It is a story of a young girl who will accidentally meet an old pilot whose plane crashed into the desert one day. Perhaps this pilot is eccentric. The pilot tells the young girl about the story of a young boy named 'Little Prince', the boy he encountered in the desert when his plane crashed. The child begins to discover her childhood that she may be looking for and also discover that there are essential things that we see in her heart. The most important issue we can see is the endless human connections.
Director Mark Osborne [achieves] some charming effects... But the computer-animated portions that function as a real-world framing device are more tedious than fanciful.
It's the interaction of a sanguine realism with a celebration of the liberating effect of the imagination that makes the magic happen. That, and the exquisite animation.
Perhaps it's best to think of it less as an adaptation and more as an appreciation of what the book has meant to the world since its initial publication.
"The Little Prince" is really a movie within a movie; the author's delicate, fanciful story is folded into a harsh, modernist commentary on depersonalization and conformity in the contemporary workplace.
This film, directed by Mark Osborne is multi-layered, with a story about a writer, an aviator, the Little Prince, and a young, modern day girl, who becomes friends with the aviator and who searches for the Little Prince told in the aviator's story.
If Saint-Exupéry offered readers a petite, queer-tasting square of some delicate cake they'd never heard of, Netflix has served up a familiar, fragrant, well-balanced meal.
