This adaptation of the long-running, highly influential French comics series is a visual and intellectual treat. Although the story line differs in major details from the comics which inspired the series, it retains many of the marvelous, sometimes hilariously off-kilter concepts and alien creatures (like the Grumpy Convertor) which made the series so immensely popular.
The animation -- a combination of hand-drawn and computer graphics -- is well-executed, in a mostly faithful reproduction of the richly textured universe created over four decades by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.
This is light-hearted space opera, with plenty of action and humor, and yet surprisingly sophisticated for family fare, with a strongly humanistic -- though never preachy -- point of view. Highly recommended.
The animation -- a combination of hand-drawn and computer graphics -- is well-executed, in a mostly faithful reproduction of the richly textured universe created over four decades by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.
This is light-hearted space opera, with plenty of action and humor, and yet surprisingly sophisticated for family fare, with a strongly humanistic -- though never preachy -- point of view. Highly recommended.