Posted on 04/05/2026 6:40:08 AM PDT by Making_Sense [Rob W. Case]
Before Angel Studios released the animated movie David late last year, it released an animated movie based on the life of Jesus Christ, called The King of Kings, around Easter. The movie did remarkably well at the box office, and it was a movie that sparked my curiosity due to the fact that its approach was different in the sense that it was framed by how Charles Dickens taught the account of Jesus Christ to his kids.
The Story:
The movie opens up during the part of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, where the character of Ebenezer Scrooge, the self-absorbed miserable miser, is finding out that the grave that is being dug is his own. Meanwhile, in a theatre in London, Dickens’s playful and imaginative son Walter is seeking adventure and admiration in a King, albeit “King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table”. When Walter’s playfulness gets to be a huge distraction to his father’s theatrical performance, Dickens exerts his authority to get Walter to stop. Walter’s spirits are broken, and he goes home with his pet cat, sad.
After the performance, Charles comes home to his family, and he has a talk with Walter about another King, a unique and different type of King with a completely different purpose, a King that many of the Great Kings of history would try to emulate and honor, and that is the King of Kings; Jesus Christ...
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