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So you may, or may not, know that we are avid VeggieTales fans here in the Refracted Light house. We lurv them. My children can watch them over and over and on the dvds that we have, they know all the special features as well.

So I thought I'd give a quick run-down a couple of new to us releases:Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's Big River Rescue and
The Wonderful Wizard of Haas

I liked them both. I liked Huckleberry Larry better.

The Wonderful Wizard of Haas is a prodigal son story and also, if you haven't already guessed, a spoof on The Wizard of Oz. I enjoyed the show and laughed my head off, but I felt like the writers spent so much time spoofing the movie that the story was lacking. It didn't really get to me like so many other VeggieTales have. Maybe it's because I was never the prodigal son. I don't know. I just found the story line a bit weak. I hope my children caught the lesson, because it's an important one, but I felt it was overshadowed by the laughs.

Huckleberry Larry is another spoof, of Huckleberry Finn. The message here is that sometimes not helping people is the same as hurting them. There were plenty of laughs here, but the story was much stronger. I cared about the characters and I felt the lesson was really the focus of the story. We've even referenced it in Family Home Evening already and it hasn't been out that long. I'd recommend it to anyone.

(In case you are wondering, the only VeggieTales that I really don't like is The Duke and the Pie War, a retelling of the Ruth story with a little bit of Moses thrown in. Bleh. I totally felt like they missed the boat. My favorite is Esther followed closely by Gideon Tuba Warrior. I mean what's not to love about either story? An Isle of Endless Tickling and a marching band. Gotta love it!)