Interstella 5555 (Limited Edition)

Artist: Daft Punk
Type: DVD
Release date: 2003
Run time: 65:10
My Rating: 10

Picture Ratio: 4:3
Extras: Interactive Mode, Character Files, Karaoke, biographies, character designs, etc, booklet, Daft Club remix album
Audio Options: Stereo, Dolby 5.1, DTS

1. Intro (1:37)
2. One More Time (5:10)
3. Aerodynamic (3:35)
4. Digital Love (4:24)
5. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (3:44)
6. Crescendolls (3:55)
7. Nightvision (1:51)
8. Superheros (3:56)
9. High Life (3:16)
10. Something About Us (3:48)
11. Voyager (3:45)
12. Veridis Quo (6:46)
13. Short Circuit (3:18)
14. Face To Face (4:58)
15. Too Long (9:59)
16. Aerodynamic (Daft Punk Remix) (2:08)

Comments

You may remember the first four tracks from Discovery coming out as animated music videos. They were taken from this long album-length movie following the adventures of a blue alien band, comprised of Octave, Stella, Arpegius, and Baryl, as they are kidnapped, brainwashed and forced to record music for the Earl De Darkwood.

The movie is lavish and well animated (anime style) and works quite well considering there's not one line of dialogue! There are one or two interesting references, the most obvious being a cameo by Daft Punk themselves at one point. I'm glad we eventually got to see the rest of the story.

Most of the extras are production related stuff, designs and drawings, and so on. The Interactive Mode extra plays the movie and shows symbols on the screen - when a symbol appears, you press "OK" to see a montage of production drawings of a character, object, or location. Mostly this is just distracting, but interesting.

The Daft Club album is mostly made up of tracks which were available as MP3s on the Daft Punk website. Though mostly variable, some of them are quite good.

Newly brainwashed and ready to record!