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    Gandahar (1987)

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    While Fantastic Planet (1973) is Rene Laloux’s most famous film, Gandahar is a close second.

    Everything is calm and peaceful. The Gandaharian community has made great technical strides in creating eco-friendly technology by actually merging their environment with the tech, and beautiful blue shaded people and alien animals relax in the sands and water, going about their everyday business – until unknown laserbeams blast out of nowhere, transforming their targets into stone.

    As an army of ‘metal men’ ravage the doomed utopia, the audience follows Sylvian (voiced in the English language version by John Shea), son of Queen Ambisextra (Glenn Close), chosen by the Council of Women, to investigate the strange happenings.

    He allies himself with show-stealer love interest Airelle (Jennifer Grey), and the even more show-stealing mutant race of failed genetic projects known as The Deformed, and together they attempt to exterminate the root of their home planet’s problems.

    Isaac Asimov wrote the translation for the English version of the film. The English release also changed the original hypnotic orchestral soundtrack (by Gabriel Yared) to a synth-heavy style of rock, in an attempt to better fit the American audience. The movie suffers for it.

    Voice cameos are provided by magicians Penn and Teller, and Letterman sidekick Paul Shaffer.

    Released in the US as Light Years.

    Ambisextra (voice)
    Glenn Close
    Sylvain (voice)
    John Shea
    Head/Historian (voice)
    Bridget Fonda
    Airelle (voice)
    Jennifer Grey
    Blaminhoe (voice)
    Earl Hammond
    Metamorphis (voice)
    Christopher Plummer
    Optiflow (voice)
    Paul Shaffer
    Octum (voice)
    Teller
    Announcer (voice)
    Jill Haworth
    Maxum (voice)
    Earle Hyman
    Shayol (voice)
    David Johansen
    Chief of the Deformed (voice)
    Penn Jillette
    The Collective Voice (voice)
    Terrence Mann
    Council Spokeswoman/Head (voice)
    Sheila McCarthy
    Apod/Metal Man (voice)
    Alexander Marshall
    Metal Man (voice)
    Kevin O’Rourke
    Metal Man (voice)
    Ray Owens
    Head/Metal Man (voice)
    Dennis Predovic

    Director
    René Laloux

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