and animated in Czechoslovakia.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The natives of the planet are called "Traags" in the original French version. The English dub calls them "Draags."
%%* StonerFlick

* KillAllHumans: Only the wild Oms, to be fair, but it still counts when they realised that the Om's are gaining intelligence and they even briefly discuss getting rid of the domesticated Oms, but they ultimately just use them to hunt for savage Oms that are hiding so that they could be exterminated.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Inverted, given that it's a movie. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Tiwa's name is spelled "Tiva" since they pronounce the 'w' like the English 'v.' Justified in that's how that letter is pronounced in the Czech language, and is also co-produced in Czechoslovakia.

%%* KillAllHumans: Reluctantly.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Inverted, given that it's a movie. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Tiwa's name is spelled "Tiva" since they pronounce the 'w' like the English 'v.' Justified in that's how that letter is pronounced in the Czech language.

* NoPronunciationGuide: Inverted, given that it's a movie. You'd be forgiven for thinking that Tiwa's name is spelled "Tiva" given that they pronounce the 'w' with a 'v,' not unlike in German.

* PersonalRainCloud: Terr was subjected to one controlled by Tiva.