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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The little Prince was one of the first book I read as a child and always have been close to my heart. I am in my 60s now and still the little Prince has lots to unveil in his lovely words and charming wisdom. I was a bit desapointed about the film, i felt was a bit slow and not enough of the message has been translate, maybe I expected too much. I do hope many children all over the world can read the book and get the esence of it to last a whole life. And I do hope somebody one day will remake it as a film with more vitality.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I first read the Little Prince for an English course, and loved the book. OK, it was written in French, and I read ity in English, but thats life.
The author was a French aviator before ther WW2, and I believe some of his exploits may be found in the book. He flew from Paris to India, I know that, and that is the starting point for the book and film.
How do you deine perfection? Lerner and Lowe is a good starting point; a good story; a fine cast of actors and a very good actress; the Prince is wonderful, simple and full of the joy you need to make the story believable; and Bob Fosse doing his own song and dance routine, the snake in the grass.
Its a story for children, i recently watched it again with some friends children, between 7 and 14, and they loved the film.It is also a wonderful comment on our society, but that is for the adult to appreciate.
For me, the 2 best parts of the film are Bob Fosse as the snake, and Gene Wilder as the Fox. Both are very clearly enjoying themselves, and so is the boy.
There is some sadness in the film, as the way that the Prince returns home. But at the same time, there is laughter and happiness, and tunes that will stay in your head for months to come. I'm still singing the Snake in the grass routine after a week.
The author was a French aviator before ther WW2, and I believe some of his exploits may be found in the book. He flew from Paris to India, I know that, and that is the starting point for the book and film.
How do you deine perfection? Lerner and Lowe is a good starting point; a good story; a fine cast of actors and a very good actress; the Prince is wonderful, simple and full of the joy you need to make the story believable; and Bob Fosse doing his own song and dance routine, the snake in the grass.
Its a story for children, i recently watched it again with some friends children, between 7 and 14, and they loved the film.It is also a wonderful comment on our society, but that is for the adult to appreciate.
For me, the 2 best parts of the film are Bob Fosse as the snake, and Gene Wilder as the Fox. Both are very clearly enjoying themselves, and so is the boy.
There is some sadness in the film, as the way that the Prince returns home. But at the same time, there is laughter and happiness, and tunes that will stay in your head for months to come. I'm still singing the Snake in the grass routine after a week.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Currently forming part of a bizarre DVD promotion to tie-in with the royal wedding that includes the potentially more appropriate Lady Jane, Anne of the Thousand Days and just about any film with a remotely regal title, The Little Prince was one of those last-gasp screen musicals that limped to box-office oblivion in the early 70s to almost unanimous disinterest from the public. It's a shame, because at heart there's a rather good screen adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's children's classic when Lerner and Loewe's songs don't get in the way. While they do improve as they go along, they're a mediocre bunch of fillers with only one fairly decent number, and that not much of a showstopper (Loewe's dramatic underscore is generally much more effective). But Stanley Donen's imaginative direction and Christopher Challis' gorgeous colour photography, both in the Tunisian desert locations and on the Elstree soundstages, are more than impressive enough to make you mourn the fact that they didn't have better songs to showcase or, better still, not bothered with them at all.
The decision to cast humans as the Flower (Donna McKechnie), the Snake (an overindulged sibilant Bob Fosse in a part that seems to be pure Sammy Davis Jr) and the Fox (Gene Wilder) doesn't really work. The latter in particular loses much of the magic and sadness of the story's best scenes while Ron Forella's too frenetic choreography works against the mood and panders to the actor's worst instincts in a couple of instances. Donen also makes the mistake of repeating the fish-eye lens trick he uses for the effectively bizarre sequence with Clive Revill's businessman, looking like a distorted glove puppet of Marty Feldman, with Victor Spinetti's historian, diluting the effect, but elsewhere the look of the film is often picturebook perfect, giving the film a rich and timeless look that effortlessly mixes fantasy with reality. Despite handling his sometimes lengthy dialogue respectably, Steven Warner is not much more than adequate in the title role, but Richard Kiley is a particularly impressive lead as the crash-landed pilot who encounters the visitor from a tiny planet and gradually relearns simplicity from him and it's a pity he never got a proper shot at a screen career as a leading man. It's not a perfect adaptation but despite the disappointing songs it'll do surprisingly nicely until the long-gestating French animated version hopefully gets it right...
No extras, but a decent widescreen transfer.
The decision to cast humans as the Flower (Donna McKechnie), the Snake (an overindulged sibilant Bob Fosse in a part that seems to be pure Sammy Davis Jr) and the Fox (Gene Wilder) doesn't really work. The latter in particular loses much of the magic and sadness of the story's best scenes while Ron Forella's too frenetic choreography works against the mood and panders to the actor's worst instincts in a couple of instances. Donen also makes the mistake of repeating the fish-eye lens trick he uses for the effectively bizarre sequence with Clive Revill's businessman, looking like a distorted glove puppet of Marty Feldman, with Victor Spinetti's historian, diluting the effect, but elsewhere the look of the film is often picturebook perfect, giving the film a rich and timeless look that effortlessly mixes fantasy with reality. Despite handling his sometimes lengthy dialogue respectably, Steven Warner is not much more than adequate in the title role, but Richard Kiley is a particularly impressive lead as the crash-landed pilot who encounters the visitor from a tiny planet and gradually relearns simplicity from him and it's a pity he never got a proper shot at a screen career as a leading man. It's not a perfect adaptation but despite the disappointing songs it'll do surprisingly nicely until the long-gestating French animated version hopefully gets it right...
No extras, but a decent widescreen transfer.
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