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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 Barilléfilm) 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.
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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.
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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:
Around the year 3000, Pierrot, his girlfriend Psi, and their android Métro (who has a positronic brain), inhabitants of the planet Omega, are tasked with ensuing space security as members of the Galaxy Patrol. The Galaxy Patrol is the police force of the Omega Confederation, an alliance of planets, including Earth. The Omega Confederation is run by Lieutenant Pierrot’s parents, his mother President Pierrette and his father Colonel Pierre. The chief enemy of the Galatic Confederation is the militant Republic of Cassiopeia, led by General The Pest and his henchman The Dwarf.
On their way back from what should have merely been a routine space travel mission, Pierrot, Psi, and Métro, the best team occupied by the Galactic Patrol, intercept a strange phenomenon in space: giant Cassiopeian ships flocking to carry out shooting exercises. The firepower deployed by these military maneuvers is gigantic, the extended range is huge — capable of obliterating entire planets! They stop to observe the military tests, and in the process of these three heroes reporting their encounter to the Omega Confederation, their vessel the Libellule is shaken-up by the turbulence of the energy blasts, and crash lands on the primitive planet of Apis.
Half-hurt, Pierrot is collected and saved by the inhabitants of this planet, a group of men who live secretly in the mountains. These inhabitants are extremely anxious because they fear the humanoid robots of Yama, a nearby planet controlled by a supercomputer that is determined to conquer the universe. These underground rebels are also fighting the hostile native peoples on the surface of Apis.
Psi is captured by the humanoids and taken as their prisoner to the neighboring planet Yama. As for Métro, he has disappeared.
With help from those who saved him, Pierrot arrives on Yama to rescue Psi. Along the way he finds Métro underground and it is with his android friend that Pierrot tries to penetrate to the center of the secret city where Psi is being held hostage. Aided by a few of the rebels, they manage to cross the dams and roadblocks and reach the heart of the city. They release Psi and then are faced with the large computer long-ago designed to govern the whole of Earth.
They then learn that their planet, Omega, is the next goal of the grand supercomputer and all must comply. While Omega are preparing for confrontation, Pierrot succeeds in approaching the computer and destroying its circuits before the computer successfully took control of its target planet.
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Il était une fois… l'Espace (English:Once Upon a Time… Space) was a French and Japanese co-produced science fiction/space opera television series which first aired on television in France between 1982 and 1983, and on TV in Japan in 1984 as Ginga Patrol PJ(English:Galaxy Patrol PJ). It was written and directed by Albert Barillé with artistic direction by René Borg.
La Revanche Des Humanoïdes (English: Revenge of the Humanoids) is a compilation/condensation of episodes #21 through #26 — the final six episodes of the 26-episode series. The individual episodes were around 26 minutes in length each, and the feature film edit is approximately 100 minutes in length.
According to the art director, René Borg, the film Revenge of the Humanoids was released in French theaters in January 1983, a month before the broadcast of the six-part mini-series finale to Once Upon a Time… Space premiered on French television in February 1983.
The film has a feminist message as the supreme leader of the heroic, democratically elected government the Omega Confederation, is a female President, and Psi, a female space police member, is the co-protagonist.
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Title:
English: Revenge of the Humanoids
French:La Revanche Des Humanoïdes
Release Year: 1983
Production Countries: France, Japan
Film Director: Albert Barillé
Art Director: René Borg
Animation/Production Studios: Procidis, Eiken
Medium: hand-drawn animation
Genre: sci-fi, space opera
Length: 100 minutes
