YMMV / Fantastic Planet

• Adaptation Displacement: The film is based on the book Oms en série, by Stefan Wul. While the film was quite popular, for a foreign animated experimental film that is, the book didn't even get an English translation until 2010.
• Ass Pull: Two of them right near the end.
  • When the Oms stumble upon the Traags' statue-bodies, they are understandably terrified and run back into the rockets. Then, out of nowhere, they begin shooting the statues with lasers, which destroys them and sends the Traags scrambling. There had been no previous indication that the ships were armed, that the Oms knew they were, or that they knew they could harm the Traags' statue bodies.
  • Upon doing this, the Traags are in disarray and thus promise to murder every last Om. Then Ter says they should stop fighting... So they do. The movie ends on a 30 second Info Dump explaining that the humans now live on their own sattelite, and that's it, roll credits. The fact that the film is a whole 20 minute shorter than most animated films makes it feel more like a Writer Cop Out to an actual final battle when the producers ran out of funds.
• Awesome Music: If you like 1970s jazz fusion, then Alain Gorageur's score is just for you.
  • The ending credits theme is guaranteed to give you chills - Especially with that jazzy guitar. The song itself makes you feel like you were a part of Ter's victory against the horrors of Ygam, if not against the Traags themeselves.
  • Deshominisation I is a cool, if morbid march of a song that plays during the darkest scene of the film. Never before has jazz fusion sounded so menacing. Small wonder why it was remixed for the show Superjail!
• Cult Classic: Usually shelved in the "cult" section to boot. The fact that it was brought overseas by Roger Corman, the grand master of cult flicks, also helps.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Despite treating him rather meanly at times, Tiwa genuinely loves and cares about Ter as a pet.
  • Tiwa teaching Ter how to free himself from the crystals that grow out of the ground: by whistling. The young Ter then whistles the film's theme music.
  • When Ter learns of the Hollow Bush bandits in the middle of their robbery, he seems more curious than terrified at the prospect of more Oms. He later takes a huge risk to warn the bandits of the extermination and gains their trust. It's highly implied that he wanted more solidarity between Oms, even if they were from rival factions. While he couldn't save them all, the surviving Hollow Bush bandits join him and the rest of the Oms to safety.
• Quirky Work: It was made by Czech avant-garde artists in 1973, so this is to be expected.
• Viewer Pronunciation Confusion
  • The natives of the planet are called "Traags" in the original French version. The English dub calls them "Draags."
  • You'd be forgiven for thinking that Tiwa's name is spelled "Tiva" since they pronounce the 'w' like the English 'v'. Justified in that the movie was animated and partly produced in Czechoslovakia, and both languages (Czech and Slovak) in that country pronounce the letter that way.

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