The Prince of Egypt, which tells the story of Moses, is one of my absolute favorite animated movies ever. Actually, scratch that. It's one of my absolute favorite movies of ANY kind! I saw this prequel about 9 years ago but I do remember some of it.
This direct to video prequel tells the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis and what happend in cause of his brother's jealousy. It can be found in the 37th-46th chapters, except in chapter 38.
Like The Prince of Egypt, the movie has famous actors voicing the characters. Here, Ben Affleck of Pearl Harbor voices Joseph. His brother Judah is voiced by Mark Hamill, who is best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Jodi Benson-who voiced The Little Mermaid, and Dan Castenella of The Simpsons and the voice of The Genie in The Return of Jafar also lend their voices.
The music is decent too. The movie opens with a catchy song called Miracle Child about how much Joseph's parents love their favorite child.
It also has a song called You Know Better Than I, which is a contender for my favorite song. In context, Joseph is in prison for being accused of attempted rape(which is wonderfully watered down to make it family friendly). Joseph became upset that God keeps putting him through tough times, but then he realizes and sings that God knows better for Joseph and he does himself.
I was abused years ago and dealt with PTSD. I found this song on You Tube and it has greatly impacted me and has helped me deal with it. It's helped me with other tough times too. Whenever I ask God why these things have happend to me I close my eyes and sing or whisper(depending where I am) "I've let go the need to know why-for you know better than I!" Then I feel much better. I've learned the exact lesson that Jospeh has.
If you don't know the song, I highly reccomend looking it up on You Tube!
It's amazing how much of this movie I remember since I haven't seen it in so long. That should be a sign of how great it is. It's not as great as The Prince of Egypt(what could be?) but it's still very good.Too bad Dreamworks does not do movies like this since Shrek was more profitable!
8/22 edit: I saw this yesterday and it is now my favorite animated movie ever, along with The Prince of Egypt!
This direct to video prequel tells the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis and what happend in cause of his brother's jealousy. It can be found in the 37th-46th chapters, except in chapter 38.
Like The Prince of Egypt, the movie has famous actors voicing the characters. Here, Ben Affleck of Pearl Harbor voices Joseph. His brother Judah is voiced by Mark Hamill, who is best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in Star Wars. Jodi Benson-who voiced The Little Mermaid, and Dan Castenella of The Simpsons and the voice of The Genie in The Return of Jafar also lend their voices.
The music is decent too. The movie opens with a catchy song called Miracle Child about how much Joseph's parents love their favorite child.
It also has a song called You Know Better Than I, which is a contender for my favorite song. In context, Joseph is in prison for being accused of attempted rape(which is wonderfully watered down to make it family friendly). Joseph became upset that God keeps putting him through tough times, but then he realizes and sings that God knows better for Joseph and he does himself.
I was abused years ago and dealt with PTSD. I found this song on You Tube and it has greatly impacted me and has helped me deal with it. It's helped me with other tough times too. Whenever I ask God why these things have happend to me I close my eyes and sing or whisper(depending where I am) "I've let go the need to know why-for you know better than I!" Then I feel much better. I've learned the exact lesson that Jospeh has.
If you don't know the song, I highly reccomend looking it up on You Tube!
It's amazing how much of this movie I remember since I haven't seen it in so long. That should be a sign of how great it is. It's not as great as The Prince of Egypt(what could be?) but it's still very good.Too bad Dreamworks does not do movies like this since Shrek was more profitable!
8/22 edit: I saw this yesterday and it is now my favorite animated movie ever, along with The Prince of Egypt!