Fantastic Planet

On the planet Ygam, enormous blue beings called Draags live lives of meditation and advanced technology, while a tiny humanoid species known as Oms, descendants of settlers from the ruined planet Terra, are kept as pets or hunted as pests. A young Om named Terr is taken in by a Draag child, Tiwa, after his mother is killed, and he grows up absorbing Draag knowledge. When he escapes into the wild, he joins free Oms and his learning becomes central to their struggle to survive.

Fantastic Planet is a 1973 animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux, his first feature, made in co-production between France and Czechoslovakia. Laloux wrote the screenplay with Roland Topor, and Anatole Dauman produced. The voice cast includes Jean Valmont as the adult Terr and narrator, Jennifer Drake as Tiwa, Gérard Hernandez, Yves Barsacq, Jeanine Forney and Éric Baugin, with thirty credited cast members and forty-four credited crew. Laloux went on to direct Time Masters in 1982 and Gandahar in 1987.

The film runs seventy-two minutes. It holds a rating of 7.6 out of 10 on IMDb from around 42,000 votes and the same score on TMDB from just over a thousand votes, while critics give it 7.7 out of 10 across thirty-three reviews, placing critical and audience assessments closely together.