VeggieTales: Minnesota Cuke (2005)

Don't ask me why this light-touch evangelical spoof of Indiana Jones is named Minnesota Cuke but it's a trademark Veggie-cute treatise on facing one's fear of bullies. Larry the Cucumber is the namesake explorer Minnesota Cuke, who seeks the mystical hairbrush of Samson both to benefit a museum in Moose Lake (a real place in Minnesota) and to defeat Professor Rattan, a competitor who has bullied him since the second grade. Moral of the story: Like Samson, our power comes from God, not talismans or personal traits. The traditional Silly Song is the entertaining Teen Angel-like Pizza Angel, which you may have heard in a Silly Songs compendium. It's one of their better tunes. A playground-bully sketch precedes these goodies (plus the usual bonus features) that is mild and understated but apparently too scary for the tenderest of tots (ages 2-4). Watch this disc and you'll be singing Pizza Angel for a week! I picked it up at my public library since it has been out of stock at this service for two years. 4 stars.