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Review: Netflix and Kid Cudi have made a classic NY rom-com to kick off your fall

Kid Cudi, as Jabari and Jessica Williams as Meadow in“ Entergalactic.”.

"Entergalactic," premiering Friday on Netflix, comes from Scott Mescudi, who makes records as Kid Cudi, under which moniker he's also releasing an album of the same name. Originally intended as a series, its episodes have been smushed together into a 90-minute movie marked by chapter headings. This feels right, given that it plays like a feature, a sweet, corny and fairly adorable rom-com, temperamentally old-fashioned but made newfangled by virtue of being animated and the musical tie-in. (The songs are in the picture; the picture illustrates the songs.)

Created by Mescudi with ("black-ish"), with a story by Mescudi and a teleplay by Maurice Williams," in which Mescudi co-starred — the show was written to fit the album, described by Mescudi as "a suite of songs on the beauty of being freed by love." Romantic comedy feels like a natural extension of Mescudi's songwriting, with its recurrent .

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