The Prince of Egypt [Blu-ray]

Reviewer: Nvs
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The music.. SPECTACULAR
Review: Prince of Egypt is such an underrated movie. I’m not a religious person and I will tell you that this is one of the best musicals ever. The casting alone is great! I mean hellllooo… Sandra Bullock, Steve Martin, Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes (aka VOLDEMORT), Martin Short, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick Stewart!! The animation.. brilliant. The music.. SPECTACULAR. So lucky I was able to buy this on Amazon for a good price!

Reviewer: MetalTish
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Classic Bible story
Review: I’ve always loved this movie. Not because it’s part of the Bible, it’s not made to bore you or shove religion up your face. It is a fun, easy and knowledgeable movie where anyone can learn a very important passage of the Bible in an easy way. I highly recommend this movie to anyone, especially kids.

Reviewer: randy adams jr.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Prince of Egypt movie
Review: Thank you so much for my order my son loves this movie

Reviewer: Gene
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A mostly accurate, great film
Review: The Prince of Egypt is mostly accurate when compared to the Bible story, however, there are a few changes they had to make in order to make the story work as a cartoon and to make the narrative flow. The film was well written, well acted by a diverse list of immensely talented people, and it was beautifully animated.

Reviewer: Sheena Mary Rosales
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love the movie
Review: Great cartoon to watch

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Remastered Masterpiece
Review: This movie is a classic masterpiece and a must see for anyone who loves Christian movies or has already seen it. I have both movies on regular format and this one of 4K UHD. The 4K UHD upgrade is a love letter to all the fans and viewers of the original. The colors really pop out, the details are made clear, the music is louder and more detailed in sound, and just like that a 20 year old movie looks modern again! This movie looks and sounds great! But I personally wouldn’t recommend watching it unless you have a soundbar. The music is the butter while the story is the bread. The music is truly phenomenal and emotional to hear while watching the movie. I felt like the music was a little lower and didn’t have enough of that “oomph” that really delivers the overall emotion of the movie while watching it on my OLED TV using the TV speakers. It’s like the audio for the voices were competing with the music during the movie and the voices won. The music just didn’t sound as loud and clear as the voices whenever they came on. They sounded like they were different in terms of one was lower than the other. So I watched it again, but with a soundbar and it sounded much better and much more theatrical and had that impact that I remembered feeling in theaters when seeing it for the first time!Whether you have a sound system at home for your TV or not, this movie is a great masterpiece and it is made whole again for a triumphant return in 4K UHD. If you love this movie or haven’t seen it, (and have a 4K DVD player) take my word for it. Buy it!

Reviewer: Matthew N
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Forgotten and Underrated Masterpiece
Review: This 4K blu-ray release is the best edition of the movie. The sound and image quality surpass any previous dvd or blu-ray releases. If someone is looking for this animated masterpiece, I highly recommend getting this version.

Reviewer: LJ
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: All time classic
Review: All time classic and love this movie

Reviewer: Tacayla
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Hadn’t seen this movie in years. It was definitely on my list in my childhood.Came in perfect condition and had no issue watching it in Canada.

Reviewer: Silvia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Sin duda nunca se había visto mejor.Esta versión 4k si le hace justicia a esta obra maestra. la versión blu-ray normal que existe es muy mala (que de hecho también viene en la caja), básicamente es el máster de el dvd escalado a HD con colores deslavados y se nota mucha compresión, hay mucho grano y manchas. Pero sin duda esta versión 4k es hermosa, sin duda se nota el aumento de resolución es muy nítida y se ve cada detalle, si hay grano pero es muy fino. El HDR es muy bueno haciendo que los colores se vean más solidos, vivos y precisos, los negros son profundos y los blancos inmaculados, en general el HDR hace que la imagen sea más clara y vibrante.El sonido sin duda es otros de sus puntos fuertes con la actualización a DTS:X se escucha espectacular. Tiene también doblaje en español latino en dts 5.1 que es muy bueno tambien.Me llegó en perfectas condiciones y el slipcover es hermoso, todo lo que es dorado es tornasol y se ve genial. la portada del disco 4k es muy bonita y se agradece que tenga imagen y no hayan tomado la moda de no tener nada más que el nombre.

Reviewer: Rafael Santiago
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Infelizmente está fora do catalago a edição nacional. Sorte que a Amazon importa alguns filmes lá de fora e nesse temos dublagem e legenda em Português. Continuem trazendo esses filmes!

Reviewer: はんべい
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 25年近く前に初めて見てから、定期的に見たくなる作品です。ひとつひとつの場面が印象的だし、何より曲が全部とびきり素晴らしいです。ストーリーも見るたびにいろいろ考えさせられます。まだ見ていない人に是非お薦めしたいです。

Reviewer: Fraggle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Whether you follow any specific religion/faith or not, I find it difficult to see how anyone could say that this isn’t an amazing story. Take away the religious content, you’re still left with a very passionate story about oppression, discovering who you truly are, giving a voice to those who would otherwise remain silent and finding the strength to face a difficult situation and do what is right. The general story is one that has popped up in various places, but DreamWorks just made a production of the traditional story found in the Bible.Speaking as someone who lives on a wish rather than a prayer and stacks her copy of the Bible and the Tanakh on the same shelf as Grimm, Anderson, Kipling and Aesop, I didn’t find The Prince of Egypt at all bias or preachy. There obviously had to be references to faith and God, but there was nothing that suggested all audience members should believe in a specific entity or that anyone followed the ‘wrong’ faith. Instead of presenting religious conflict, it was moral conflict – i.e. leading slaves to freedom.It is rated ‘U’ but, in my opinion, it really stretches the limits. The plague scene in particular is quite graphic and the beginning scene where you see how badly the slaves are being treated and the killing of the babies is really quite heart-wrenching – something the written texts never quite capture.While a fair amount of artistic licence has been taken, the actual events from Moses being cast adrift in the river to his leading the Hebrews to their own land are accurate enough to tell the story. The characters were all brought beautifully to life with qualities and flaws, emotions and feelings and, being able to relate with them was quite surprising, but very well done. While in the text, there is no close brotherly relationship between Moses and Ramesses (I don’t think Ramesses is even the Pharaoh mentioned in the texts – I could be wrong) it brought a new level of emotional turmoil to the story. The fact that they had a connection made the plagues and the last few scenes all the more devastating. Unless you are a very very devout follower (which is fine – I understand that) I wouldn’t think the use of artistic licence would be enough to cause offence.As far as animation goes, I was a bit dubious. Having previously watched Sinbad (which I gave up on) and El Dorado, which I enjoyed but is rather badly animated in some ways, I was very surprised by the quality presented in this. The details of the scenery and, even the ‘extra’ characters is almost breath-taking. From the colours and tones used in the images to the attention paid to the slightest breeze (the first river-scene with Jochebed for example) and the way Moses keeps shrugging his too-big robe onto his shoulder is fairly astounding. I’m not sure it would kick Disney off the scale, but it definitely sets a strong precedent for DreamWorks.My favourite sequence is ‘Through Heaven’s Eyes’ where we see the time Moses spends in Midian and truly begins to embrace who he is and finds contentment as a shepherd and a husband to Tsippora. The entire sequence is probably five minutes long – there are no long-drawn out romance scenes or big life-lessons thrown at you, but the sentiments are there.The soundtrack is what, for me, throws this entire production onto a completely different level. Not only do the songs move things along quickly, but clearly (as mentioned about in ‘Through Heavens Eyes’) but the musical pieces range from sinister to soft to cheerful and rousing. The music that supported the plagues sequence was almost frightening while the River Lullaby was the heart-breaking lines amongst a very angry and desperate musical piece (Deliver Us)At the minute, this has been placed near the top of my list of favourite animated films purely for every element that creates it – from the story and the characters, to the music and scenery. In my opinion, there is no really weak element – even the priests who were maybe there for comic relief weren’t out of place. A definite recommendation.