History WesternAnimation / JonahAVeggieTalesMovie

The movie's success lead to a second ''[=VeggieTales=]'' movie in 2008 called ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnythingAVeggieTalesMovie''.

* ButtMonkey: The mailman (played by Jimmy Gourd) in the song "A Message From the Lord", since no one cares about his deliveries thanks to being [[OvershadowedByAwesome too excited about Jonah's messages]].

* IShallTauntYou: Laura keeps teasing Junior about having a backstage pass to see Twippo. [[LaserGuidedKarma It bites her on the ass when she loses it out the car window.]]

* NonDubbedGrunts: The applause at the end of "Message from the Lord" is left undubbed in the Japanese, French, and Hindi dubs. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the Turkish dub, which dubs the applause ''on top of'' the original recording.

* TheSongRemainsTheSame: All of the songs are left undubbed in the Taiwanese Mandarin dub. And for an odd reason, [[UpToEleven even the]] ''[[UpToEleven spoken]]'' [[UpToEleven lines in "The Credits Song" aren't dubbed either]].

** Khalil claims that [[MalignedMixedMarriage his mother was a caterpillar, and his father was a worm]], which is pretty confusing considering how caterpillars are famously known as the larva stage of a butterfly, and therefore cannot have any offspring at that stage.

* NiceHat: The Pirates are all wearing "fashionable headgear" after their tour of the Cheese Curl Factory: giant cheese curl hats.

** When Mr. Nezzer is considering hiring the pirates and asks them "what can you do?", they list off their talents at ping-pong and croquet. They don't get hired.

*** TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that he gives Jonah was, in the original, delivered by God Himself. The bug get to deliver God's lines. How's that for an ascended extra?

** As far as [=VeggieTales=] casting goes, Archibald usually plays a side character, but in this movie he's the protagonist.

* [[{{Gasp}} GASP!]]: Jonah, Khalil, and the Pirates all take turns at dramatic gasping when they see just what "The Slap of No Return" is, before all doing a simultaneous gasp.

* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: Inside the whale, Jonah and the angels are holding a massive celebration. Cut to the surface as two fisherman hear the music and wonder what on earth is going on.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The Japanese dub doesn't credit who voiced the characters as the credits were still retain from the original release.

** When Jonah is trying to get The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything to take him to Tarshish, Larry says that Alf comes on in a half hour, a possible spoof of the "Alf comes on at eight o'clock" line in the 1990s ''Film/LordOfTheFlies'' adaptation.

* ThisCannotBe: Invoked verbatim by Jonah on learning God wanted him to offer mercy to Ninevah.
* 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 of Go Fish 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.)

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Jonah keeps mispronouncing Khalil's name -- until the end when [[spoiler:Khalil and even Reginald abandon him]].

The first full-length ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' film, ''Jonah: A [=VeggieTales=] Movie'' was released in 2002 by Big Idea and FHE Pictures [[note]] An Artisan Entertainment subsid [[/note]].

The first full-length ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' film, ''Jonah: A [=VeggieTales=] Movie'' was released in 2002 by Big Idea and FHE Pictures [[note]] Artisan Entertainment under a different name [[/note]].

* 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 [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped it was the best way to make the morals of compassion, mercy, and second chances clear]].

'''Twippo:''' ''(dramatically in the doorway)'' Did somebody say my name?

* ThemeTuneCameo: When Jonah is pushed in the direction of the Pirates Who Don't Do Anything, their theme briefly plays on the soundtrack.

* NonDubbedGrunts: The applause at the end of "Message from the Lord" is left undubbed in the Japanese and Hindi dubs. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the Turkish dub, which dubs the applause ''on top of'' the original recording.

The first full-length ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' film, ''Jonah: A [=VeggieTales=] Movie'' was released in 2002 by Big Idea and FHE Pictures.

* HeroicBSOD: Jonah when God refuses to destroy Ninevah, with a healthy dollop of {{Wangst}}.

* InvisibleAnatomy: It's ''[=VeggieTales=]'', but it really becomes {{Narm}}y in the opening when singing "Billy Joe [=McGuffrey=]", a song which everyone is ''clapping'' to.

* 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 Larry, Mr. Lunt and Pa Grape had already been the Pirates in one of the Silly Songs.

* UniversalAdaptorCast: The [=VeggieTales=] prove they can mold themselves into new roles quite well, using the same characters in new and different ways.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During "A Message from the Lord", Jonah actually sings at one point "Don't do '''drugs'''". This trope is merely downplayed as it discourages kids to use drugs and stay in school, which is a common lesson to be taught in elementary school, but it's still kind of shocking how such a word made it into a movie based on a series that children as young as four are known to watch.

!!''Jonah: A [=VeggieTales=] Movie'' provides examples of:

* AscendedExtra

* BigDamnMovie: Averted. While the movie has a reasonable AnimationBump, the film proper still more or less follows the standard format of a regular ''Veggie Tales'' video. The only real change being with the framing device in the seafood restaurant in lieu of the kitchen countertop and the lack of a Silly Song with Larry.

** "Mr. Twisty's Cheese Curls" are an obvious {{Expy}} of Cheetos.

* CentralTheme: Compassion and mercy.

* DeadpanSnarker: Jonah has shades of it.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In ''Jonah'', the menu items in the seafood restaraunt Bob and the gang stop at goes as follows:

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:Patience runs deep in Khalil's family, but not that deep.]]

* ShamuFu: The Ninevites are notorious for this.

* UniversalAdaptorCast: The Veggietales prove they can mold themselves into new roles quite well, using the same characters in new and different ways.

* [[WhatTheHellHero What the Heck, Hero?]]: When Jonah doesn't show compassion to the Ninevites and wants God to just zap them all already, but [[SkewedPriorities becomes upset over Khalil eating a weed]], Khalil calls him out on it.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Khalil's father was a caterpillar, his mother was a worm. But he's okay with that now.

The film opens with Bob, Junior, Dad Asparagus, Annie, Laura and Percy all trying to find their way to a Twippo concert. However, they take a wrong turn, lose two tires on their van, and end up at a strange seafood restaurant, where they meet a trio of pirates who call themselves "The pirates who don't do anything!" The trio of pirates, noticing the tensions among the group, decide to tell them a little story about a man named Jonah.

''That rule has not been made, so for now we'll have to say''

** When Jonah is trying to get The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything to take him to Tarshish, Larry says that Alf comes on in a half hour, a possible spoof of the "Alf comes on at eight o' clock" line in the 1990's ''Film/LordOfTheFlies'' adaptation.

'''Twippo:''' ''(dramamtically in the doorway)'' Did somebody say my name?

** Once everyone gets out of their crashed bus with two flats after a porcupine encounter, Bob comments "At least nobody got hurt!" Cue one of the baby porcupines shooting a quill at him.

* NonDubbedGrunts: The applause at the end of "Message from the Lord" is left undubbed in the Japanese and Hindi dubs. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the Turkish dub, which uses dubbed applause over the original recording.

* BrickJoke: The tow truck driver ''finally'' arrives at the end of the film. Pa Grape even interrupts the story to ask if Bob really wants to listen to the story because he might miss the tow truck.

* RealitySubtext: There's a bit of Big Idea in Khalil's character arc. He wanted to be "big and famous" like Jonah, but in the end, he just wants to help people. Big Idea's frustration at being a larger production studio probably ended with them being a little sadder but wiser.