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Summary: Your kids will watch this over and over!
Review: Your kids will love this movie and then they will love it again and again and again. The graphics are great, the songs are catchy and my kids just stare at the screen. What a great way to help teach kids the golden rules all in a DVD!
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Summary: Relax people, it's a kid's movie
Review: Now for the review, my 4 year old loved it as he does all of the other VT DVD's, and hey, wasn't that the point??? I expected a little more excitement, but I think that it was a great first attempt and I'm looking forward to the next feature. What is with people wanting this film to be harsh and brutally factual? This is for children and is appropriately written for them. There is time enough for them to learn the nitty gritty of human nature and horror of our fallen state. Lighten up and watch with children's eyes...Grace & Peace.
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Summary: Jonah Won't
Review: The movie was well protrayed by our favorite Veggie Tales chracters and very funny, while getting the message across. the characters are: Archibald Asparagus as Jonah and Twippo, Pa Grape, Larry the Cucumber, and Mr. Lunt as the Pirates Who Don't do Anything, Kahleel as himself, Junior Asparagus as himself, Bob the Tomato as himself, Laura Carrot as herself, as well as a variety of other characters who play parts in this movie. The story is about the prophet Jonah who delivered God's word to the people. However, God told him to tell Nineveh to repent, but Jonah didn't want too. What should he do? Too find out what happens you should watch the movie yourself. But trust me it is well worth it for the message and the amazing graphics and humor packed into this wonderful bundle.
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Summary: A great Movie
Review: When my kids and I saw this in the theatre, I knew we had to get it when it came out on DVD. This movie is so entertaining, even my one year old will sit through it and watch. From the colorful characters and music that makes you want to sing along with it, it also is a very accurate rendition of Jonah, in a wonderful and entertaining way. Now that we have it on DVD, all three of my kids ask to watch it on a daily basis. Make sure not to miss the out takes at the end!
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Summary: Vegi-Tales for Vegetables
Review: Once again we are beset with the watered-down insipidity of modern Christianity. Since so-called Christian parents are on the whole too ignorant of the Bible to be able to teach it to their children, they give the job, like so many other child-care responsibilities, to the TV. The inane and unfunny vegetation featured both here and on the awful television show are a metaphor for the modern so-called Christians: little smarter than vegetables, bumbling, and fettered to slavish dogma. "Jonah" presents nothing more than sanitized, numb, platitudinous drivel with a bit of mistranslated "scripture" thrown in here and there to satisfy the consciences of emotionally dead suburban moral mutants. If you want your children to believe in the Christian God, perhaps you should take some responsibility and teach them yourselves, using the Bible you claim to value so highly.
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Summary: LOVED IT!!
Review: My son who is 2 loves the Veggie Tales, and I must admit I enjoy watching them with him. The tale of Jonah is told in a comical way but it doesn't skimp on the Family Values. I've added this to my Veggie Tales Collection which is now growing to include 321 PENGUINS!!!
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Summary: INSIPID INSULT TO A GREAT ANCIENT TALE
Review: In northern Iraq, in the town of Mosul (much in the news of this writing) is the El Ahalaham mosque. About 50 feet under the mosque is a limestone sarcophagus that contains the mortal remains of a Jew, Jonah son of Amittai. Nearby are the vast, mud-covered, largely unexcavated ruins of ancient Ninevah, once the greatest city in the world and the capitol of the bloody Assyrian empire, the ruthless enemy of Israel and Judah. The talking vegetable stars in the CGI animated JONAH: A VeggieTales Movie trivialize this story about apparently real events and people from 775 BC. The real story has a reluctant prophet who i s compelled to deliver a final messaage to a wicked city: repent or be vaporized. Jonah hates the enemy so much he runs away. Maybe he knows God to be merciful and fears that the cruel regime in Ninevah will repent. Unfortunartely, you can't run away from God, so when strange curcumstances alow Jonah to be swallowed and and then spit up by a great fish, this astonishing story spreads throughout the land. Perhaps years later, when Jonah finally reaches Ninevah where the people worship a great man-fish god, they are ready to believe Jonah becuase he himself came out of a supernatutural fish-god and thus Jonah is trustworthy as God's spokesman. Why else would they even let Jonah in the gates? And to Jonah's chagrin, God shows mercy to these bloodthirsty pagans. Incidentally, around 765 BC, according to ancient records in the great library at Damascus, Ninevah became for a period of time monotheistic. Amazing, if you think about it. An animated Jonah could be a great project. This version is simplistic and borderline stupid. An insult even to kids. And someone please tell me, why talking vegetables?
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Summary: VeggieTales at its best.....so far, anyway!
Review: A good, solid VeggieTales movie! If your family likes VeggieTales, they will love this DVD. This movie is longer, has impressive theater-worthy images, and even better music than the short videos previously available for home purchase. My 5 and 8 year olds were cracking up through the whole thing--"Underwear!" was definately a high point. I was impressed with the story itself and the way it accurately displayed Jonah (in a VeggieTales sort of way) and his role in the Bible. Jonah and the big whale is known of by many, but the real story behind it is known by so few. VeggieTales may not be a favorite of everyone out there, but it has a place on our DVD/video shelf because of the strong Biblical values, cute characters, and original songs. Each story told opens a door to an important message with a strong moral lesson. I'm so thankful for an alternative to Sponge Bob!
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Summary: Awsome movie!!!! For Kids and GROWN UPS!
Review: I am 23 and a big cartoon fan. Not that Japanese Anime stuff, I'm talking "Tom and Jerry", "Looney Tunes", PIXAR and the such. So for a long time I have been hearing a lot about this gang of Vegitables who taught God's lessons. Not interested in it when they first came out I shook them off. Then a few days a go I picked up JONAH and sense getting it I have watched it a total of about three times. This film is magnificent! Never befor have I watched a animated film that had a big fallowing that I knew nothing about and was totaly blown away!!!! At the beginning of the film I was a bit warry thinking, who (or what) the heck was Twippo, but I was soon in world that riveled "Monsters Inc.", "Ice Age", "Toy Story", and other animated films. Now the bigest question is how can "Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius" can get nominated for an Acadamy Award and not "Jonah"! I think that it is one of the best movies that has come out in the past few years that teaches really good values that we all need to learn.
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Summary: Family fun, Biblical values, and fishes-full of laughter!
Review: This movie is loads of veggie fun for everyone. A fresh re-telling of the classic Biblical story of Jonah, the prophet who "never really got it" when running from God, told by The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything, the lazy threesome of pirates who, as you may have guessed, don't do anything. They fondly recall, however, for Bob, Junior, Laura Carrot, Junior's dad, and a a couple more veggie friend, how they once DID do something. The scene shifts from the seafood diner on the riverbank to ancient Israel, where the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything met Jonah, the prophet who delivered God's messages to the Israelites, until God gave Jonah a special assignment: Go deliver His message to the Ninevites. Jonah certainly did NOT want to do this (Everyone knows that Ninevites are fish-slappers!) Jonah enlists the Pirates - desperate for money to buy Mr. Twisty's Cheese Curls - to take him on a cruise in the OPPOSITE direction. God's not foiled however, and they encounter a great storm. Everyone knows the rest of the story. Jonah is thrown overboard by his own request, and a great fish (pleasantly yellow in the film) swallows him. After receiving the Second Chance message straight from God's angels in the belly of the great fish, Jonah repents and sets out for Nineveh. In spite of the fish-slapping, cheese-curl theft accusations, and a pesky yet lovable caterpillar (okay, so he's only have caterpillar), Jonah works his best to obey God's command. This movie, while spicing it up with lots of laughs and kiddie fun (Jonah uses a duckie float when thrown off the ship), the film teaches important lessons. You can't run from God, and God gives EVERYONE second chances.
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