YMMV / Interstella 5555

• Adaptation Displacement: The anime in the Discovery (Daft Punk Album) videos has a source?
• Adorkable: Baryl the drummer has a more cartoonish design than his bandmates, and often flashes big, enthusiastic grins whenever he's excited about something.
• Anvilicious: The plot couldn't be a more blatant metaphor for the corporate pop-music industry sucking the soul out of good music if it had dialogue.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The record company manager has comparatively few appearances in the movie and isn't even given a name in either the movie itself or supplementary material, but he does have quite a few fans for being kind and helpful towards the Crescendolls even after the truth comes out.
• Fanon: It's not uncommon for fans to headcanon Stella and Arpegius as being siblings, due to their very similar appearances and some scenes that suggest they're close to each other.
• First Installment Wins: A large amount of viewers are only familiar with the "One More Time" music video (which starts the movie) and are unaware the story continues despite the Cliffhanger at the end. The reason for that is because in some countries the "One More Time" video is the only part from this movie ever shown on television.
• Narm: The genuinely moving scene of Shep's death is slightly ruined by a comical shot of Baryl biting the brim of his hat in an attempt to keep from crying.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The Earl's backstory and what he does to his previous clients. Over hundreds of years, he kidnapped thousands of alien musicians from various planets, used a machine to make them look like humans, brainwashed them and forced them into musical careers on Earth. Once they reached a certain level of success and fame, he sacrificed them to create golden records, when he needs 5,555 of to rule the universe. His first (chronological) onscreen victim is a Child Prodigy piano player, who is brainwashed into throwing himself into the pit in the Earl's lair.
  • The Earl attempts to sacrifice Stella by grabbing her by the head and shoving her into a human-shaped hole in a giant pillar that appears to be filled with lava.
  • Just look at Earl's face◊ when he gets the Award.
  • Octave getting tazed just trying to explain what he's doing at the record company after hours. It's as earnest a depiction of racial profiling as one could find in a movie like this.
• One-Scene Wonder: Daft Punk themselves, making an animated appearance during the "High Life" segment to attend an awards show as nominees, only for them to lose to their own fictional band.
• Tear Jerker: Shep's death scene, with "Something About Us" playing as BGM. The song is a strong tearjerker on its own terms, but when you couple it perfectly with the movie scene it becomes absolutely devastating.

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