CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

seancoleman-62445 As a french student in High School I believe that I am extremely qualified to review this after reading the book and watching the film. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this has to be the most uncomfortable I've felt in school in a long long time. Stanley Donen's vision takes an extreme turn to left-field. The little prince, everywhere he goes is met by some adult who has some disturbing agenda for him. Whether it may be sensually spitting water into Saint Exuperie's mouth, trying to touch the actor who played willy wonka in the original film, or having to listen to a man clad in leather do a tap dance around him about how he wants to kill him. If the little prince had made it out of this movie alive he would have had to undergone severe psychiatry to cope with this molestation. I'm not saying that the events in the story didn't make sense as well. Oh wait, they didn't. Birds can't fly through space and one can't live on an asteroid. This has to be the worst movie I have seen in a long time, and I watched transformers 2 last night.

lasttimeisaw After ORLANDO (1992, 7/10), here is another film adaptation of a novel which is regarded as difficult to bring onto the silver screen, LE PETIT PRINCE by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the main concern is the book is rather tiny, but the director is the over-the-hill Stanley Donen (SINGING IN THE RAIN 1952 and SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS 1954, 6/10), so it is par for the course that it is a musical picture suitable for a more general family audience. First of all, Steven Warner is an ideally choice to play the little prince, a cutie-pie with curly blonde-hair who is able to recite verbose lines with ease and proper cadence, conspicuously challenges the terse facts of life-on-earth with his guileless questions and unaffected intuition. Richard Kiley is the pilot, aka. the author's avatar, counterbalances Warner's prodigious debut with a weary gravitas. The most exhilarating show-piece nevertheless is Bob Fosse's SNAKE IN THE GRASS dance routine, anticipated a George Michael and Michael Jackson amalgam, he might not present too much venom of the snake, but it is graphically entertaining and trend-setting at that time. The über-talented Gene Wilder is agile and playful as the fox awaits to be tamed by the little prince and Donna McKechnie is sultry and tantalizing as the doted rose, quite surprising for a kid-friendly flick. The montages of a woman superimposed onto a flower marks the effort from the visual technique department to recreate the extraterrestrial otherworldliness in a modest budget and to visualize little prince's interstellar journey with cartoon doves carrying him around. DP Christopher Challis distinctively deploys the low-angle shots and the fish-eye shots in the film to magnify the wackiness of the story, also the wonderful desert scenery can satiate one's fastidious eyes. Overall, this live-action movie is dotted with interesting music numbers to dampen the tautology of its text, and meanwhile it adequately disseminates its source's philosophical gist, after 40 years, one must admire it does't age too badly and it is also a bold musical, nominated for two Oscars (BEST ORIGINAL SONG and ORIGINAL SCORE). Finally, let's also look forward to an animation adaptation next year, from Mark Osborne, the man who co-directs the incredibly pleasing KUNG FU PANDA (2008, 7/10).

Armand nice, out not very great ambition, a drawing ad usum delphini more than adaptation, charming, honest, with not inspired songs, prey of its time, not great, not impressive but subject for good entrainment. the tale of Little Prince is only soul of a book. the letters, the drawings, the delight of reading are secrets to feel the profound message or the sense of this extraordinary trip. because the work of Saint - Exupery is not comedy, drama or musical. it is a mirror. so, the great virtue of this small film is to be invitation to discover Sain-Exupery masterpiece.and Steven Warner is perfect road sign. just an instrument to a fabulous castle. out of that, a boy and his need of root. a flower, a snake, few planets, a plain and a dialog with mystics nuances. tale about truth. and freedom of elephant from hat.

ricknorwood The Little Prince has gotten a bad rep, possibly because expectations were so high for a new Lerner and Lowe musical. Once you get past the beginning, it is absolutely delightful. But the heavy handed opening, with fish-eye camera lenses and a Message drummed into you that you already know and don't need to hear again, certainly puts viewers in a bad mood. Once The Little Prince arrives on earth, everything is magical. Songs like "The Little Prince" and "I Never Met a Rose" deserve to be standards. Gene Wilder as the fox is fabulous. And the tour de force performance of Bob Fosse as the snake is enough to make even devoted fans of All that Jazz sit up and take notice. If only it weren't too late to go back and reshoot the first fifteen minutes.