This movie was awesome. It was so refreshing to see a movie without any dialogue. It doesn't hit us over the head constantly with exposition and melodramatic confrontations. We aren't told what to think or feel. We're free to analyse or just go along for the ride. It's very relaxed and easy to watch. The music is gorgeous and just doesn't stop. Each song flows beautifully into the next. There were no dull parts, no songs that sounded like mere filler. They matched nicely overall with the story and imagery. Sometimes they fitted perfectly with the visuals and other times they juxtaposed in an interesting way that still made sense and brought different, unexpected qualities out.The story was generally easy to follow. It's interesting as an allegory about the recording business (or corruption in general) but then it also works as just a made-up story with aliens and fancy gadgets and guitars. It creates worlds that the characters exist within. It sparks our imaginations to fill in the details about these people and their worlds. We want to believe they exist outside of the movie. The characters all have clear motivations and are always doing things for a reason. There are no vapid argument scenes, just good vs. evil, man vs. nature.I don't feel I have much else to say about this movie. It's short at only an hour but was one of the most enjoyable movies I've ever seen. I was in the right mood for it and it was highly satisfying. You can just sit back and let your mind wander. Bob your head or tap your feet. I really wish worlds like this actually existed, it feels like where humanity really belongs. Free, flying, traveling to all kinds of strange places, loving, listening to music. Alas, one can only dream...

A really beautiful that makes me love the electronic music group Daft Punk. We can see also the great work of Matsumoto, mixing 80's anime and 2000's music.The plot is simple : an evil man, kidnapped people, heroes. The story is not the important point in this film : a bit original with Darkwood and his 5555 songs, but predictable.The most captivating points come with the emotion, thanks to the music of Daft Punk's album Discovery. There are no voices ; but each scene are deep emotionally and breathtaking (for example, the sad death of Shep with the track "Voyager"). You can dance, be sad, happy, angry or laugh in just an hour. There is something magic with this film.

This DVD has been around for a while now and I think has generally been overlooked.I am a Daft Punk fan, and caught their recent live shows, which made me go back through their work, and I spotted this, realized I hadn't seen it, so rented a copy.I'm not necessarily a manga/cartoon fan, yeah I was a fan as a kid, watched all the classics growing up in the 80's, including Ulysees etc, but I had grown out of it, so I'll admit I wasn't really expecting much, just a cartoon set to a classic Daft Punk album. Wrong.Off the bat you do need to know that there is no dialog, it's a story told in visual form with accompanying music but you know what, it' actually quite a gripping story of a successful band being kidnapped by an intergalactic music mogul, who has their identities erased and manipulated to make the mogul money from their songs on other interstellar planets, as he takes them on a intergalactic music tour in essence. Luckily, an interstellar bounty hunter guy, who is also a fan of theirs and has a crush on the female member, is dispatched to find them and get them back. In addition, despite the band members having their memories erased, elements of their past lives linger and they struggle to break free from there enforced identities and lives, with the help of the bounty hunter. The weird thing is, I actually found myself getting caught up in the story as there are some truly heartfelt moments, and at times the music was just background noise for me (pretty great background noise, but background noise nonetheless), you forget your listening to a Daft Punk album. Luckily, the accompanying music is from Daft Punk's album Discovery, which has some classic tracks, and when you are listening to the songs, you realize their are f-ing great songs, and the song style and visual style and story are totally harmonious, they work in total unison.At their live show, I realized how these guys had a really great visual as well as musical sense, and after watching this you realize not only can they gel the two together brilliantly in a live show, but they also do it on video and I can honestly say you don't need to be a Daft Punk fan or cartoon fan to enjoy this, I would recommend it to anyone.

Daft Punk, the duo comprised of the great Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de-Honem Cristo, are the best thing to happen to house music since their introduction into American soundwaves with their now world-known "Around the World" which despite barely making it to a dismal # 61 on the pop charts in late 1997, has since gone into the strata of the "ultimate dance song". This, their breakthrough hit, consisted of a repetitive construction similar to the robotic synth sound of the early-to-mid Eighties (it's strikingly similar to an Italo tune by Magazine 60 called "Don Quichotte) which led to a stomping conclusion. "Around the World" basically changed dance music overnight, and soon enough the term "French techno," or "filtered disco" was overheard as the next biggest thing this side of trance and breakbeats. Anyway, Daft Punk had a smash hit with their first CD "Homework" from which "Around the World" was taken as its prime international hit, and by 2000 they had another, even more massive success on their hands with "Discovery" which spawned not one, but five hits. The video for their first hit "One More Time" which featured vocals by Romanthony, was a space-age anime featurette which depicted what seemed to be a disco group of a future planet who winds up captured by alien forces. The video never solved the story, but apparently Daft Punk had the entire story laid out, and in a collaboration with Leiji Matsumoto, they released an entire feature length film -- the entire length of their "Discovery" CD -- that told this fantastic story of a successful disco group from a distant world who fall prey into the hands of a corrupt man who wants to create his own "new sensation" and transforms them into zombified yet appealing humans, labels them the "Crescendolls", and reaps the benefits from their immediate success, until a renegade member of the band takes matters into his own hands. INTERSTELLA moves quickly and smoothly, reaching a beautiful moment with softer songs "Nightvision" and "Something About You" before exploding into the climactic "Too Long". For lovers of anime, and of this style of music.