To me, this movie is perfection.

Just perfect...

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Blistering performances.

This movie might be best appreciated by those who have read the book firsthand and want to see the characters live in the flesh. While this film follows the story very closely, and features good performers (including Bob Fosse and Gene Wilder), it would be difficult for a newcomer to appreciate just how magical this classic fable is if he/she only watches this movie without reading the book. I suppose it would have come out better as an animated feature.Still, the movie definitely has its merits. The kid playing the Little Prince does very well - why didn't he have a successful career after this? And the music is very beautiful at parts. I don't know why some say it is not up to the standards of Lerner and Leowe. The title theme (such a haunting melody) and "I never met a Rose" - both sung by the Pilot - are beautiful, and the happy song sung by the Little Prince and the Fox as they come close and dance together is charming and jaunty.7 out of 10.

I have read the book a couple of years back and when I stumbled across this VCD of The Little Prince, I snapped it up straight away.While watching the movie, I was so enchanted with the innocence of the little prince. The film made me realize that even as a adults we should not lose our child-like qualities. The movie is very touching, especially when Gene Wilder (the fox) and Steven Warner (The Little Prince)were sitting together and the prince is about to say goodbye and the next scene was the fox sitting on a wheat field. I was on tears really! Also the part when the Prince was bitten by the snake and the pilot carried him to his plane...In my opinion...the little prince did not die...he was a reminder to the pilot of his lost childhood.I recommend this movie to young and old alike...especially to students who have read the book...also to the students who finds it hard to appreciate literature...this movie will certainly encourage so many people to appreciate films (of substance!) and literature.

This is an exceptional movie, absolutely true to the spirit of Saint-Exupery's book; the actors are perfect - Richard Kiley, Bob Fosse and Gene Wilder are superb - and the songs fit beautifully into the film.

Spoilers herein.Children's books are a literature like no other. In `regular' books, you nominally have the world of the reader, the writer/narrator and the characters. In the children's case, you add the extra dimension that the reader is not the person whose imagination is targeted.The `Little Prince' follows the lead of `Alice in Wonderland' in exploiting the relationships among these four worlds: and it does so by creating a fifth within the story. Its a sort of double story about a boy and a man who remembers himself as a boy: about each layer drawing the other: about surveying the forces that build the world, the two worlds.I'm an `Alice' guy myself and don't particularly like the `Prince' book. It's too patronizing and shallow for my tastes, but the FORM of the book is very sophisticated.Now along come thugs from the musical theater tradition. In trying to turn a flower into a gem they produce a turnip. That's because they completely misunderstand the necessary narrative layering that makes the book work.Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.