The marketing for “The King of Kings” flaunts that it is the first theatrically released biblical animated feature since 1998’s “The Prince of Egypt.” But to even mention DreamWorks’ hand-drawn masterpiece in the same breath as the latest Angel Studio release is nothing short of blasphemous. The makers of “Sound of Freedom” move into family animated productions by distributing director Jang Seong-ho’s loose adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “The Life of Our Lord,” which the 19th-century author wrote for his children.
To appease his youngest son Walter (Roman Griffin Davis), a rambunctious boy obsessed with King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable (a myth in turn derived from the story of Jesus and his apostles), Dickens (Kenneth Branagh) spins the yarn of the one true king who didn’t
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