Clay Classics: The Little Prince

Starring:Clay Classics
Studio: Good Times Video
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

Amazing images while still staying true to the story.
Brilliant adaptation with surrealist undertones
Unique in presentation and execution, but little more...
10 stars

The Little Prince
Starring: Clay Classics
Manufacturer: Billy Budd Films
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0007GP7N2
Release Date: 1979-01-08

Product Description

Based on the classic story by Antoine de Sainte-Exupery

Customer Reviews:

Amazing images while still staying true to the story........2007-05-30

I saw this when it first came out over 20 years ago and I have been looking for it for quite a while. Although the film is a short it follows the story fairly accurately. It is more than amazing claymation, the backgrounds are equally amazing with swirling patterns in pastels, acrylics and water colors. This story is truly delightful, important and heart-wrenching. Do not simply dismiss this as a simple children's tale, adults need this more than most kids.

Brilliant adaptation with surrealist undertones.......2007-04-06

This trippy claymation adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic tale of The Little Prince is both stunning to watch and emotionally memorable. The narration by Cliff Robertson helps keep the story going, and since most of his dialouge is straight from the book, it provides the insights and intricacies of the human heart that can never be perfectly transferred to the screen.

The way that this adaptation makes use of color and sound could only be from the 70s, and while this is clearly a children's short film, adults can enjoy it too. Much of it even seems specifically made for those viewers who may be in an altered state of some sorts.

For those who like the book, this is a great transfer to screen, entirely unpretentious and childlike in it's presentation, in the same way the book is.

Unique in presentation and execution, but little more..........2006-12-30

Few seem to remember this claymation version of "The Little Prince," which unfortunately isn't too surprising, even though the art itself is executed wonderfully. The original book is much too strong to be solidly translated into a narrated eye-candy short. This was bested a thousand-fold both by the other work of Will Vinton's studio (see "Martin the Cobbler," "Dinosaur," and perhaps even the California Raisins specials) and by the animated show a few years later, which proved far more poignant despite the target audience of children. While ultimately better than the '74 live-action movie, it does nothing more than add an abridged, artsy spin to a story that's superior in its original text format.

Those who love claymation and/or anything having to do with The Little Prince will find more to savor here; devotees of the original book or the animated "The Adventures of the Little Prince" may see this as a denigration in an artful guise.

10 stars.......2006-01-05

one of the most amazing things ever produced by Man. love it. i have wanted it ever since I first saw it, and now I have it. yeah!!! :))

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