It's a great film, not perfect, but still great. The stories of the Little Prince are all beautiful, and the framing device of the old man and girl and their strange friendship is genuinely touching. But even the parts that don't work too well aren't that bad, they're just not as good as the rest. It's not even that long, but it doesn't need to be, and at the point when I was ready for it to start wrapping up I realized there was 40 minutes left because it had to take a really weird detour that doesn't totally work. For one, I thought the film went a little too long. The climax is where I do start to take a bit of issue though. It's very clearly in a world more resembling ours than the magical realism of The Little Prince's world, but there's no forced pop culture references or overly wacky comedy a la a bad Dr. The parallels work, and they never make it too modern. That being said, it's a longer story now, and since they are doing it this way they do at least do it well. I think kids are smarter than we give them credit for, and we don't need to put it in a world they relate to completely to make the story work. I take slight issue with it because it does work towards grounding a lot of the fables in a concrete world, and I don't know if that's really necessary. The framing device for the most part works well. Their storytelling is kind of in the form of fables, and highly symbolic, but the messages are timeless. First of all, they look beautiful, and have an eerie hypnotic quality to them. I haven't read the book this film takes it's inspiration from, but from what I could basically gather the stop-motion sequences are fairly accurate to the original story, but the framing device with the CGI little girl and old man are entirely new.
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