Review of the Animated Movie the King of Kings

Review of the Animated Movie the King of Kings I think it was around passion Sunday that I watched the Animated feature film “The king of Kings: A Story Told by Charles Dickens” at a movie theater.  It was set in a Victorian house of a man telling his young son a story.  It switched from story telling to animated flashbacks to the life of Christ.  Details like the deaths of the Holy Innocents (Matthew 2:16) were handled delicately by Herod saying something like: go to Bethlehem and GET RID of all the all the children under 2 (my emphasis added). Some of the highlights I remember which I think they covered, in Christs life, other than his birth, was the finding in the temple, the clearing of the temple, multiplication of the loaves and the betrayal.  The gory details of the passion were also handled delicately to include the nailing to the cross which as I remember was seen at an angle where you could not actually see the nails being driven but hear them looking across Christs face.  The most notable and important part of this depiction of the salvation story is that they cut back to explain Adam and Eve and the original sins, without which, Christ’s death, and even his whole life, is essentially meaningless. As I remember, it of course ends with his resurrection on Easter. Basically, the salvation story in a nutshell!