In essence an animated remake of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments, with Val Kilmer supplying the voice of Charlton Heston, and Ralph Fiennes supplying that of Yul Brynner. Or in other words: religious kitsch for the kiddies, the strict equivalent of My Very First Golden Bible or The Read'n Grow [sic] Picture Bible, except that the illustrations move and the words intermittently sing: "Who knows what miracles/ You can achieve?/ When you believe,/ Somehow you will." (Somehow you will what? Achieve who knows what miracles? Know what miracles you can achieve? Run around in circles?) There can be no great harm in the thing, one wouldn't think. It's never too early to introduce Junior to the tastelessness, vulgarity, schmaltz, simplification, cheapening, and pandering in the popular culture around him. And the well-steeled adult will enjoy many a sophisticated snicker. Even he may be able to button it up for the plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, and especially the early "dream scene" in the flattened perspective of Egyptian tomb paintings and bas-reliefs. Directed, for DreamWorks, by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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