In this installment of the VeggieTales movie series, we meet Madame Blueberry. She’s a blueberry, obviously, and she lives in a beautiful home high in a tree. She’s feeling very disconsolate, however – all of her neighbors have things she doesn’t have, and it’s making her blue. Her good friends Bob and Larry try to tell her how blessed she is, but she’s not in the mood to listen. If she doesn’t have everything she wants, she just knows she’ll never be happy.
A new store is being built down the road. Called “StuffMart,” it has everything! Even if you didn’t know you wanted it, you can buy it at StuffMart. Madame Blueberry is in heaven. She goes up and down every aisle, piling her cart sky high. When one cart is full, she starts on another. Now she’ll be happy!
Her attention is caught by a little boy deep in conversation with his father. He would really like a train set, but his father explains that they don’t have enough money for it. He’ll buy his son a ball, though. The boy is disappointed that he can’t have the train, but he is grateful for the ball and thanks his father for it. They sing a song about how a thankful heart is a happy heart.
Madame Blueberry asks the storekeeper where she can get a happy heart, and he tells her they don’t sell them at StuffMart. Realizing that’s all she really wants, she heads home – just in time to see something terrible and tree-mendous! But you’ll have to see the movie to find out what that is.
Our “Silly Song with Larry” is actually a “Love Song with Mr. Lunt.” Turns out Larry got into some trouble over “The Song of the Cebu” and lost his job. Mr. Lunt takes over with “The Cheeseburger Song,” a heartwarming tribute to his love of cheese. It’s funny, but just not the same. Thank goodness Larry gets his job back by the next movie.
I appreciate the lesson we learn from Madame Blueberry. It doesn’t matter how much we buy; if we don’t show appreciation for the things we do have, we’ll never be truly happy.
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Note: some sources say this film was released in 1998, others say 2003. I say, enjoy the movie and don’t worry about it.