I can't believe I forgot to tell you guys

[Ali]

about the awesome movie I saw this past weekend.

This was while I was at the hotel in SC for that wedding.  Hubby was in the wedding party so he was attending to some groomsmen duties (I don't know, probably involving booze and women jumping out of cakes) so I was hanging out in our room playing Drawsome and channel surfing.  I paused on one of the local channels, and I believe that my thought process was something like this "Aww, puppy cartoon.  Wonder what it is and if T would like it.  Is that...is that....Jesus?!?"

I was both deeply amused and horrified, so I watched as much as I could stomach.  I saw Jesus getting taken away by the Romans, and then the talking dog and his buddies were planning to save him.  All I could think was "Wow, if I remember my bible stories correctly, this movie is going to have a kind of downer ending when the the dogs can't save Jesus from being executed...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoq6qin-VU

I can't believe I forgot to laugh about this with my HAF buddies until now!

[chris]

I really truly wanted to laugh, but I was so appalled that I could not do so.

If only Mighty Mouse had made a guest appearance and slapped some sense into these cartoon cretins.

Family film my ass... treating children like mindless morons by feeding them predigested pabulum instead of respecting them enough to at least tell the story without all the cutsiness crap.

[Hector Valdez]

Christianity is pretty much crappy. But it's a great story/mythology/culture, methinks.

[Unlinked]

"They've taken Jesus! I have to do something!"

Someone, somewhere, wrote that down and thought it was a swell idea.

[Asmodean]

Judging by the trailer, the story is the same generic sort of crap these animated feature-length films are so full of these days...

[Tank]

Propaganda of the worst kind. Makes me feel sick to watch it 

[history_geek]

"I will be with you always"
.... BLASPHEMY! SACRILEGE! Those are the undying words of the great Master Ben...I mean Obi-Wan Kenobi! You servant of the Dark Side, you shall never device me RAAWRARARAAWR...

The amount of facepalms I had to do watching this...wow. And what the heck is the point of having that dog hunter in there (with, as someone pointed out in the comments, his own ARMY OF DOGS! Unless his really a super villain who intends to use them to take over the world..)? I have no idea why they needed that into the story. And am I the only one that though the line "His word eased my pain..I loved him" sounds incredibly corny and...I don't know. Who ever made that bit of dialogue need his head examined, more so then the rest of the people that fartstormed this story up (because I refuse to believe any sort of "brainstorming" was involved with this one...)

But, on the (waaay overoptimistic) bright side: cartoons like this might teach kids that the bible is just another story book...I think it worked with me, anyway And I liked The Small One! And the Moses and Jospeh movies were watchable as well (if a tad bit cleaned up to make them kid friendly...), though I didn't see those as a kid, unlike my two younger brothers...

[Guardian85]

"I will be with you always"
.... BLASPHEMY! SACRILEGE! Those are the undying words of the great Master Ben...I mean Obi-Wan Kenobi! You servant of the Dark Side, you shall never device me RAAWRARARAAWR...

You blaspheme, yourself! Obi-Wan said: "The Force will be with you. Always."!


As for thew movie, an obvious attempt to indoctrinate kids by conceling religious indoctrination behind a cute facade.

[Asmodean]

What about that movie was cute?  ??? Old-style cartoons are nice when they are OLD. The new ones should have a lot more CGI, in my opinion.

[Guardian85]

I said it was an attempt. I didn't say it was successful.

[Ali]

I thought it was cute for .2 seconds until I saw Jesus.  Then I thought it was hilarious.  Like "Oh yeah, they must have lost those books of the Bible where Jesus befriends a talking dog..."

[history_geek]

"I will be with you always"
.... BLASPHEMY! SACRILEGE! Those are the undying words of the great Master Ben...I mean Obi-Wan Kenobi! You servant of the Dark Side, you shall never device me RAAWRARARAAWR...

You blaspheme, yourself! Obi-Wan said: "The Force will be with you. Always."!

....Vader damnit.

Old-style cartoons are nice when they are OLD. The new ones should have a lot more CGI, in my opinion.

I personally prefer cartoons to the CGI ones, as I think there's more then enough of those as is. What they should concentrate instead is to make better stories. I don't really demand them to be good, but at least the should be something that I don't feel the need to close the tv before the show is over....

I thought it was cute for .2 seconds until I saw Jesus.  Then I thought it was hilarious.  Like "Oh yeah, they must have lost those books of the Bible where Jesus befriends a talking dog...

"The Gospel of Jericho the Dog"?

Damn those Nicean fools, them and their human agenda...