La mision espacial Delta

Heavily influenced and at the same time mixed-up by everything in the sci-fi genre and animation preceding it (Forbidden Planet, Star Trek, 2001 and '10: Space Odysseys, Solaris & Star Wars, and Walt Disney & Lev Atamanov), Romania's second feature-length animation (: with a whole decade's interval from the first one) is a light, pass-the-time watching; impressive at times, for the colorful and beautifully painted backgrounds and highly detailed spaceships and engines, but lacks both depth and entertainment; depth, for it was realized under a suffocatingly authoritarian government; entertainment, for its creators' failure of focusing more on their characters' development and plot instead. Since they weren't allowed to take the open to interpretations, existentialist, philosophical approach the genre is inspiring, they shouldn't have brought down their characters into boring stereotypes constantly exchanging cliché orders and/or instructions. As I said, a light watching, but the only two conversations you could open about it afterwards would be either on its technical aspect, or on its place in the history of Romanian cinema, so you'd have to be either an animator, or a hardcore cinephile to take an interest.