What the HELL is Bible Town? (Christian Animation's WORST SIN)
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why is Christian animation LITERALLY THE WORST THING EVER
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It just works.
Idk
You're right lmao
Saber you finally posted it😎 now to rage at my religion 😂😂
"Can you tell me a Bible story?"
"Well okay. This is the story of how Jesus-"
"No, no. Tell me about the Whore of Babylon."
I wanna hear about that time Jesus had a pet dragon
Veggie tales is an exception
@@thegayghost872 same
That's legit a good story tho.
there are so many good stories like that, honestly, I am an atheist and I love the old testament because of all the stories about the rape and murder and cheating and such. I like to call the bible a dramatic, violent, erotica.
My favorite part is that sarah is always looking up at the sky even when talking to other characters, as if she’s silently asking god why she was created
Omg, thank you random person for making me day, this was the best joke I've heard in a couple of weeks
*_Who blames her, honestly?_*
@@MadeMeExist I most certainly don't
@@MadeMeExist (saberspark does :/)
She was created to suffer and bring suffering onto us all. Hail Satan.
I watched this with my Christian grandma and at the end she literally said-
“I’d rather read a book-“ :,))
If you make a Christian film and your Christian audience hate it, then you know your bad at targettint audiences
W grandma
@Dez.Dezthefirellama hm
@Dez.Dezthefirellamawhat the hell sr eu trying to insinuate.
Its jsut a grandma that knows when a movie is bad
Call me weird but I’m liking this comment and all the replies lol p.s ( I was your 341 rd like ❤)
"Do they know every story from the Bible?"
"Yes! They even know the widely known story upon which our entire religion is based!"
🤪
Even people who aren’t Christian know the Birth of Jesus story.
@@mask938 Second only to Batman's origin
@@mask938 even people who arent spiderman fans know the story of the radioactive spider bite
@@DamienDarksideidk shit about batman. Whats batmans origin story /genuine question
For a Christian animation, all of these characters look like they're demonic af.
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Real sleep paralysis demons
They should have gone the veggietales route
Dont insult demons like that
Hey Just Some Guy without a Mustache, how are you? 😉
“The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.” - Martin Luther
Such is a lesson that most Christian animators will never understand.
You sir speak a truth that could topple the empire of Christian animation
Well spoken, just because you put a Bible verse does not make it good and Christian.
that quote could put the entire christian film genre into bankruptcy.
It doesn't matter if they understand that. Their target audience doesn't operate in a way that would allow that behavior.
@@mintyflores7378 it’s not a bible verse, Martin Luther came about 1500 years later.
9:17
Even Saber’s avatar going BABABABABABABA is better than the animation in this “movie”.
Yep 👍
I'm a Christian and I hate the fact that we don't have something better to offer. As an aspiring animator growing up, I was always horrified by the lack of quality content that was being offered. We really need to do a better job.
What about Prince of Egypt
@@rifledynamic3678 that's a great example of what we, as Christians, should be producing. The crazy thing is, is that it was produced by a secular studio and they still managed to create better content than Christians do. And sadly, movies like Prince of Egypt are far and few between. To have religious content with that high level of production value is extremely rare. I just think Christians should be doing better than we are.
veggie tales
Same, I'm going into script writing for this exact reason, in addition to my love of storytelling.
@@rifledynamic3678 Prince of Egypt was a Dreamworks production made by an animator that was fired cause he wanted to make a movie about oppression, it's not really made by a Christian industry or Christian animators, it was made for the purpose of telling a story
As a christian, I'll feel bad for all the children who had to suffer though these crappy movies. Veggietales and Prince of Egypt are the peak of christian animation and no one can tell me otherwise.
Prince of Egypt was a genuinely good film, taken as a christian film or not.
Correct
Big mood. 321 penguins is up there as well (made by the veggietales people, but the animation looks a little more jank since the characters aren’t simple ovals and circles lol)
Preaching facts here cuz I can't think of anything else but those two
These were good because they didn't make christian stuff boring
Once again, further proof that VeggieTales truly is the peak of Christian animation. The designs were simple, but at least they're not giving me nightmares.
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VeggieTales was incredible for its time and could be enjoyed by even non-Christians. The work they did with the technology that was available at the time was incredible and it’s a genuinely good series. If only more Christian studios went with this instead of blatant, cheap propaganda money grabs.
I had a nightmare of Larry the cucumber
@@zhan768
*I still like Vegetables to this day. Well the old one.*
Prince of Egypt is also incredibly good
It honestly disturbs me on a deep level imagining a quiet, strict homeschool home with a DVD player and no Wifi access in which the parents only allow their children to watch a small collection of these types of Christian films. It has nothing to do with the film itself, or the religiosity of it, it’s the isolated, rigid, closed off living the children have to endure with good attitudes or they will be punished that I can imagine and know is happening.
Reminds me of my childhood. We only were allowed to watch Christian movies on Sunday. It was so cold… growing up… I spent all day cleaning or doing chores for an angry dad who would come home to criticize us, and when he got angry, he would scream at us and call us lazy and ungrateful and hit and kick things. He said he felt like we didn’t care about how hard he worked for us because all he asked was for a clean home and we couldn’t even do that for him. He said we were selfish and ungrateful, while he worked 14 hour days and we just got to sit around playing or “eating bon-bons” so he’d say. I remember some of my only outlets for fun was playing with legos or going outside. I was probably 6-10 around this time. I don’t remember being younger as much.
All I remember is a feeling of dread, of emptiness, solitude, rigidity, darkness, anger, sorrow, etc… I never felt loved growing up… I only ever felt loved if I ever made my parents proud by doing everything perfectly, otherwise mistakes were corrected and any achievement was lost due to the overarching correcting and critical attitude my parents had. It is sad having to remember all this. It hurts, it hurts my heart in an aching, sore, way, like pressing a bruise. I don’t know how I could ever heal from the tragic upbringing I had that I know so many like me had. The darkness, the suffering, the inability to express any emotion besides fake joyful attitudes, it was a nightmare- a prison of darkness and slavery to “good” masters who “are spanking for your own good because we love you.” They we’re not loving me, they were controlling me, brainwashing me, correcting me and rebuking me for every wrong I did no matter why I did it. There were no excuses growing up, never a good enough excuse to justify disobeying… it was slavery…
Spanks and losing my toys and privileges were expected for unrighteousness and bad behavior… I remember “direct disobedience” was the worst sin I could commit growing up… there were no reasons ever to justify “direct disobedience.” Severe punishment awaited the child who directly disobeyed, the harshest consequences were reserved for that kid…
Our hearts, our hearts were non existent… our hearts were… “bound up with sin” according to our parents….
It is good to get it out. I have had this built up for a long time.
I’m so, so sorry you had to go through that as a child and I’m hoping you’re in a better, happier place now.
And they call themselves Christians...
@@Ellodyne Echoing this.
I’m so sorry you had to go through all that. Hope you’re in a better place now.
I've never related to anything more in my entire life.
..... I'm so sorry and hope you are in a better place now
As a Christian, I’m lucky I experienced none of this 😂
Same 😮💨
Prince of Egypt’s and Veggiestales’ backs must be hurting from caring Christian animation
Prince of Egypt is my fav movie of all time
Ew aesthetic girl ewww
Like the Israelites did when building the pyramids?
I don't even consider the Prince of Egypt as a Christian animation, given it's story's explicit tie to the Jewish holiday of Passover. In my mind at least, Veggietales' back is broken from trying to carry Christian animation.
@@2735angel why do you even care?
Fun fact: Pete Doctor, one of the key creative leads and directors at Pixar, is a Christian. When asked why he didn't include Christian messages in his films, he said it felt like lecturing the audience and he didn't wanna do that. Appreciate him!
The reason why religious entertainment is always terrible is because the 'message' always comes before the art. Aka, talking about god and whatever is always the the top priority with storytelling, art, animation, characters, etc taking a far distant second. That's also the reason why most any message-based entertainment products suck including ones about politics, the environment, safety, etc.
@@fattiger6957 "the environment"
FLASHBACKS TO CAPTAIN PLANET & FERNGULLY THE LAST RAINFOREST
Man just wanted to tell good stories, you have to respect that! Ironic when you look at a lot of the crap that's coming out of Hollywood these days. Maybe they should start following Pete Doctor's example.
Lecturing the audience about Christian messages: A no-no!
Lecturing the audience about SJW messages: A must!
This has been "Disney Logic" ladies and gentlemen, see you next Friday!
I believe that but Disney/Pixar also wouldn't want to make a religious film because it would only have limited appeal outside of Evangelicals and countries like China would ban it and it might not also do as well in non-Christain countries.
"The David Movie", "Superbook" (the 1980s version), "Prince Of Egypt", "My Last Day", and "Story Keepers" are the best ones out there.
I bet reading the Bible is more fun than actually watching the movie
It is.
Indeed
I love how even the Christians are like
“Yeah…we know Christian animation is shit.”
Except for superbook for me :v
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how bout prince of egypt, why nobody talkin about that :(
@@emojiguy4187 yea thats good
@@emojiguy4187 I think Prince of Egypt is more Abrahamic(Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) than Christian only. All three Abrahamic religions portray the story of Exodus in their texts
To paraphrase Hank Hill; “You’re not making christianity better, you’re just making animation worse.”
I was racking my brain remembering this then i remembered it was about Christian Rock music and i got it
I’ll tell ya whhhat.
gaaAAh, I sell proPAIN and proPAIN accessories
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My mom is like this, she's pentacostal, and she tried to make us only watch Pureflix, (cheap, stupid, netflix for christians) and she quickly gave up. I'd only watch their movie's to laugh at them.
same🤣
just that pureflix is called yesflix where i grew up
I dunno, I thought Courageous was pretty good 😊
The way he said Jesus at 7:36 just got me laughing hysterically at 2am
Jeesas
Jesass
JeSus
The three kids all have the same face and look like they were animated with AI, like how they did the lip syncing and facial animation on the NPCs in Oblivion and Fallout.
Cruella is the first movie to have a woman in it
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Why hello
@@PrincessMavenKittyDarkholme Why are you referencing the title to one of his videos?
Yeah that's annoying
I find it weird that _Prince of Egypt_ is referenced as 'Christian animation' when it's clear from the various 'making of' bits I've seen that it was, in fact, made as Jewish animation, albeit with Christian appeal.
That is how lacking Christian animation is
Same thing with Joseph's Coat of Many Colors, if memory serves me right.
Thing is, jewish stories are both christian and islamic stories too.
Theres an old simplification we use where Im from.
The Jews started monoteism.
Then Christians found their prophet among them. Jesus.
Then the Muslims found their prophet, who learned from them. Mohamed.
The jews though, ... they are still waiting for their prophet to finalize their journey.
You could technically even go so far to say that Christianity and Islam are a specialization of Jewdism. Like katholisism and protestantism are specializations of christianity.
But that is not fully correct either at the same time.
So anyway
When it comes to the old testament, it is Jewish, Christian and Muslim at the same time.
Still interesting
And plus... The best part is the scene where Moses makes a path in the middle of the ocean... I swear its 100% good than any Christian animation😍😍😍
I hope I never forget flipping through the channels and finding two puppets in a hole, one with shaving cream around his mouth and explaining to the other that he was foaming at the mouth because he was crazy. The first puppet thought it was toothpaste. Priceless.
As someone who grew up in a Christian household, the question of "why tf do 99% of our religious animations suck" has always plagued me...
I feel lucky cuz as an lds child I got to watch "the animated stories from the book of mormon." Those 2d films did the stories just fine 😎👌 bible town scares me 😩
The old art was usually WAY better than most of the computer animated shows/movies that come out now. Everyone still tries to be Pixar and just fails miserably, the drawn characters were amazing.
I used to be lds too and I remember those! 😂. I always thought Nephi’s brother (can’t remember if it was Lamen or Lemule) always sounded like Templeton from Charlotte’s web 🤣. Was is the same dude? Idk
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I grew up with my dad as a pastor and I’m in a very religious family, yet I am very glad that they aren’t strict when it comes to the media.
yo same
Same
My dad isn't the pastor but he preaches sometimes and if I turned this on back when I was a kid he'd be like "what the heck is this trash?"
That’s how you get your kids to follow tradition without brainwashing them
@@silverstarinthesky I define a cult as a belief system where people in it are not allowed to hear from those outside of it - an echo chamber of belief. If this is how a parent teaches their kid about christianity, then they're making christianity a cult
I loved how Saberspark used Ned Flanders in relation to christen cartoons. Flanders is no doubt one of the greatest, joke’s in the show, and a great character too. I was shocked to hear there’s even a metal band n based on him.
"Shouldn't you be in dream's music video?"
10/10, peak humor
This film seems to hit me the EXACT way all of church did. You’re dredging up some repressed memories, my friend. Straight up, I was banned from watching anything…fantastical. No Ben 10, aliens aren’t real. No Avatar, magic is evil. So when people ask why I’m into all of this “kids stuff” as an adult…I’m playing catch up and actually having fun. Leave me alone.
Dang sounds like you lived in a strict household. But seriously other christians still believe magic is evil?
@@Demicleas I have a catholic cousin who refuses to let their kid watch things in the vein of harry potter because of the thought that "magic/witchcraft is evil" and that it'll tempt them to get involved with satanic practices or something. These kind of people who are overprotective and offended by everything not strictly christian are convinced of this even though millions of people watched harry potter and very few felt more compelled to join some wiccan covenant or anything like that because of it. Their problem is is they can't seperate fantasy from reality or view things in context. The movie says magic and witchcraft, so it's automatically about some kind of satan worshipping content in their mind.
Sorry bro, I'm pretty grateful that my parents were pretty reasonable when it came to what we could watch. Were they the level where even LOTR was evil? Did magic is evil include Disney movies?
God yes my family was exactly the same way. Star wars, pokemon - it's the devil, not allowed (but only banned it after we had our collections and took everything away)! My grandmother collected unicorn statues and my mom MADE HER either throw them away or break off the horns or else we weren't allowed to visit her house.
This wasn't even jehovah's witness, this was just crazy spreading around the town I lived in when I was growing up. Hell I never got to read the harry potter books or see the movies until recently. And I'm close to 30 man.
@@sarahhelton8088 Those Christians making JWs like a decent group, despite they’re technically part of the Christianity family but not wanting to be part of it.
I can’t believe this actually exists. I’m a Christian, and I’m glad that I grew up with Veggietales as my only source of Christian Animation. It hurts how little effort they put into most of this stuff
Same, Veggietales is literally one of the only good Christian animations lmao
I agree, although to be pedantic, technically Veggitales is more of 'Old Testament Animation' since the creators flat out refused to animate Jesus as a vegetable. (Though clearly he should have been made as a block of swiss cheese.)
I believe this is all a part of the evangelical ideology's attempt to make a Christian version of everything, basically put a "Jesus approves" stamp on everything. The result is that quality get lost in the process.
I don't even believe "Prince of Egypt" can be considered Christian animation. It's simply an animated film based on a Biblical story and as such can be liked by Christians, Jews and everybody else. It doesn't try to push religious agenda down your throat like these Christian (essentially evangelical) shows and films do.
@@GMovieSeeker Thank you for pointing out that it's the Evangelical doing that not Christians in general, you basically never see Catholics, Orthodox or Lutheran doing this so I don't think it should be attributed to Christians in general just to the Evangelical (whom, according to pretty much every Christians I ever interacted with from other denominations, are considered to be really embarrassing and they don't want to be associated with them)
Right? It's honestly insulting to Christians how much these suck.
I remember my parents will always put on this show called "Bible Man" and as a kid i always thought it was a good show,now that im older i try my best to avoid the creature of "Bible Man"
9:17 "babababa-ra" that's is the best Line.
I get they tell Bible stories…
But how is the stability of Bible Town’s economy?
They pretend it doesn't exist and so should we!
Asking real questions here
They pay by telling bible stories🙃
It's probably a theologian state so they probably have many tax based religious factors that would come into play and no work on Sundays
This is why communism is superior to it
Probably pretty good considering the amount of tax collectors in biblical stories 😈😈
This isn’t “the bottom of the barrel” this is the ground underneath the barrel that will acts as a shallow grave for your sanity.
No joke, I was thinking the same thing XD
XD it can get worse there’s always a worse film out there we just haven’t found it yet……luckily, but it’s only a matter of time
This company just spits at the barrel
Amen.
@@tundraghost429 If only we could just send ALL of Humanity to Hell!!!!!
This movie should be called "IT'S ANOTHER BIBLE STORY!!"
"The Storykeepers" series was really good Christian entertainment, I think! Short-lived cartoon series, like 13 eps, I think, but I remember owning and watching a good few of the VHS tapes as a kid and loving them! Still remember them to this day! They were full of action and heartfelt stuff, and taught about Christianity in a sweet, understandable way! It was cool! Also taught history, too, how Jews/Christians were treated in ancient Rome! It was really cool! Highly recommend you try that out! Would be interesting to see if you actually think it's GOOD Christian content like VeggieTales (which I ALSO watched and really liked as a kid, lol)! :D
We were banned from watching veggie tales in my Sunday school because the teachers believed it was sacrilegious and “jesus would never create talking food but the devil might” it was a weird church for sure
Wow, that’s hardcore. I grew up in a Baptist church, and VeggieTales was everywhere!
Some people are just plain paranoid. Religious or not.
Then what would he create?
@@parlinmains Finding Jesus...so that He wouldn't have to deal with it.
@@parlinmains the book and the pastors to preach his word
I was a "Christian content only" kid and, thankfully for me, this involved mostly VeggieTales, but some of my friends weren't so lucky. I remember some of them even dressing up as Bibleman lol. But I was definitely exposed to a lot of these cheap Christian bargain bin movies at school and at church. I knew they were horrible then, but only seeing them as an adult can I truly appreciate how horribly cheap and lazy they were.
I loved bibleman but Ik that wasn’t a great series when it became a meme I understood why
I am so, so sorry you were stuck with these 😬
I've luckily never heard of stuff like "bibleman" (tbh the idea of a "bible super hero" doesn't even make sense to me), but I do remember watching an old cartoon that I'm sure had fairly ok animation. I did happen to see a terrible version on tv once however, with dad nearby. It was very poorly drawn and I complained about its quality out loud, and dad's response indicated he didn't mind (in fact he didn't seem to care for quality at all, as I also remember him trying to get me to watch an animated movie that I left just 5 minutes in because it was terrible, said movie being one about some apes that I think was reviewed on this channel some time after). If it were up to me I'd want to produce something good or at the very least palpable if it absolutely has to be cheap.
I think the worst I got as a kid (like, really young) was Psalty, Colby, and The Donut Man. I feel like I got off fairly easy.
I think part of the problem is that so many Christian groups\sects are so easily triggered by *anything* they see as deviating from their own particular interpretation of the Bible. Someone making Christian media has to play things as safe as safe can be, or else their own market would turn on them. So you get "movies" that are just collections of unedited Bible stories so no one can complain.
For example: the genuinely great 90s/00s Christian gothic metal act Saviour Machine (Eric Clayton) probably had more secular fans than religious, because his particularly dark viewpoint led most Christian outlets to brand him as "satanic."
As a devout Catholic who grew up in a thoroughly Catholic family, thank God for my parents being reasonable and letting me watch normal shows.
It's kinda sad to see just how bottom-of-the-barrel Christian animation is. We've seen awe-inspiring works like the Prince of Egypt done with painstaking effort and love for not only the Lord but also for the art form. Here's hoping we get more of that someday.
I am a Catholic and my parents did let me watch normal shows. I was also a Catholic who went to a public School instead of a Catholic School
Tbf princ eof egypt is based on the story thst exiats in christianity, islam and judaism.
I think prince of egypt was so good because they also worked with christian and muslim theologists to make sure it still gives the message and such the stories try to tell, even though they do have a light spin on how things happened in the books.
It shows the core values
THE GENUINE AND PURE RAGE AT 7:10 IS THE FUNNIEST SHIT EVER
"I can make a better Christian film in a week"
That actually sounds like a fun challenge lol
Disney already did that ... THROUGH SYMBOLISM
Let's do it.
"They know ALL the stories from the Bible? There's a lot of them you know!"
"They sure do!"
"Even the birth of Jesus?"
Uh, yeah, EVEN the birth of Jesus, Tammy. Even the obscure stories like that that no one is likely to have heard before. Believe it or not, the people in Bibletown have even heard of the birth of Jesus.
Genesis 5 is litteral just a bunch a people who lived and died leading up to noah
Even me knows how Jesus was born
I went to school with Jesus and I don't know his story of birth. Did some kickass fingerboard tricks though
A lost of stories from the bible were lost across time, I wonder how they know ALL of them
I was a smidge older than the target audience for Veggie Tales but I loved it. When I was in Christian kindergarten we watch Hanna Barbera Bible stories and they were fun. This is CGI hell
The worst thing about the characters talking…….is the fact that their hand is basically on a loop and keeps moving, with the other one just locked to their side.
Yeah…as a Christian, and someone who deeply loves and appreciates the art of storytelling, I can tell you this kind of attitude isn’t just limited to animation - it’s in every type of media.
If you don’t mind me getting on my soapbox for a moment, I’ll say this: I personally feel like a lot of it is that Christian creators frequently prioritize the moral/biblical messaging over the actual story, which makes it into a pandering, beat-you-over-the-head mess. The best ones are the ones that treat the theme as a theme rather than the plot (like Prince of Egypt, King of Dreams, Veggie Tales, and Adventures in Odyssey) which is why they’re so good. They can actually be enjoyed by a wider audience, and they give a crap about the story itself. There also seems to be an attitude of “It’s for God, therefore He’ll make it successful if He wants it to be, so I don’t need to do anything but rely on Him and He’ll make it all work out. And if not, well, it’ll sell anyway to some Sunday school or someone who wants to support a Christian creator.” Which…you know…if you’re making something to honour God with, shouldn’t you do your research and put in your best possible effort?
Anyway. I could rant on it for hours. Looking forward to the Christian animation video essay! Should be neat!
Spot on! Having a message behind what we’re sharing should urge us to make it AT LEAST as good as everyone else’s media. God calls us to give our best, and setting for sub-par isn’t going to help anyone
I know right... that kind of attitude makes me saaaad
I thought Jesus Christ Superstar was a pretty good film. Its not animation, but I thought it was pretty good. Entertaining and basically tells about the last 3 days before Jesus' death in song form.
Personally, I think most of these "Christian" content creators aren't actually christian, and are just secular scammers making a quick buck with something awful because they know it will sell to their audience no matter the quality. Taking advantage of faith like that is, quite obviously, not acceptable.
Oh my gosh yes! Well said, couldn't have said it better myself!!! 👏👏👏
Honestly, "Christian" themed movies just feel like part of a larger effort to *utterly submerge* kids from evangelical families in unrelenting propaganda.
That's exactly what it is propaganda or a sermon disguises a movie. Live action Christan movies essentially do the same thing.
Movies like this are not even good propaganda.
@@leebulger7112 Propaganda doesn't have to be good. It just has to be present. Quantity over quality is a winning strategy in an information war.
@@johnalogue9832 exactly you bet most people will just accept what they are taught as a child if they're steeped theroughly enough in its beliefs and aren't exposed to opposing viewpoints until well after there worldview is set in stone
I'll watch Alexander Nevsky any day instead of boring of boring head on sermons. At least the film is good by itself.
Looking forward to your video essay, sounds extremely interesting
I love the interesting way Saber pronounces, "Jesus," the inflection he uses, "JeeZUS," I don't know, I don't see many people pronounce Jesus the way Saber does
Bad Christian animation is probably Saberspark's 2nd favorite genre after Unintentional Furry Animation.
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Sure...unintentional...
I'm just waiting for the inevitable crossover. I recall there was one show that actually did this but I can't remember the title.
@@Tareltonlives Was it the one with the "No, NOOOO" meme?
Ironic thing is most animation directed at furries is actually high quality stuff such as Zootopia and Beaststars. Really makes you think right?
i only saw a few seconds of the movie and then then an ad came on. i was so happy
why does this sound like a movie that my old Christian summer camps would play for us
Man, if only christian animation was as good as veggietales every time.
ye veggietales is super great but EVERYTHING ELSE SUCKS
Even VeggieTales reboot is Great and enjoyable. Bob and Larry remind me of McQueen and Mater. And still relates to actual Bible things.
Honestly I wish most animation in general was as good as veggie tales.
I mean the issue is why would it be? If they can make this and get sales why would you put in the time and work it would take to make quality.
@@Dronkey64 maybe the reboot is still good, but in my mind nothing truly compares to the original.
The Prince of Egypt is by far the best biblical animation ever made, IMO. I would like to see a review of that one day.
It is my fav movie of all time
Even as a non-Christian, I love that movie. Still like to sometimes listen to the Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston's version of "When You Believe." Huh...just remembering their duet has just given me chills, lol! The version in the movie was very sweet but Mariah and Whitney were powerhouses back then and that song is the perfect culmination of that.
@MalumAtheist66 I think it's a bot or just a spamming troll. Ignore it.
Not worth your energy.
Have a good day fellow Saberspark watcher!
True tho
What do you say about a masterpiece though? It's easier/funnier to review the bad stuff
8:45 mans just turned into bill cypher for a second
13:37 love this part of the sponsor ngl
As someone who was raised Catholic my parents didn’t really like most of the Christian shows and movies. The only Christian shows or movies my siblings and I watched were veggietales, prince of Egypt and Paws and Tales. So I had no idea Christian animation could get so bad lol
Part of that is likely theological; there's quite a bit of space between Catholic and the evangelicals this sort of thing is more often aimed at, to the point that some evangelicals believe that Catholics aren't really Christian, what with their idolatry and saint worship.
You and me both.
I'm from Germany and we once had a really good Christian cartoon series called "Chi-Roh the Secret". It was so good but it unfortunately disappeared from the parquet of the television landscape.
@@somethingirgendwas6924 But is it on youtube?
@@tbonbrad really?
The best Christian animation is Hellsing Ultimate. Bible Town, on the other hand, is a punishment from Hell itself
I still need to watch that
It seems like torture devised by abridged Alucard
And The Prince of Egypt
Ah yes, now that truly is a cleansing series
Father Anderson would agree 😏
Suddenly im so glad i grew up rewatching The Prince of Egypt over and over
As a child who grew up in a Christian home I can say bible man was the greatest quality show I was allowed to watch
Jesus: **watches Bible Town**
Jesus: "THAT WAS JUST A BUNCH OF CHEAP WALK CYCLES!"
Walk cycles are hard. It's easier to animate a floating balloon.
@@justanormalguy1840 You missed the chance to say begone thot and im disappointed random stranger
@@talapines7543 could just edit it
Frick my comment got deleted
Literally any movie: "bible"
Dove: *I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK*
Chocolate?
Soap?
*Both?*
Dove Cameron?
i think superbook is an exception. (or not common.)
Going to put this out there.
They used that phone app, you know the one where it gives you a really odd face of a character/disney or otherwise and it looks like you're talking for them.
They used their phones to make these characters lol
I like how on the cover of the movie they used the EXACT SAME face and expressions on both boys. They’re identical, they just palate swapped the characters and changed one of their hairstyles
Saberspark: "This is worse than finding Jesus."
Me, a Christian: "Jesus can't be _that_ bad, right?"
Lol. It's very interesting to watch this video as a Christian. (Yes I'm one too).
Welcome to the club of people who are actually Christians that are watching this video
Ooooo you are going to commit a few sins because
...that
Shit
wack!
Being a Christian, I can indeed confirm that God doesn't forgive the people who made Bible Town
@@lastswordfighter true
"Christians will buy anything."
Yeah, pretty much. As long as you slap a Dove Foundation sticker on it.
I hate to admit how true that is.
some will.
My and family and have never watched any of these poor quality animations, and we are Christian. I promise that my own parents would be appalled at the low bar Christian-focused media has settled with. I swear, Dove Foundation MUST be secretly run by the Devil's advocates in order to keep our Faith as niche as possible!
The clips of dialogue make me fondly look back at Cool Cat Saves The Kids.
lol I'm a Catholic, and I haven't heard of any these ever in my life xD (Veggietales I have, so don't worry about that lmao)
I grew up with a chill Catholic home.
The CCC movies, we watched
I want a Puritan version of Harry Potter. Hagrid says Harry’s a witch, and he gets put on trial with a Catholic Ron (who is also on trial for being Irish, because Puritans), and a Quaker Hermione.
Hogwarts school of Prayer and Miracles
Voldemort would be a pope?
@@kaitlynnlong8891 oh god not that horror
*Irish Ron (who is also on trial for being Catholic
oh you should go check out the video on that chick who rewrote harry potter but Hogwarts is basically a christain boarding school. Draco says something really sexist about Luna, Harry defends her. saying something just as sexist, and she gets super relieved. It's a rollercoaster
"Jesus won't like this..."
*Ironic but understandable.*
Yeah czcams.com/video/_3FBiRDt9kk/video.html
Fax..
@@Chkprofilename and @joshroehi stfu about your links
@@joshroehl6098 go the absolute sodding Hell away.
@@Chkprofilename shut it.
I mean, there was the animated Pilgrims' Progress movie, but it had limited screenings and wasn't advertized that much. It was a movie that came out sometime between 2016 and 2019 that was an adaptation of a really old book by the same name.
Forget 24 hours, 24 minutes of this nightmare hellscape would have me confessing to things that carried prison time. I swear I know *nothing* about 3d animation and I could probably have done better. Or at least knew not to release it.
"They know all of them. That's why it's so cool!"
"Even the story about the birth of Jesus?"
Interesting she would choose the most well-known story in the Bible as the bar for Biblical know-how
Shoulda asked for "The last story in the Bible"
"Even the story about Lot and his daughters?"
Bruh, like what about the talking donkey that literally scolds a dude about the angel that was about to decapitate the dude riding the donkey?
What about the Judges? Like if you wanted amazing comic book material, the Book of Judges is just amazing.
What about the time Solomon literally threated to cut a baby in half in order to figure out who the mother was to this child?
What about Cain and Abel? Jacob and Esau? Herod just putting John the Baptist's head on a silver charger for his daughter, which really ended up being for her mother?
Yeah, WowNow just didn't try at all. Just watch Veggietales, while I'm gonna be a pirate and....not do anything.
I cant wait until they talk about the Bible 2 in the next movie
Here before 20 likes
Bible 2: The Christianening
Oh, the Qur'an?
@@Kickiusz the third in the trilogy
Whisper knows about VeggieTales confirmed
I only remembered the christmas special and that was it.
6:38 This guy is an animated version of the heaven's gate cult leader. Period.
It's honestly kind of a shame that no one can make better Christian animation because... You know here's the thing.
The stories within the bible.... Are good. They are actually interesting, often times quite dark, stories of mythology.
So all you really need to do is to make a slightly modernized more streamlined version of any of these old testament stories and you would be pretty good. It's actually not that hard just... pick one.
You should watch Superbook. It's the only Christian animated show I watched but it was good.
Well....at least from my memory of it.
Definitely. It says a lot when an openly atheist director like Ridley Scott wants to make a movie about Exodus
@@savorlesscontent4685 I do have faint memories of an animated anthology show from my childhood.
Where each episode had a new animation style and it told stories from different religions with each episode. And some of those stories were in fact bible stories. And they were good.
I remember the tale of Lot and his family as they had to flee a city god had condemned. And they were told that no matter what they could NOT look back while fleeing, because if they did that they would tone to stone/Pilars of salt.
But sadly Lot's wife ended up looking back and thus turned to stone.
I remember that being made in stop motion for that show. And it was very dark and VERY scary the scene where she turned to stone.
It's funny cause I was just a little kid and it was on cable. But that really stuck to me!
@@manospondylus4896 Does he want to put aliens in it?
@@AntediluvianRomance He already made the movie, my dude. It‘s called Exodus: Gods and Kings
8:19 come on Saber, no need to end someone's whole career like that XD
Idk with the nightmare inducing characters I think Saber here did the right thing.
He should watch White Snake 2. It came out online. That movie is better than this stupid sellout that makes dogs look better.
I'm not dabbing I'm looking at the floor for cheese
I'm Wallace and I can't seem to find gromit
He be Dash from the Incredibles
I can think of a couple of other christian related animations, though they’re considerably older. One is called Living Scriptures, something I would watch at the christian school whenever it was raining during recess or lunch. The other is called The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible, which was from Hanna Barbera. Yes, the same company that gave The Flintstone, The Jetsons, and many other classics had a series based on stories from the Bible. In all honesty, I thought both of these were pretty decent.
10:34 BIBLE MAN
I swear Veggietales, Prince of Egypt and Joseph: king of dreams is the only Christian animations I have ever enjoyed and praised
Then you have only just scratched the surface of the barrel. Go back to before those shows and watch Adventures in Odyssey or Greatest Adventures Stories from the Bible. They were animated professionally and had decent VA's. James Earl Jones even voiced Pharaoh in one episode of Greatest Adventures! Check em out
Watch Superbook that show is good too.
Superbook is a good one
@@tenchiofJurai67 That pfp gives me ptsd
The Flying House, Superbook, and Davey and Goliath if you’re a 70s/80s kid
As a big fan of animation and an aspiring animator, I die a little inside every time I see the 3D animation....
same
Angel Wars
Same
Same
Dude it looks like a fucking plotogon
the only christian media my parents exposed me to was veggietales because it's good
one time a few years ago i was helping out with the preschoolers ministry and the teacher wanted to show a video to the class and she was like "i don't like veggietales"
my expectations were pretty low but dang i was still so disappointed
The ironic thing is this is probably played in hell on loop as a form of eternal punishment.
"God deserves better and you know it"
I forgot which CZcamsr said it, but I always think back to the quote "I refuse to believe that the way to worship an infinite God that created everything we perceive is with stale, repetitive art" (paraphrasing hard here)
Josh Keefe.
@Lt. JoeAnimatez perfectly describes the situation
@Lt. JoeAnimatez Exactly. Making something mindless and lazy isn’t anyway to please/show God respect
I know Adam Neely said something similar of CCM
Do you think... god stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created?
Honestly he makes a good point at the end, isn't it kind of insulting to put absolutely zero effort into your offering to your Lord? I just pray I fare better...
I assume it’s like the Wisdom Tree Nintendo games that seem to just have a Christian coat of paint and is marketed to Christians but doesn’t actually have Christians behind it.
Not just kind of, it is. Technically it isn’t really an offering per se, more like using one’s gifts to build people up and share God’s message, but yeah it doesn’t make sense to assume that just talking about Jesus is enough for art to be good. When God gave plans for the temple, he had the best craftsmen and metalworkers who were skilled in their work. So he clearly doesn’t settle for amateur work if it’s going to be used to represent him.
I swear the blinde girl looks like Riley from Inside out
7:35 The impossible happened, something worse than a .1/10
The dot isn't a typo, i totally mean it.
"Bible!'
*Dove org shudders*
Dove org: "say it again!"
"Bible! Bible! Bible!"
*Dove org shudders more and laughs*
*Be Prepared song cues in*
Lol I knew where you were going with that before I even finished reading, heck I heard it I their voices lmao
Love it XD
Less than five percent of dove approved movies are good
"Bible Town" sounds like cult's "closed community"
Yep czcams.com/video/_3FBiRDt9kk/video.html
Fax
Drink the koolaid,kids!
BibleTown sounds like the title to a Get Out style film.XD
Probably a sundown city
Hahaha. The people in BibleTown are happy and can leave wherever they want.
Haha.
To me, The Prince of Egypt movie is more Jewish than Christian as it’s really based on the story of the Exodus from Egypt which is literally a Jewish story. I wish that there was more quality content like that. We need more quality Jewish animation like this.
I think the texture on the Ballon on the poster is where the budget went
As a Christian, this “movie” is like a spit in the face. Like Saber said, it’s like a pandering parody.
It speaks a lot about the state of religious entertainment that it is so easy to mock it. It speaks even more that most of these are so hamfisted that they come off as mockery.
it's like that for any company that uses religion as a marketing tactic. And I will never buy from a company like that. I actually work for a "Christian" company. They are the most disgustingly greedy and evil corporation that takes advantage of elderly people and their workers and loopholes in the law so the owners can get as rich as humanly possible. It's a "Christian" in home geriatric nursing company that exclusively charges exorbitant hourly rates (when they're operating costs are incredibly low) to the patients and pays the workers like dirt and doesn't even offer any of us nurses or any workers health insurance due to a loophole in the law. They're disgusting. And so are most "Christian" companies. It makes me sick. I despise this company. But I love my patients and I get very attached to my patients. And the company forbids us from talking to our patients outside of our shift without going through the company so they can charge them for every minor thing. Which I never do. I'm always on call for my patients on off hours for free whenever they need me (most of our patients don't have family close by or any family at all). One time my patients cane broke so I ran to Walgreens and got her new cane and dropped it off to her. One time another patient couldn't get the lid off her medication so I went over there and took care of it for her. It is ridiculous how much they charge for their services I always stayed after or got there early for no pay. I even drove my client to a special doctor's appointment three and a half hours away there and three and a half hours back and didnt charge my patient for the extra time. I try to do as much for my patients as possible and save them as much money as possible. I can get fired if I get caught. But I don't care because I know I'm doing the right thing. Unlike the "christian" company gouging the most vulnerable people for the most amount of money. Sorry my rants over it just makes me so mad.
They're just trying to make a quick buck
Bro, wait until you see Bible man, I am not even Christian anymore but this shit is insulting
@@WhitneyDahlin like how chic fil a funds conversion therapy
"Bob the Tomato have mercy on your eternal soul."
lmao thank you Saber
The creeepiest part is how their eyes hardly move
It’s hilarious seeing saber losing his mind over this movie 🤣
Me and a friend of mine were talking about how Christian filmmakers need to make better movies. Both in live action and in animation. Think about it, when did we last get a movie that was as high quality and Biblicaly accurate as Prince of Egypt?
True
Prince of Egypt was a Jewish film, not a Christian one. That might have something to do with it.
@@scharb Yeah, it is a Jewish story, but even though it does tell the story of the Jews being delivered out of Egypt, its a Bible film too. Since the entire story was recorded in the Bible. So I guess it's a Jewish and a Christian movie.
Prince of Egypt leaves out quite a few details tho
@@D00dman Yeah, it's not a perfect representation of the story as told in the Bible. But it does tell the story pretty well, and also succeeds at being a good film to watch.
As a Christian myself, I can't help but cringe seeing this sort of stuff. It's really true; Christian animation is not a very well-developed genre in the slightest.
Like, if it turned out that the people in charge of writing this stuff were actually trying to undermine the religion by making this the main public portrayal of Christians, it'd make a stupid amount of sense.
Makes me wish I was more of a screenwriter/animator. I mean, I don't want to say that some 16 year old could write and animate a basic plot better than the boards of dinguses making this dreck, but like, some 16 year old could totally write and animate a basic plot better than the boards of dinguses making this dreck.
I don't think age would matter in making something better than this dreck. I'm pretty sure you could let a baby play with a keyboard and come up with better content than this crap.
@@r3negadex It's always baffling when it feels like someone exerted negative thought into writing something that's supposed to be at least somewhat important to them
I agree. Christians aren't stupid like these animators think we are. It feels like they are trying to market some cheap trash to appeal to our "ideals".
@@guydude439 Unfortunately, ideals will get the sales with those "No Minecraft because it's evil" type mothers who put a leash around the content they expose their kids to. I'm all for keeping kids safe from violence until they're ready, and I'm all for parental discretion, but sometimes it just isn't healthy.
Kids are always prepared for violence.
Not to suffer it, but to know it exists before its too late
8:13
Hate to say it, but the character model in his music video is atleast somehow more appealing than whatever *this* is.
Well...Not a movie...But at least we got Superbook, that isn't bad:D
I poused on the moment when he said:,,WowNow is a-'' I'm now scared to continue the video,should i???😰