VeggieTales Classics: God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?! (1997)

I viewed a 10-year anniversary edition of this disc, the second title produced in the VeggieTales lineup. Besides the usual kid-oriented games and karaoke, the Special Features includes a nicely done ensemble retrospective from the producers on how Big Idea produced its first colorful computer-animated title (one year before Toy Story hit the theaters) and then how the team answered the question "OK, what do we do next?" (The Forgive-O-Matic segment was slapped together from a Bible college script and the rest grew organically around that seed.) God Wants Me to Forgive Them is a solid VeggieTales production that emphasizes the Christian value of forgiveness (not just once, not seven times, but in Christ's words "70 times seven"). It is more didactic than later story-oriented titles, probably spending 10% of the script citing scriptural and divine injunctions ("the Bible says" and "God wants us") to forgive. It includes the traditional VeggieTales touchstones: the introduction, Silly Songs, QWERTY and a Bible verse, and so on. Unless they shy away from mild preachiness, VeggieTales-loving families ought to love this title. I acquired my copy from a competing service since the disc has been a Save title on this service for a number of years. 3 stars.