2.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Ammon, Missionary to the Lamanites (1989)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 2.9
Overview
Ammon, one of the sons of Mosiah, forsakes kingship to become a missionary to the Nephites’ mortal enemy, the Lamanites. Ammon shows great humility as he asks to become servant to the Lamanite king, Lamoni. Later, Ammon defends the king’s flocks against a band of robbers. His faithful example brings Ammon the opportunity to preach unto the king, bringing him and many others to humility, repentance and conversion.
Starring Cast
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Moderate
Christianity: Positive
Overview
Ammon, one of the sons of Mosiah, forsakes kingship to become a missionary to the Nephites’ mortal enemy, the Lamanites. Ammon shows great humility as he asks to become servant to the Lamanite king, Lamoni. Later, Ammon defends the king’s flocks against a band of robbers. His faithful example brings Ammon the opportunity to preach unto the king, bringing him and many others to humility, repentance and conversion.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central narrative champions individual spiritual conversion and adherence to divine law as the solution to societal strife and sin, aligning with conservative social values.
The movie features a cast with visible diversity, depicting distinct groups as understood in its source material, without explicit race or gender swaps of traditionally white roles. The narrative frames traditional identities, such as the white male protagonist, in a neutral to positive light, focusing on a religious conversion story rather than critiquing these identities.
Secondary
The film portrays a form of Christianity, as presented in the Book of Mormon, in a highly positive and affirming light. It depicts its tenets and missionary efforts as divinely inspired, leading to profound spiritual transformation and societal improvement.
This animated religious film, based on the Book of Mormon, does not include any discernible LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses exclusively on its source material's religious and historical accounts, with no representation of queer identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film adapts the Book of Mormon narrative of Ammon, a male missionary. All major characters, including Ammon, are portrayed with their canonical genders from the source material.
The film adapts characters from the Book of Mormon, where the racial identity of groups like the Lamanites is described as having 'dark skin' but is not explicitly defined as a specific modern racial category. Given the ambiguity in the source material's racial depiction, and the prompt's exclusion for ambiguous cases, no clear race swap is identified.
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