Joshua And The Promised Land [2003]

Always an interesting night when it starts with the question, "Where did you find this?" And the answer is, some YouTube video but I genuinely don't remember which one; just that I got two minutes it and paused it because we needed to watch it for ourselves.

As you can see from the image on the left, this one is a real winner with its eye-searing animation. But bonus: it's also religious. An anthropomorphic lion child named Joshua hears his parents fighting and is whisked away to the Bible story of Moses and, uh, Joshua by an angel who's also an Italian-American stereotype. The film is narrated by a purple creature in a bow tie, very Chippendale style. After all these adventures, he goes home for dinner and at the sight of him his parents immediately stop fighting and everything is solved, I guess.

This is a short one at 50 minutes and while it's pretty incredible to behold, the joke does wear a little thin after a while. Somehow a movie of this length still has padding. Overall, it's worth one watch if you are drunk or just feeling a little silly.

Spoon Rating: 5

Since it was a short one we followed it up with two shorts: "Red Asphalt IV" from 1998 that was a shockumentary about car accidents that they would show in a driver's ed class and emphatically not fun, and "Soapy the Germ Fighter" from 1951 where a boy learns that bathing isn't for sissies from a giant bar of soap with arms and legs. We gave that one a spoon rating of 6. It was delightful.