Product: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Awesome! (But not for the entire family...)
It is terrific that this video/DVD was made to resemble the play - clever stages and all. The music is fantastic and if the viewer has seen the play prior to viewing this movie they will be more than satisfied (although I have to agree with another reviewer that a stronger Narrator could have been chosen). The only reason I don't give this five stars is the "family" issue - I read the back of the box at a video store prior to my Amazon purchase and it said "...a dream of a movie for all of the family." It also showed a pic of Joan Collins (in her fun little role at Potiphar's wife) wearing an all-black costume. HOWEVER, when I began watching the movie with my 3 1/2 year old Ms. Collins is actually wearing black from the waist down - the top of her costume (as with the other dancers in the scene) is flesh colored with tan "pasties" (which appears topless). The same was the case in the Pharoh's scene, where dancers wore flesh-colored thong bodysuits under gold mesh "dresses" (the overall look was nude). I'm no prude, and my son didn't say anything about the dancers in these scenes, however I thought the costuming in these two scenes (as well as the brief sexual innuendo in them) should have earned this movie a PG rating.