The Prince of Egypt (1998)

My Rating: 80%

This is an excellent adaption of the story of The Lord rescuing the Israelites from Egypt. I still remember very well when this use to be one of my family's favorite films to watch when I was a kid.


Plot:In very ancient times, the Hebrews became the main slave force to the pharaoh of Egypt. And fearing for the possibility of the Hebrews growing in numbers and rebelling against him, Pharaoh ordered all the Hebrew boys to be taken away from their families and thrown into the Nile. One Hebrew woman hides her baby son in a basket and sets it afloat into the Nile and makes its way to Pharaohs house where Queen Tuya finds it an takes the child as her own and names him Moses. years later, Moses grows up with Pharaoh and Tuya's biological son Rameses and eventually learns the truth that he's a Hebrew. One day he kills an Egyptian who was harming another Hebrew and so ran away and hid in Midian. While in exile, he comes a burning bush that does not burn up and from there The Lord calls him to deliver the Hebrews from Egypt.

This was a very well made film. Granted, some people seem to like it just because of how it add Exodus with this story of two brothers with Moses and Rameses. Now that definitely is part of what makes it a pretty good film, but it still at the same time is just telling the story of the Israelites coming out of Egypt. and this is so far the best film that has brought it to life especially with the burning bush and all the wonders The Lord did in Egypt. Putting that together along with the animation they had for it.


Characters:
Moses: I liked his character mainly on how he was being for friendly and being such a great leader. But that doesn't alter the facts that he actually had a speaking problem and that he did have Aaron as his aid. But hey, what would've made his character good with those facts added.
Aaron: To think, he's going to be one of the very first priests of the lord. But he was an entertaining character.
Rameses: This makes things a little messed up as far as bibical or sort of bible related roles Ralph Fiennes has played. I mean you have this film where he's the pharaoh that kept the Israelities from leaving, then you him being Voldemort who is in a way a version of satan, there's there's this film called Miricle Maker where he's actually Jesus. man. anyway, Rameses did just fine in terms of showing how his heart was heartened in those events and yet still having that brotherly love for Moses up to the very end.
Mariam: I liked her being somewhat the mentor of this film. which is where it gets me everytime when I read my bible and it says in...Numbers i believe it is...yeah Numbers were she becomes jealous of Moses and so The Lord temporarily made her leprous. What also gets me is that the voice of Mariam, Sandra Bullock, is the same woman that played the mom in Blind Side.
The Israelities: this is not a when you're watching the movie type of thing so much as for if you read Exodus and the two books after that. It really gets you on the possibility that the people that have been celebrating in the end are probably going to die because of not obeying The Lord. Especially when you think of the Golden Calf where a couple thousand people died after Moses interfered. or all that cattle and other animals that probably are going to be sacrificed to The Lord as a sin offering or fellowship offering or whatever.
The rest of the characters are very good too. and a lot of them are played by stars same as Moses, Ramases and Mariam such as Patrick Stewart, Steve Martin, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jeff Goldbulm, Danny Glover and Martin Short.

Music: if you didn't care for the story or anything, you at least had to really love the music. the score was done by Hans Zimmer and it was beautifully done. I personally love The Burning Bush when it came to the quite melody to it. it's somewhat of a The Lord's song in a way in my point of view from my faith. The musical numbers which were made by Stephen Schwartz were very fun from "Playing with the Big Boys", to "The Plagues", to "When you believe". Oh yeah, this film won best original score and best original song (for "When you Believe" played by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston) so there's another reason for you.

Animation: it was very good. I can't think of very good descriptive ways to put it. but maybe even then, it's probably better that you see it for yourself.


And that is my review for The Prince of Egypt.