This movie is lovely little jaunt that reminds me a lot of what the Dune films have tried to do--lots of exposition and worldbuilding. Instead of doing this with plot in mind you're thrown into an oddball scenario and are left wondering what's going on for most of the movie. This results mostly in admiring the backgrounds, sometimes laughing at the stilted or sometimes choppy animation, and enjoying the depth of the world you're watching, even if none of it is explained. If not for the issues with animation I would've given it an eight, it is just shy of being a good film for a TV spread because of the amount of still shots.
===SPOILER SECTION===
The movie starts with a boy shipwrecked on a strange planet with a crew trying to rescue him (it is unclear what from). This premise is addressed through much of the film but there is practically no progress. At the end it is shoehorned in that the boy is a victim of a time loop, and one of the old men who was so interested in saving him did so because he had been the same boy in his youth. This totally changed how the movie worked up to that point and just felt lazy. It's fine to do a movie that's all about wonderment, and there weren't concerns for plot really before this, so I can't figure why they ended it this way.
===SPOILER SECTION===
The movie starts with a boy shipwrecked on a strange planet with a crew trying to rescue him (it is unclear what from). This premise is addressed through much of the film but there is practically no progress. At the end it is shoehorned in that the boy is a victim of a time loop, and one of the old men who was so interested in saving him did so because he had been the same boy in his youth. This totally changed how the movie worked up to that point and just felt lazy. It's fine to do a movie that's all about wonderment, and there weren't concerns for plot really before this, so I can't figure why they ended it this way.