Princes et Princesses

As the Egyptian Queen eats her winter-ripe figs in Story Two (Le Garcon des Figues) she declares, in succession: "Exquisite! Delicious! Succulent!" These accolades should be taken out of context and applied directly to this film.

This is a MASTERPIECE! A man and woman use a fantastic machine to stitch them into the costumes of various ancient and future royalty. In each tale, love is hard-fought and dearly won. Brimming with joy, beauty, wisdom - every one of the six short stories is as good as the last. Created in a style of silhouette animation, it captures the essence of intricate shadow puppetry, lending a magic to the film that invites the viewer's imagination to join right in with the characters.

COLOR! SOUND! MOVEMENT! WOW!

If you have any love of animation, or of film, seek this one out. Don't miss it!

All the stories are funny!

I missed the first story but the rest are good.

They should have left out the drama thing and let them be proper separate stories. I didn't like the fact that all those are just staged. It should have been just the stories rather than people in costumes.

The animation was quite rough in my opinion.

The best bit has to be when the dragon from the sorceress's castle shoots canons back to them from its butt. Giggle-a-mania.

It's definitely worth a watch.

Interesting to see that these tales have the same format as Tales of the Night, and that they go back to a 1989 French tv show. And I thought the costume machine was supposed to be 3D printing!

Sebastian's Favorite: The Sorceress (he thought it was funny and liked the robot dragon that pooped missiles back at the attackers) Sienna's Favorite: The Fig (she liked the Ancient Egyptian theme and that the bad attendant got himself killed instead of the young man) Paul's Favorite: The Sorceress (She's not bad after all, in fact she's a brilliant inventor!)

What a fabulous idea! I would sit through hundreds of these stories to avoid sitting through another bad kid movie. This film was pleasing for everyone, kids and adults. The stories connect with each other, have cute morals, and cool animation. Although everything is silhouette, like shadow puppets, the creatures soon form faces in your mind. You get used to it. Everyone should have a chance to see this movie, catch it if you can. My favorite story was the last one, about what happens when a prince and a princess keep kissing. The one with the fig for Egyptian Goddess was good too.

This unusual animated movie is a children's movie for adults. Six short, beautifully animated, stories. Traditional fairy tales with princes, princesses, monsters and witches. Each story different, but in the same spirit. The animation technique is like nothing you've ever seen before. It's a gem of a movie, and I recommend it to anyone tired of standard Hollywood movies.