Review: The Greatest Thing Ever packages Christian values in a fun, peppy package
As a millennial, Butch Hartman of course has a place in my childhood. I grew up watching a lot of the shows he worked on like Dexter's Laboratory and Johnny Bravo , as well as, of course, The Fairy OddParents , which he created at Nickelodeon. While watching The Greatest Thing Ever: A Garden Cartoon Movie , there was an instant feeling of familiarity at play. My husband came into the room at one point and I asked him if he could tell who made it. He answered correctly, immediately. Back in the late 2010s, Hartman left Nickelodeon and pivoted to making faith-based content, including this movie, which is a spinoff of his animated series The Garden (sometimes known as The Garden Cartoon ). Both the series and the feature follow the adventures of best friends Lenny the lion and Lucy the lamb, who receive instructions from The Boss (God), who appears to them as a rainbow. Sometimes he's a literal rainbow coming down from the sky, sometimes on a phone or TV screen. He's chatty, h...
