Los Angeles Times

Kid Cudi’s lovely NYC

The musician’s ‘Entergalac­tic’ is both an animated rom-com and a new album.

- ROBERT LLOYD

“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 romcom, temperamen­tally oldfashion­ed but made newfangled by virtue of being animated and the musical tie-in. (The songs are in the

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