VeggieTales - An Easter Carol 1/10
A shoddy effort to graft the "Christmas Carol" plot onto Easter, the result is beyond believability even for a movie about computer animated, proselytizing, talking vegetables. The gulf between this and the average Veggie Tales outing is comparable to the gulf between the Kirk Cameron "Left Behind" movie and "The Omen." This is even more disturbing once you consider how bad Veggie Tales outings tend to be. "VeggieTales - An Easter Carol" is the Veggie Tales flick you would send to someone if you want to turn them off Veggie Tales for all time.
My five year old son watched, very confused, as to what was supposed to be going on. The plot wasn't convoluted, it was quite simple, but the premise was so absurdly stupid that someone from an age bracket that enjoys a fish in a rocket propelled spacesuit found it implausible. There were also continuity issues. For example, the young cumber is shown selling plastic Easter eggs in church, even though the factory didn't start making them until he was elderly and his grandmother had passed away. My five year old noticed this.
The ONLY redeemable scene was the elderly Scrooge Cucumber conning the inventor into building mechanical chickens. It was a decent homage to "The Music Man." I have a suspicion that sequence was the bulk of the pitch, and the flick was built around justifying it. That scene added a whole star to my rating.
Finally, the DVD has numerous issues with sound levels. The dialog was particularly problematic, necessitating multiple volume adjustments.
In short, if you know someone whose children you dislike and you have a grudge against the Veggie Tales franchise, this is the perfect passive-aggressive Easter present to send. The only down sides to using this abysmal sludge as a hostile gift is the children in the house are unlikely to watch it more than once and the DVD is too light to use as an effective Frisbee or skeet target.