I saw a preview of this the other night... the "Parting of the Red Sea" scene looks EXACTLY like the one from DeMille's movie. With all the CG technology available today I wonder why they didn't render it using computers?
My son was riveted to the DVD of DeMille's version about a year ago. He tried to say the special effects were lame. He kept saying "animated". But, he couldn't tear himself from the 3 hour show.
Now, you say this new version's special effects are no better. I'm glad he saw the original first.
I heard a blip saying that the 2006 version parting the Red Sea cost hundreds and thousand of dollars over the original movie production.