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.

While this certainly isn’t for everyone, The King of Kings has its own kind of mass appeal and carves out a distinct space in the world of animated faith-based storytelling.

The King of Kings may tell the greatest story ever told, but here, it’s told in the most forgettable way possible.

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.