what makes the desert beautiful is that it somewhere hides a well
I just finished watching The Little Prince on Netflix. I liked it but didn't love it, mostly because of choices they made with the framing story. The animation of the original story is amazingly beautiful. The CG animation of the frame is nice. I liked the little girl and the mom, but I found some of the other known voice actors intrusive - I didn't need to hear James Franco as the fox or Paul Rudd as, well, I guess that's a spoiler. As the grown up Little Prince, who has forgotten his rose.
I get what they were going for? But it didn't really work for me. As much as it's a downer, I feel like they should have just let the little girl learn to accept that people die, but as long someone remembers them, they live on in our memories and our hearts.
I did like that it was a little girl and her mom, and that the mom wasn't vilified, she was just trying too hard to compensate for the father leaving, and that she unbent a little at the end.
Also, wow, I guess adulthood looks dystopian to a kid, I mean, even more so than it actually is, but the movie portrays it as super depressing.
So I'm glad I saw it and I cried at all the parts you'd expect to cry at for The Little Prince but I'm also kind of glad I didn't end up paying for it, since the last half hour or so felt unnecessary and tacked on to me.
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I get what they were going for? But it didn't really work for me. As much as it's a downer, I feel like they should have just let the little girl learn to accept that people die, but as long someone remembers them, they live on in our memories and our hearts.
I did like that it was a little girl and her mom, and that the mom wasn't vilified, she was just trying too hard to compensate for the father leaving, and that she unbent a little at the end.
Also, wow, I guess adulthood looks dystopian to a kid, I mean, even more so than it actually is, but the movie portrays it as super depressing.
So I'm glad I saw it and I cried at all the parts you'd expect to cry at for The Little Prince but I'm also kind of glad I didn't end up paying for it, since the last half hour or so felt unnecessary and tacked on to me.
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people have commented there.