Finding Jesus is a religious animated movie made by WowNow Entertainment. It is one of the many rip-offs on Pixar's feature film Finding Nemo.
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Plot
Two fish Muggles and Joy travel the ocean learning all about Bible lessons.
Why It Couldn't Find Jesus
- As said before, it's another one of the at least 20 shameless rip-offs of Finding Nemo (some of which, but certainly not all of them, being Izzie's Way Home, Shark Bait, Go Fish, Back to the Sea, and Magic Arch). Hasn't it suffered enough?
- What makes it even worse is that it's Christian, meaning that WowNow is attempting to get money by roping in Christians, believing that regardless of it being a rip-off, they'll buy it. Just like (albeit not of the mockbuster variety, but still) Joshua and the Promised Land, Dorbees: Making Decisions, and Bible Town (the latter of which being a Religious media cash-in made before this one by WowNow), it shows no respect towards its demographic of Christians that it desperately markets itself towards, nor the beliefs that their supposed to be educating them about, and its only concern is making money of them.
- Misleading title: Despite the name, the film's actual premise has nothing to do with finding Jesus.
- Abysmal voice acting that is common with other WowNow films. It seems like they want to get the hell out of here, or maybe they were kidnapped by WowNow and they will let them go if they do this movie, as SaberSpark suggested in his video of the film's sequel. Although that would be ironic since it's a Christian movie. Heck, one character in the movie sounds almost exactly like Fozzie Bear from The Muppets. We're not making this up!
- The whale character sounds bored to death and emotionless.
- Mr. Sushi's Japanese accent sounds annoying and stereotypical which we will talk a bit about him later.
- Muggles the fish sounds almost like Venti from Genshin Impact as if he got a stuffy nose. What’s even worse is his laughter, which sounds hauntingly soulless! Ironically, enough, both Genshin Impact and Finding Jesus came out in 2020.
- Lazy animation. Similar to Bible Town, there are almost no shots of the characters actually moving and almost all of the movie has them simply staying in place and talking. Any bit of animation that the movie actually has looks unfinished and ugly.
- The character designs for Muggles and Joy are horrendous, and we can't tell what kind of fish they supposed to be, considering that Joy might be a clownfish and Muggles an angelfish. Not to mention, the characters designs look uncanny given their humongous eye designs and the fact that, as SaberSpark also pointed out, their character designs were also most likely simply bought online and for a cheap price at it rather than being actually created by the Studio.
- There's barely any animation. All the characters can do is look left, right, up, down, float, and move their fins.
- The characters' eyes don't really move, making them look creepy.
- Poor lip syncing. The characters mouths just randomly flop and move about with any trace of actually even trying to match what the characters are actually saying.
- The pacing is too slow. As if the fact that barely anything truly significant really happens in the movie, the fact that the tone is so slow makes the generally short movie drag out so long that it instead feels like an eternity.
- It doesn't seem like a movie, but it rather feels like three or four cartoon episodes meshed into one. That's because every once in a while the narrator (whose voice acting is irritating) resets the story.
- Mr. Sushi, one of the supporting characters in the movie, is a racist creature. First off, he is an actual sushi, the food kind. Second of all, he has a Japanese accent.
- The poster is just a random image of the ocean with Muggles copied and pasted onto it.
Qualities That Found Jesus
- The art style and backgrounds are decent. Take away the eyes and the poster is pretty nice as well.
- The animation does look nice in some scenes as mentioned in WICFJ#4.
- You can laugh at Mr. Sushi's Japanese accent.
Reception
It had extremely low ratings on IMDb, scoring a 1.1/10. One core reason the ratings are so low is due to the low-quality animation and racial stereotype.
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