Reviews for The Prince of Egypt

Adapted directly from the "Book of Exodus", the plot goes:

Moses, born a Hebrew, set adrift in a basket on the River Nile by his mother hoping it may deliver him out of bondage, and in return... perhaps one day deliver them too. Destiny favors the child afloat. Upon the Queen's discovery, she immediately takes him in and raises him as her own, thinking he's a gift from the Gods. Moses grows up a fun-filled, spoiled prince alongside Rameses, amid all the nobility of Egypt, yet never knowing of his true identity. Until a dream cast upon him one day; a nostalgic lullaby; a horrendous event; and his "stepfather's" tyrannous ill will revealed, Moses leaves Egypt and isolates away in the desert for many years. Fortunately for him, the grass proves greener on the other side, as he's enlightened by a "voice", and a message, that it's time the Hebrews have a deliverer after 500 years of hard slavery...

Faith survives death, truly spoken. Whether or not it's tads away from the original story, a lot of the content were excellently executed in a very true and evocative way, even to extreme levels that it certainly does justice for its PG-rating. The preamble speaks brilliantly clear the producers take certain creative and historical license from the Bible to tell a story in its very own essence. Which apparently means you don't necessarily have to be a Christian to truly appreciate it.

The animation is above par! The voice casting is terrific! And the music (score & songs) are beautiful and profound, including the Oscar-winning "When You Believe", pop version. To simply sum it up, "The Prince of Egypt" is an impressive achievement and a definite outing for its makers.

The animation in this film is gorgeous. There's hardly anything else to expect from such a big name as Dreamworks.

My favorite scenes were the Plagues, the splitting the water scene and the Angel of Death. I was surprised that they had the guts to show these kinds of things in a family feature, religious film or not. But I'm glad they didn't have any cute and fuzzy little sidekicks singing and dancing and making jokes all the time. But, the film was a bit TOO serious at times. If you're really going for dark, then make it dark, if you want to make it educating and family-friendly, then go for it, but The Prince Of Egypt was left somewhere in the middle. Even a few jokes would have been okay, Moses was just so damn serious all the time, even at the beginning he didn't really come out as a guy who only loves to have fun.

The only character I actually felt for was Rameses, he was nicely developed. The rest were kind of bland and didn't come out strong enough for me. Tzipporah would have been cool, if only she wouldn't have been an exact mixture of Jasmine and Esmeralda. The songs were pretty good, some of them were not-so-good and some of them were great. My faves were "Deliver Us" and "You're playing with the big boys now".

Overall, I'd rate the film an 8, on a scale of 1-10.

Despite misplaced voice acting, shoddy attempts at humor, and a lackluster, often ridiculous musical score, The Prince of Egypt never fails to be a reasonably entertaining piece of animation. Nor does it fail to be eye-popping and engaging.

Flaws this movie certainly has, including rather bad computer graphics that clash horribly with the animation and really lousy songs. And the songs are everywhere. In fact, it seems much of the narrative is in the songs. Not really good scripting, if you ask me. However, the animation is first rate, and the movie's two main players, Rameses and Moses, are fleshed out rather strongly.