The Story of the Other Wise Man

Based on the classic story by Henry Van Dyke we have this cheesy animated film. The animation is pretty clunky and the dialogue at first seemed to be lip- synced to the characters, especially at the beginning. We have to deal with Artaban giving exposition and lamenting about how he has to give away his treasures. The story of a wise man traveling for more than 30 years to find the "newborn" King kind of makes sense if you really let yourself go and "believe". We get a little sense of Christ's ministry for a movie that covers his life and death with the acts of service that the wise man gives to the people meets. The best part was when he helped the lady save her baby from the soldiers. It gets to the point where some of the parts are inadvertently funny, like with Artaban talking to his horse and the ending which I'm not going to spoil.