The Prince of Egypt Review

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Not for long! They were the sons of a king. One

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are not a prince of Egypt. What did you say?

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longer. Moses! No! All I've ever known to be

true is a lie. Let go of your contempt for life

before it destroys everything you hold dear.

I will not be the weak link. Soldiers! They're

coming! There shall be a great cry in all of

Egypt, such as never has been or ever will be

again. Remusese! Let my people go! Discover the

mystery. Experience the majesty. Believe in miracles.

Feel the power of the greatest adventure of all

time. The Prince of Egypt. Hello and welcome

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Mike, and today I am joined by the one and only

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be the one and only, I am the fucking great one.

And everyone will know which one of those is

an accurate prefix. Uh, the one and only, yes.

Today we are going to find out all about the

Prince of Egypt. So what have you been up to,

sir? Good God, that's a loaded question. What

have I been up to? Let's see here, catching up

on a lot of TV programs, finally. Let's see,

recently we had Thanksgiving on my birthday,

both consecutive days, and I was able to, with

the presence and whatnot assistance from my family,

Finally able to get to my my big -screen TV So

I have a 55 inch LED TV in my living room now,

so that is ridiculously awesome Which meant that

I had to Well right before that I had changed

my cable package because I was paying way too

much for cable So I downgraded to like more of

a basic package right and for some reason when

I did that all my channel numbers like that I

had set for DVR recordings the numbers changed

and it said that I was still recording all the

shows but it wasn't because it was on the wrong

channel so I had to go back through and reprogram

it all and then I got the new TV which means

that it's all HD now so I had to get the HD channels

as the ones that are recording so like two or

three times in a week I had to reprogram my DVR

so that all my series would still record so that

was fun let's see doing a lot of catching up

with TV programs I'm trying to get some blogs

done for Geekcast Radio. I'm doing some minor

things here and there for Behind the Voice actors.

Working a thousand hours a week. And yeah. That

Pizza the Hut really works you to the bone. They

do. They do. They do. I'm looking for a new job

and all kinds of fun stuff. Awesome. Awesome.

Watching a lot of He -Man. Yeah, we are getting

further and further along in our journey telling

tales of Eternia over there. Going to lots of

movies? Yep. Getting ready for the end of the

2012 year and all the different review type things.

Oh yeah. And then turning around and getting

ready for some new awards for 2012 for Behind

the Voice actors and whatnot. Cool, cool. Yeah,

me, I've been getting a bunch of podcasts and

stuff done. We're still going on with MWire's

Bond Month. That'll be going on up till Christmas

Day. Christmas Day, everybody's gonna get the

Skyfall review. So that'll be pretty awesome.

Working on Tombcast Beyond's been off for a couple

weeks. I just at the time didn't have the...

the resources to be able to watch the prince

of egypt and i would rather you know wait and

watch it then you know go off you know half cocked

with with an opinion because heaven forbid i

make an opinion that is uninformed everyone to

be half -cocked why don't you uh... take it away

okay well before bringing the history lessons

uh... Want to give a little disclaimer here to

everyone I am I'm spiritual, but I'm not religious

Okay, when I was younger and I was living with

my dad and my stepmom they essentially forced

to me to go to church every Sunday and Before

that when I was living with my mom Sundays were

meant for sleeping in so they were meant for

No Saturday's cartoons dummy get it right You

know, so I never really like, and just for me

personally, on a personal note, church to me,

just being there and just having to sit through

it is just very boring to me. I do have my own

personal relationship with God and all that stuff,

but you know, movies like this or, you know,

stuff like, the closest thing that I've ever

gotten to watching religious programming was

a couple of McGee and Me episodes. I love McGee

and Me. We should do a DeLorean time on McGee

and Me, even though it's not technically full

-on animation. Yeah, the only cartoons I ever

remember being somewhat religiously loosely based,

or maybe some not so loosely based, was the McGee

and Me and then the whole Flying House and the

Superbook, which were kind of like early anime

exposures. But there have been a few movies here

and there that have tried to delve into the subject

matter. Right, exactly, and my whole point of

this disclaimer is that this was the first time

I had ever seen this movie. The only reason why

I had never seen it up till now is because it

had... it was telling a religious story and I

just... I usually step away from religion altogether

when it comes to media. I would rather watch,

you know, anything else. So why don't you take

it away with the history lesson, history man?

Alright, The Prince of Egypt was a 1998 good

lord that seems like just yesterday but that

was a long time ago now. Long -ass time ago.

Almost 15 years ago. 1998 American animated musical

drama film and the first traditionally animated

film produced and released by DreamWorks Animation.

The film was an adaptation of the book of Exodus

and follows the life of Moses from being a prince

of Egypt to his ultimate destiny to lead the

children of Israel out of Egypt. The film was

directed by Brennan Chapman, Simon Wells, and

Steve Higner, featured songs written by Stephen

Schwartz and score composed by Hans Zimmer. And

we will get into the voice cast later, but it

did feature a number of Hollywood actors, speaking

roles, and some professional singers that did

stuff for songs, and some of the actors that

did their own songs. So yeah, that's what the

movie was about. And we'll get into the grossing

and how much it made and some of the awards a

little bit later. When did you first see this?

I mean, I already pretty much said that I had

only seen this about two weeks ago, but when

was the first time you had seen this? I did not

see it in the theater. This was kind of after

the stage. There was a, I don't know, I've kind

of mentioned this on other shows, but after what

I kind of like to call the resurgence of the

Disney animated film with Beauty and the Beast

Little Mermaid Aladdin and Lion King After those

four I really kind of stepped away from animated

movies I don't know if it was just because I

was getting to you know The 15 16 years old by

that point in the high school and I just got

interested in other things I don't know. I know

party of five took over my life there for a while

So, I don't know what it was which take over

your life. I wish I could have been in that life.

Yeah So some some plethora of reasons steered

me away from animated movies, which would have

been the time period that this, you know, like

Hercules, Pocahontas, all those things came out.

So I kind of missed all those. I didn't go see

any of them in the theater. Actually, I would

guess that Lion King was the last animated movie

I saw in the theater until probably. Gosh, close

to like just recent within the last five years

with like. Despicable me and and a couple others

that I finally saw in the theater So there was

a good probably ten years that I didn't see any

animated movies in the theater somewhere along

the line I don't know if it was on TV if it was

a DVD that somebody got I don't know if it was

at a family gathering or where but I do remember

seeing it somewhere My memory is not real clear

on where or who I was with I do remember being

somewhat impressed. The animation is the style

of animation that I prefer. I like it. You know,

it's not that cheap, crappy animation that we

see in a lot of cartoons of that same time period.

It's more so animation that reminds you of the

Disney stuff. Obviously, DreamWorks, Disney Connection,

etc. So I remember visually thinking it was cool.

You know, the story is the story that I already

knew. So I mean, it wasn't like it was going

to surprise me or anything. But I did like seeing

kind of their interpretation of it and the different

voices that it's one of those things like it's

not just like with Bible stories. It could be

anything like maybe books that that a lot of

schools make you read like novels or whatever.

I'm just trying to think of stuff like right

off the top. Like I remember we had to read The

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in school. um

you know we probably had to read like i don't

know old yeller just like the standard novels

that you read you're familiar with the story

but to me it's a cool thing when you get to see

and put like visuals and voices and characters

to the stuff that you've previously just read

with words on a page um so i kind of always like

to see that interpretation and hear the voices

and see how they how they do it and what they

look like and everything so i remember thinking

it was cool um it wasn't something that i like

Had to run out and buy it wasn't something that

I was like engrossed over it was just something

I kind of watched and thought it was cool and

I didn't really realize any of the significance

about it or any like the Some of the trivia that

we'll get to a little bit later But you know

it kind of reminded me of those old dudes those

Disney films, so I kind of liked it When I watched

it back, like I said, I was watching it for the

very first time. I'd never seen it before. And

I went in with an open mind. I kind of knew the

story of Moses. I grew up, my mom was Roman Catholic,

so I knew most of the main Bible stories that

everybody knows, that everybody is grown up and

taught and all that stuff. And I was like, how

are they going to... make a film out of this

story. I was like, how am I going to make a film

out of this story? But it was damn good. The

animation was great. You know, it was very, very

fluid animation. I really, really liked that

about it. The voice cast is superb. I almost

didn't recognize one voice actress. But overall,

I really, really enjoyed it. I thought it was

a really, really good film. Well, you mentioned

the voice cast, which kind of goes right into

the characters and the who's who, so to speak.

Very interesting collection of people here. Yes.

The reason I say that is because you have not

just Hollywood actors here, but you have Hollywood

actors that were known at that time. Remember,

this is 1998 that were known for a lot of different

genres and different things. I mean, on one hand,

you have Steve Martin and Martin Short. hold

on hold on you have oh my god you've got um the

father of the bride in fronk yeah but i mean

seriously you got some people known for comedy

as steve martin and martin short and then you

go to all the way to the other extreme and you

have people like helen mirren and ralph uh ralph

fines who are, you know, as serious and dramatic

actors as you can get. Then you have Patrick

Stewart, who at the time was, you know, a Star

Trek sci -fi type person. Michelle Pfeiffer,

who's just kind of like, you know, a very popular

actress at the time. You know, not to mention

some awesome, Jeff Goldblum, Val Kilmer, Danny

Clever. I mean, and Sandra Bullock. I mean, it's

just a weird collection of people, but it worked.

Yeah, it was. I found it really weird that Val

voiced both Moses and God, because it was almost

like he was having a conversation with himself.

Well, and there's something behind that. Originally,

they were... Let me find it, because I wrote

this down as a note, because I didn't want to

say this the wrong way. The voice of God, to

avoid controversy in the beginning, was played

by all of the actors. And the actors were all

told to kind of whisper their lines so that no

one would be able to tell who is who. So it was

supposed to be kind of this group voice thing.

But they kind of, just as that happened, started

liking the way Val Kilmer was doing it. So and

they realized that someone needed to be louder

instead of having everybody whisper. There's

some scenes that I guess you're supposed to still

be able to hear the whole cast kind of underneath

Kilmer's lines. But yeah, it was just kind of

a situation where they eventually liked the way

he was doing it. But yeah, you're right. When

Moses and God are talking, it's about Kilmer

talking to himself. Yeah, that just kind of threw

me off a bit. And well, at one point, it was

supposed to be that origin. Like even before

that, they were going to have like A woman and

a child's voice would be used as well. But they

thought I might offend some people, so. Craziness.

But I do like the fact, just kind of looking

overall, I like any time Patrick Stewart does

a voice, but I thought it was perfect that he

was the Pharaoh. I thought it just fit very well

with that. And I really liked Ralph Fiennes as

Ramsey's. so I thought those two were two that

I kind of was drawn to and I I Thought Vel Kilmer

did a good job of not necessarily making it obvious

that it was Vel Kilmer Yeah, I mean you can still

kind of tell if you know but like Right. He's

had some roles where you'd be like, oh, that's

Vel Kilmer right away and he kind of downplayed

it a little bit for this Well, yeah, he downplayed

it a bit for this. But again the Moses character

is nothing like Iceman or, you know, he, he,

he's holiday. Yeah. Tombstone. Yeah. Tombstone.

Yeah. Um, you know, the Moses character I would

say is more in line with what he played, I believe

that same year. It was either that same year

or a year after. And, uh, I think, yeah, I think

it was a year later in 1999, he played, um, uh,

was it Vincent in At First Sight with, uh, Mira

Savino. So, you know, I, I consider those two,

you know, as far as his vocals, I consider those

two to be more similar than, you know, comparing

Moses to say, like, you know, like you said,

Iceman or Doc Holliday or something like that.

Overall, I love the voice cast. At first, I didn't

even recognize Michelle Pfeiffer's voice. I did

not recognize it really. And Sandra Bullock,

that's, you know, that's a no brainer. I mean.

You know, you know as soon as you hear her, you

know, you can't unhear. Yeah, but you're right

Patrick Stewart as as the Pharaoh That was great

Helen Mirren as his wife. That was also great

again Steve Martin and Martin Short as the two

goofballs that It's still so weird to me and

apparently While professional singers replaced

a lot of them Michelle Pfeiffer Rell finds Steve

Martin and Martin Short sang their own parts

I think Bullock did too. I think that was her

singing voice that I heard. Could have sworn

it was her. So some of them were replaced and

some of them were not. Right, yeah. But overall

I love the voice cast and this is very very awesome.

For being completely filled with like celebrity

Hollywood voice actors, it wasn't like just people

for the sake of having names. I know there's

a lot of famous names there, but they're also

people that are good actors. No, I mean, it's

not like we're just gonna throw You know, we're

just gonna throw a Chris rocket. Yeah We're just

gonna throw Vin Diesel in there because everybody

knows who Vin Diesel is Or someone like that.

These are people that can actually still do the

part So for usually when you have a whole Hollywood

cast like this It's not as good as far as the

quality of voice acting But this is an exception

where it's a Hollywood cast that still pulled

it off perfectly Yeah, exactly do we want to

give a brief synopsis of the plot for those who

have not seen this well i mean it is the moses

story i know some people might not know what

happened there but basically you know in order

to save his life because all the newborn sons

were supposed to be killed um they Moses's mom

tries to save him by putting him in a basket

set in a float in the Nile River And he ends

up with the Egyptian queen at the time who takes

him under her wing. They raise him as their own,

you know He is rising up through the ranks of

the Egyptians Eventually basically kills I mean

depends if we want to go to the movie version

or the Bible version But some stuff happens.

Yeah. Where someone dies and he basically runs

away, reunites with his family and, you know,

comes into contact with God and he is chosen

to go back into Egypt to free his people. And

he has to deal with, you know, trying to get

the Pharaoh to release his people and the Pharaoh

refusing and all the different plagues and eventually

the, you know, the journey out and the parting

of the Red Sea, et cetera, et cetera, as he and

his people make it out of Egypt and towards the

promised land. So I mean, that's the basic synopsis

to avoid. getting into detail. Right, without

having it long drawn out. The only issues plot

wise, as far as inconsistencies with the actual

account, just to list those so we can touch on

those, there's some short differences between

the movie and the actual book of Exodus. Moses

was adopted by Pharaoh's daughter, not his wife.

Okay, um Moses murdered the Egyptian slave master

Did not kill him by accident Obviously, they

couldn't do that in The end the dream works movie,

but he in the Bible murders the Egyptian slave

master Aaron supported Moses from the beginning

He'd never doubted Moses and it was Aaron who

turned his staff into a snake and turned the

water of the Nile to blood not Moses So there

was just a couple little things that they changed

for the movie, not that they were major issues.

You know, I guess the biggest one might be adopted

by Pharaoh's daughter, not his wife, or the fact

that he killed the slave master instead of accidentally,

you know, that it was premeditated type thing.

But yeah, other than that, the plot's pretty

true to the Book of Exodus. And I think it was

a fairly well for, you know, as far as this would

be in for kids. I thought it was a pretty good

job of telling the story and making it, you know,

somewhat fast -paced and entertaining. I don't

think it dragged or, you know, you viewed it

easier than you would have read it. Oh, yeah,

most definitely. Most definitely. And so I don't

know, I have no problem really with the actual

way that they did it. I don't either. I thought

it was great. I mean, you know, I kind of I realized

that in hindsight but at first when I was first

watching them like whoo So that's the Red Sea,

but of course, it's actually the Nile You know

because you know, you think when you hear the

name the Red Sea you think that it's supposed

to be red Of course that's that that might be

a Jim Carrey tomato soup joke that I'm remembering

But yeah, I mean that's the basic as far as if

we're just talking about the plot in the story

You know, I thought it was good well animated

well voiced the story flowed well there wasn't

anything I would really consider too ugly about

anything, you know Yeah, I mean it was an overall

it was a good story it was a nice adaptation

of the book of Exodus version and Like you said

they had to change Some stuff because you know,

I can't have You know Moses murdering somebody

in a DreamWorks movie. I don't think a DreamWorks

movie has ever gotten above PG You know, so there's

that Where do we want to start with the behind

the scenes? Well, there's some interesting stuff

here starting with the fact that Why it's a DreamWorks

picture first of all Obviously, it's coming from

Jeffrey Katzenberg, who we all know as a former

Disney chairman. He wanted to do an animated

adaptation of the Ten Commandments. And while

working at Disney, he suggested it multiple times

to Michael Eisner, and Eisner refused. I even

read at one point that he... I thought I had

a number, but he basically constantly was pitching

this idea, and Michael Eisner didn't want to

have anything to do with it. So the idea for

the film was brought back at the formation of

DreamWorks when Katzenberg's partner Amblin Entertainment

founder Steven Spielberg and music producer David

Geffen were meeting in Spielberg's living room

and Katzenberg apparently recalled that Spielberg

looked at him during the meeting and said you

ought to do the Ten Commandments which basically

reignited his old desire to make an animated

adaptation of that. So that was where it started

and that's why it was kind of a DreamWorks thing.

A couple of things that they did to try to ensure

accuracy and whatnot. They brought in I want

to say like hundreds of religious experts to

try to make sure they weren't offending people

to try to make sure they made it as accurate

as possible according to the book. So they did

their homework as far as trying to get accuracy

down right so what I love about this as far as

behind the scenes stuff there's a section in

here there are 1 ,192 scenes in the film and

1 ,180 of them have special effects These special

effects were elements such as wind blowing or

environmental features such as dust or rainwater

There were also effects designed in terms of

lighting and cast shadows and images to a given

scene In the end these effects helped the animators

graphically illustrate the scenes such as the

ten plagues and the parting of the Red Sea That's

11 almost 1200 scenes in a film. Holy crap. That's

a lot of scenes There were approximately 934

hand -painted backgrounds that were created.

Right. Wow. Takes a lot to make an animated movie.

Yeah. At least one of this magnitude. No, I agree.

And, you know, we talked about The Voice of God

and then that was kind of a little bit of behind

the scenes as far as how they came to that. So

we won't talk about that again. You know, the

music. Was important to this like I you know,

I'm not gonna put it on par with like Disney

music or whatnot, but They did go Make a very

strong effort to have some strong musical undertones

background soundtrack songs, etc. I Will say

that's the one if I didn't like one scene out

of the entire film the one where Martin and short

Steve Martin and Martin Shorter singing when

Moses shows up with the staff. That was the one

musical number out of the entire movie that I

could have done without. There were some big

names that they brought in to do some of the

tracks besides the ones that were done by the

actors or other people. We had Casey and Jojo,

Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Babyface,

and Amy Grant. So they got some big star power

to do some of these songs. I think the biggest

probably would be When You Believe. Yeah, oh

yeah. That was the biggest song that I can remember

from there. Yeah, most definitely. But you know

there's definitely some good music you know like

I said it's not for me as memorable as some of

the Disney stuff that came right before that

but it still held its own with as far as songs

and soundtrack goes. Right some one more kind

of some of the behind -the -scenes thing That

I wanted to mention before we got too much further

this at the time was the most expensive Animated

feature ever made That doesn't surprise me yeah,

so maybe having to do with some of that stuff

that you were just talking about as far as the

The scenes and the effects and stuff like that.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, it does not surprise me that

this movie was very very very expensive because

it it's It looks so like the final product looks

so so polished like what I know a lot of people

like seeing feature It's of you know, like animatics

and you know stuff like that and how the final

product is made I prefer to just see a final

product because The animatics to me as well as

they are and you know in the drawings as well

as well as they are done I just, I can't get

into that kind of stuff. It only held that title

of being the most expensive animated feature

ever made for about three years though. It was

beaten out by, this is kind of shocking to me,

Final Fantasy The Spirits Within. Really? It's

a more expensive animated feature apparently.

Wow. Well features today are, you know, compared

to 15 years ago, you know, Toy Story 3, Wreck

-It Ralph, I'm sure, was really expensive to

make. How about the fact that since Val Kilmer

played both Moses and God, he basically did the

same thing Charlton Heston did in the Ten Commandments.

Yeah, that's true. That's true, and that's kind

of awesome. Be anti -religious here or anything,

but I'm just saying here with this whole conversation

between Moses and God Would you think it's you

know in in today's society that might be oh?

He's a crazy person. He's talking to him so you

know what I mean because the same voice We want

to get into the box office sure basically on

its opening weekend the film gross 14 million

Earning second place at the box office behind

You've Got Mail, which was obviously very popular

in 1998. Due to the holiday season, the film

gained 4 % in its second weekend, earning $15

million and finishing in fourth place. It would

hold well in the third weekend with only a 25

% drop, blah, blah, blah. Basically closed with

$101 million in the domestic US box office. It

was a box office success. I mean, it covered

the $70 million production budget easily. Yeah,

oh most it essentially quadrupled it with with

with the worldwide total I mean 218 million right,

you know, that's that's pretty amazing So it

was a pretty successful film there Yes, yes it

was so we are the IGN replacement crew for those

of you who don't know about this One is don't

watch this even if it's free two is worth a watch

if it's free on TV Three is worth adding to the

Netflix list and four is this one's a must add

to your DVD collection For me, I rented it on

iTunes. It's not a movie that I would go back

and watch Maybe more than once every couple of

years But it is that it is good enough for me

to go ahead and give it a four because I mean

You know especially if you're a DreamWorks film

collector if you're gonna You know go out there

and get your either your favorite DreamWorks

movies Or if you're gonna be a completionist

and get them all I give this a four if I was

just to go strictly Like on a if you're just

a casual fan I can see this just being like a

three or so something you should watch or whatnot

if you're an animation buffer if you're you know

a big -time fan of animated movies in general,

this has some significance. Being as expensive

as it was to make at the time, being the impact

it had via DreamWorks, being probably one of

the most successful religious animated movies

of all time, it had a lot of significance there.

So for that... Reason I would say that it's worth

adding to your collection if you are an animated

movie buff Otherwise I could see it being a three

where it's just you know something that you should

watch maybe once every So often it's worth a

watch. It's good enough. It's not something that's

gonna that most people would dislike. I don't

think Yeah, yeah Getting into the legacy segment

with the DVD releases, it is on DVD. I don't

know if it's got a Blu -ray release or not. I'm

not looking at any information, but obviously

it's on DVD. Like I said, I rented it myself

on iTunes. You can either rent or purchase it

there in standard or high definition. As far

as some reviews, Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun

Times praised the film in his review, saying,

Lonely Desert Vistas and Thrilla the chariot

race So yay, Ebert liked it. Yeah Rotten Tomatoes

gave it a 79 % Which is pretty good Metacritic

gave it a 64 which is okay But it usually gets

fairly decent reviews You know, I haven't seen

a lot of negative reviews on this one and it

did win some awards It was nominated for a bunch,

but it won one Best Original Song from When You

Believe. Yeah, it was nominated for Best Animated

Feature for an Academy Award, Best Original Score,

directing, storyboarding, some stuff like that.

Golden Globe got nominated for Best Original

Score and Best Original Song. Like I said, the

music was not bad. That's probably what it got

its most acclaim for was music and then a little

bit for the effects, which seems like it was...

deserved since i had so much effect you know

visual effects and stuff like that but i should

say that all of the reviews positive we're talking

domestic yes domestic reviews because apparently

in two countries the prince of egypt was banned

yes where the population is predominantly muslim

uh the maldives and Malaysia, because depiction

in the media of Islamic prophets, among which

Moses is counted, is forbidden in Islam. The

Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in the Maldives

stated all prophets and messengers of God are

revered in Islam and therefore cannot be portrayed.

Following this ruling, the censor board banned

the film in January 1999. In the same month,

the film's censorship board in Malaysia banned

the film but did not provide a specific explanation.

The board's secretary said that the censored

body ruled and the film was insensitive for religious

and moral reasons. November 2000 DreamWorks animation

released Joseph King of Dreams a direct -to -video

prequel based on the story of Joseph from the

book of Genesis. Yes, sir I don't I'm trying

to remember if I've seen that one or not. I know

I haven't Hold on a second Joseph King of Dreams.

Oh, I have seen that actually And there's also

some interesting voice actors in that including

Mark Hamill Ben Affleck Jody Benson who did Ariel

and Little Mermaid, Jess Harnell, Dan Caslaneta,

Jeff Bennett. So there's some good voice work

in that one as well. It's kind of, it's very

similar as far as the look of it, the animation.

I don't know if it has as strong of music as

background and songs as this one did, but it's

a good sequel to this. Um, so if you watch this

one and you like it, pretty cool. If you watch

this one and like, like, uh, the Prince of Egypt,

then it's worth checking out the other one. Joseph

dreams. So we're going to take a quick break

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Final thoughts on the Prince of Egypt, sir? You

know, it's not something that I remembered significantly

from my teenage years, but like I said, I think

it has a lot of significance as far as its place

in animated movie history, especially for DreamWorks.

Yeah. So, you know, I think it's worth a watch.

I think it's a good movie. I think it was well

done, well acted. The music was good enough to,

you know, not good enough to win some awards

and the visuals were stunning. I like this type

of animation. I thought it was very well done

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a watch. Awesome. Yeah, I agree. Everybody should

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the animation was superb. The voice cast was

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