History WesternAnimation / TheLittlePrince2015

* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: Mr. Prince says this after he traps the Academy Teacher into the machine, having distracted him so The Fox toy can help free The Little Girl so that they could distract the teacher before Mr. Prince could trap the Academy Teacher in the machine.]]

''The Little Prince'' (''Le Petit Prince'') is a 2015 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of the [[Literature/TheLittlePrince children's book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery]] directed by Mark Osborne (''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'').

* KarmaHoudini: The Businessman receives no punishment for his actions; the last we see him, he looks up and the freed stars and laments that it'll be very bad for business.

* AnAesop: The Aviator states the story's moral outright: "Growing up is not the problem, forgetting is."

* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: Mr. Prince says this after he traps the Academy Teacher into the machine, having distracted him so The Fox toy can help free The Little Girl so that they could distract the teacher so Prince could do the job in trapping the teacher in the machine.]]

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Mr. Prince says this after he traps the Academy Teacher into the machine, having distracted him so The Fox toy can help free The Little Girl so that they could distract the teacher so Prince could do the job in trapping the teacher in the machine.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Aviator says this after he traps the Academy Teacher into the machine after he distracts him so The Fox toy can help free The Little Girl.

* MamaBear: After the Aviator and the Girl get into a car accident, the Mother is ''furious'' and goes to tell some harsh words with the former for placing the latter in danger.

* HartmanHips: The Mother, quite prominently (accentuated even more by the business suit she is frequently seen wearing).

* GenreShift: [[spoiler:The last act of the film shifts from a coming-of-age story to a fantasy adventure where the Girl tries to save the now adolescent Prince from planet ruled by grown-ups. Justified in that it could quite possibly be a dream.]]

* AdaptedOut: The Drunkard, Lamplighter, and Geographer are all reduced to small cameos as illustrations in the Aviator's story. [[spoiler:The Little Prince and the Girl pass by their planets later, and Mr. Prince even comments on them, but the inhabitants are absent.]]

** It's also very telling that, while the Little Girl is incredibly smart and self-sufficient, she doesn't really understand concepts like [[spoiler:death. When the Aviator tries to soften the blow of telling her he might die soon by telling her he "might leave soon", she thinks he means a trip, and plans to accompany him, and seems very upset when she's told he has to go alone. Such scenes are used to highlight that, for all the ways her mother has tried to mature her, the Little Girl hasn't been taught the essentials of maturity -- one of which is dealing with death.]]

** Late in the movie, [[spoiler:on the Businessman's planet, various "unessential" objects are turned into paper clips, so that they become "essentials". Indeed, they help the Little Girl and Mr. Prince escape twice.]]

* RageAgainstTheMentor: The Aviator tries to explain the meaning behind his story's supposed DownerEnding[[note]]The Little Prince essentially dies so he can return to his planet, though it's up to interpretation if he does[[/note]] to the Little Girl, but she's so distressed that she writes off the whole story as a waste of time.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: The Little Girl stomps on the foot of [[spoiler:the Conceited Man during the climax to escape from him. The Toy Fox also stomps on the foot of one of the Businessman's cronies, but as he is a stuffed toy, [[SubvertedTrope it doesn't do any damage]]]].

''The Little Prince'' (''Le Petit Prince'') is a 2015 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of the [[Literature/TheLittlePrince children's book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery]].

* UpToEleven: The mother's life plan for her daughter, which is micromanaged up to the minute of the day, to the year of her life until she is an adult.

Promos: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIAbFrMIVbo French trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hfnttt1BRA international trailer]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gARHWfXE40 Netflix trailer]].

* NiceHat: The Conceited Man wears a hilariously tall hat which he says is used exclusively for bowing.

The movie premiered in May 2015 at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by a July theatrical release in France. It was planned for a United States release in March 2016, but it was canceled by Creator/{{Paramount}} just a week before its scheduled release date, with distribution given to Creator/{{Netflix}} instead. The film was released on Netflix on August 5th, 2016. Netflix’s license to the film eventually expired in May 2021 and the film has since become available on other services.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: The Little Girl stomps on the foot of the Conceited Man during the climax to escape from him. The Toy Fox also stomps on the foot of one of the Businessman's cronies, but as he is a stuffed toy, [[SubvertedTrope it doesn't do any damage]].

** The skyscraper snowglobes the Little Girl receives from her DisappearedDad. [[spoiler:They look just like the buildings that cover the Businessman's new planet.]]
** The vacuum case full of paper stars. [[spoiler:It's identical to the glass case where the Businessman hoards the stolen stars to power his city.]]
** Late in the movie, [[spoiler:on the Businessman's planet, various "unessential" objects are turned into paper clips, so that they become "essentials". Indeed, they help the Little Girl and Mr. Prince escape twice.]]
** The Aviator hangs a little spring-powered plane to a hook in his living room, and releases the propeller to make the plane spin in circles. [[spoiler:The same scene happens on a larger scale when the Little Girl and the Prince spin in circles in the full-scale plane, suspended to a crane, around the Globe containing the Stars.]]

* AdultFear: Though the way the Mother raises her daughter is obviously shown as wrong, her reaction is perfectly understandable when the 8-year-old child is caught in an old crumbly car driven by an old crumbly man, who lost his driving license four times and is presumably suffering of (among others) some Alzheimer symptoms. The fact that the Little Girl gives all confidence to the old Aviator and even lies to the Police officer probably isn't helping, and the Mother's forbidding her daughter to see the Aviator again isn't only because she wants her to run a successful career: she is concerned about her safety and intends to protect her from unpredictable hazards.

* ArcWords: "Essential." It is seen on the posters before the Werth Academy interview ("When I grow up, I want to be essential"), and [[spoiler:the same idea is vocalized on the Businessman's planet]]. In that context, it is taken to mean fitting the mold of adulthood and placing import on what is considered valuable (but is ultimately superficial). However, [[spoiler:when the Fox tells the Little Prince his secret, he explains that "What is essential is invisible to the eye," turning the others uses of the word on their head to instead say that it is what's intangible that is ultimately most important.]]

* AdultFear: Though the way the Mother raises her daughter is obviously shown as wrong, her reaction is perfectly understandable when the 9-year-old child is caught in an old crumbly car driven by an old crumbly man, who lost his driving license four times and is presumably suffering of (among others) some Alzheimer symptoms. The fact that the Little Girl gives all confidence to the old Aviator and even lies to the Police officer probably isn't helping, and the Mother's forbidding her daughter to see the Aviator again isn't only because she wants her to run a successful career: she is concerned about her safety and intends to protect her from unpredictable hazards.

* ChildProdigy: The Little Girl is very well read and loquacious, and she practices mathematics far beyond what might be typically expected of a child her age, likely the result of her Mother moulding her into a miniature adult.

* EpiphanyTherapy: [[spoiler:It's implied that the whole third act is the Little Girl's dream of how ''The Little Prince'' ends, which helps her come to grips with the Aviator's inevitable death.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A lot. Almost any significant scene or part of the plot is hinted or symbolized earlier.

* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler:Shortly before he gets sent to the hospital, the Aviator noticeably becomes more frail and comes down with a terrible cough.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: An old Aviator strikes up an unlikely friendship with a 9-year-old girl.

* ParentsAsPeople: It's apparent from the beginning of the film that the Mother is not an ideal parent. She's an emotionally abusive ControlFreak who goes so far as to plan every minute of her daughter's life, and pushes the Little Girl's chance for friendship to the next year for the sake of said plan. However, her "all alone" comment during the introduction of the Life Plan implies that she had a tough time in the adult world, and wants to prevent her daughter from suffering the same fate. She genuinely loves and wants what's best for her child, but went about it in the worst way possible.
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: After already being forbidden from meeting the Aviator by her mother, the Girl all but renounces her friendship with the Aviator when his story reaches an apparent DownerEnding, feeling it was a waste of time she could've spent studying. [[spoiler:Then the Aviator falls (possibly deathly) ill and the Girl, feeling awful about it, decides the best way to make it up to him is to find the Little Prince.]]

The movie premiered in May 2015 at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by a July theatrical release in France. It was planned for a United States release in March 2016, but it was canceled by Creator/{{Paramount}} just a week before its scheduled release date, with distribution given to Creator/{{Netflix}} instead. The film was released on Netflix on August 5th, 2016. Netflix’s license to the film is set to expire in May 2021 and the film has become available on other services.

The movie premiered in May 2015 at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by a July theatrical release in France. It was planned for a United States release in March 2016, but it was canceled by Creator/{{Paramount}} just a week before its scheduled release date, with distribution given to Creator/{{Netflix}} instead. The film was released on Netflix on August 5th, 2016.

* {{Adorkable}}: [[spoiler:Mr. Prince (the grown up Little Prince), who is now an awkward and jittery young man compared to the ironically more mature boy he was before.]]