There are very few that challenge their audience in the way that The Little Prince does, but that is only the beginning of what makes this film an absolute masterpiece. Where do I possibly begin to describe just how incredible this film truly is? There have been many impressive animated films throughout the years, but many are geared toward a younger audience. I imagine it is twenty minutes of ephemeral beauty, just like the book. I may do my own edit just to see what it looks like.
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Plus the Tippler and the Lamplighter do not even appear (they are referred to visually but ignored in the script.) If you can watch only the bits relating to the original tale, do that. The businessman wasn't an ogre in the book he was blind: he needed help. People do not seem to understand the destructive power of excitement. Things are set to right (obviously) but the fluttering, Sufist magic of the original tale is drowned out by the bombast of a mundane CGI adventure. The rose is dead and baobabs have overcome the Prince's asteroid. The businessman captures the stars and crushes them to fuel his corporation.
Le Petit Prince grows up into a miserable janitor and needs rescuing. The put-upon child has the same face as any other Pixar kid. Much overuse of imagery from 'The Wall', 'Brazil', 'The Apartment' and other dystopian fantasies. It has a strong message of holding onto childhood that did get to me a little bit, and there's plenty of other sparks of truth sprinkled throughout that will be effective for kids and adults.Ī beautiful papery, textured animation of the Exupery classic, unfortunately surrounded by a highly conventional framing animation extolling the need to not be boring in worn-out terms. It's a great film, not perfect, but still great. The stories of the Little Prince are all beautiful, and the framing device of the old man and girl and their strange friendship is genuinely touching.
But even the parts that don't work too well aren't that bad, they're just not as good as the rest. It's not even that long, but it doesn't need to be, and at the point when I was ready for it to start wrapping up I realized there was 40 minutes left because it had to take a really weird detour that doesn't totally work. For one, I thought the film went a little too long. The climax is where I do start to take a bit of issue though. It's very clearly in a world more resembling ours than the magical realism of The Little Prince's world, but there's no forced pop culture references or overly wacky comedy a la a bad Dr.
The parallels work, and they never make it too modern. That being said, it's a longer story now, and since they are doing it this way they do at least do it well. I think kids are smarter than we give them credit for, and we don't need to put it in a world they relate to completely to make the story work. I take slight issue with it because it does work towards grounding a lot of the fables in a concrete world, and I don't know if that's really necessary. The framing device for the most part works well. Their storytelling is kind of in the form of fables, and highly symbolic, but the messages are timeless. First of all, they look beautiful, and have an eerie hypnotic quality to them. I haven't read the book this film takes it's inspiration from, but from what I could basically gather the stop-motion sequences are fairly accurate to the original story, but the framing device with the CGI little girl and old man are entirely new.
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