What Makes THE STAR a Standout Christmas Movie
By Movieguide® Contributor
Actor Zachary Levi believes it’s important for Christian movies to be good, high-quality pieces that audiences want to watch.
In a previous interview with Movieguide®’s Evy Carroll, he shared why he believes his film THE STAR is just that. “It’s an incredible artisanal team brought together by a big studio force like Sony, I just think in not so many words, I feel like there are a lot of faith-based films that just aren’t very good at all. I commend that they want to put their messaging out, good messaging, positive messaging.”
He continued, “You can have a really beautiful message wrapped up in a crap packaging. And… nobody cares about the message at that point. Or you can have incredible packaging with no message, but people still eat that package, you know? I just it’s unfortunate because I think that if faith-based movie makers and faith-based audiences really want to start doing that and making it happen, it’s got to be like this. You got to make something that’s good.”
Movieguide’s synopsis of THE STAR reads “THE STAR is a wonderful, hilarious, deeply reverential animated family movie centered on the birth of Jesus, but from the perspective of a lowly donkey named Bo. Bo and his best friend, Dave the dove, have dreams of joining the royal parade. When Bo escapes his owner’s clutches, he finds himself accompanying a pregnant Mary and her husband Joseph on their way to Bethlehem. Bo may be a part of a bigger adventure than he expected. However, the evil King Herod has his top soldier looking for the pregnant Mary.”
The film was rated a +4 for content, the highest rating a film can receive from Movieguide.
The review states, “THE STAR is tremendous fun, with wonderful lessons along the way. A touching story from a unique perspective, THE STAR sets itself apart from many of the other nativity movies. Obviously, the movie condenses and shifts a few incidents found in the Bible, but never sacrifices a very strong biblical Christian theology. However, the movie deftly balances the goofy fun of the animals with a deeply redemptive reverence for God and the birth of Jesus Christ. Overall, THE STAR is almost void of objectionable content. It’s a must-see Christmas movie for everyone.”
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