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James, a lonely orphan, is sent to live with his wicked and greedy Aunts Spiker and Sponge. Unwanted and forced to perform their menial chores, the boy dreams about going to New York City--a place, hi...( read more 
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MCT:June 30, 2008GAH USED TO BE MY FAV MVIE EVER. hahaha i played this to death until it magically dispapeared (mum probly threw it out like my where's wally video :(! ) i still like it hehe
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MCT:June 29, 2008Very good movie, with fantastic animation, but what I really want to say here -to some people- is that Tim Burton didn't direct it. Dissapointed? Then read this: the director of The Giant Peach, Henry Selick, also directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, which means that one isn't a Tim Burton movie either. You had to know. Maybe that'll give you some more perspective.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
ok, different from the other Disney's movie, but not that good for an adult, but I would reffer it for children instead of all the others with princess....
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MCT:June 23, 2008
James and the Giant Peach was also part of a mini-vogue of Roald Dahl adaptations that seemed to be happening around that time. It is based upon Roald Dahl?s first ever children?s book, published in 1961. But unlike Danny De Vito?s miscalculated Matilda (1996), Henry Selick gets the essence of a Roald Dahl children?s story just right and understands that Dahl is always about catching a perfect balance between gleeful nastiness and transcendent sweetness. Before he can be carried off to the nigh-mythical New York, young James is orphaned when his idyllic parents are both killed by a rhino in Africa. James is then taken in by his two cruel aunts, played by Lumley and Margolyes, who work him ruthlessly and barely feed him. His only friend is the spider who lives in his window. Enter Postlethwaite as the mysterious stranger who offers James a bag of magic glowing creatures who can make his dreams come true. James loses most of the magic creatures, but one infiltrates a peach on a tree outside his house. The peach grows to enormous size, prompting the aunts to create a circus-side-show-like scam to milk their neighbors of money. Eventually, James discovers that the peach is inhabited by giant insects, one of whom is the spider James had earlier saved from his aunt's broomstick. He escapes with the insects inside the peach, destined for adventure and looking for hope in the New World. The film does start out live action, then switches to the stop motion animation that made "The Nightmare Before Christmas" famous. In the animation scenes, Grasshopper (Simon Callow), Centipede (Richard Dreyfuss), Ladybug (Jane Leeves), Glowworm (Miriam Margolyes, again), Spider (Susan Sarandon), and Earthworm (David Thewlis) all become characters who contribute to the voyage.
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MCT:June 22, 2008James and the Giant Peach was a very slow moving film, I found it to be quite boring. It still had a few decent parts and a happy ending, but it was nothing spectacular.
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edwinjasonramosposted 67 days ago -
wo new jack skellington was in it well i just watched again last month, other than that i havent seen it in a long long time
posted 182 days ago -
I thought it was a great movie.
I liked the peach tree and its a very good childrens movie.posted 241 days ago -
O.k... iI HAVE to say it, because it's like the big elephant in the living room for me, but has ANYONE else noticed the cameo with Jack Skellington from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" in the underwater pirate ship scene?? Please tell me someone else noticed/saw it, 'cuz I feel like I'm losing my mind...
I've asked a couple of ither people about whether or not they noticed Jack in it, and they only give me blank stares- please, has anyone else noticed it??posted 329 days ago -
HEY EVERYONE I HAVE READ THIS BOOK,SEEN THE MOVIE AND I HAVE EVEN WROTE ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!
posted 346 days ago -
oh my gosh i love this movie, i havent seen it in forever, i love the part when he goes in the peach and it changes from live action to animation, that used to amaze me when i was younger lol
posted 378 days ago -
An orphaned British boy dreaming of an escape for adventure, wicked relatives, magic.... "James And The Giant Peach" is so similar to "Harry Potter" when it comes to those three things in common!
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