The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Genre: Animation / Adventure
Duration: 97 minuten
Alternative title: De Prins van Egypte
Country:
United States
Directed by: Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells
Stars: Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes and Sandra Bullock
IMDb score:
7,3 (165.499)
Releasedate: 16 December 1998
The Prince of Egypt plot
"The power is real. The story is forever. The time is now."
The Egyptian pharaoh Seti gives the order to drown all the Hebrew babies. A desperate mother places her son in a basket, which ends up with the queen. Moses is raised as a brother of the heir apparent Ramses. Years later, the brothers are separated when Moses learns his true background. He is given the task of God to act as a messenger, and to lead the oppressed Hebrew population to a land of his own.
Actors and actresses
Moses (voice)
Rameses (voice)
Tzipporah (voice)
Miriam (voice)
Aaron (voice)
Jethro (voice)
Seti (voice)
Queen (voice)
Hotep (voice)
Huy (voice)
Reviews & comments
IH88
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- 3205 votes
“Look. Look at your people, Moses. They are free.”
Nice animation film. The Prince of Egypt is a more serious film (based on the book of Exodus), and Moses' struggle to improve his people's lives is well captured in a 90-minute animated film. There is humor in the film and the music is sometimes very sweet (it would have been fine without music), but for the most part the makers know how to strike the right tone. With excellent voice actors such as Kilmer, Fiennes, Pfeiffer, Bullock, Goldblum and Glover (and Mirren, Patrick Stewart, Steve Martin and Martin Short). It's almost a shame that this isn't a live-action movie.
Translated from Dutch · View original
arno74
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- 8700 messages
- 3342 votes
Difficult to assess. As a film adaptation of the biblical story of Moses, it still gets a pass, but it has a lot against it. Not only in the cinematic/artistic area (both the animation style and the songs are downright ugly) but also in terms of content, the Old Testament is simply not a comic book, it is not exactly people-friendly and it is certainly not child-friendly. A film with themes such as (sex) slavery and where babies are killed by bushes and then killing other babies by bushes out of revenge is not really what you would call a pleasant animation film for children. According to the Old Testament, slavery, infanticide and genocide are okay, and you can see that in this animation. I will never understand the people from Kijkwijzer either, I think there is a loose thread somewhere if you let a six-year-old watch this cartoon. Also because the Reli message is much too emphatic, which makes it almost indoctrinating. 1*
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
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