The angular animation and muted colour palette gives the film a look more redolent of classic European cartoons than their homelier American counterparts.
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03/19/08
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
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Reviews Counted:81
Fresh:64
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Prince of Egypt is moving, compelling, and visually stunning.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: An all-star cast--including Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Sandra Bulock--leads this full-length, animated musical version of the story of Moses. After being raised as the son of... [More]
Starring: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock
Director: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells
Reviews for The Prince of Egypt
Top CriticAs epic, emotionally satisfying spectacle, it's way up there with the very best in mainstream animation.
06/24/06
Top CriticWorthy but visually stunning version of the biblical tale.
01/01/00
Top CriticCertainly technically-minded cartoon connoisseurs will feel many shivers of admiration on seeing this.
03/03/02
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03/24/02
Top CriticThe Prince of Egypt is middlebrow kitsch, but kitsch straining for respectability and therefore without the energy that can make kitsch entertaining.
01/01/00
A disappointing and uninspiring animated feature.
08/21/02
It could've worked with well-thought out characters, but limps along with the mostly flat and unmemorable ones that populate the picture.
04/02/05
Rather than Jerry Falwell, I'd have had the production vetted by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.
01/01/00
I wish DreamWorks had been more truly daring instead of merely competitive and worked a little longer at evolving a drawing style that departed more radically from the Disney house style than this film does.
01/01/00
Tedious, self-important and at times exhausting!
01/01/00
Turns out to be another handsome, formulaic changing of the palace guard.
01/01/00
Takes itself too seriously.
07/12/02
Leaves you feeling like you've witnessed something that misses the mark.
01/01/00
The drawn and computer-animated imagery is top notch and seamlessly integrated, but the central characters' tawny complexions and the often chiaroscuro lighting sometimes obscure all but the whites of their eyes and their pearl-perfect teeth.
01/01/00
The film lacks creative exuberance, any side pockets of joy.
01/01/00
Top CriticWho'd have ever thought Biblical plagues and pestilence could be summed up in a four-minute musical montage?
01/01/00
Hyperactive and visually busy without being much fun.
09/22/07
Following blindly in the tradition of Disney's animated films of the last decade, The Prince of Egypt is, for no good reason, rendered as a musical.
01/01/00
The story has been so abbreviated and riddled with songs that there's no sense of climax.
01/01/00
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