Heartwarming / Interstella 5555

• After all the stuff Shep goes through, up to and including storming a live stage filled with guards and driving away from the scene with most of them, what does he want when he lies bleeding to death in the warehouse hideout? Just to give the band his toy with their original forms, revealing their true history, and to spend just a moment with Stella, set to "Something About Us".
• Rousseau Was Right is in full effect in this movie. When Humanity as a whole finds out who the Crescendolls really are and what's been done to them, they immediately gear themselves toward sending the band back to their planet.
• Humanity quickly got over the truth that there are aliens and many popular musicians being aliens. We see news reporters showing the public the aliens and their troubles, police combing over the evil villain's lair, scientists working to restore the aliens memories, and politicians organizing a mission to send the aliens back to their home in Shep's spaceship.
• The Crescendolls are definitely True Companions. Some examples throughout the movie include:
  • After Shep is able to save the guys, they all immediately work together to save Stella.
  • When the gang arrives at the Earl's castle, Octave helps Baryl from slipping on the way up.
  • When the Earl shoves Stella into his strange machine, the guys are visibly horrified and immediately start fighting back.
  • After Octave wakes up in the hospital, the others are right there by his side.
  • The band having an impromptu jam session after Shep's spirit saves them one last time.
• A quick moment: When the Crescendolls fight back against the Earl and his minions, the Earl ends up falling over the edge of a cliff. However, as he's falling, Arpegius actually grabs the Earl's cloak and tries to pull him back up. Even after everything the Earl did to them and countless others, the Crescendolls still tried to save him.
• The implied All Just a Dream ending:
  • It's kind of sweet to see the boy's mom putting him to bed.
  • When the mother is tucking her son in, two of his action figures - a Shep figure and a Stella figure - are lying side-by-side on the bed together. Even if they couldn't be together in the movie proper, it's still sweet to see them together in a different way.

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