The King of Kings

Your spiritual results may vary.

A serviceable if uninspired take on a story told countless times in just as varied formats.

It’s impossible to watch a film in which Jesus Christ says it’s wrong to profit from religion and then watch the filmmakers panhandle for extra money at the end. At least, not without imagining the screen getting struck by lightning.

Less of a fully satisfying animated feature that works on its own terms than a teaching tool that is clearly intended as such.

While a few choices do seem a bit odd, “The King of Kings” does a facile job of offering a crash course on Christ for a younger generation.

It’s just the same story: every beat expected, every moment predetermined.

A retelling of the story of Jesus with a weird mixture of vaguely biblical and Valley Speak.

[The characters] Walter and his cute computer-animated cat are meant to be the young audience’s conduit into the biblical tale, but too often they come off as an annoying distraction.

Jang Seong-Ho’s The King of Kings is a gorgeously animated film that tells a familiar and comforting story through exceptional voice acting.

The King of Kings, then, is a confounding mixed bag&#59; it’s an animated movie that tries so very hard to appeal to its target audience, but that ends up feeling more like an educational product than an ambitious or well-crafted motion picture.