Media Hunter - James and the Giant Peach (1996) Review

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

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  • @TrevortheTrainFan
    @TrevortheTrainFan 3 года назад +12

    This a true classic! I used to watch this all the time when I was young. In fact, I used to reenact the scene where the aunts’ car was being squashed and run over by the giant peach; and I used a basketball to roll over one of my Hot Wheels cars. 😃

  • @chaoticneutral7976
    @chaoticneutral7976 3 года назад +12

    A very unique but fun movie, loved the stop motion and coziness James gets from his found family

  • @keshiaanders6452
    @keshiaanders6452 3 года назад +15

    There's an after credit scene where apparently James has a penny arcade game called "Spike the Aunts."
    The arcade game is about the rhino (that same rhino the haunted James) striking Spiker & Sponge in the rears....and then it officially ends with a tombstone saying "The End."
    This whole scene basically said that somehow, the storm rhino is actually real & decided to kill it's next target, the evil aunts. And that's what to the two after they were carried away...

  • @strawberrysoulforever8336
    @strawberrysoulforever8336 2 года назад +6

    It's funny how the bugs react to James in the movie - apparently they weren't expecting him. In the book, they were only still on the hill because they were waiting for James to get there. Then, without explaining everything, they all stare at James and talk about how they're all starving, until they realize that James thinks they want to eat him and all of them reassure him that's not what they mean.

  • @Karuminu2
    @Karuminu2 3 года назад +19

    I question as to why James didn't have that giant peach seed planted so it could grow into a giant peach tree and grow more giant peaches for scientists to study and possibly solve world hunger?

    • @Karuminu2
      @Karuminu2 3 года назад +8

      @Katie Lewis 🤣🤣🤣 THANK YOU!!

  • @BigJackFilms
    @BigJackFilms 3 года назад +5

    Great review. I saw this as a kid in theaters in a double floor cinema. Good stuff.

  • @loneronin6813
    @loneronin6813 3 года назад +9

    I guess Jack went from The Pumpkin King to The Pirate King.

    • @brandonspain12345
      @brandonspain12345 Год назад +2

      It does give the theory that Jack was perhaps a pirate before he died.

    • @loneronin6813
      @loneronin6813 Год назад

      @@brandonspain12345 I could actually see that making sense in a way.

  • @henrymockingbird9645
    @henrymockingbird9645 Год назад +4

    At least you did a better job of reviewing James and the giant peach than the nostalgia critic

  • @BrandonCroker
    @BrandonCroker 3 года назад +7

    “My name is James, that’s what mother calls me…” What a coincidence that my actual middle name is James.

  • @CameronProductions20
    @CameronProductions20 3 года назад +3

    The cloud shoots lightning at the peach James "I'm not afraid of you." The cloud "Fuck off."

  • @doctorawesomeness6922
    @doctorawesomeness6922 3 года назад +14

    I used to watch this movie on VHS when I was younger.

    • @mikesilva3868
      @mikesilva3868 3 года назад

      @Ryan Ward agreed these movies were my favorites from my childhood saw this movie when I was 13 in 1997 and Nightmare before Christmas when I was 10 in 1994😊

  • @brandonspain12345
    @brandonspain12345 3 года назад +7

    A underrated gem IMO

  • @sarahsims6164
    @sarahsims6164 3 года назад +2

    4:06 Fish heads, they were obviously only gonna give him the scraps.
    14:18 Wrong, the scene with Earthworm came BEFORE the peach-eating scene.

  • @brianlevine871
    @brianlevine871 3 года назад +3

    Speaking of familiar faces, one of the skeleton pirates is actually Donald Duck, including the sailor hat and quacky voice.

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga 3 года назад +11

    A Henry Selick classic.

  • @robbiewalker2831
    @robbiewalker2831 4 месяца назад

    1:53: considering how animals were treated in zoos, it’s likely that such a thing in the book would occur in the movie as well, and the storm cloud would be a metaphor to James’ trauma. In the words of Eddie Valiant: “Makes Perfect Sense”.
    8:25: That, and they already have the Spider take care of making thread. Having a silkworm would be redundant for having another worm or another threading bug.
    9:39: Misconceptions aside, that was a good pun.

  • @masterfarr8265
    @masterfarr8265 3 года назад +5

    so Jack became a pirate on his travels back to Halloween Town

  • @tomjackson6077
    @tomjackson6077 3 года назад +2

    1:58
    Manny: Wait a minute. I thought rhinos were vegetarians

    • @sarahsims6164
      @sarahsims6164 3 года назад +1

      Thank you! Seriously, if Dahl's gonna use a rhino, have it where they were both either trampled or the father got impaled by its crest.

    • @tomjackson6077
      @tomjackson6077 3 года назад +1

      @@sarahsims6164 who says we’re gonna eat him after we kill him?

    • @loganmosher5935
      @loganmosher5935 2 года назад

      A Meat Eating Rhino 🦏 Rhinos Eat Grass

  • @benderbendingrodriguez420
    @benderbendingrodriguez420 Год назад +1

    Loved this as a kid. Still holds up imo despite how damn weird it is lo

  • @ejl423
    @ejl423 3 года назад +10

    I like to theorize that Sponge and Spiker murdered James's parents so they could have a slave and used the so-called "rhino" as a coverup and to intimidate him.

    • @robbiewalker2831
      @robbiewalker2831 3 года назад +2

      Perhaps they agitated the Rhino so badly (with insults and physical attacks), to the point of going insane and not knowing of it’s actions.

    • @fortnitesexman
      @fortnitesexman 2 года назад

      i thought it was so obvious too but then the rhino turns out to be real which makes sponge and spiker much less antagonistic..

  • @JoshuaOrro-MustangPrinceOR-YTB
    @JoshuaOrro-MustangPrinceOR-YTB 3 года назад +2

    childhood classic .... and its been 2 years since my Musical Theatre Village Friends did a stage musical version of the story while i was on a European vacation

  • @JesusMartinez-rr2ry
    @JesusMartinez-rr2ry 3 года назад +3

    The movie should have ended with Aunts Sponge and Spiker being taken across the country, where they get scraped against pavement, pummeled by a charging stampede of bison, and set ablaze at a chemical plant, until they arrived at Los Angeles where both aunts get dumped into the La Brea Tar Pits to spend their final seconds of their lives.

    • @tylerfish2701
      @tylerfish2701 2 года назад

      Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events much?
      Sounds satisfying.

  • @silverwingdragon4161
    @silverwingdragon4161 3 года назад +3

    Boy, this is a movie that everyone just kinda forgot about. I've literally never heard anyone talk about it, ever.

    • @robbiewalker2831
      @robbiewalker2831 3 года назад

      Probably because there might be elitists listening to all the things Doug Walker said.

  • @dont-hurt-me2519
    @dont-hurt-me2519 3 года назад +2

    0:09, Hope you eventually review that? Not a lot of people really talk about that film anymore...

  • @Amber_xo_133
    @Amber_xo_133 Месяц назад

    The puppet used for the captain in the icy water, or the head at least, appears to be the same head that was used for Jack in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
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    This film took twelve years to reach the screen. Roald Dahl himself was convinced that the property would never make a viable film.
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    When Centipede opens the door to the Pirate Captain's quarters, he exclaims, "A Skellington?" The puppet head that was used for the captain is actually the same as Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993). When centipede discovers the compass he says 'Jackpot'
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    The lyrics for the song "Eating the Peach" were written by Roald Dahl.
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    According to the newspapers at the end, the movie takes place in 1949.
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    Henry Selick initially considered doing the whole film in stop-motion, but ultimately decided on a blend with live-action to cut down on costs.
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    An evil storm cloud rhino is an antagonistic force in James' life. In several shots, the evil aunts' car can be seen with a Rhinoceros hood ornament.
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    Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker briefly recite a few lines from a poem written by Roald Dahl.
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    The "happy" tune the Grasshopper plays for James is Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita for Violin Solo No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1006: 3rd movement, Gavotte en rondeau.
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    Susan Sarandon who voiced Miss Spider was married to Chris Sarandon who voices Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) another Tim Burton produced movie. Jack Skellington also makes an appearance in James and the Giant Peach as one of the pirates.
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    One of the skeletal pirates has a duck bill, a sailor suit, and speaks with a distinct voice, all references to Donald Duck.
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    When the bugs are questioning centipede's navigation skills and claims of world travel they bring up his visit to Tripoli. His reply, "Did I say Tripoli? I meant the Halls of Montezuma!" Is a reference to the Marine Hymn, which contains the line, "From the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli".
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    When James first meets the insects, Miss Spider is the one who knows James's name since she was the spider he rescued from his aunts earlier in the movie.
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    Miriam Margolyes (Sponge) and David Thewlis (Earthworm) both appeared in the Harry Potter film series, as Professors Sprout and Lupin respectively.
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    If you look closely in the first few minutes, you can see the various insects and bugs that will have a larger role later on in the film. Even the Empire State Building is seen as a cloud.
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    This is the last time Denise Di Novi was co-producer with Tim Burton.
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    The shark's existence is unusual, as it is unknown how and why it was created or even if it was a figment of James' imagination. It is also possible that the shark was built by Spiker and Sponge to bring James back in case he tries to escape, as when it rises out of the sea, it spouts several plates of the same rotten fish heads they tried to serve him the other day after it sucks up a school of tuna.
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    Andy Partridge, of the British pop group XTC, was originally tapped to write the songs for this film. When Partridge backed out over the compensation he was offered, the producers called on Randy Newman instead after Toy Story (1995) became a hit. Partridge eventually released demo versions of the four songs he composed for the film.
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    Miriam Margolyes is the second actor/actress in a Disney live action movie to provide both a live-action role and a voice-over role. The first would be James Baskett in Song of the South (1946).
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    Paul Terry's only film.
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    Sam Mendes (American Beauty (1999), Road to Perdition (2002), Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road (2008), Away We Go (2009), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), 1917 (2019) and Empire of Light (2022)) would be talks to direct a remake of James and the Giant Peach but the project never got off the ground.
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    The movie was filmed on 22 different soundstages.
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    PRODUCER TRADEMARK (Tim Burton): [Black and white stripes]: Miss Spider's black and white striped abdomen.
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    This isn't the first time Richard Dreyfuss played a character that had a nearly fatal face to face encounter with an enormous killer shark that ended up exploding, the first being Jaws (1975).
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    When James and Miss Spider were searching for both Mr. Centipede and a compass, one of the sunken ships had both Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge on the mast for unknown reasons.
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    Miriam Margolyes (Sponge) and Pete Postlethwaite (Old Man) also worked together in Romeo + Juliet (1996) the same year.
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    Spiker and Sponge's car is a 1947 Jaguar 3½ Litre [Mk.IV].
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    At around 37 minutes the clouds are in the shape of teapots.
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    Dennis Potter wrote a screenplay that was not eventually used. Colleague Renny Rye recalled, "there was a cynical caterpillar he felt totally involved with".
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    This is the only Disney's live-action-animated hybrid film to be scored by Randy Newman.
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    This isn't the last time Miriam Margolyes played a character who has a career working with magical produce she played Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).
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    The second Disney's live-action/animated hybrid film to be rated PG by the Motion Picture Association (MPA) after Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
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    The animation cast includes two Oscar winners: Richard Dreyfuss and Susan Sarandon; and one Oscar nominee: Pete Postlethwaite.
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    The first Walt Disney Pictures film with the name of Disney Enterprises in the ending credits.
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    When Aunt Sponge calls for tourists to see the giant peach, she calls it the eighth wonder of the world. This is a reference to King Kong; the titular character is called the same thing by Carl Denham
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    Richard Dreyfuss didn't allow the filmmakers to film him while he recorded the lines for Centipede.
    In the book, Spiker and Sponge are killed when the peach rolls over and crushes them. However, in the movie, they survive.
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    In the newspaper articles at the end of the movie, the stories for Green Grasshopper and Mr Centipede feature custom articles written about them, but all the others only have custom titles or photo captions, the articles on those pages are only random filler. On the last page, which is apparently supposed to be an article about James' birthday party according to the heading, the article featured is actually the same writing as featured on Green Grasshopper's page, about his musical debut.
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    Miriam Margolyes (Aunt Sponge) also plays Grandma Rose in Balto (1995). Both movies start out in live-action, then switch to animation, then end back in live-action. Interestingly, Grandma Rose is in New York at the start of Balto, which is where Aunt Sponge ends up at the end of James and the Giant Peach.
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    The VHS and DVD versions feature a behind the scenes making-of documentary and a music video of Randy Newman's "Good News".

  • @elliepredator_fan1111
    @elliepredator_fan1111 3 года назад +1

    Oh my gosh I love James and the giant peach

  • @gmanley1
    @gmanley1 6 месяцев назад

    Interesting connection between James and the Giant Peach and A Bug's Life: They both have Randy Newman.

  • @silverwingdragon4161
    @silverwingdragon4161 3 года назад +1

    6 :40. Now that you mention it, yes, yes it does.

  • @RPGFlare64
    @RPGFlare64 Год назад

    10:13 YES THERE DEAD! 10:16 Bummer There still alive Boo. Your a Great Media Comedian Bro!

  • @DexterYesMandarkNo
    @DexterYesMandarkNo 3 года назад +2

    Now it's the beginning of October and it's really a good start! BTW I've seen the musical. I'm a really big fan of Tim Burton!

  • @carlossoto1715
    @carlossoto1715 3 года назад

    This came out the year I was born, but this was one classic that was sadly not a part of my cherished VHS collection. Of course I managed to see this movie several times over. Roald Dahl disowned Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, but praised The Witches. I wonder how he would’ve felt for this film.

    • @MrTristy22
      @MrTristy22 3 года назад +2

      I don't know what he would have felt about it. I feel he probably would have been favorable towards Matilda. I mean really the only thing that's changed is the whole subplot involving Matilda and Miss Honey escaping the Trunchbull from the house but otherwise it's pretty faithful to the source material. But who knows. The only film version that of his books that he liked during his lifetime was the BFG 1989. According to the animators, after the film ended, he gave it a huge applause. And while he hated The Witches due to the ending being changed, he did approve of Angelica Houston as the Grand High Witch.

  • @Sandlot1992
    @Sandlot1992 3 года назад

    this movie was a childhood favorite of mine and read the book at my public library! plus Randy Newman wrote these songs!

    • @MrTristy22
      @MrTristy22 3 года назад

      He did write the songs. In the case of the Eating the Peach song, he wrote the underscoring but the lyrics are directly from the book.

  • @lizafootfor5471
    @lizafootfor5471 3 года назад +2

    I saw this on DVD when I was a kid and it's still fun. Unfortunately, a remake is on the rise so enjoy watching the original.

    • @superdoglover1659
      @superdoglover1659 3 года назад

      Really? Where was it confirmed?

    • @lizafootfor5471
      @lizafootfor5471 3 года назад

      @@superdoglover1659 one guy was in talks to direct another adaptation of the book with Disney back in 2016, but dropped out from production in 2017 because he's currently directing a remake of Pinocchio. This adaptation is still in development.

  • @Bubbleskittymaster
    @Bubbleskittymaster 3 года назад

    i have a lot of memories with this movie even only being 17 when i was little the day care i went to had it and we watched it.

  • @patrickmcconnaha9289
    @patrickmcconnaha9289 4 месяца назад

    I have a theory:
    After James and his friends escaped, Spiker and Sponge probably told the rhino to go after James and his friends to stop them from reaching New York by building the robot shark and bringing the skeleton pirates to life.

  • @ProfCoolio
    @ProfCoolio 3 года назад +2

    I don’t fear arthropods or annelids, but I do suffer from severe icthiophobia. Makes watching certain scenes of this film difficult

    • @Karuminu2
      @Karuminu2 3 года назад +1

      Had to look that up. A fear of fish? However did that happen to you?
      I have a fear of slugs and snails.

    • @ProfCoolio
      @ProfCoolio 3 года назад +1

      @@Karuminu2 childhood trauma.
      How about yours?

    • @Karuminu2
      @Karuminu2 3 года назад +1

      @@ProfCoolio Same. My Dad believes it happened when I was two, some campground ranger shoved a slug close to my face and suggested I should kiss it. Thirty year old me today would tell him to shove it up his ass.
      What's your story? Can you remember?

    • @ProfCoolio
      @ProfCoolio 3 года назад +1

      @@Karuminu2 sure.
      My cousin’s family had a koi pond, and it needed cleaning. So her father emptied a plastic sandbox, filled it with water, and relocated the fish there. Being a lifelong animal lover (even if that life was only five years old) I asked if we could see them. We went into the garage where they were, my dad walked over to the far side where I couldn’t see and said “what happened to this one?” And he kicked a koi corpse out and in my general direction. I do not exaggerate when I say I ran halfway home. (Seeing as how they only lived a couple blocks away) Since then, I’ve been afraid of one of the most harmless, beautiful, fascinating creatures on the planet. I still love them. It’s a terrible curse.
      Sorry for the “book.” I don’t often get the chance to talk about myself.

    • @Karuminu2
      @Karuminu2 3 года назад +1

      @@ProfCoolio Woooow. Great parenting. 😲 That's the total opposite of what my Dad does. He would kick slugs away and say "Get out of here stupid slug."

  • @Headbanger142
    @Headbanger142 3 года назад +2

    I loved this movie as a kid but looking back on it a lot of it doesn't make sense especially compared to the book - is the rhino supposed to represent the ghost of the rhino that killed James' parents? Also where'd the robot shark come from,m (in the books it was a bunch of sharks munching on the peach)

  • @SJ_RANKS
    @SJ_RANKS 3 года назад +2

    I’d like to think ms spider is James’ mother reincarnated

    • @tylerfish2701
      @tylerfish2701 2 года назад +1

      That actually sounds interesting.

  • @RobertsonBrendyn
    @RobertsonBrendyn 3 года назад

    I remember watching on VHS as a kid.

  • @superdoglover1659
    @superdoglover1659 3 года назад +1

    Will you review Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) next? It's one of my favorites.

  • @UndeadNerdT800
    @UndeadNerdT800 3 года назад +3

    I actually use to love this movie and I actually read the book.

  • @RPGFlare64
    @RPGFlare64 Год назад

    Uh What's with the Border? The film was in WideScreen but why is there a Border around the Screen showing The movie?

  • @miraclecomics
    @miraclecomics 3 года назад

    I believe that the anuts built the robot shark. That would explain the fish heads.

  • @gmanley1
    @gmanley1 6 месяцев назад

    1:20 Wrong year! It‘s actually 1948.

  • @davidrooker5141
    @davidrooker5141 2 года назад +1

    wow ok

  • @ShadowLightMewEndlessOceanMew
    @ShadowLightMewEndlessOceanMew 3 года назад

    A classic for sure

  • @aidanhever3369
    @aidanhever3369 3 года назад

    When I first saw it on Disney Channel when I was a kid, I didn't like it because I found it weird and scary, especially the James' nightmare part. I never watched this movie ever again until he was 15, and this when I overcame my fears.

  • @huntercoleman460
    @huntercoleman460 2 года назад

    While James and The Giant Peach isn’t one of my favorites of Dahl’s, I liked the movie and book. Also in the book, Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker are crushed to death when the peach rolls over them. Did you know Dahl didn’t allow a film adaptation of James and The Giant Peach while he was alive? However, given how he hated Willy Wonka, hard to say if he would’ve liked this movie.

  • @videohistory722
    @videohistory722 3 года назад

    Fantastic Mr. Fox and Isle of Dogs, pleeeease?

  • @ultimatealdo1922
    @ultimatealdo1922 Год назад

    I thought it’ll be cool too see this in Kingdom Hearts

  • @mikesilva3868
    @mikesilva3868 3 года назад

    Love this movie 📼

  • @AbrasiousProductions
    @AbrasiousProductions 10 месяцев назад

    I'm still attracted to that spider

  • @matthewbolitho-jones
    @matthewbolitho-jones 2 месяца назад

    I like James and the Giant Peach

  • @nourshokr3291
    @nourshokr3291 3 года назад

    Can you do Dino King?

  • @StevenDolce
    @StevenDolce 3 года назад

    Good movie

  • @skunkman9815
    @skunkman9815 3 года назад +1

    Review Scooby-Doo and the ghoul school

  • @rileyohrt7256
    @rileyohrt7256 3 года назад +1

    Can you please republish your review on the last unicorn? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it and it’s not fair that it should be blocked

  • @Angelbird57438
    @Angelbird57438 9 месяцев назад

    I like The movie

  • @MARYANNLABE-m3j
    @MARYANNLABE-m3j 11 месяцев назад

    Or maybe Jack skellington is Jack sparrow!

  • @forrestdupre87
    @forrestdupre87 3 года назад

    The book is better.