TIM Disney’s “Blessed Art Thou” is as much a cartoon as any of Walt’s animated features.

Despite the film’s fine cast, you never care about any of its crudely drawn characters. It’s also hard to imagine Walt making a movie so likely to enrage Catholics.

“Blessed Art Thou” targets the Catholic Church as a bad institution at odds with “real” spiritual values. Set in a highly unrealistic monastery in California, it also mocks those who take monastic vows seriously.

It’s clear that the filmmakers have no clue what people in holy orders actually do.

When Anselm (Martha Hackett), an effeminate priest, gets visited by the angel Gabriel, Father Frederick (Bernard Hill) suspects him of trying to cover up a homosexual dalliance. Then he assumes that the young man has mental problems and orders him locked in his cell.

The younger monks take Anselm’s side, but then a miracle happens: He turns into a woman, and a pregnant one at that. This prompts the monastery’s hierarchy to behave with incredible stupidity and cruelty.

It’s all heavy-handed and ludicrous.