I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

The animation and story is so good that I forgot that I was watching dolls and not real live humans. To be honest, out of all the portrayals of Jesus Christ I've seen in movies, the animated version felt more like the real Jesus than any of the human actors! I almost cried near the end of the movie.Since it is a family movie, there's not much blood in it. I haven't seen Mel Gibson's movie yet, but I think the Miracle Maker is proof that you don't necessarily need to show extreme violence to make people appreciate what Jesus did for them on the cross (this is not a criticism of Mel Gibson, which is a great actor and director).I like how they switch from stop motion to hand-drawn animation when the parables are told. It is beautiful. It is art. It is what movies should be. I wish people could make more movies like this. Meaningful movies.

A Surprisingly useful video. As a teacher of Religious Education this movie was always going to be useful to me, but as a synopsis of the New Testament based largely upon the Gospel of Luke, this video offers an uncanny degree of insight. The creators have bothered to research particulars and peculiarities of life at the time of Jesus, and although there are particular details missing that disappoint me (e.g. the absence of the Dove at the Baptism narrative), individual cut-scenes from this movie make excellent alternatives to trying to get pupils to struggle through texts from the New Testament in class.The frequent transitions between clay and cartoon animation as a theatrical technique needs explanation before use, especially if only watching brief clips, but these do not detract from the pupils own ability to empathise with characters and evaluate stories based on its presentation. As an overall synopsis various pericopes are omitted, but this can easily be forgiven a movie of a commercial length, and suitable for pupils to watch in the course of an afternoon.I personally, as a passionate Christian and student of New Testament Theology, find it a moving and engaging presentation, and it is among the DVD's that I'll stick on on a lazy Sunday afternoon: it's fine for the kids to watch (although obviously they don't get much of its meaning), and I'll enjoy it, too.

This is an excellent movie for very small children. I would recommend it for ages 3 - 7. However it is not for adults. I was disappointed because I did not realize it had clay figures as actors.

I enjoyed this immensely, even though the reception on my TV was terrible. It makes the Bible stories more real than any other film I've seen. The claymation really worked and the change to animation for the parables and such was interesting. On the downside it seemed a little hurried, but trying to get all the significant events of Jesus' life into two hours is a tall order (and some were still left out, as others have stated). Overall an excellent presentation and ABC is to be highly commended for having the guts to show it.