muck Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDFFFreak Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Does it have religious themes? Aren't veggie tales Christain inspired? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheikYerbuti Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything Isn't that starring Jason Bay? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Isn't that starring Jason Bay? Nope, Michael Clayton and Carnell Williams. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted January 14, 2008 Author Share Posted January 14, 2008 Does it have religious themes? Aren't veggie tales Christain inspired? Very mass-market oriented. No scriptures. No "Jesus" or "God"...only references to "someone who is watching over you" and only at the end. Closer to Shrek than, say, any other Veggie Tales' previous fare... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepinmofo Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 3 Ninjas was a classic! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czarina Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 The first Veggie Tales movie was a hoot, and we're not heavily into the religion 'thing' here. I'd go see this, but my kids think they're 'too old' now, I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlanta Cracker Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 My 3 year old son liked it. The song at the end was awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneymakers Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Big fans of VeggieTales may wish The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything had more direct spiritual dialogue and impact. And they may also wonder why it doesn't take a Bible story and revamp it the way Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber have done previously. But when asked about it, director/cucumber Mike Nawrocki is quick to point out that VeggieTales has a long history of making stories that don't retell Bible stories—from Where's God When I'm S-Scared? to Madame Blueberry. "It's my hope that in this film, the biblical worldview is very clear and that a Christian audience and a VeggieTales audience will go to it and see what they've always seen in VeggieTales, and get the allegory," Nawrocki told Plugged In Online. "That will ring very true with them and they'll appreciate that." So, setting aside any expectation of a between-the-eyes Sunday school lesson, what kind of kids' movie is Pirates? Maybe I should answer that question with a recitation of places it doesn't go that so many other animated flicks do: It refuses to reference the "f-word" as a joke line the way Open Season does. It sticks to clean veggie humor, not crass "nut" humor like Over the Hedge. It stays far, far away from the New Agey worldviews expressed in Brother Bear. It doesn't feature Regis Philbin and Larry King as the voices of drag-queen "sisters" like the Shrek movies do. It avoids what we called Happy Feet's "oddly unpleasant interjections of spiritualism and Footloose-style loosen-up-you-old-fuddy-duddy 'moralizing.'" And it doesn't indulge in mean-spirited name-calling ("booger breath," "moron," "idiot," etc.) the way pretty much every movie from Meet the Robinsons to Garfield does. Clearly—with the exception of flurries of pirate violence that includes swords being held to young vegetables' throats—the obvious influence of movies such as Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Galaxy Quest and Star Wars, along with onscreen references to Edward Scissorhands, The Love Boat and Days of Our Lives don't seem to have dulled Nawrocki's and screenwriter Phil Vischer's commitment to creating clean, creative entertainment with a layer of biblical frosting for good measure. That layer is sometimes thicker, and sometimes thinner. But it's always there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonKnight Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 (edited) It refuses to reference the "f-word" as a joke line the way Open Season does. It sticks to clean veggie humor, not crass "nut" humor like Over the Hedge. It stays far, far away from the New Agey worldviews expressed in Brother Bear. It doesn't feature Regis Philbin and Larry King as the voices of drag-queen "sisters" like the Shrek movies do. It avoids what we called Happy Feet's "oddly unpleasant interjections of spiritualism and Footloose-style loosen-up-you-old-fuddy-duddy 'moralizing.'" And it doesn't indulge in mean-spirited name-calling ("booger breath," "moron," "idiot," etc.) the way pretty much every movie from Meet the Robinsons to Garfield does. So its unfunny Christian Propaganda. I'll rush right out and indoctrinate my kids tonight. And disco fever baby! is wrong with Happy Feet? ETA: What TF is up with the filter? Edited January 14, 2008 by DemonKnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atlanta Cracker Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 So its unfunny Christian Propaganda. I'll rush right out and indoctrinate my kids tonight. And disco fever baby! is wrong with Happy Feet? ETA: What TF is up with the filter? I found it quite funny and didn't detect any Christian propaganda. Though that's probably how they planned it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted January 14, 2008 Author Share Posted January 14, 2008 Very mass-market oriented. No scriptures. No "Jesus" or "God"...only references to "someone who is watching over you" and only at the end. Closer to Shrek than, say, any other Veggie Tales' previous fare... +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H8tank Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 My girls went to see it when I kicked them out of the house for the game Sat night, I have no idea if they liked it. They didn't offer the info and I don't care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDFFFreak Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 I found it quite funny and didn't detect any Christian propaganda. Though that's probably how they planned it It'll start slow and eventually creep into your subconscious. Beware. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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