Battle of the Planets
Battle of the Planets
| 18 September 1978 (USA)
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    Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.
    Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
    ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.
    Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
    tensigh As a kid I loved this show, and I'm watching the re-runs now since I live in Japan and caught a few minutes of the original Japanese series on TV. The English version is downright horrible, despite veterans like Keye Luke and Casey Kasem doing voices.The worst thing about the show, though, is the character "Keyop". Instead of hiring a child actor, they filled most of his lines with chirps and swirl type noises and then he barks out a quick short line. This becomes HIGHLY annoying, to the point that I mute the volume when he speaks. It's simply too irritating to listen. Fran Drescher speaking in a squeaky voice while a tiger sharpens its claws on a blackboard would be less annoying.
    Rectangular_businessman I love "Battle of the Planets" (Also known as "G-Force) It was one of the coolest cartoons ever made, and it was way ahead of its time, which despite being made in the seventies, predates the aesthetic and themes from many action and superhero cartoons from the eighties and nineties.This show also had a cool cast of heroes and villains, which were also very cool and interesting, and made this series to work so well.I consider "Battle of the Planets" to be one of the most underrated animations from the seventies, totally deserving the title of cult classic despite all the "dated" elements that this series could have, at least from a modern perspective. Personally, I still like it a lot, and I consider "Battle of the Planets" to be a part of my childhood, like the original Transformers cartoon, Robotech and Saint Seiya.
    allen ginsberg is dead The animation? Not too bad, considering it was drawn in 1972 or so. But certainly nothing special. The story? Hit and miss, mainly because BotP was made up of edited episodes of the Japanese show Gatchaman (and was therefore missing some key story elements).So why do people - including me - love this show so much?Because for almost anyone born between 1970 and 1976 in the US, BotP was one of the key television programs of our youth. It was exciting, exotic and captured our imaginations like nothing else on the tube.But I think you really had to be there to appreciate it. Neutral observers would probably say that BotP just doesn't hold up after all these years, and if I had to be objective about it, I'd probably have to agree.Still, you owe it to yourself to give it a look, just so you know what everyone's talking about.
    Rabbit-7 This was, without a doubt, hands-down, my FAVORITE show when I was eight years old. I wish there were re-runs of it or videotapes. It seems like everyone my age (born around 1970) remembers this show. Yet the way it has disappeared, I'm guessing it was not a success. I suppose if I saw it today it would be really lame and the animation would look poor, but for me the music, direction, action and sound effects all combined to make a great show. It was anime before anime was big in America. And frankly, I don't like anime but I didn't mind it here. Probably because it wasn't true anime, it was just cheap, foreign-made animation.