The Prince of Egypt

An inspiring translation of biblical grandeur, turning the story of one of history's greatest heroes into an entertaining, visually dazzling cartoon.

Overall, it's a story of triumph and adventure - of oppression ended and freedom begun.

DreamWorks' story of Moses raises the bar on the art of cartooning to the top of Mount Sinai and beyond.

Features a first-rate voice cast and state-of-the-art animation that's nothing short of miraculous.

Certainly spectacular -- an elaborately designed combination of animation and computer-generated imagery -- but at times it's a spectacular bore.

Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy neighbor's. Maybe DreamWorks should stop trying to be Disney.

Middlebrow kitsch, but kitsch straining for respectability and therefore without the energy that can make kitsch entertaining.

An amazing movie!! Great music, I mean Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, amazing. I love the original story so the movie is even better. I adore this movie.

The Prince of Egypt's story can feel just powerful at times and it had dazzling animation and great music. But with some lackluster voice performances the whole thing is almost ruined. I give this movie 60%.

Neither musicals nor animation usually appeal to me, though I still wanted to revisit this film with a more mature perspective. From the beginning, its idea of being born with a predetermined purpose already felt unsettling to me. Visually, the egyptian setting is convincing, but the narrative raises issues, especially for a children’s film: scenes of women treated like trophies or Moses raising his hand against his sister feel uncomfortable given the young audience. The humor and songs also distance me from the experience, since the music constantly interrupts the story while reducing potentially powerful themes to simple melodies. Moses is charismatic but emotionally distant, while Miriam feels far more human and relatable. The divine plagues are visually impressive, particularly the deadly mist sequence, which reinforces my view that God is portrayed without morality or distinction between innocent and guilty.

Is this some sort of joke? The animation, even for its time, looked on par than many Japanese anime of the same era with 1/1000 of the budget of this film. And for a stellar voice and music cast, I have never heard a more boring score of songs. All the music was very commercial and cookie cutter lacking in any sort of character and clearly designed as fan service rather than as a work of art. What are you people listening to when you say its memorable? It almost sounded like it was made over a single weed filled week of recording and I should know because I owned a music studio. You could have literally pulled 10 random bands or artists from a downtown music venue and had gotten a better music score than this cliched trash. The only good thing about this movie is the story is told fairly well. It was filled with plot holes (the story of Moses generally is a giant nuclear crater sized plot hole), but it was still told in a ok manner given it is meant for a younger audience. I dont imagine many adults can enjoying the story telling but I have seen more ridiculous things.

I expected a lot better, to say the least. Prince of Egypt is decently animated, but serves as a sparknotes version of the Biblical story that not only is far too quick, but it is a shallow adaptation at best that misses many key elements of the story. Even worse, it changes many of them and the story itself resembles very little of the actual Biblical tale. Now, this is not truly a sin on its own because of course it is changed, but the changed story is far too kid-oriented and feels far too often like a bad kids cartoon that adults hate in numbers. There are a few good sequences, such as the burning bush sequence, but you would be far better off just watching The Ten Commandments if you want to watch a film version of the Book of Exodus. Everything is borderline comical and the fast pace and the way it just skims through the story are incredibly annoying and, if you do not know the story, hard to follow. Overall, The Prince of Egypt misses the mark by about 40 years.