Review of The Little Prince (1974) by Patrick F — 10 Mar 2009

They've turned a french children's classic into a really shitty hollywood musical? Never, ever, EVER again do I want to see such a piece of art raped like this again. Besides interesting camera angles and a cute kid for the titular role, it's as if the directors had taken the original book, cut it out into film-like strips, soaked the strips up in the film business's vomit from last week, and tried to play it through the same projectors.

It's terrible. This story should AT MOST make a 20-minute short movie, and at that length, it would be fantastic. However, with the unnecessarily long song-and-dance sequences about the most unnecessary topics ("It's a hat! It's a hat! Holy shit, that looks like a motherfucking hat! Oh my jizz!") and featuring 10-minute dance interludes that put Michaeel Jackson's music videos- AND his molestation accusations- to utter shame, the story is ruined.

Not only that, but with the utterly terrible production values and the near literal farting upon Gene Wilder's talent, all we have here is a gigantic shit sandwich. I hope one day to bring the book to justice, but until then, I will wallow in the pain of this trash.