The Prince of Egypt 1998

Susan Stark, Detroit News: The Prince of Egypt goes beyond fanciful and magical. It is the first spiritual animated film ever, as deep and resonant as it is soaringly inventive! Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Egypt comes stunningly alive, but the prince remains fuzzy. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: A well-made work with much to recommend it! Read more

Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader: The blend of animation techniques somehow demonstrates mastery modestly, while the special effects are nothing short of magnificent. Read more

David Edelstein, Slate: This is sensational cinema: crowds swarming among pyramids in eye-popping 3-D, camerawork that's distinctly Spielbergian in its fluidity. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: The 400-member-strong Prince of Egypt team (led by directors Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells and ramrodded by executive producer Jeffrey Katzenberg) have created a succession of visual wonders. Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: The handsomely animated Prince of Egypt is an amalgam of Hollywood biblical epic, Broadway supermusical and nice Sunday school lesson. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: There's a nagging disharmony between the grandeur of the tale and the lazily anachronistic dialogue, which spoon-feeds the audience. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Takes itself too seriously. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This movie is worth a trip to the local multiplex by viewers of all ages, races, and religious persuasions. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: If de Mille had seen this film, he would have gone back to the drawing board! Read more

Charles Taylor, Salon.com: The Prince of Egypt is middlebrow kitsch, but kitsch straining for respectability and therefore without the energy that can make kitsch entertaining. Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: An inspiring translation of biblical grandeur, turning the story of one of history's greatest heroes into an entertaining, visually dazzling cartoon. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: As epic, emotionally satisfying spectacle, it's way up there with the very best in mainstream animation. Read more

Glenn Lovell, Variety: Sometimes out-DeMilles DeMille's 1956 live-action epic, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS! Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Rather than Jerry Falwell, I'd have had the production vetted by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The movie's proudest accomplishment is that it revises our version of Moses toward something more immediate and believable, more humanly knowable. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: The drawn and computer-animated imagery is top notch and seamlessly integrated, but the central characters' tawny complexions and the often chiaroscuro lighting sometimes obscure all but the whites of their eyes and their pearl-perfect teeth. Read more