Sunday, December 23, 2018

Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002), 5+

G | 1h 22min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy | 4 October 2002
When the singing Veggies encounter some car trouble, they're stranded at old, rundown seafood joint where nothing is quite as it seems. As Bob the Tomato and the kids settle in to wait for ... See full summary »
Writers/Directors: Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer
Stars: Phil Vischer, Mike Nawrocki, Tim Hodge.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298388/
Watched online, ok print.

13 songs in the Soundtracks, all seemingly written for this film.

Ah, the ancient times are a story being told to the modern veggies.

Limbs are invisible in this universe of vegetable creatures; not so for the animals.

I don't really know the Jonah story well enough to evaluate how well they retained its significance. They certainly made Jonah a whiner.

They added lots of modern elements to the ancient world (an outboard motor, for example), and some were jokes for the non-toddlers. 

I didn't like it, but my + is for some of it being amusing. I'm glad I missed earlier films, and hope to skip subsequent ones, although, slightly like the God sung about in the film, I am prone to giving such series a second chance.

Rated 6.6 (3,516)

DreamWorks & more, dir. Nawrocki & Vischer; 5+