I end up rattling off quite a lot on mini-reviews or analyses when my fingers hit the keyboard, and understandably people don't read those posts so I'll try to keep this as brief as possible.

So this movie is one which I would describe as very far away from mainstream taste. It's not a movie that you will hear about often at all and honestly you'd be very hard-pressed to find someone who heard of it let alone watched it. It's pretty obscure from the mainstream.

As I said, it was the strangest movie that I have ever seen. Not one of the strangest, it's the most. But that is definitely not necessarily a bad thing. I've seen a lot of Cronenberg and Lynch's work so I'd think I've seen my fair share of bizarre movies but Fantastic Planet trumps them all, at least for me. Due to having been exposed to movies that can be considered a little bizarre, I believe that has made me accustomed to it enough that I was not deterred by Fantastic Planet's surrealist elements and strangeness and was able to actually critique and appreciate the movie for what it was intended to be (and is) and the story underneath it all.

The best way that I can describe it, is that a lot of the scenes and settings coupled with the very freaky art style make many parts of the movie look like they're straight out of a Salvador Dali painting. It just feels like the makers were on drugs, and they made the movie for people who would watch it on drugs also. That's a hyperbole, just to be clear.

Underneath all of that weirdness and freaky animation style lies a very good movie and story at its core. In fact, I would go as far as to describe it as brilliant but I can understand that it is a very acquired taste. The premise alone is what intrigued me. I'm not really sure why but I love themes of dystopia and to be more specific, any story wherein there is more than one humanoid species almost immediately has me sold. The movie Bright with Will Smith had that premise of multiple species, but it sucked unfortunately and Fantastic Planet also offers that same narrative but it does it in a much more interesting way. What I mean is that in this story, in this universe, humans are the inferior species. They're like animals and pets to the stronger and smarter dominant species of the planet. It's very thought-provoking when you think about it. I personally think that it speaks a lot to humankind's relationship with both the Earth and more so to animal life.

Another area worthy of praise in my opinion is the soundtrack of the movie which I felt synergized really well with the trippy, surreal aesthetic and atmosphere of the rest of the movie.

Despite knowing that this movie is very few peoples' cup of tea, I can't help but say I'd recommend. I'd give it a score somewhere between 8 and 9 out of 10. I thought it was pretty good. If you don't mind the weirdness, or better, if you can appreciate it, the story underneath, while relatively brief, can be very deep, original, gripping, thought-provoking and unconventional in the best of ways.