This is the story of a little girl and her helicopter mom who wants to prepare the girl for the prestigious Werth University and a successful career. And so they move to a modern part of town with identical, boxy houses populated by serious adults. Except for the one odd house next to theirs. Told to study all summer to prepare for the upcoming school year, the little girl meets her neighbor, an old pilot who tells her the fabulous story of the Little Prince and what he discovered on his journeys…

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Of all the hard-to-adapt books, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry holds a special place, because despite being known all over the world, it has never really had any real success outside France – besides being made into a musical comedy in 1974 by Stanley Donen, the director of Singing in the Rain . This may change with this big budget production by Mark Osborne, the American director of Kung Fu Panda, who has collected an impressive cast - André Dussollier, Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel for the French version, Jeff Bridges, Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard again for the English one. But this Hollywood adaptation is unconvincing. The decision to place the book within a more simple story centered around a modern girl offers a very simplistic argument for not conforming to the rules, with beautiful dreams of childhood in opposition to the sad ambitions of adults, without going into any depth. The voyages of the Little Prince, read by the little girl, are both the strength and weakness of the film: despite their appeal, they work against the story and the movie’s rhythm. The last part tries to reconcile the two narratives and worlds without real success. The Little Prince has a disagreeable aftertaste of boredom and missed opportunity.