History WesternAnimation / JosephKingOfDreams

** Played with and kicked around a bit. Joseph begins to enjoy his servitude when he meets and falls in love with Asenath. Though to Zuleika's attraction to Joseph, he's given less physical labor while in slavery, and Joseph's intelligence and wit win over the Pharaoh. As well as Joseph falling in love with Asenath, but some of the times in between these events aren't so happy.

** 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 win over the Pharaoh, but some of the times in between these events aren't so happy.

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Released in 2000, one of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation's most obscure films, and [=DreamWorks=]' first DirectToVideo release. Meant to be the follow-up/prequel to ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', although it was made ''during'' that film's production. Basically, imagine ''Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat'', but in animation, and with Creator/BenAffleck.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The movie shows that your own siblings selling you into slavery will give you a whopping dose of PTSD and trigger you when they appear begging for food. While the Bible is to-the-point about Joseph being cold as the Vizier, Joseph starts reeling and flashbacking when he sees his older siblings. He also points out to Asenath that it's not like they seemed to care what they did to him, so he has a right to call them liars.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Until becoming Pharaoh's right-hand, Joseph is perpetually barefoot, quite possibly by choice, as the rest of his family wear sandals.
** Asenath and her aunt Zuleika go barefoot as well, most likely by choice rather than status or poverty since they're both part of the royal family.

* {{Bishonen}}: Joseph and Benjamin, who look more like Rachel than Jacob.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Joseph imprisoning Simeon on false charges is completely deserved; Simeon has committed far worse crimes that would demand exile if not execution. He also does release Simeon and keep his word when the brothers produce Benjamin, albeit after denying him for one night.

* OverprotectiveDad: Jacob becomes this after Joseph "dies" and Benjamin is born. He only agrees to let Benjamin travel to Egypt under great protest to save Simeon from imprisonment.

* NonVerbalMiscommunication: A subtle example during Zuleika's first scene. Between her SexyWalk and her facial expression, she's clearly interested in Joseph. However, he either innocently mistakes her favorable words and visual cues as kindness/admiration for his hard work, or simply does not notice the flirting going on--and he smiles back in return. It's possible ([[TruthInTelevision this part isn't as clear]]) that she, in turn, mistook his smile as him returning her advances knowingly/favorably, especially since the way he smiled mirrored her own.

* SexyWalk: Zuleika, especially during her introductory scene with Joseph.

* EntertaininglyWrong: When Joseph encounters his brothers again while he's the vizier, they mention having a brother at home while looking to buy grain. He calls them liars and accuses them of being thieves, while he flashes back to the silver they received for selling them, assuming that they are referring to ''Joseph'' as the brother at home. To save their brother Simeon from imprisonment, they have to produce the "brother at home". Joseph doesn't expect that his mother had conceived and gave birth to a child in the twenty years he was gone; he had no reason to think such a thing. He's very surprised at encountering Benjamin.

* AdaptedOut: Rachel is the only one of Jacob's four wives to appear, though it's a plot point that the other ten aren't biologically hers. The existence of Leah is only vaguely alluded to at the very beginning, but her name is never spoken and it's heavily implied that she has already died by the time of the movie (even though Leah actually outlived Rachel in the Biblical narrative). Jacob's one daughter, Dinah, is also nowhere to be seen. Although, again, showing her backstory, i.e. [[spoiler:the Rape of Dinah]] would ''definitely'' shove up the rating.

* 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... [[UpToEleven and then rats come to devour it]].

** 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 Pharaoh's dream.

* AwfulTruth: The brothers kept their selling Joseph into slavery a secret for twenty years, knowing that at best Jacob would exile them for the betrayal and at worst they'll be given the same punishment for the crime, being sold in turn. They have to live with the fact that Joseph is likely dead and it's their fault for being DrivenByEnvy, and they can't tell anyone. Benjamin doesn't know, telling a disguised Joseph innocently that his older full-brother was killed by wolves. Joseph is even angrier about this than about the betrayal itself and punishes Benjamin by proxy when framing him for theft. Reuben and Judah finally confess to save Benjamin.