I found this to be one of the most moving animated films I've ever seen. I found it unique and excellent for actually portraying Moses as hating his job because he still loved Ramses as a brother. Add to the excellent style a powerful soundtrack and great voices (with some silly moments) and you have all the right ingredients for one of the best films Dreamworks ever made.

The Prince of Egypt is one of those rare biblically based animated films that hit theaters and was actually fairly true to it's source material.

They did a good job of building up the character of moses, and even some of the secondary characters are well thought-out. They got a great cast for this movie, all the actors fit their character well.

The score by Hans Zimmer is great. The songs, for the most part, fit where they were placed. There were a couple that seemed to come out of nowhere though and didn't really fit in.

The animation is very good, although at times you can see where the 2D clashes with the 3D, those are easily overlooked. I really loved the style it was animated in. Some scenes I really liked were the chariot race, the burning bush, and then the parting of the red sea. All had amazing animation.

Overall this is a very good movie. It has a few problems, but overall it is a fairly accurate portrayal of the Moses' story. If you haven't seen it, rent it some time.

This is a borderline religious movie about The Old Testament, and watching it, I got the same sort of feeling I get watching Christian metal bands, or seeing a couple of religious missionaries approaching the front door.

As a matter of fact the two main characters at the start remind me somewhat of said missionaries or Christian rock singers, with their clean cut, clean living, innocent yet appealing straight jawed features (same goes for 'Road to El Dorado' to a lesser extent). I don't know why, but I just find Dreamworks' character design slightly repellent.

You know what really irritated me about this movie, though, and why, to me, it fails at a fundamental level (no pun intended)? I assume that it was supposed to portray the God of the Old Testament in some sort of vaguely positive light, when for my money he comes away as a mass-murdering, egomaniacal psycopath. Got a problem with the Pharoah? Hit him with a lightning bolt? No, just kill everyone's children. Considering the film is presumably aimed at children, what sort of confused message is it actually instilling? I can't imagine many adults I know who actually thought about this movie coming away from it with a soft spot for Yahweh.

Ok, I said it had some virtues. Well, the animation is always at least good. In the chariot race scene it's quite eye-popping, and - here's where I have to grind my teeth and give credit where credit's due (which is to say, to the art designers) - the 'fresco' scene involving the murder of the first-born slaves being 'brought to life' was a genuine artistic achievement. Actually it was brilliant.

Other than that, it's creepy, hateful, facist, religious garbage.

There's good and bad in every movie, and The Prince of Egypt is no exception. Fortunately the good outweigh the bad in this movie. The good? Well first off is wonderfully detailed animation. It never reaches the heights of the best Disney animation, but it's just enough to make the movie a visual feast. Some minor nitpicks most people will notice are the occasional CGI that stick out like sore thumbs, which is often the case with most animated movies that use CGI mixed with traditional animation. However this never takes away from this movie's wonderful sense of spectacle, the second good element. The Prince of Egypt contains some very awe-inspiring scenes. When I was younger and watched this movie in theaters, I remembering having chills sent up my spine during the scene with the Angel of Death. And of course who could forget the parting of the Red Sea? It is one of the most jaw-dropping scenes in the entire movie.

But of course what's a movie without really strong characters? Fortunately, The Prince of Egypt has strong characters in spades. Even some of the secondary characters are well thought out. But the core of this movie is the complicated and well thought out relationship between Moses and the phaoroh. In the end, you get a feeling that the phaoroh is contemptible yet not evil while Moses is not exactly free of guilt.

Now for the bad part. The songs are everywhere. They're not bad. In fact some of them bring tears to my eyes. But they tie up too much of the movie, thus giving this movie weaker narration. The "evil comic reliefs" are just horrible characters that aren't really necessary at all. Thankfully lackluster humor is few and far between and doesn't really interrupt or taint the good parts of this movie.

While The Prince of Egypt is not the masterpiece I remembered it as, it's still an engaging, emotional, and evocative experience with plenty of spectacle and heart. A true animation classic in my opinion.

Someone described the plot of this movie to me as "Titanic only worse--in Titanic, you knew the boat was going to sink at the end, but at least you didn't know all the little quirks along the way. The problem with Prince of Egypt is that you not only know how it's going to end, you know most of the middle part too.

The other problem with the story is it's about miracles--and the fact is as a movie-going audience we've seen too many alien space craft and life-like monsters to have any sense of the miraculous left when Moses sticks his staff into the Nile and it turns red. The fact that this is an animated feature further works against the sense of miraculous since the Nile turning red means essentially another colour in the paint pot. Everytime one of the miracles fails to inspire me, the story loses its impact.

As for animation, there is no doubt that the movie is visually stunning. The backgrounds alone in some scenes are pretty amazing by themselves but the whole movie organizes its shots in such a way that each attempts to create the maximum amount of 'awe-value.' The designers should also be congratulated on their use of light and shadow to create dramatic effect--something I think animators should take advantage of as often as possible. Watch for Moses' dream sequence which contains some interesting experimentation with the Egyptian style of art. Another thing I liked was the way the "average person" was drawn. Too many animated films makes their heros look normal and then have the average joe look like a freakish caricature.

And lastly, too much music. I know there probably isn't anymore music in this movie than most animated features, but it always seemd to me that just as the story was starting to get good, they had to stop the tale to break into song. One might think that they didn't have enough story material to work with, but since the original Ten Commandments movie runs for like four hours, that hardly seems possible. The most memorable song of the bunch I would say is 'When You Believe.' The English lyrics are combined with Hebrew ones about half way through the song. The Hebrews walking and singing as they leave Egypt, made the scene work quite nicely.

An exciting and enjoyable retelling of the story of Moses, as he goes from threatened infant, to spoiled palace brat, to Hebrew leader. This film's strongest feature is the excellent music throughout. The characters are mostly interesting, though sometimes are rather stiff. Moses' brother Some impressive scenes are the parting of the red sea, and a sequence where the hieroglyphics on the wall come to life. There's even a bit of humor, though it tends to get overshadowed by the darker themes of the film.

The soundtrack is definitely worth having as well.