“The King of Kings” is a compact, cute Life of Jesus served up in animated form for parents to take their kids to this Easter.

An all-star voice cast decorates a beautifully animated offering from Angel Studios, produced as the first animated feature film from South Korea’s Mofac Animation.

The clever conceit here is to frame this story within a tale told by Mr. “Christmas Carol” himself, Charles Dickens. Dickens’ children’s book “The Life of Our Lord” is the pretext for that, and the movie give us Dickens, voiced by Kenneth Branagh, setting a King Arthur obsessed son Walter (Roman Griffin Davis) straight about who the “true” “King of Kings” was — Jesus.

Dickens, Branagh and writer-director Seong-ho Jang take us from “swaddling clothes, lying in a manger” to “He is Risen” in a reasonably brisk and tidy 103 minutes, no small feat.

The impish kid Walter interjects everything from “Wait, what’s a ‘manger?'” to pleas of get to “the part where Jesus draws his sword and slays the mighty dragon” as he imagines himself and his pet kitty as eyewitnesses to all that his father and mother (Uma Thurman) narrate and act-out for him, the story that “inspired” the legend of King Arthur.

Birth to “fleeing to Egypt,” adolescent preaching to “40 days in the wilderness” on through cleaning out the business enterprises in The Temple to walking on the raging sea to Gethsemane, The Most Familiar Story Ever told is related in ways meant to appeal to small children. We meet Wise Men who alarm King Herod (Mark Hamill), Jesus (Oscar Isaac) recruiting his first “fisher of men” Simon Peter (Oscar winner Forest Whitaker), the threatened High Priest Caiaphas (Oscar winner Ben Kingsley) and Pontius Pilate (Pierce Brosnan).

Dickens and “King of Kings” hit the high points in a story with touchstone events, “miracles” and other feats achieved by a man “who didn’t need a (magical) sword.”

Isaac brings a refreshing casualness to the vernacular dialogue this Jesus delivers. No, he doesn’t need a boat ride across the Sea of Galilee.

“Go ahead,” he assures his disciples. “I’ll wait” until a storm comes to test them and he can walk out to them to challenge them further.

That adulteress you plan to stone?

“Fine. I tell you what. Anyone here who has NEVER sinned can throw the first stone!”

The villains are well cast and Branagh and Thurman are perfectly relatable as Victorian parents passing on their religion to one of their children (they had ten) via the story of “a king born in the lowest and humblest of places.”

The animation ranges from impressive to a tad plastic. That extra computing power, effort and expense it takes to make human facial expressions “alive” and mouth movements realistic isn’t in evidence here.

It’s inoffensive and not particularly challenging, and truth be told, “The King of Kings” drifts from “cute” to “cutesie” here and there. But as faith-based entertainment for children, you could do worse than having Kenneth Branagh summarizing the Old Testament (“Passover,” “Exodus”) and breezing kids through “no room” at the inn to Jesus delivering health care, feeding the hungry, staring down his fate on Palm Sunday followed by a betrayal, a crucifixion and resurrection.

Rating: PG

Cast: The voices of Kenneth Branagh, Oscar Isaac, Uma Thurman, Forest Whitaker, Pierce Brosnan, Mark Hamill, Roman Griffin Davis and Ben Kingsley.

Credits: Scripted and directed by Seong-ho Jang, with additional writing by Rob Edwards and Jamie Thomason, inspired by the Charles Dickens book “The Life of Our Lord.” An Angel Studios release.

Running time: 1:43