Watching the opening of this VHS in 2000 required patience. You couldn’t skip the trailers. You couldn't jump to the "Awesome Part" (Joseph interpreting dreams in prison). You had to sit through the grainy DreamWorks logo, the weirdly intense pre-roll about "respecting the copyright," and the haunting overture of a movie that nobody asked for but everybody's grandma bought at Kmart.
This is followed by the home video trailer for Chicken Run (2000). Aardman’s stop-motion masterpiece was a massive hit for DreamWorks that summer. The trailer is fast-paced and comedic, contrasting with the more dramatic tone of Joseph . This served to cross-promote DreamWorks' diverse animation catalog (hand-drawn epics vs. stop-motion comedy). opening to joseph king of dreams 2000 vhs