Saturday, December 1, 2018

The Prince of Egypt (1998), 6

PG | 1h 39min | Animation, Adventure, Drama | 18 Dec 1998
An Egyptian prince learns of his identity as a Hebrew and his destiny to become the chosen deliverer of his people.
Directors: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells.
Stars: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, Martin Short.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120794/
disc arrived recently. Bought because I couldn't find this online and the IMDb rating was fairly high.

10 songs in the Soundtracks.

Just doesn't grab my attention.

I don't like the faces. I get the feeling the animators wanted to be not-Disney.

I found some of the songs irritating, too contemporary.

I turned off the c.track in progress. It was one of those name-the-animator things. And they dropped references to "this was 3d, that was 2d" without explaining what that means. (Watch the featurette first and it becomes clearer, although again I'm inferring from what they say, not getting a clear def from that either.)

The only celebrity voice that jumped out at me was P.Stewart, and he wasn't onscreen long.

Rated 7.1 (105,216)

Dreamworks, dir. 3; 6