Biblical story and superhero story

In the past few years, I have seen a lot of biblical remakes of movies. Some movies are really bad and are self-entertaining within the evangelicals. They have no depth and no technical content. Some, such as the star, tell the nativity story through a new animal perspective, adding a lot of fun and laughter. In the film, there is also a moderate amount of Christian faith through the characterization, there is no trace of deliberate preaching, and there is no forceful pursuit of "depth" like some movies. There are also stalks that are easier for Christians to know. For example, as the protagonist, the donkey who dreams of entering the royal ranks can easily think of Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem. Considering that this is originally a cartoon for children, it is very suitable for watching with children during the festival. (The one sitting in front of us is a dad with four or five children watching the movie. It's a hard work...)

The rating of this movie so far is still not very high, imdb is 5.4/10. I specifically looked at the negative reviews and removed the purely hateful reviews. I found that this kind of biblical story remake may face the same dilemma as a superhero story adaptation movie. On the one hand, it is "critical" from the "original fans". Some one or two-star reviews are from Christians, who dislike the movie as not respecting the original, or dislike the film adaptation which reduces the depth of the original; on the other hand, it comes from the incomprehension of passers-by. Many of these questions are not unreasonable. For example, as a PG movie, is the story of Maria and Joseph suspected of instilling a pre-wedlock birth in the children? You can either clarify the meaning clearly (the result makes the movie lengthy and preaching Meaningful), or expect non-Christian parents to tell their children the prophecies of Isaiah after the film ends? It seems that no matter how you do it, it is really difficult to balance it. But having said that, the Marvel Cinematic Universe relies on Marvel to build a few movies bit by bit, and it seems unrealistic to require an 80-minute children's film to do this.

My biggest dissatisfaction during the viewing process is that the whole film is too old and cold ("king of Jews", "king of shoes"...)
, Sometimes it can be seen that the animals are working hard to make fun, but it is difficult for you to laugh, just like watching SNL in recent years. (Digression, Mianyang Ruth's dubbing is a cast of SNL) In

conclusion, this is a fairly interesting nativity story, I especially recommend families with children to watch it together.

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