_The Little Prince_ was laughably abhorrent. They completely ruined all the delicate parts of the story, removed important characters and replaced them with a bunch of 'comic' characters who were all the same, and used a translation that was, in places, even worse than the official one, which I hadn't previously believed possible. Prior to the movie, I was pleading, "Oh please, let Gene Wilder be the pilot and not the Little Prince himself..."; he was the *fox*. The snake (appparently some kind of poisonous boa constrictor) was played by a bearded gentleman in a black suit, shades, and spats. Even the rose had an actress superimposed on it. Memorable moments from the score included the pilot's lament, _I'm On Your Side_ (during which he apparently traverses the entirety of Tunisia before conveniently arriving back at his ruined aeroplane), and the jubilant _I Need Air!_, which stretched about a paragraph of the actual book out to ten pointless minutes of aerobatics and ruffling hair. Maltin gave it two and a half stars, which I thought was pretty darn generous; I was almost in tears by the end, and not the good, happy kind. This is a book to learn French for; the movie, however, is not even worth watching in that "so bad I have to see it" kind of way. One out of ten, and only because of the coat.