Title: Revenge of the Humanoids / La Revanche Des HumanoïdesRelease Year: 1983Production Countr

Title:Revenge of the Humanoids/La Revanche Des Humanoïdes

Release Year: 1983
Production Countries: France, Japan
Film Director: Albert Barillé
Art Director: René Borg
Length:100 Minutes

Synopsis: Lieutenant Pierrot and his girlfriend & co-pilot of the vessel Libellule are on their way back to their home planet Omega with their positronic brain android Métro. This trio are the most successful team on the Galactic Patrol, the space police force for the Omega Confederation, a peaceful alliance of planets led by Pierrot’s mother, President Pierrette. What should have been a routine patrol mission turns disastrous as the three heroes unwittingly fly into space occupied by the Omega Confederation’s enemy, the Republic of Cassiopeia. They discover the Cassiopeian army ships are testing a powerful new weapon with a force capable of disintegrating a planet! The Libellule catches some reverberations from the energy blast and is sent off-course, crash-landing on the nearly-unknown primitive planet of Apis.

On Apis, a partially-injured Pierrot is rescued by an underground rebel group of humans living hidden in the mountain who are at war with the hostile surface Native tribe. These rebels are also fighting against the dictatorship of robots that exist on the nearby planet Yama. They help Pierrot find a working spaceship and escape Apis, reaching Yama.

Pierrot reunites with his android Métro on Yama and with the rebels penetrates obstacles en route to the central city where Psi is being held prisoner by the humanoids. While the leaders of the Republic of Cassiopeia, General The Pest and his lackey, The Dwarf, believe Yama is their ally — the planet, inhabited entirely by humanoid robots, is under control of a supercomputer. The grand computer has plans of its own not expected by the Republic of Cassiopeia — to go rogue and take control of Omega, followed by Earth. Pierrot destroys the circuit of the computer before it completes its once imagined domination of the galaxy. 

This 1983 French/Japanese feature-length animated film was created by editing and reassembling the final six episodes of the television series Il était une fois… l'Espace (English:Once Upon a Time… Space), a co-production of  Procidis Studio in France and Eiken Studio in Japan. The series premiered between 1982 and 1983 on French television. The final six episodes were fashioned as a mini-series and were of higher production quality than the rest of the series both in terms of story and animation. The entire series was 26 episodes at 26 minutes each. The mini-series grand finale was modified into a feature-length film of approximately 100 minutes in length.

The six episodes that were compiled and condensed into the film originally aired between February and April 1983 in France. However, the film was released in French theaters in January 1983, a month before the series wrapped-up. The film was intended to stand alone as its own comprehensible story, without significant prior knowledge of the series to understand the plot.