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Love this movie since I was a kid. But give the kid Paul Terry credit for being James. This was the only role he got out of film acting. He never got to act again. But how you told this one, now I have to do my thoughts on the move. Always wanted to
@@antoniosalieri1048 Wrong Nostalgia Critic reference in the review from what I remember it was the Scary Slo Mo which was another running gag in the pre revival era.
I was surprised that you didn't mention James' nightmare, which looks like a horrifying version of one of Monty Python's animated segments. And it's considered to be the scariest part of the entire movie. No kidding, that scene scared me so much as a kid that I refused to watch it until I was 15. And how come you didn't mention the Good News song at the end ?
There are some moments that are genuinely funny. For example: Mr Grasshopper: “I say dear boy! I have lived on this miserable hill for decades! There are no rhinosori here!” Mr Centipede: “Except for Sponge! She’s twice as big as a rhino!”
@@bigmacintosh1766 Indeed. It was such a pleasure to meet her. We even did a video together where she played Timmy Turner and I played (poorly) Mr Crocker.
So excited for Paprika. It was sadly Kon’s Final film before he passed away, I still wonder what kind of movies he would be making now if he was still alive.
@@hectormanuel8360 and streaming movies too, since streaming services are a great way for new and original content to be made because they are more open to new and original ideas, unlike most big studios.
This is one of my childhood favorites, having been a rather timid child like James, that I still love! It's also definitely an instance where you can tell that Burton actually cares about the source material, and tries to be faithful to it (so much so that this film is what eventually got Dahl's widow to endorse him as the director for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
I'm not sure I agree with being faithful. I mean, the mechanical shark? No Cloud Men and a shipwreck instead? The aunts living? And the major rhino symbolism (which I actually liked). It's a good movie, but I don't think it's very faithful to the source material. I think Dahl would still have to give it some credit, though - stop motion really lends itself to his creations.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 That’s why I said “tried”, unlike Batman Returns and Alice in Wonderland where Burton didn’t really care about fidelity to source material, and just did whatever he wanted.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 what really bugs me is that the mechanical shark came out of nowhere, there's no explanation as to how it got in the ocean, but maybe I'm missing the point I've only read bits and pieces of the original book but luckily I have it so I can read it anytime I want
@@Treeeee2008 Originally, it was a swarm of regular sharks attacking the peach. They didn't do much damage because their snouts didn't really allow for them to attack a round object like a peach very effectively.
Was it Burton really the one to do it, being the producer, because it seems more like the director Henry Selick was the one who showed respect to the book
@@ChelseatheCreativeFox-pc2xz its an r rated film from the 90s. Its about a man who was killed, along with his wife-to-be, by crazy gang members, comes back from the dead, and seeks vengeance on them.
@@alextheblueman-reviewergam9655 Oh, okay. Thanks for telling me that. It may sound like a good story, but I think there's gonna be a lot of violence and large amounts of swearing, so I think I'll have to pass lol.
When he said "Greatest Japanese directors" the first thing came to my mind was Hayao Miyazaki. I was thinking the short title was "Ponyo" which I watched when I was little
I heard this film is going to get a Live Action Remake . . . But honestly, out of all the movies Disney could remake, I don't think this film qualifies. I just don't want to see the bugs as CGI, it will ruin the original film's stop-motion charm.
11:33 I never really liked the "he's just a kid" argument, either. I mean, watch the works of Haley Joel Osment or the kids in Stand By Me. There is such a thing as GREAT kid acting!
I like how the rhinoceros in the movie is a demonic, supernatural entity made of clouds, that explains how it ate Jame's parents. In the book, the rhino that ate his parents was just a regular rhino from the zoo, which makes zero sense cuz rhinos are herbivores! XD
Why did roald Dahl goe with rhinos in the first place as an adult he should’ve known that rhinoceros are herbivorous animals yes they kill people but they never eat them they won’t even eat other animals even children would know this is inaccurate if he wanted James parents to get eaten by a wild animal he should’ve used a carnivorous animal like a crocodile or a tiger and of course a Lion because those animals not only kill humans but eat them as well(but only if they fail to hunt any other kind of animal)there called “man-eaters” for a reason! rhinos only kill humans for protection from anger or even by accident but never EVER! For food moral of the story never look up to roald Dahl books for zoology
Y'all are stating FACTS, people; if he's gonna use a rhino, he should've said something like they were trampled by it or the father was impaled by its horn and the mother was trampled.
My main problem is the way James' parents' death was handled. It was WAY too sudden and rushed. If you want character development to work, then you MUST take your time. Take Lion King for example: Mufasa dies when we're halfway through the movie (at the 37 minute mark, since The Lion King is 88 minutes long), and thus, we've had plenty of time to get to know Mufasa as a character and learn about how much he meant to Simba, which, in turn, makes his death all the more effective in terms of drama. Here, the killed James' parents off right at the very beginning of the movie, which is very rushed. They should have waited a bit longer to do it, but, when the death in this movie actually happened, it felt like someone pressed the fast forward button.
@@davidanthonymercado7064 and the fact that those two take up more screen time than James’ parents, which makes the parents seem less like characters and more like plot devices.
Lol I remember James and the Giant Peach. When I was in elementary school, my teacher showed the movie in the library. I remember thinking the animation was kinda creepy but the songs were fun :)
I was obsessed with this movie when I was a kid, in fact when I was in 3rd or 4th grade my school actually put on a stage play of James and the Giant Peach and we all got peaches to go with it it was actually really cool
Fun fact: The movie was originally intended to be entirely stop motion like The Nightmare Before Christmas but that would've made the budget too high, and they had to cut it with the live action segments at the first and final acts. At one point, they also considered making James entirely live action and they would've added the actor with the stop motion effects, but that too would've been costly with the blue screen effects.
I actually share similar thoughts on this flick, as I remember watching this on Netflix when I was younger. I love the scenes involving the bugs and the stop motion scenes of Henry Sellick...the same cannot be said about the humans, though. Fun fact, this was orchestrated by Randy Newman, which would explain the big band-like feel to most of the tunes.
My opinion: This is a good movie but I guess it's mainly because of its nostalgic value. I think Randy Newman did a great job with the musical score. I guess I can't be too bothered by the fact that it won an award or two for Best Animated Film but I still think that honor should have gone to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
You may be right, but it's also based on a book lots of people had nostalgia for already and the technical achievements were pretty ambitious even back then.
Fun fact Joanna Lumley who played Aunt Spiker in the film also appeared in the James Bond film, On Her Makesty's Secret Service. Later appeared in Corpse Bride, and also appeared in both Trail and Curse of the Pink Panther.
I loved animal trivia as a kid, so I never understood why the Rhino was supposed to be scary when rhinos aren't carnivores. Maybe I was thinking too much about it, but I always had this idea that the zoo that had that rhino was some kind of jurassic park operation where they made genetically engineered abominations and one of them just happened to be a carnivorous rhinoceros.
12:23 another major difference from the book since in the book this doesn't happen as spiker and sponge with killed after being flattenned by the Peach
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I have very strong nostalgic ties towards this film, I saw it when it first came out in 1996 as a child, so it was one of the very first films I remember seeing in the cinema😊
I can't decide how I feel about the rhino. The fact that it's a symbol of everything that holds James back is clever, but the way it was handled in the book, just as an angry carnivore that had escaped from the local zoo..well, okay.
Rumor had it that this movie had a secret McDonald’s promotion around the time of the movie’s release but considering this was a Tim Burton film and we all know his history with the Golden Arches…
happy 25th anniversary james and the giant peach!!! :3 loved the book(i read it with my 6th grade teacher mrs. stirling a lot & wonder how the cloud people would've been handled if it got adapted.) and this movie a lot and thought like nightmare before christmas(surprised he didn't mention donald duck being there with jack skellington as well.lol) it was a very simple but still very charming with it's characters(favorites being the grasshopper,centipede,earthworm & especially miss spider who looking back really reminds me of rachnera from monster musume so much that i could see her being her sister.:3) and love henry selick's stop motion so much.
In regards to the point of the characters being one dimensional, I think thats kinda due to Roald Dahl's style. Alot of the characters in his books are often shown in a black and white perspective (Good vs evil) with usually good, bright characters without any flaws (e.g. James, Matilda, Charlie) who always win in the end. While they usually face off against one note bad guys who mistreat them (e.g. James aunts, Trunchbull and the other kids in the chocolate factory) and end up being defeated in an overly cartoon manner. Alot of this is down to Dahl's own childhood experience as he often hated a lot of his teachers and in a sense, a lot of adult figures in general (I'd highly recommend his book 'Boy' to get an insight into this) But still, great review! Keep up the good work!
Oh man I remember going to see this with my class when I was really young and I remember crying in the theatre it was that terrifying. AniMat makes it sound like it would give me Coraline vibes.
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I feel like my love for this film is 70% nostalgic and 30% authentic. It doesn’t hold up nearly as well as other movies like Nightmare Before Christmas in my opinion.
It's been so long that I can't remember when I saw this movie but I guess I was around 10 years old then. The way this movie is built makes me nostalgic and a bit sad
Not gonna lie, its been a VERY LLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNGGG TIME since I seen this classic 1990s Disney movie that was based on the book with the same name. The characters are still reconizable, the writing's good, the casting is fantastic, the sets look great, the animation throughout the rest of the film is wonderful, some of the songs do have a catchy beat to it, and I like how its almost like a Who Framed Roger Rabbit film (because it has that Live-Action/Animated vibe to it in the film). Just pointing that out.
"Happy new year from the Hag sisters. Enjoy your holidays and don't forget to WOOOORRK" 🎶 Rhinos, they scare little boys. Assassinating parents don't bring them much joy. It's Randy 🎶
First: It's been a long time since you've done two classic reviews in less than a month, Second: Congrats on your sponsorship. I may not try Demo Creator, but I'm so glad that you're expanding your work, and Thirdly: Is the next review Ponyo?
I remember liking this movie when I was younger (and I still do), but I will admit that the rhino did scare me. It doesn't anymore since I'm in my '20s now, but that was one thing that did freak out me a bit when I was a kid. Even with that though, I still have a lot of fond memories watching this one. By the way, perfect timing with this review since its 25th anniversary happens here in a few days. Monday to be precise.
Like what weaker films Disney did do you suggest? To my opinion the haunted mansion is best for starters and I gotta say that it should be directed by Guillermo Del Toro.
@@jswatch9270 well, this movie would be good. I think they should do a Song of the South with an all black cast and crew. The Black Cauldron would also make for a cool live action epic fantasy.
At least you show more positives than that awful Nostaglia Critic, how he review that one and I hated it. You do the animation movie reviews so much better.
I loved this movie as a kid, especially the bug characters. It's been a while since I've seen it in its entirety, but I can definitely say that the animation is still mesmerizing and most of the music is still solid. Speaking of the pirates, did you know that one of them is Donald Duck? Insert Kingdom Hearts joke here.
I feel like especially during the crocodile tongue scene I think what is underestimated in every movie is score like there was just so much emotion in just that one scene and all it was was just exhibition like you don’t really get that same emotion and sticking power in today’s kids movies I’m not some 90s kid saying that everything in the 90s was great and everything today sucks I’m not one of those people but I feel like that is kind of what is missing in today’s movie is the emotion and kind of they try to be serious but they fall flat on their face because they have to tell a joke five seconds afterwards
I was disappointed you weren't moved by how unnerving and dark the tone of the movie is. Personally, I feel the Lovecraftian undertones of the rhino and ESPECIALLY the metal shark are the highlights of the film.
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Don’t worry animat hotel transvania 4 transfromaina is the final movie of the 4 movies
Could you PLEASE do The Muppets Wizard of oz?
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Love this movie since I was a kid. But give the kid Paul Terry credit for being James. This was the only role he got out of film acting. He never got to act again. But how you told this one, now I have to do my thoughts on the move. Always wanted to
Good news is: Henry Selick is the reason Laika exists 🎉
@@scoutart1508 facts!
and Tim Burton with the corpse bride.
Laika had been retired.
haha
@@TheNotverysocial they are not and also they are getting into live action which I have mix feelings about
I love that Animat keeps using that disturbing picture of the aunts screaming, Truly a piece of art if I ever saw one.
A Family Picture
@@antoniosalieri1048 Wrong Nostalgia Critic reference in the review from what I remember it was the Scary Slo Mo which was another running gag in the pre revival era.
That's my hero.
It must've taken alot of work work Work WORK to not freak out over those two
I was surprised that you didn't mention James' nightmare, which looks like a horrifying version of one of Monty Python's animated segments. And it's considered to be the scariest part of the entire movie. No kidding, that scene scared me so much as a kid that I refused to watch it until I was 15.
And how come you didn't mention the Good News song at the end ?
Normally when Mat talks about the songs in a film, he doesn't count end credit themes, only the actual musical numbers within the film.
🎉🍰 🍑🦗🐞🕷🐛🪱🦋 Happy 25th Anniversary, James and the Giant Peach! 🦋🪱🐛🕷🐞🦗🍑 🍰🎉
There are some moments that are genuinely funny. For example:
Mr Grasshopper: “I say dear boy! I have lived on this miserable hill for decades! There are no rhinosori here!”
Mr Centipede: “Except for Sponge! She’s twice as big as a rhino!”
I see Tara Strong in your profile picture!
@@bigmacintosh1766 Indeed. It was such a pleasure to meet her. We even did a video together where she played Timmy Turner and I played (poorly) Mr Crocker.
I can’t believe he didn’t mention Randy Newman’s contribution to the songs.
Honestly, I'm okay with it. Because everyone else has poked fun at it, so if he did, it'd be beating a dead horse.
@@PhoenixAlaris93 I’m not saying it’s a bad thing that he wrote the songs.
@@PhoenixAlaris93 “everyone” = Nostalgia Critic
@@velvet_victor No, I heard a few others too.
But don't get me wrong. I don't mind the songs myself. I did watch this movie as a kid.
8:51 This movie would be amazing if it was secretly a prequel to Nightmare Before Christmas, with Jack’s appearance.
So excited for Paprika. It was sadly Kon’s Final film before he passed away, I still wonder what kind of movies he would be making now if he was still alive.
Paprika!!! That's the next review!!?
@@hectormanuel8360 Yes, you can hear the score from the parade scene, and Mat said spice as a hint.
@@KaeMcSpadden Animat needs to review more anime, yay!
@@hectormanuel8360 and streaming movies too, since streaming services are a great way for new and original content to be made because they are more open to new and original ideas, unlike most big studios.
@@KaeMcSpadden he could go into those too
This is one of my childhood favorites, having been a rather timid child like James, that I still love! It's also definitely an instance where you can tell that Burton actually cares about the source material, and tries to be faithful to it (so much so that this film is what eventually got Dahl's widow to endorse him as the director for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
I'm not sure I agree with being faithful. I mean, the mechanical shark? No Cloud Men and a shipwreck instead? The aunts living? And the major rhino symbolism (which I actually liked). It's a good movie, but I don't think it's very faithful to the source material. I think Dahl would still have to give it some credit, though - stop motion really lends itself to his creations.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 That’s why I said “tried”, unlike Batman Returns and Alice in Wonderland where Burton didn’t really care about fidelity to source material, and just did whatever he wanted.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 what really bugs me is that the mechanical shark came out of nowhere, there's no explanation as to how it got in the ocean, but maybe I'm missing the point I've only read bits and pieces of the original book but luckily I have it so I can read it anytime I want
@@Treeeee2008 Originally, it was a swarm of regular sharks attacking the peach. They didn't do much damage because their snouts didn't really allow for them to attack a round object like a peach very effectively.
Was it Burton really the one to do it, being the producer, because it seems more like the director Henry Selick was the one who showed respect to the book
I really like this movie since it has three of my favorite things: Roald Dahl, Henry Selick and Tim Burton :)
AGREED 😃👍
Agree
Agree big time 👍
This film, in my eyes, is one of the definitions of a cult classic. Along with 1994s The Crow and The Iron Giant.
Yes
What's The Crow?
@@ChelseatheCreativeFox-pc2xz its an r rated film from the 90s. Its about a man who was killed, along with his wife-to-be, by crazy gang members, comes back from the dead, and seeks vengeance on them.
@@alextheblueman-reviewergam9655 Oh, okay. Thanks for telling me that. It may sound like a good story, but I think there's gonna be a lot of violence and large amounts of swearing, so I think I'll have to pass lol.
@@ChelseatheCreativeFox-pc2xz don't pass it. It's good
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I can still Imagine a sketch on how Cap'n Jack came to be.
8:45 Come on. I bet you all goes "Hey ho, Captain Jack" there. Admit it. XD
"My Name is James" makes "Cheer Up Charlie" look metal as heck by comparison.
When I watched the movie on Disney +, I thought it was pretty good. A lot of hilarious puns.
“This one will have some extra spice to it”
Chef (2014)
That's not animated, and Mat said it was made in Japan.
It’s “Paprika”, the final film from acclaimed Japanese animator Satoshi Kon
When he said "Greatest Japanese directors" the first thing came to my mind was Hayao Miyazaki. I was thinking the short title was "Ponyo" which I watched when I was little
@@CartoonFinder, When He Said “Short Title”, I Thought It Was Going To Be Cars (2006)
I had forgotten how terrifying this film looked
@Nightmare1398 exactly !
Not exactly terrifying at first but if you go forward to the end you'll see it gets even less haunted
It's made by the same guy who did coraline so not too surprising.
James and the Giant Peach turns 25 on April 12, 2021.
I don't mind the additional thoughts at the end of your classic reviews AniMat.
Even though this scared me as a kid, I still really enjoy it. My favorite character will always be the spider. She seems so friendly.
I heard this film is going to get a Live Action Remake . . . But honestly, out of all the movies Disney could remake, I don't think this film qualifies. I just don't want to see the bugs as CGI, it will ruin the original film's stop-motion charm.
Yeah
@Nightmare1398 Don't forget they did Pete's dragon. And the original Is mostly live action
If they were to do a live action remake then they'd probably make the bugs look too realistic to the point where they look scary
Wholeheartedly agree 😊
I remember when I first saw this in my second grade class.
11:33 I never really liked the "he's just a kid" argument, either. I mean, watch the works of Haley Joel Osment or the kids in Stand By Me. There is such a thing as GREAT kid acting!
Perfect for the film’s 25th anniversary
First
to escape my parents on a flying peach ;)
I'm so glad Henry Sellick soon will be back with his stop-motion-animated Netflix-movie "Wendell and Wild" (2022)!
Really?
Yeeeesssssssss
If this movie had been released in 2003 then James would’ve been played by Freddie Highmore
I like how the rhinoceros in the movie is a demonic, supernatural entity made of clouds, that explains how it ate Jame's parents. In the book, the rhino that ate his parents was just a regular rhino from the zoo, which makes zero sense cuz rhinos are herbivores! XD
Why did roald Dahl goe with rhinos in the first place as an adult he should’ve known that rhinoceros are herbivorous animals yes they kill people but they never eat them they won’t even eat other animals even children would know this is inaccurate if he wanted James parents to get eaten by a wild animal he should’ve used a carnivorous animal like a crocodile or a tiger and of course a Lion because those animals not only kill humans but eat them as well(but only if they fail to hunt any other kind of animal)there called “man-eaters” for a reason! rhinos only kill humans for protection from anger or even by accident but never EVER! For food moral of the story never look up to roald Dahl books for zoology
"I thought rhinos were vegetarians?"
- Manny (Manfred) The Mammoth from Ice Age.
Y'all are stating FACTS, people; if he's gonna use a rhino, he should've said something like they were trampled by it or the father was impaled by its horn and the mother was trampled.
@@sarahsims6164 that would’ve Been better
@@sarahsims6164 I think it matters less in the book as it never appears again and I don't think it's even mentioned.
James and the Giant Peach, celebrating 25 years! (1996-2021) 🎊🎉🎂🎬🎥🎞️🎟️🍿
I actually found out this film is 25 Years old!
Didn't know it was that old.
Another 5 more years and it'll be 30 years old.
The unknown man sends his compliments to James Trotter so does the bugs
My main problem is the way James' parents' death was handled. It was WAY too sudden and rushed. If you want character development to work, then you MUST take your time. Take Lion King for example: Mufasa dies when we're halfway through the movie (at the 37 minute mark, since The Lion King is 88 minutes long), and thus, we've had plenty of time to get to know Mufasa as a character and learn about how much he meant to Simba, which, in turn, makes his death all the more effective in terms of drama. Here, the killed James' parents off right at the very beginning of the movie, which is very rushed. They should have waited a bit longer to do it, but, when the death in this movie actually happened, it felt like someone pressed the fast forward button.
Not to mention that James literally had no other choice but to live with those abusive old bags.
@@davidanthonymercado7064 and the fact that those two take up more screen time than James’ parents, which makes the parents seem less like characters and more like plot devices.
It’s Tim Burton. That’s his calling card.
Lol I remember James and the Giant Peach. When I was in elementary school, my teacher showed the movie in the library. I remember thinking the animation was kinda creepy but the songs were fun :)
ONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO BY ANIMAT!
21:10 Sylvester: AHHHH SHADDAP!!
that Nightmare Before Christmas Joke Killed me!
Musical theatre Broadway
This was definitely the movie that me and my sister would always watch at my grandmas place.
I was obsessed with this movie when I was a kid, in fact when I was in 3rd or 4th grade my school actually put on a stage play of James and the Giant Peach and we all got peaches to go with it it was actually really cool
I remember reading the book in 4th grade!
What's your review on The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats In Paris, and Rugrats Go Wild?
I'm calling it! The next review is Paprika!
Now this was a gem from my past. Got me into Stop Motion animation too!
To be fair, the aunts did die in the book if memory serves me right.
Fun fact: The movie was originally intended to be entirely stop motion like The Nightmare Before Christmas but that would've made the budget too high, and they had to cut it with the live action segments at the first and final acts. At one point, they also considered making James entirely live action and they would've added the actor with the stop motion effects, but that too would've been costly with the blue screen effects.
I actually share similar thoughts on this flick, as I remember watching this on Netflix when I was younger. I love the scenes involving the bugs and the stop motion scenes of Henry Sellick...the same cannot be said about the humans, though. Fun fact, this was orchestrated by Randy Newman, which would explain the big band-like feel to most of the tunes.
Paprika is the next classic review
Peepee or poopoo?
Paprika? Isn't that Mr. Salt and Mrs. Pepper's daughter?
@@cintronproductions9430 no it’s a foreign movie
Can you please do a review for disney's Tarzan?
My opinion: This is a good movie but I guess it's mainly because of its nostalgic value. I think Randy Newman did a great job with the musical score. I guess I can't be too bothered by the fact that it won an award or two for Best Animated Film but I still think that honor should have gone to The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
You may be right, but it's also based on a book lots of people had nostalgia for already and the technical achievements were pretty ambitious even back then.
Fun fact Joanna Lumley who played Aunt Spiker in the film also appeared in the James Bond film, On Her Makesty's Secret Service. Later appeared in Corpse Bride, and also appeared in both Trail and Curse of the Pink Panther.
I loved animal trivia as a kid, so I never understood why the Rhino was supposed to be scary when rhinos aren't carnivores. Maybe I was thinking too much about it, but I always had this idea that the zoo that had that rhino was some kind of jurassic park operation where they made genetically engineered abominations and one of them just happened to be a carnivorous rhinoceros.
12:23 another major difference from the book since in the book this doesn't happen as spiker and sponge with killed after being flattenned by the Peach
Happy 25th anniversary James and the Giant Peach
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now ElectricDragon505 reviewed the movie
I used to watch this movie when I was kid and I remember loving it, I love this movie for nostalgia
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This was one of my favorite movies growing up, and I’m glad you reviewed it, Mat! The centipede does have a scary face, though.
Have you ever heard of the Ant Bully or Astro Boy (2009) lately?
The First Disney film distributed by Pathé in UK and France.
Cool Fact Dude
Unlike the so-called film featuring Brooklyn’s lavatory fixers!
I have very strong nostalgic ties towards this film, I saw it when it first came out in 1996 as a child, so it was one of the very first films I remember seeing in the cinema😊
I actually quite liked this film
I wonder if animat thinks this movie is Rock a doodle done right
I can't decide how I feel about the rhino. The fact that it's a symbol of everything that holds James back is clever, but the way it was handled in the book, just as an angry carnivore that had escaped from the local zoo..well, okay.
Do the history of Jim Henson next now that you’ve finished Walt Disney.
I loved this movie as a kid! Mrs Spider was my favorite of the bugs. Centipede comes close though.
Yeah, I so agree with you! Miss Spider is my favorite character while Mr. Centipede is my second favorite character too! :)
I can’t believe this film bombed. It’s a fantastic film.
Rumor had it that this movie had a secret McDonald’s promotion around the time of the movie’s release but considering this was a Tim Burton film and we all know his history with the Golden Arches…
happy 25th anniversary james and the giant peach!!! :3
loved the book(i read it with my 6th grade teacher mrs. stirling a lot & wonder how the cloud people would've been handled if it got adapted.) and this movie a lot and thought like nightmare before christmas(surprised he didn't mention donald duck being there with jack skellington as well.lol) it was a very simple but still very charming with it's characters(favorites being the grasshopper,centipede,earthworm & especially miss spider who looking back really reminds me of rachnera from monster musume so much that i could see her being her sister.:3) and love henry selick's stop motion so much.
In regards to the point of the characters being one dimensional, I think thats kinda due to Roald Dahl's style. Alot of the characters in his books are often shown in a black and white perspective (Good vs evil) with usually good, bright characters without any flaws (e.g. James, Matilda, Charlie) who always win in the end. While they usually face off against one note bad guys who mistreat them (e.g. James aunts, Trunchbull and the other kids in the chocolate factory) and end up being defeated in an overly cartoon manner.
Alot of this is down to Dahl's own childhood experience as he often hated a lot of his teachers and in a sense, a lot of adult figures in general (I'd highly recommend his book 'Boy' to get an insight into this)
But still, great review! Keep up the good work!
I remember seeing Nightmare before Christmas, Willy Wonka, and James and the Giant Peach as a kid.
The Centipede is my favorite character :)
Same
The Centipede and the Spider are my favorite characters in the whole movie! :)
@@MLPfangirl25 Yeah The Spider Too
@@LittleBlueReviews400 Yep, I enjoy both of those characters! :)
This movie terrified me when I was 6
Coraline has the same horror to consider with
Oh man I remember going to see this with my class when I was really young and I remember crying in the theatre it was that terrifying. AniMat makes it sound like it would give me Coraline vibes.
I guess I enjoy the LA parts more because of being British and having grown up with all the actors.
Haven't seen this film in years but I remembered enjoying it
Hi, Animat. I would like you to review these films:
-The Rugrats Movie
-Rugrats in Paris: the Movie
-Barnyard
-Once Upon a Forest
-Curious George
-The Wild Thornberrys Movie
-Delgo
-Clifford's Really Big Movie
-Eight Crazy Nights
-The Last Unicorn
-Battle For Terra
-Valiant
-Doug's 1st Movie
-The Trunpet of the Swan
-Beavis and Butt-head Do America
-Starchaser: the Legend of Orin
-Tom and Jerry: the Movie
-Oliver and Company
-A Troll in Central Park
He definitely needs to review Barnyard and Eight Crazy Nights!
If you want AniMat to review these films, you need to use either send him an email or do patreon
I gotta watch the film again soon.
8:54 that's not jack skeleton it's his identical cousin jack sparrow from pirate of the caribbean movies
I feel like my love for this film is 70% nostalgic and 30% authentic. It doesn’t hold up nearly as well as other movies like Nightmare Before Christmas in my opinion.
It's been so long that I can't remember when I saw this movie but I guess I was around 10 years old then. The way this movie is built makes me nostalgic and a bit sad
Not gonna lie, its been a VERY LLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNGGG TIME since I seen this classic 1990s Disney movie that was based on the book with the same name.
The characters are still reconizable, the writing's good, the casting is fantastic, the sets look great, the animation throughout the rest of the film is wonderful, some of the songs do have a catchy beat to it, and I like how its almost like a Who Framed Roger Rabbit film (because it has that Live-Action/Animated vibe to it in the film).
Just pointing that out.
11:52 work work work work work work work work oh and did I forgot to mention WORK
"Happy new year from the Hag sisters. Enjoy your holidays and don't forget to WOOOORRK"
🎶 Rhinos, they scare little boys. Assassinating parents don't bring them much joy. It's Randy 🎶
May all your resolutions come true
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 thanks. I couldn't remember well that part
this movie led me to watching the Nostalgia Critic for the first time :)
The next film will be Satoshi Kun’s last film Paprika!
Humorously, I have Filmora X from Wondershare. But I may need to get that DemoCreator.
Thanks for letting me know about it, Animatt!
First: It's been a long time since you've done two classic reviews in less than a month,
Second: Congrats on your sponsorship. I may not try Demo Creator, but I'm so glad that you're expanding your work,
and Thirdly: Is the next review Ponyo?
I remember liking this movie when I was younger (and I still do), but I will admit that the rhino did scare me. It doesn't anymore since I'm in my '20s now, but that was one thing that did freak out me a bit when I was a kid. Even with that though, I still have a lot of fond memories watching this one. By the way, perfect timing with this review since its 25th anniversary happens here in a few days. Monday to be precise.
I really like this movie. I used to watch little bits of it growing up. The best thing about the film is the Randy Newman song Good News.
Why doesn’t Disney try remaking their weaker films like this one instead of butchering their classics?
On second thought...
Like what weaker films Disney did do you suggest?
To my opinion the haunted mansion is best for starters and I gotta say that it should be directed by Guillermo Del Toro.
@@jswatch9270 well, this movie would be good. I think they should do a Song of the South with an all black cast and crew. The Black Cauldron would also make for a cool live action epic fantasy.
@@Rpartin93 I have not seen song of the south and I need to rewatch the black cauldron.
@@jswatch9270 Song of the South isn’t really worth watching unless you are curious about it and Disney’s history.
Is it just me or the bugs reminded the ones from Cameramen's Revenge and The Mascot?
At least you show more positives than that awful Nostaglia Critic, how he review that one and I hated it. You do the animation movie reviews so much better.
I loved this movie as a kid, especially the bug characters. It's been a while since I've seen it in its entirety, but I can definitely say that the animation is still mesmerizing and most of the music is still solid.
Speaking of the pirates, did you know that one of them is Donald Duck? Insert Kingdom Hearts joke here.
I feel like especially during the crocodile tongue scene I think what is underestimated in every movie is score like there was just so much emotion in just that one scene and all it was was just exhibition like you don’t really get that same emotion and sticking power in today’s kids movies I’m not some 90s kid saying that everything in the 90s was great and everything today sucks I’m not one of those people but I feel like that is kind of what is missing in today’s movie is the emotion and kind of they try to be serious but they fall flat on their face because they have to tell a joke five seconds afterwards
Even though I haven’t seen James before, I have read the books though, and I can see why this is enjoyable, time to enter the anime film paprika next
I had nightmares from this movie as a child
I like this movie. thanks for covering it
I was disappointed you weren't moved by how unnerving and dark the tone of the movie is. Personally, I feel the Lovecraftian undertones of the rhino and ESPECIALLY the metal shark are the highlights of the film.
It was as dark as the average Disney cartoon feature (Hunchback) or the average 80s children’s movie fantasy
I love this movie and the book.
6:28 Jack Skeleton!