Released in French theaters in 1983, Revenge of the Humanoids recaps the story arc of the best episo
Released in French theaters in 1983, Revenge of the Humanoids recaps the story arc of the best episodes of the French/Japanese animated science fiction/space opera television series Once Upon a Time… Space — the final six episodes out of 26 — through a condensed 100 minute long montage feature film.Synopsis: On the way back from a routine mission, a vessel of the Galaxy Patrol, commanded by Lieutenant Pierrot, his assistant Psi, and their robot Métro, witnesses a strange phenomenon in space: monstrous ships flocking together in order to carry out gunfire exercises. The extent of the power is huge! But when the heroes decide to report it to the Omega Confederation, their ship is caught in turbulence. They then crash on a hostile primitive nearby planet. Psi is captured by humanoid robots and made a prisoner on the neighboring planet Yama, while Pierrot is saved by a group of men who live secretly in the mountains of this planet, Apis. The mountain men help Pierrot find a new spaceship on Apis and escape to Yama. Here, they must face the master of the planet and its humanoid inhabitants, the Great Computer. Several centuries ago, this computer was programmed to dominate the universe. The destruction will now begin… unless Pierrot can stop it in time! The first two images above come from inside the book La Revanche Des Humanoïdes: De nouvelles aventures de Pierrot, Psi, Métro et Maestro… D'après le film d'Albert Barillé (English Title: Revenge of the Humanoids: New adventures of Pierrot, Psi, Métro and Maestro… From the Albert Barillé film) published by Sogemo in 1983 (ISBN: 2-904310-06-1). Philippe Bouchet aka ‘Manchu’ drew the spaceships and mech. The third image above is a character art of Pierrot, Psi, and Métro found on the back cover of this book.The fourth image is the French DVD case cover art.The fifth image is from a series of promotional images released by the movie’s theatrical distributor, PlanFilm. -- source link
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