History WesternAnimation / JonahAVeggieTalesMovie

* AnimationBump: Due to the animators having a movie-sized budget, the animation in ''Jonah'' is probably the best in the series. Notably, Big Idea was able to get lighting animators who had just finished work on films like ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' and ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1''. The end result is ''gorgeous''.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Jonah was a prophet, but he never really got it.
** [[spoiler:Possibly averted later, where Twippo turns out to be Jonah, who sings a song about how the prophet failed to learn his lesson.]]

** DownerEnding: InUniverse with the Jonah tale told by the Pirates. When the listeners are stunned, they explain the story ''had'' to end that way because it was the best way to make the morals of compassion, mercy, and second chances clear.

As in [[Literature/BookOfJonah the story in]] Literature/TheBible, the story of Jonah goes thusly: Jonah was a prophet of God, sent to spread His messages. However, when God tells Jonah to go to the Ninevites to warn them to repent of their evil ways, Jonah doesn't want anything to do with them...so he decides to go as far in the other direction as possible.

* MeetTheCelebrityContest: The FrameStory for the retelling of the book of Jonah involves Bob and Mr. Asparagus driving a bunch of kids to a Twippo concert. However, Laura has won the Twippo Sweepstakes and has a special ticket that will allow her to go backstage and meet him. She keeps rubbing it in the others' faces. When she loses the ticket, Junior isn't particularly sorry, which leads into AnAesop about compassion, forgiveness, and mercy.

* AnAesop: Compassion and mercy are preferable to selfishness and revenge.
** Specifically, believing in God and urging people to be good aren't about looking down on them and waiting for them to receive punishment from The Lord, the goal is to help them understand that what they're doing is wrong and avoid punishment altogether, because everyone deserves a second chance. Khalil states the whole aesop plainly at the end of the story when he points out how petty and selfish Jonah is for waiting for the ninevites to be smited ''even after'' he delivered the message from God.
** Khalil learns that fame isn't important, and that the world needs less famous people and more people who are compassionate and merciful.

* LiteralMinded: At the beginning of the movie, while Bob is driving the van and hopelessly lost on the way to the Twippo concert, Mr. Asparagus and all the kids are singing Twippo songs. When they finish the first one we hear them sing, they consult Bob for what song they should sing next, which he sarcastically suggests one about him driving into the river. They cut him off before he finishes his sentence and ''actually do just that''. He then cuts them off in return with "...or you can help me with the MAP!"

* NonSequiturThud: "Is this... Heaven?" "[[ShoutOut Smells like]]... [[Film/FieldOfDreams Wisconsin]]!" The alternate takes in the DVD's fake blooper reel are even more random.

* SameContentDifferentRating: The film was released with a G rating upon it's inital release. Amazon's print of the film is rated for ages 7 and up, likely due to the plot point of Jonah wanting God to kill the Ninevites, as well as the scene with The Slap of No Return.

* TrialByCombat: The Pirates use the same principle logic that drove this practice to weed out the sinner on their ship. Clearly God's pissed off at one of them, so they figure the only way to figure out whom God's mad at is to see whom God makes lose a game of ''Go Fish''. [[MundaneMadeAwesome So they have an absolutely intense game in the pouring apocalyptic rain while their ship threatens to sink around them.]] ''And it actually works'' (this is the film's version of the sailors drawing lots to see who gets tossed off the ship in the original story).

* ThisCannotBe: Invoked verbatim by Jonah on learning God wanted him to offer mercy to Nineveh.

* WhamLine: Towards the end of the film, Jonah still wants Ninevah to be destroyed. [[spoiler:After Khalil explains that God gave the city a second chance, Jonah wishes he were back inside the belly of the whale, resulting in this:]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Khalil:''' You are pathetic. You know, patience runs very deep in my family. But not that deep. I am out of here!]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The last pair of cards that Khalil has during the game of ''TabletopGame/GoFish'' is a whale.

* WhamLine: Towards the end of the film, Jonah wants Ninevah to be destroyed. [[spoiler:After Khalil explains that God gave the city a second chance, Jonah wishes he were back inside the belly of the whale, resulting in this:]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Khalil:''' You are pathetic. You know, patience runs very deep in my family. But not that deep. I'm out of here!]]

* AnimatedOuttakes: Includes animated bloopers, such as characters walking off cliffs, a fired porcupine needle missing and hitting the cameraman, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking an airplane flying by during seventh-century Israel]].

* TrialByCombat: The Pirates use the same principle logic that drove this practice to weed out the sinner on their ship. Clearly God's pissed off at one of them, so they figure the only way to figure out who God's mad at is to see who God makes lose a game of ''Go Fish''. [[MundaneMadeAwesome So they have an absolutely intense game in the pouring apocalyptic rain while their ship threatens to sink around them.]] ''And it actually works'' (this is the film's version of the sailors drawing lots to see who gets tossed off the ship in the original story).

* UnwantedAssistance: Jonah has this attitude most of the picture towards ''everyone'', especially Khalil.

* UniversalAdaptorCast: The [=VeggieTales=] prove they can mold themselves into new roles quite well, using the same characters in new and different ways. It doesn't hurt that Larry, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape had already been the Pirates in one of the Silly Songs.