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The Little Prince

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France · 2015
Rated PG · 1h 48m
Director Mark Osborne
Starring Jeff Bridges, Mackenzie Foy, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard
Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy

The Little Girl's preparations for the adult world is suddenly interrupted by her eccentric, kindhearted neighbor, The Aviator. Through his stories, The Little Girl is introduced to an extraordinary world of endless adventures that is home to The Little Prince - a dear friend he once met.

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The A.V. Club by A.A. Dowd

Better, then, to think of this handsome, inoffensive Little Prince less as an adaptation than as a tribute — one that makes the relationship between the book and those who love it a central focus.

60

The Guardian by Andrew Pulver

This is a very good-looking film that represents a brave attempt to do justice to a very popular book; it manages it, just.

63

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

As preachy and repetitive as The Little Prince can be, it offers enough moments of poetry to keep it flirting with greatness, or at least goodness.

83

Hitfix by Gregory Ellwood

There is a faith that the story and characters will keep the audience engaged, even if there isn’t a bright and shiny thing to distract them in a every single scene.

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CineVue by John Bleasdale

Osborne, who initially got his kicks with Kung Fu Panda, doesn't trust his source material and the film becomes about collecting the pages of the story and the effect the story might have on the people who hear it, rather than the telling of the story itself.

83

Entertainment Weekly by Leah Greenblatt

At its inventive best—like the creation of a little cloth fox who never speaks but steals almost every scene he’s in—it does capture the odd, tender wonder of his world.

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The Playlist by Oliver Lyttelton

The book is so counter to our contemporary narrative demands that liberties would need to be taken for a movie version, and for the most part Osborne takes the right liberties, ending up with an extremely beautiful, very charming, thematically rich take that’s sure to be one of the better animated movies this year.

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Variety by Scott Foundas

A respectful, lovingly reimagined take on Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s classic 1943 tale, which adds all manner of narrative bells and whistles to the author’s slender, lyrical story of friendship between a pilot and a mysterious extraterrestrial voyager, but stays true to its timeless depiction of childhood wonderment at odds with grown-up disillusionment.

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Screen International by Tim Grierson

A paean to the importance of retaining one’s childlike enthusiasm, the animated The Little Prince is itself a charmingly innocent film, lacking some of the storytelling and design sophistication of its Pixar and Dreamworks competitors but nonetheless delivering a sweet, likeable tale.

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