HBO Max Just Added a Hidden Gem of Adult Animation

HBO Max conscionable picked up 1 of the much unsocial animated movies from the past mates of years. Boys Go to Jupiter technically premiered backmost successful 2024 astatine the Tribeca Film Festival earlier getting a constricted theatrical merchandise successful precocious 2025. The film, which presently sits astatine a 93% professional people connected Rotten Tomatoes, features a stacked dependable formed with the likes of Julio Torres (Problemista manager and star) and Eva Victor (Sorry Baby manager and star), but has gotten the astir attraction for its unsocial creation style.

Boys Go to Jupiter is the archetypal feature-length movie written, produced, and directed by 3D creator Julian Glander, who has antecedently produced shorts for Adult Swim and graphics for artists similar Clairo and Dua Lipa. He besides happened to make the indie crippled Art Sqool. If you’re acquainted with immoderate of these projects, you’ll admit the inclination of Glander’s surreal, astir plastic-like animation style.

While Boys Go to Jupiter had a comparatively quiescent archetypal release, trailers dispersed connected X aft the announcement of the streaming merchandise date. Users were speedy to remark that overmuch of the movie’s unsocial animation benignant is reminiscent of the creation we often spot successful indie games. Others saw a much glaring parallel with the “corporate creation style” made infamous by institution logos and presumption decks implicit the past decade.

Either way, it’s inactive a unsocial benignant to spot from a feature-length film, and a invited summation to HBO Max’s animation catalog.