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The Sheep Detectives Is Good, Clean Fun With An Accidental Christian Message

It was refreshing to watch a children’s movie that not only avoided inappropriate messaging but also mirrored Christian themes.

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I had never taken my kids to the movie theater before. Like many conservative Christian parents, I am wary of Hollywood’s harmful messages in children’s entertainment. But when I saw the trailer for The Sheep Detectives, it looked like something I could enjoy watching with my kids. So I took my five oldest children, ages 4 to 12, to a matinee on my day off, and I’m glad I did. Sharing a couple of large boxes of popcorn, they giggled and whispered during the movie and had a great time. 

Without spoiling anything, the movie is about a shepherd who loves his sheep. He doesn’t butcher them but instead only raises them for wool, feeds them, gives them medicine, calls them all by name, and reads them murder mysteries at bedtime. As the movie trailer shows, this good shepherd, played by Hugh Jackman, is murdered, and the sheep take it upon themselves to solve the crime.

My kids had fun trying to figure out with the sheep who the real murderer was. After the film, they spent the rest of the day telling and retelling the story of the movie and asking each other who their favorite characters were. 

The Sheep Detectives did not contain anything overtly inappropriate for children — no sexual jokes, no scantily dressed women, no LGBT messaging. There was only one subtle hint at one point that one of the characters may have lived with her boyfriend without getting married; a policeman mentioned an ex-boyfriend with a criminal record with whom a lady shared a bank........

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