Two By Two: Overboard (2021) - Movie Review

In 2015, around when the big PureFlix boom of Christian films was taking place, I watched and reviewed a kids’ film called Two By Two (or Ooops! Noah Is Gone, or All Creatures Big And Small, depending on the market). Aside from being thoroughly annoying and containing one of the dumbest creature designs of any animated feature, it’s also a film I never expected to think about again after writing that review. But then posters for this sequel started turning up, and it seemed that my preordained path was to once again wade into the hideously-textured waters of family-friendly Bible shenanigans. And much like the first time round, this was not pleasant to sit through.

Two By Two (2015) - Movie Review

If I had to sum up 2014 as a cinematic year, other than being overall pretty good, it would be as a more predominantly Christian year than most others. From indie works like Heaven Is For Real, Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas and the previously exenterated God’s Not Dead, to the more mainstream like Darren Aronofsky’s Noah and Ridley Scott’s Exodus, I highly doubt we’ll see another year quite like it in that department. It is with this in mind that I look at today’s subject, an animated family film based on the story of Noah’s Ark, and can’t help thinking that this release missed the boat. If you audibly groaned at that pun, strap yourselves in 'cause it’s only going to get worse from here.