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One of the most obscure of all the Creator/DreamWorksAnimation films, and Dreamworks' first Direct to Video release.

Meant to be the follow-up/prequel to ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', although it was made ''during'' that film's production. Basically, imagine ''JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'', but in animation, and with Ben Affleck.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AdaptationDistillation: Of the the tail end of Genesis. A number of characters are trimmed, Reuben (firstborn and previous leader of the brothers) has been DemotedToExtra, and the reason why Judah is also leading over Simeon and Levi, who were next in line after Reuben, is simply not mentioned; to put it mildly, this movie would have to have had a hard PG-13 rating at the very least if it had delved into the extremely family-unfriendly events that got them demoted.
* AncientEgypt: Of course.
* ArtShift: The Pharaoh's dream, which transitions from traditional animation to CGI.
** Joseph's dreams too, which are in a living painting style (backgrounds at least) and the wall Joseph paints like his home of Caanan (which animates as he remembers it) as well as the interpretation of Pharoah's dream.
* {{Bishonen}}: Joseph and Benjamin, who look more like Rachel than Jacob.
* BlessedWithSuck: Joseph's dreams, at first. They are a great honor from God...that do absolutely nothing beneficial other than distance him from his brothers and eventually get him sold into slavery. [[spoiler: True to the original story, however, this trope is eventually averted.]]
* ClarkKenting: Subverted. When the brothers and Joseph meet again, Joseph is older, more muscular, wearing a beard, and definitely not in a position where you'd expect a guy sold into slavery to be. To add onto this, Joseph uses a different voice and manner when talking to them.
* ClearMyName: In keeping with the Bible story, Zuleika accuses Joseph of forcing himself on her, resulting in his time in prison.
* CursedWithAwesome: Zigzagged with Joseph (who kept getting in trouble over his prophecies) and invoked by the baker as he's taken away: "It's not a gift, it's a curse!"
* EarnYourHappyEnding
* FatAndSkinny: In prison, the baker and royal butler, respectively.
** FridgeBrilliance at its finest. The fat one goes and the skinny one is left. This foreshadows the Pharaoh's dreams and eventual fate of Egypt.
* FiveStagesOfGrief: When Joseph tells the baker [[spoiler: that he will die in three days]] based on his dream, he shouts "You're lying!". He appears to have made it through the other stages in the three day fast-forward shouting "You knew!" as he's carried out.
* {{Forgiveness}}: A particularly striking example, as Joseph forgives Potiphar (which visibly surprises him) for throwing him in jail. And then again when he forgives his brothers [[spoiler: albeit after showing how much they care for the new youngest]].
* HappinessInSlavery: Played with and kicked around a bit. Due to Zuleika's attraction to Joseph, he's given less physical labor while in slavery, and Joseph's intelligence and wit wins over the Pharaoh, but some of the times in between these events aren't so happy.
** The entire marketplace scene is dedicated to showing how being a slave sucks, complete with Joseph being terrified at the sight of whip marks on other slaves for sale and his being made over to look like a proper Egyptian slave as a violating and undignified act.
* IronicEcho: "''[[KickTheDog Half]]''[[KickTheDog -brother]]!"
* LittleNo: Joseph says this when Zuleika tries to seduce him.
* MeaningfulName: Pharoah dubs Joseph 'Zaphnath-Paaneah', meaning 'The god speaks and he (He?) lives'.
* MisplacedVegetation: Sunflowers in Canaan.
* MoodWhiplash: 2 years as a slave, 2 years in prison, to being made second only to the Pharaoh, then seeing your brothers, who sold you into slavery at the first place?
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In a somewhat plausible interpolation of events from the original story, Zuleika starts to show some regret for framing Joseph and pleads to her husband to spare his life. It's also hinted that she may have pined away to an early grave from grief and guilt for what she did.
** The husband also greatly regrets imprisoning Joseph, and apologizes profusely when he's released. It's implied that the main reason he had him imprisoned was because he didn't want to acknowledge that his wife tried to seduce a slave, and regrets not doing the right thing.
* NonSingingVoice: Joseph was voiced by Ben Affleck, but his singing voice was sung by David Campbell. Same for Jacob, who was voiced by Richard Herd, and his singing was done by Russell Buchanan.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Joseph looks to be about 14 (even though he was actually 17) until he starts getting stubble, and Judah and the other older brothers look the same 20-something when they sell Joseph as they do when he's born. Heck, Jacob, who looked to be in old age even when Joseph was born, seemed perfectly healthy by the end of the movie. Note that Joseph is in his thirties by the end of the movie.
* ParentalFavoritism: [[BlatantLies Not at all]], not at all...
** What makes it all the worse is that much of it could have been avoided if Rachel and Jacob had taught Joseph just a little humility. At the end of ''Miracle Child'', he's been convinced by his parents that he's perfect and destined to lead a charmed life free of any suffering whatsoever. It doesn't excuse what his brothers did, but still.
*** And even ''worse'': his brothers seem entirely happy to accept him into the family despite that attention given to him as the "miracle child". Just listen to what they sing at the start of the film in comparison to their father: "Our baby brother/ He is one of us, we'll keep him from harm/ And we will teach him all he needs to know/ We'll stand beside him and together/ We will show him what it means to be a family". Which is sweet and brotherly and exactly what you would expect. Then there's Jacob's lines: "He is special/ ''I'' will teach him all he needs to know/ He'll stand apart from other men". Granted, he's ''right'', but note that the eldest brother even goes to hold his newborn brother and gets completely blanked by his father- and for the rest of the growing-up sequence Jacob keeps him away from his other brothers, which means that they never really get to know him and just builds up this resentment between them. Kind of an unintentional jerk, Jacob.
* RagsToRoyalty: Cinderella style.
** More of a [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny nice coat]] to rags, to better rags, to worse rags than before, to riches.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', although it's actually a prequel.
* TeenGenius: Genius compared to those around him; Joseph irrigates his family's field (a bit of a ChekhovsSkill as he does the same to the lands of Egypt) and makes a scarecrow for Potiphar's vineyard (single-handedly restoring it to fruitfulness).
* TheMakeover: Joseph is washed, powdered, trimmed and painted to look more Egyptian.
* TimeSkip: Sneaks in there a lot; the main part of the film takes place over 20 years with only an off-hand comment from Asenath and one from Simeon to tell of it.
* [[WaifProphet Squishy Prophet]]: Book-learned and unused to the same work as his brothers, Joseph is a fairly [[SquishyWizard squishy]] [[WaifProphet prophet]] until he is put to slave work.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Joseph wears his coat over a bare chest for the first part of the film and an [[BuffySpeak Egyptian skirt thingy]] for much of the rest.
* UndyingLoyalty: Joseph exhibits this when Zuleika tries to seduce him.
** Also, he probably knew that sleeping with his master's wife would get him into ''big'' trouble.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The trailer calling this "the next in a series of classic stories" seems to imply they were planning to adapt other Bible stories.
* WomanScorned: Zuleika.
* [[WonderChild Miracle Child]]: Joseph, born to the previously barren Rachel.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Zuleika claiming that Joseph tried to rape her.
* YankTheDogsChain: Asenath tries to sneak in food to the imprisoned Joseph. Just as she's lowering it through the barred window, a guard sees her and she drops the package. It splatters on the floor... and then rats come to devour it.
* YourCheatingHeart: Zuleika tries to seduce Joseph.