{"id":12235,"date":"2015-12-14T18:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/responsive.jozikids.co.za\/zaparents\/?p=12235"},"modified":"2022-01-06T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T10:11:37","slug":"the-little-prince-is-a-delightful-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/lifestyle\/movie-reviews\/the-little-prince-is-a-delightful-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Little Prince is a delightful movie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Post-body\">\n<div class=\"Post-inner article\">\n<div class=\"PostContent\">\n<p>Directed by Marc Osborne The Little prince is an animated fairy tale based on Antoine de Saint-Exp\u00e9ry\u2019s famous novel.<\/p>\n<p>The adaptation introduces the viewer to a brilliant young girl, whose\u00a0 pushy mother wants to enrol her in the Werth Academy, a prestigious school for gifted children. She buys a house near the Academy and sets up an\u00a0 impossible study schedule for her daughter to work though during the summer vac, to ensure that the child passes the entrance exam.<\/p>\n<p>The little girl hears strange noises coming from the house next door and goes to investigate. There she meets an elderly, long retired aviator who tells her the story of how he met the little prince in the desert after crashing his plane. He recounts the tale of how the boy had traveled from a far away asteroid,\u00a0 and the little girl is engrossed. The two become firm friends and her mother is horrified when she discovers that her daughter has been distracted from her studies. However, she continues to visit the Aviator in secret to hear the continuing tale of the Little Prince.<\/p>\n<p>The animation is sensational, bringing the adventures to life in vivid 3D colour. And,\u00a0 there are valuable life lessons to be learned.<\/p>\n<p>The little ones will enjoy the movie at face value but older kids and adults will understand the message this classic tale\u00a0 conveys.<\/p>\n<p>The impressive voice over cast includes Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams, Ricky Gervais and Marion Cotillard.<\/p>\n<p>The movie releases on 11 December, just in time for the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<p><i><em>Note: If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the uniquely detailed free weekly newsletter for parents in Gauteng \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/member-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jozikids<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0or KwaZulu-Natal \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kznkids.co.za\/member_registration.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kznkids<\/a>.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adaptation introduces the viewer to a brilliant young girl, whose  pushy mother wants to enrol her in the Werth Academy, a prestigious school for gifted children. She buys a house near the Academy and sets up an  impossible study schedule for her daughter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":352314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}