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The Star (2017)
A small donkey accompanied by his animal friends became the heroes of Christmas.
17 October 1980, Torrance, California, USA
22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA
29 January 1954, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA
13 December 1929, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 September 1967, Detroit, Michigan, USA
30 July 1984, Chicago, Illinois, USA
14 September 1969, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
4 March 1958, Bay Village, Ohio, USA
November 20, 2017
This is a bible-based, animated adventure for children, with the emphasis on cute comedy and familiar pious tropes; it's somewhat dry and bland, but simplicity and an over-qualified voice cast help see it through.
November 16, 2017
The movie is sincerely Christian in its outlook, while also a slapstick animal 'toon. It's a mix that works only intermittently. But when it doesn't pop, it thuds.
November 17, 2017
Drifting through brainless slapstick, mixed metaphors, moral high ground and back again, it is the latest entry in a recent procession of communion bread and circuses.
November 22, 2017
The children I watched it with seemed engaged enough in the animated hijinks, although the overall design aesthetic seemed to me more reminiscent of an unskippable Clash of Clans ad than the characterful top-shelf animated film its cast suggests.
November 24, 2017
Some future shelf life in seminaries seems likely, but as festive treats for kids go, it's like asking for a selection box and being force fed communion wafers instead.
November 26, 2017
It's reasonably lively, and not impious (if you ask me), but set against the best cartoons, it's not the greatest story ever told.
November 17, 2017
All told, The Star should be a safe bet for families during the upcoming holiday season.
November 23, 2017
Delivers ... a preachy, bland and fastidiously inoffensive kind of ersatz fun - a little like those knock-off Christian video games from the early 1990s that mimicked existing hits, but which made you pray for people instead of shoot them.
November 17, 2017
This outing is a bit toon-deaf in how it tries having it both ways by mixing the holy with high jinks.
November 16, 2017
Never overcomes the impression that it exists only because it's guaranteed to make a certain sum of money.
November 20, 2017
Unless you have tiny, religious children, it's probably best to avoid it.
November 26, 2017
A sweet and often (tastefully) funny story of The Nativity told from the perspective of the animals involved.