Delta Space Mission

This is a 1984 movie & what a wacky movie it is: 

This was probably what I should have expected from an 80’s Romanian animated sci-fi movie. Deaf Crocodile helped rescue this movie from obscurity… actually, the Romanian Film Archive & the Romanian Film Centre in conjunction w/ the label restored the movie but Crocodile released it to the West-gaining enough notoriety that the movie was on the Criterion Channel for a bit. However, today I saw it on the Eternal Family platform, where oddities like these are commonplace.

Ostensibly, the focus is on a space crew in 3084 who interact w/ a voluptuous humanoid alien w/ green-blue skin and bright red hair named Alma… a new ship (Station Delta) has a silver dodecahedron AI brain which goes haywire after developing the hots for Alma. 

What the film featured:

* Primitive yet charming colorful animation which featured watercolor backgrounds
* Kaiju-sized monsters
* Alma’s “alien dog” Tin, which I’d better describe as an alien frog, but Tin was awesome
* Many bleeps & bloops on the soundtrack, along with a prog-like synth score from Calin Ioanchimescu that was also awesome
* A human duo that had a buddy cop comedy sort of energy to them
Creative alien worlds, especially on the planet Acora
* An onslaught of robots

Some aspects you shouldn’t scrutinize too hard. That said, I was entertained by this peculiarity. It’s no Fantastic Planet nor Son of the White Mare yet the film still proved my theory that cinema behind the Iron Curtain is typically bizarre, due to environment, repression, the government, etc. Evidently, this was a spin-off from a cartoon on television-of course, no foreknowledge of that show is required to see the film. IMO, Delta Space Mission is a trippy delight.