This is the story of Artaban, the other wise man, who spends his life seeking the King of Kings. He always gets close but is sidetracked by someone in need, and instead of pushing on in his quest, stops to help. This is a lesson in kindness and charity. Despite Artaban's fervent desire to give his gifts to Jesus Christ of Nazareth, he relinquishes them in order to help those less fortunate. He finds at the end of his life that when he helped others, he was in truth doing these good deeds to the Lord. An inspiring film!
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Laughably poor adaptation
moviewatcherperson19 July 2015
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.
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