Customer Reviews

The Pilgrim's Progress

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I have read the children's version of this classic story with my Sunday School kids (5th graders) and I was excited to see the DVD animated version. To my disappointment, I thought that the movie was a bit dry and the animation was subpar (but then again, this is not Disney or Pixar).
I was a bit reluctant to share this movie with my new Sunday School class(3rd graders) because I thought that the children would be bored out of their minds. However, I truly believe that the message in this classic story adopted from Bunyan's original work is timeless, and can serve as a valuable teaching tool for both adults and children.
I prefaced the screening of the movie with a warning that it may become boring at times, but I encouraged the children to pay close attention to the story. To my surprise, they LOVED it! They really got into the story, asking questions about the characters and places. They were really disappointed when I had to stop the film because our class time had run out. I am definitely looking forward to completing the movie with them and discussing a Christian's pilgrimage through life.
This is a definite must for any Sunday School teacher and Christian family. As long as my kids enjoyed it, I couldn't be more pleased. A++++++++++

I bought this DVD primarily for my children (ages 6 and 4) they love it and have watched it many times already. I too have enjoyed it and found it helpful, even with the basic graphics and slight drawbacks it is highly commendable and I would recommend it wholehearedly.
Bunyans classic goes on and on!
God Bless
Iain

This movie is now one of my favorites! So informative and meaningful and despite it being animation it touched me with it's message! A great revival for a Christian and a great help for a non-believer.

I was very impressed with this video and found it very helpful. It covers some important topics and delivers some important truths. It clearly explains some key questions about faith. It isn't made by a big studio, but clearly by someone who is a talented animator and who wants to use his talents to communicate something worthwhile. It has some beautiful scenes, some interesting characters, and very worthwhile dialog.

I have recently gone through the felt board set and lessons by Betty Lukens on the broad path and the narrow path. I great christian building series. I want my kids to be really solid Little Christians. In our lessons I came across the children's book of Pilgrim's Progress and I spent a Sunday reading it to my kids. They LOVED it and I had seen this DVD so I bought it also. I previewed it at home and was very pleasently surprised. My 7 and 8 year old daughters watched it with me and demanded to watch it again as soon as it ended the first time. We really enjoyed it. I gave it a 5 Star rating because all of my children church kids loved it. It took two Sundays to watch the whole movie. When we didn't get to finish it the first Sunday (because parents were arriving to take them home) the kids were begging to finish it and wanted their parents to come back when it was over. I have about 20 kids in Children's Church and they come to me from the nursery at age 3 and the oldest children are in 5th grade. So I have a very wide age group but all of them loved the movie.
Now here is the only part that I was not happy with. I have taught my kids over and over that at the narrow gate only one person can go through at a time. That you can't push, pull, rope whatever anyone else through. And nobody, mom, dad, grandparents, siblings can push, pull etc you through. Each person has to make that decision themselves and go through by themselves. When Christian gets to the gate he does ask Goodwill if he can enter and why he wants to enter. Good so far but then Goodwill opens the gate for Christian and yanks him in. What?!!! I paused the movie and asked my kids what was wrong. Actually I didn't really have to ask because they all knew and were shocked and not happy about it. I explained that I thought maybe Goodwill saw the firey arrows coming so he was trying to hurry Christian up so he could close the gate and they would be protected. I also told them that the movie was wrong and they agreed. We talked about how this could be confusing to kids who hadn't already learned about the two paths. They agreed and we moved on.
I still love the movie and of course my kids to do. In fact I have made them costumes and we are going to act it our together this Sunday. (Coustumes are just made from pillowcases not real professional but my kids don't care they just love to dress up and act it out. Give it a try.)
I love the story of Pilgrims Progress and have from a child. I highly recommend it to all adults and children. I have bought my kids the childrens version book to take home. What a great tool to send home with kids who don't have Christian parents!
I just bought each of them this DVD too. That is how much I think of this movie and I know God will use it in these children's homes! After all His Word will not come back void.
It's like my pastor says "Let's get as many hooks in the water as we can and show people the way to Jesus. Our job is to be a disciple and make disciples."

This is a strong video; after watching it the first time my three-year-old exclaimed, "I want to go to HEAVEN!" My seven-year-old started worrying that his parents will go to hell. So be prepared to respond to strong reactions.
I personally found it exciting, authentic, and spiritually nourishing.
The colorful animated production is surprisingly artistic in spots. The actor who does the voice of Evangelist and the Judge is not so talented; however overall it's a fine performance of the Christian classic. I am glad that I own it.

I have used this DVD for the past 2 or 3 years for my fifth grade class. We typically read excerpts of this from our Reading Curriculum from Bob Jones University...and getting to watch this definitely stands out for our week spent on Pilgrim's Progress! They all love the arrows from Beelzebub part the best! Great graphics there! The dvd does deviate from the original version where Faithful is a guy, but in this version depicted as a girl. Thanks for the awesome video!

This is a terrific little computer-animation movie based on Pilgrim's Progress. My (now) 4-year old son still enjoys it, and so do I.

I have nothing but admiration for Scott Cawthon who, as far as I can tell, created all the animation and voiced all the male characters by himself. What a labor of love.

There is one part that's a little scary when Christian is doing battle with Apollyon (which, as another reviewer remarked, kind of reminded me of an old video games)...fair warning.

Recommended.

I really love this movie, I watch it with my kids over and over. It is a great way to share with my kids what Christian life is all about.
I also watched it with my church and they really liked it. I really recomend it.

The kids loved it, it was better than I expected.

Yes, it is not current technology but it is a good story that held thier interest. My 6 year old wanted to watch it over and over again for a about a week.

Wish they made a follow up movie for Christana.