Truly Dreadful Film

Expected more

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This classic film has been said to be the earliest available feature length animated film, and for such old animation, it's really incredible. Perhaps this movie came out in 1926, but its animation is superior in quality to much animation that was produced decades later. In this adventure epic, creatures transform into other creatures, there are battles with monsters and demons, evil is conquered, love is found, and magical horses are flown on. It's a whimsical and highly entertaining feast for the eyes that also has a very eerie and at times straight up scary feel to it. Since its so old, it feels like I'm watching the creations of a ghost. All of those involved with this movie are long dead, but we can now still witness this unique little mark they left. It's really beautiful in an odd sort of way.There is one unfortunate flaw: the characters really aren't memorable. Its very cliché and traditional and the overall plot is barely present. Story and character wise this movie is quite weak, but it is filled with such fantastic visuals and is such an important and fascinating historical artifact that I must give it a high recommendation to all.

This movie is actually the oldest surviving animation feature film. it was made with silhouette animation which is like shadow puppetry but photographed frame by frame. It has a pretty simple story about a prince fighting an evil magician, trying to rescue a princess, and teaming up with Aladdin. But that is what makes this story good. It is just complex enough to be enjoyable but uses a lot of good classic devices without unnecessary ones. It is very much at the level of a folktale. It makes you feel more emotional than logical. The animation is also fun to watch and matches the stories simple level. It's like Fantasia and other movies where the beauty of it is more in the visuals than the subject. It goes beyond just basic shadows and has some cool effects like color tinting. The music also really helps with setting the mood and idea. I would recommend this to animation fans as it's historically interesting and also to younger children because it feels like a great movie to grow up with.

and ahead of its time. A Cherrr-man creation, seemingly made of paper cutout characters against a lit backdrop, with slight, stop-motion movements. Excellent subtitles into English. From the info on IMDb, it seems there are at least two versions, due to the difference in film speed, a 66 minute version, and an 81 minute version. The version shown on Turner Classic shows movement, then pauses at the end of each scene. It looks like this is a restored version. The prince does indeed go on several short adventures, such as flying away on a flying horse, and escaping a volcano. Some of the detail in the scenes are just incredible. I was pleasantly surprised; much better than expected. The simple characters show so much emotion, and there is so much going on in the background, its impossible to catch all the details. And this was all in 1925. FUN stuff.

The ancient tales of the 1,001 Arabian nights come to life in what as known as the first animated film, this is an historical film, a museum piece in every sense of the word. The magical, enchanting adventures of Prince Achmed are brought to life by little more than paper cutouts, filmed in silhouette, on film treated with blazing colors! the viewer is swept away into magical Middle and Far Eastern lands, and is taken on an adventure with Prince Achmed and his great friend Aladdin. The Prince, looking beautiful and majestic in his Armour and scimitar sword, battles the evil African magician who has imprisoned his sister, the beautiful Dinar Sade. Swept away by a magic flying horse created by the magician, our Prince finds himself in a mysterious land, where he encounters the delicate and enchanting Paru Banu, the princess of a land inhabited by evil demons. The two fall in love, but his Princess is taken away by the demons of her own land. This is where he meets the boy Aladdin, who reveals to him a tale of an evil African magician, who stole away his beloved, who turns out to be Prince Achmed's own sister, Dinar Sade! Side by side, the two fight to save their Princesses from danger and death! This film is pure magic and should be seen by anyone with an interest in animation or classic cinema. The workmanship and detail of these paper cutouts must be seen to be appreciated; figures wearing lace and feathers so intricate you would not believe that this was simply paper. This project was many years in the making and the original film has been lost, due to age, but a wonderful copy exists today on DVD, to dazzle a new generation of film lovers. With the exception of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Arabian Nights," the tales from these poetic books has never been presented in a more glorious way than in this 1926 German production, "The Adventures of Prince Achmed." Absolute highest rating.