Entergalactic

2022 - 9 - 30

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Entergalactic movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert)

Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi's new Netflix collaboration, “Entergalactic,” is hard to categorize. It's billed as a “television event” and an “animated story.

[Vanessa Hudgens](/cast-and-crew/vanessa-hudgens), having fun with her over-the-top character) that all white guys look the same to her, including her manager Reed ( [Christopher Abbott](/cast-and-crew/christopher-abbott))—and they’re all ruled out of her dating pool. As an art piece, “Entergalactic” is evocative, beautiful, and smart. It helps that Jabari and Meadow have their own unique take on the city, traveling from what buddy Jimmy calls a “one-percent” apartment to back alleys to elite parties to bicycle lanes. We are seeing the world through his eyes, with dashes of the perspectives of the other artists in “Entergalactic.” The piece is full of them: Meadow is a photographer and one of the major plot points revolves around a group show she’s doing. And yet “Entergalactic” lacks many of the things that make up a film. [Kid Cudi](/cast-and-crew/kid-cudi)” Mescudi’s new Netflix collaboration, “Entergalactic,” is hard to categorize.

Kid Cudi's 'Entergalactic' Blends Edgy Adult Animation With ... (Variety)

'Entergalatic,' from Kid Cudi and Kenya Barris, is a conventional romantic comedy that offers flashes of the series that might have been.

The first half of the “event” has the rhythms of a pilot, introducing a raft of characters to populate Jabari and Meadow’s social circles. Perhaps the herky-jerky pacing is a result of the project shrinking from an open-ended series to a one-off special. While “Entergalactic” heavily features the music from its namesake album, the music is used to soundtrack a surprisingly conventional romantic comedy. “Entergalactic” was initially announced in 2019 as a series to be created by Mescudi and [Kenya Barris](https://variety.com/t/kenya-barris/), but has since been whittled down to a 90-minute special (which Netflix is calling an “event”). Jabari is introduced as he’s moving into a cavernous Manhattan loft, a space so cushy relative to his career that it would be distracting if “Entergalactic” were live-action. [Entergalactic](https://variety.com/t/entergalactic/),” an animated Netflix special timed to the release of his new studio album (also dropping on Sept.

Kid Cudi Says He Might Be Done With Albums After 'Entergalactic' (Complex)

In an interview with Zane Lowe about the project, Cudi implied that he's looking to pursue other ventures at least for the time being. “The Kid Cudi stuff, I ...

“And then, on the side, I got my clothing line that's debuting in January, in Paris, during fashion week. "I just want to focus on Mad Solar Productions and just get that shit out a little bit more," he said. “I have so many other things I want to invest my time into… “I've said a lot and I have other desires, I have other things I want to do. He also wants to produce more projects under his Mad Solar Productions banner, which served as one of the production companies on Ti West’s pair of 2022 horror films, X and Pearl. “I was like, ‘Man, I went into this wanting to do something epic and different.’ And now, that I've done that, I just...

'Entergalactic' Is a Creative Breakthrough for Kid Cudi (The Ringer)

The Netflix rom-com is a charming joyride, and a sharp attitude adjustment for such a traditionally dreary artist.

But Cudi has always openly preferred inner peace to punk rock; he’s always [struggling](https://www.billboard.com/music/features/kid-cudi-reveals-struggle-with-drugs-and-depression-working-with-kanye-west-new-music-7341594/) to break free of the druggy, angsty reputation of Mr. Talking to Complex three years ago about the project, Cudi [explained](https://www.complex.com/music/2019/09/kid-cudi-talks-new-album-entergalactic) his creative outlook on romance. Entergalactic is a rom-com, starring Cudi as the voice actor in the role of Jabari, a young and restless comic book artist with a new job at a major publisher, Cosmic Comics, and a new lease on a beautiful loft in Manhattan. He’s enamored of every woman he encounters, but he’s also loyal to a fault; the love triangle involving Jabari, Meadow, and Carmen is portrayed as just a big misunderstanding. [relating to young adults about depression](https://www.theringer.com/2020/12/10/22166862/kid-cudi-man-on-the-moon-series-retrospective) and anxiety. He briefly—and regretfully—rekindles a romance with his ex-girlfriend, Carmen (Laura Harrier), before developing a crush on his new next-door neighbor, Meadow (Jessica Williams), which launches the whirlwind romance at the heart of Entergalactic. Over the years he’s been cast in minor roles in a variety of movies (Bill & Ted Face the Music, Don’t Look Up) and series (How to Make It in America, We Are Who We Are). Long story short, Cudi [fumed,](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kid-cudi-walks-offstage-pelted-water-bottles-rolling-loud-festival-rcna39786) and Kanye [laughed.](https://variety.com/2022/music/news/kanye-west-mocks-kid-cudi-water-bottles-1235335764/) This was the lowest blow in their long and dysfunctional partnership, which dates back to 2008 when Cudi signed to Kanye’s G.O.O.D. He smokes weed and lounges in Washington Square Park with his friends Jimmy (Timothée Chalamet) and Ky (Ty Dolla $ign). He wasn’t the best rapper or even the best singer; rather he was the heroic underachiever with a notebook full of blunt poetry, the petulance in his songwriting smoothed out by his hypnotic, incomparable hum. He’s feuded on and off with Kanye for several years now and he’s only recently warmed to Drake. The crowd anticipating Kanye turned on Cudi for a number of reasons, some understandable, some ridiculous, including some defensiveness about Cudi’s

Kid Cudi's songs come to life in 'Entergalactic' TV feature (Your Valley)

This image released by Netflix shows Ty Dolla Sign as Ky, from left, Timothée Chalamet as Jimmy and Scott Mescudi, better known as Kid Cudi, as Jabari in a ...

“It was super, super important to have his presence in there because those are his animations,” he said of Abloh, who died at 41 from cancer last year. “I think we’re going to be telling New York City love stories forever, like it’s just going to happen forever because it’s a great place to to fall in love," she said. “We want you to feel the trains going across screen,” he said. “We really had to sit and fine tune what we wanted as far as tone,” he said. “When you bring music and animation together, those things sometimes last forever,” said Barris, who said he was immediately “blown away” after hearing one song from Cudi that focused on love. The musician took heed and has brought his songs into colorful light in the Netflix adult-animated romantic comedy “Entergalactic” — inspired by his eighth studio album of the same name.

'Entergalactic' Review: Kid Cudi Melds His Music With a Vibrant ... (Collider.com)

A rare gem of an animated work for adults, Kid Cudi's Entergalactic guides us on a sublime journey that explores the bond between two people.

At the end of the day, in the massive cosmos of existence that we don't fully understand, we all just want someone to get a vegan burger with. It is all about getting a brief glimpse of two different yet connected people making their way in a world where connection can be hard to come by. [this is a growing trend in animation](https://collider.com/why-celebrity-voice-actors-are-bad/), and Entergalactic is by no means the worst offender of this, so it is hard to hold it against the overall animated work too much. He is a man with his head in the clouds that he also partakes in smoking. There are still a few things to quibble about in the final work. Split into chapters and also serving as an accompaniment for Cudi's newest album of the same name, which is also exceptional in its own right, Entergalactic centers on two neighbors who begin to grow closer after a chance encounter.

Kid Cudi's songs come to life in 'Entergalactic' TV feature (Associated Press)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi recorded the bulk of his new album, the melodic rapper wanted to visually highlight the project's songs ...

“I think we’re going to be telling New York City love stories forever, like it’s just going to happen forever because it’s a great place to to fall in love,” she said. “It was super, super important to have his presence in there because those are his animations,” he said of Abloh, who died at 41 from cancer last year. “We want you to feel the trains going across screen,” he said. “We really had to sit and fine tune what we wanted as far as tone,” he said. “When you bring music and animation together, those things sometimes last forever,” said Barris, who said he was immediately “blown away” after hearing one song from Cudi that focused on love. The musician took heed and has brought his songs into colorful light in the Netflix adult-animated romantic comedy “Entergalactic” — inspired by his eighth studio album of the same name.