Movies

... you'll love it! Lots of insolent humour, good songs (a great Gospel number, for instance, and "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything"), and a moral -- a little broadly spread, but not unpalpable.It's sort of nice to have God in a movie without his name being taken "in vain." Nice change from the sort of movie I prefer.And my kids loved it.I hope this gets a wider distribution before its video release.

As a movie it's alright for little kids if you can get past the religious stuff, but as a VeggieTales video, it's up there with Lord of the Beans as the best of the best in which the series has to offer. Just give it a watch, you won't be disappointed.

Given that this movie is a VeggieTales enterprise of course the kids are going to eat it up. The real challenge for the film makers was to make the movie enjoyable for the parents. "Jonah" comes so close to accomplishing this for 100% of the movie. The strength of the VeggieTales series has always been the songs. "Oh Where is my Hairbrush?" ring a bell. "Jonah" does have its fair share of songs, but I felt that there were too many long gaps in between some of the musical numbers. It didn't help that most of this time was spent listening to Jonah whine. Get rid of Jonah's whining and add in a few more songs and this movie would have been perfect for all ages. As it stands however, "Jonah" teaches a strong lesson to children in an enjoyable way. Can't argue with that.