THE LITTLE PRINCE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Antoine de Saint-Exupery | 96 pages | 10 Jan 1991 | Egmont UK Ltd | 9780749707231 | English | London, United Kingdom The Little Prince - Symbolism Wiki By signing up, you agree to receiving newsletters from Rotten Tomatoes. You may later unsubscribe. Create your account Already have an account? Email Address. Real Quick. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Cancel Resend Email. Add Article. The Little Prince Critics Consensus Beautifully animated and faithful to the spirit of its classic source material, The Little Prince is a family-friendly treat that anchors thrilling visuals with a satisfying story. See score details. Rate And Review Submit review Want to see. Super Reviewer. Rate this movie Oof, that was Rotten. What did you think of the movie? Step 2 of 2 How did you buy your ticket? Let's get your review verified. Fandango AMCTheatres. More Info. Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. How did you buy your ticket? View All Videos 3. View All Photos Movie Info. The Aviator introduces a girl to a world where she rediscovers her childhood and learns that it's human connections that matter most, and that it is only with heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. Mark Osborne. Irena Brignull , Bob Persichetti. Dec 7, Jeff Bridges The Aviator Voice. James Franco The Fox Voice. Marion Cotillard The Rose Voice. Bud Cort The King Voice. Albert Brooks The Businessman Voice. Mark Osborne Director. Irena Brignull Screenwriter. Bob Persichetti Screenwriter. Dimitri Rassam Producer. Aton Soumache Producer. Alexis Vonarb Producer. Jinko Gotoh Executive Producer. Mark Osborne Executive Producer. Moritz Borman Executive Producer. Thierry Pasquet Executive Producer. September 26, Full Review…. August 9, Full Review…. August 5, Rating: B- Full Review…. May 14, Full Review…. October 21, Full Review…. August 23, Full Review…. View All Critic Reviews Jul 09, 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. The stop-motion sequences are all great. First of all, they look beautiful, and have an eerie hypnotic quality to them. Their storytelling is kind of in the form of fables, and highly symbolic, but the messages are timeless. The framing device for the most part works well. 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. 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. That being said, it's a longer story now, and since they are doing it this way they do at least do it well. The parallels work, and they never make it too modern. 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. Seuss film. The climax is where I do start to take a bit of issue though. For one, I thought the film went a little too long. 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. But even the parts that don't work too well aren't that bad, they're just not as good as the rest. Because the rest of it is so good. 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. It's a great film, not perfect, but still great. 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. Michael M Super Reviewer. Apr 21, A 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. The put-upon child has the same face as any other Pixar kid. Le Petit Prince grows up into a miserable janitor and needs rescuing. The businessman captures the stars and crushes them to fuel his corporation. The rose is dead and baobabs have overcome the Prince's asteroid. 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. People do not seem to understand the destructive power of excitement. The businessman wasn't an ogre in the book; he was blind: he needed help. 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. I may do my own edit just to see what it looks like. I imagine it is twenty minutes of ephemeral beauty, just like the book. Charles B Super Reviewer. Nov 09, 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. 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. There is a core story to this film, but many things are left up to the interpretation of its audience, and while I think certain things happened throughout the course of this film, other may not have. The Little Prince is one of the greatest animated feature films in recent memory, and here is why. Originating as a French film before being brought to the rest of the world and dubbed in different languages for a wider audience, it just goes to show that there are many more great films out there that are hard to find. To put it simply, a little girl moves into a new home with her mother, in preparation for a very prestigious school. During the summer, she must follow every rule set in motion by her mother. When her mother leaves for work, she slowly discovers an elderly man living next door and he introduces her to the story of The Little Prince. Trying to convince her that this little boy is real and this other world exists where amazing things happen, they form a very strong bond with one another. From beginning to end, this film gleams with originality. Although it is a film that has child-like visuals, its core story is much more mature than one might expect. Children seem to feel as though their parents work too much and they never get to see them enough. We live in a world where children do not understand the motivation of their parents actions. The Little Prince takes that notion and takes a quite literal approach to displaying this on screen. This strange other universe has places where only children exist, finding every adult strange and others that have the same, yet reversed ideal. These ideals only work if the core characters of the film are interesting enough to want to see them venture into these worlds, and because they are, this film flows like a fictional piece of art. After viewing this film, I truly do not have a single complaint about the display of this fictional world. Sure, if you are to break down logic and not allow your mind to open wider than usual, you may find some flaws that bug you, but that is not what great storytelling is. Great storytelling is when a film allows you to open your mind and escape into a world that you wish you were in. Doing something that really has never been done in a major motion picture before, The Little Prince has three very different styles of animation throughout. There is the clean-looking visuals for the core storyline, the 2D hand-drawn animation to display the other world in story form, and the in-between where the story comes to life in order to dive deeper into the characters in the story. For many reasons, this style works wonders for this picture, as the audience is able to experience a few twists and turns that will leave them speechless. Consuelo was the rose in The Little Prince. I should never have fled. I should have guessed at the tenderness behind her poor ruses. The author had also met a precocious eight-year-old with curly blond hair while he was residing with a family in Quebec City in , Thomas De Koninck , the son of philosopher Charles De Koninck. Some have seen the prince as a Christ figure, as the child is sin-free and "believes in a life after death", subsequently returning to his personal heaven.