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Watching James And The Giant Peach (1996) FOR THE FIRST TIME!! || Movie Reaction!
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- Опубликовано: 17 апр 2022
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Hey everyone hope you enjoyed the reaction! See you next for a surprise movie and Ever After!!
Is the surprise movie Dr. Strange?
Best Cinderella :)
Is the surprise movie chitty chitty bang bang
Omg no way you’re gonna watch Ever After?!?!? Omg I’m so happy I love that movie so much!!!!! So many iconic scenes in that movie 💖💖💖💖💖💖
Please watch Stuart Little 2 🙏
The bugs were made big and intelligent by the little green things, as the movie explained. The green things escaped into the ground and worked their magic on the first live things they came across. The peach, and the bugs.
Did the movie explain that? The book explained that they all swallowed some of them.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 This movie could’ve done a lot better explaining things like that and what the rhino actually was tbh. But the symbolism is def there if you ever delve into it yourself.
I was 5 and I got it. I guess some viewers don't perceive it as easily. It was explained fine
@@PixarShark I got the rhino. That was an embodiment of James' fears and insecurities, which he faced and won, and that came full circle when he stood up to the aunts. In the book, they were crushed and killed by the peach. It was a weird shift, though, since the book rhino was just an escapee from a zoo that went for James' parents (although I imagine a real rhino's method for killing people would not involve eating them).
Hey Disneyfanatic. Love your work.
In the book, the aunt's get crushed to death by the peach early on when they first get it off the hill. That said, of all his adaptations this is one, to me anyway, feels most authenticity Roald Dahl. Even the things they added that weren't in the book feel authentic to his universe. This movie and Matilda will always be my favorite Dahl movies. They're just perfect examples of doing the source material justice, while adding and changing things in ways that still work perfectly. I'm gonna go watch your reaction now haha I saw and clicked and got so excited my ADHD went off.
I mean, the encounters with the cloud people in the novel weren't that interesting, IMO. But I did read the book after I saw the movie/before I knew there was a book.
I think the only story that Roald Dahl really loved for the adaptations was the BFG(the original animated one, he actually gave it a standing ovation in the theatre.)
The pirate sequence in this movie scared the living hell out of me as a child (which, I mean, every Roald Dahl movie is terrifying in it's own right).
It was the giant mechanical shark for me
Did you recognize Jack of " The nightmare before Christmas " ?
@@QueenCloveroftheice That too
Doesn't that apply to Roald Dahl books, too?
Underrated film from my childhood
This movie is NEVER talked about enough anymore
Such a trippy movie
RIGHT!? Gives me Corpse Bride and Coraline vibes
@@PsychoDiesel48 Tbf it was directed by the same guy who directed Coraline. Henry Selick
@@fynnthefox9078 Well that explains it! XD
I absolutely love the fact that they used Jack Skellington as the Pirate Captain. This was one of my fave childhood movies!
This film is such a feverdream lol I loved the book and movie as a kid, but rewatching it as an adult makes me realise how random it all is
Me too.
Same but I never even knew it was based on a book.
@@harlowitter3060 yep, Roald Dahl had some interesting ideas for childrens books
A better term is Surreal. But yes, I see what you mean.
Richard Dreyfuss: Mr. Centipede.
Susan Sarandon: Miss SPIDER
David Thewlis: Mr. Earthworm
Jane Leeves: Mrs. Ladybug
Miriam Margolyes: Mrs. Glowworm
Simon Callow: Mr. Grasshopper.
Another underrated movie that’s live action at first and animated in the middle like this is The PageMaster. One of my childhood favorites I HIGHLY recommend it 👌 it’s about a magic library 💖
I watched that movie so much I burned out the VHS. It's so well animated!
This movie ws so comforting to me as a child. Like yes it's packed with dark and creepy moments but the overall tone of being around the right people and creating a warm and encouraging environment, it was like being whisked away with James on this dreamlike journey.
Same here. It's definitely a perfect movie to watch during the autumn season if you live out in the country.
19:46 i don't remember if i realized it as a kid, but to have one character call another 'an ass' in a kid's movie in '96 is just so mind-blowing to me
You’ve actually seen another film based on a book by Roald Dahl besides Witches including:
Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
and he actually wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,
Some other films based on Dahl’s work worth watching if you haven’t seen them include:
The BFG (1989),
Matilda,
Fantastic Mr Fox,
The music once again was by Randy Newman who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score, but not winning,
Lastly the film was directed by Henry Selick who also did Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline,
Oh Nick you should definitely watch Matilda! I love that movie so much
Dont forget about the witches 1990
Yes! Please only do the 1990 version, not the remake!
@@GTARanger1992 also, The Witches of Eastwick is another fun movie! Jack Nicholson and Cher. Iconic 👌💖
Omg after hearing the James song I’m like who wrote this randy Newman lol
1:36 essentially a rhinoceros broke out of the zoo and killed them.
The "gobbled up" line is quite literal. It ate them.
Amazing how they got Jack Skellington to cameo in this.
I always thought that was so cool.
This was before Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s a character idea or design Tim Burton has had for awhile before Nightmare gave him a name and made him a real character. You can also see a Jack Skellington looking head on the carousel in Beetlejuice. Which was even earlier than this.
@@fightingfaerie Nightmare Before Christmas was 1993, this was 1996. But Beetlejuice was definitely before both. I'm sure he had the character design idea for a while. That's awesome to know.
He was torturing Centipede for intel on Christmastown.
I always fantasized as a kid that if I ever ate a peach myself, I could turn into a cartoon like James.
This movie is another underrated gem made by Henry Selick, director of Nightmare Before Christmas.
1:36 Yeah....about the rhino...if I remember correctly, in the book it was an actual rhino that had escaped from the London zoo. Not exactly sure why they changed it here, other than maybe the imagery would've been too dark?
Very much loved this movie. I thought they did a nice adaptation of the book, and the stop motion and songs were wonderful. My sister was an extra in last scene with all the children showing up. I felt that bringing back the aunt at the end (which wasn't in the book) was a bit much, and sometimes Centipede also was a bit over the top, but then again I saw this as a teenager, when from a child's perspective, this was an amazing movie.
Fun fact the old man at the beginning with the bugs…is Roland (the guy who wants to hunt the T. rex) in Jurassic park the lost world, Pete postlewaite was a great actor, he passed away in 2011.
Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton and Danny Devito were almost picked to direct until Henry Sellick was picked to direct the project.
Production began for this movie in 1982-1983, until 1995 where it it began filming.
I haven’t seen this movie in around.. 15 years probably. But I remember I used to watch it MILLIONS of times. There are a couple things I remember but now it’s time for me to have flashbacks from it :D
So the rhinoceros basically ate James's parents?
Manny : Wait a minute. I thought rhinos were vegetarian.
Sid : An excellent point !
Manny : Shut up.
Yeah I was like... wait... they dont eat meat
Perfect reference
“ I don’t like animals that kill for pleasure “ ~ Manfred the Mammoth
Love this movie. The animation style is so cool. I remember thinking the rhino scene was kind of scary as a kid lol. Still great though. 💕
This film both comforted and terrified me as a kid 😅 Thank you for watching and sharing your commentary with us 🙂 🍑
I agree with you that the bugs should have looked like normal bugs at the end. Like James could have held out his hand to the cop and have all the bugs sitting in his palm as he says they are his friends and they helped him. The cop could be like “alright kid” and move on not thinking much of a little boy playing with bugs
that would've been sweet but I don't trust the cops not to have tried to put him in an asylum afterwards
I used to watch this film all the time as a kid. It’s nice to rewatch James and the Giant Peach every now and again. Thanks for the reaction, Nick!
James and the Giant Peach is an all time classic. Thank you for bringing back my childhood memories Nick.
The reason why there is a black rhino is because in the book its explained that an escaped Rhino ate his parents while his parents were on a trip to the zoo.
I saw this in theaters with my family and I loved it! Haven't seen this in years!
"I've never seen animation like this"
Nightmare before chtistmas and Corpse Bride: "Are we a joke to you?".
This was a childhood favorite of mine, still have the VHS of it. The rhino is really just a representation of James' fears. Also, I found out later that Sponge and Spiker actually killed James' parents.
Same, I had the VHS too lol. I didn't know they killed his parents though. I guess it's not surprising for them.
That must be movie-specific. The book stated that a rhino escaped from the zoo and ate James' parents.
At 21:34 I’d say the guy on the right looks a lot like Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas! Do you think that’s meant to be some sort of reference??? 🤔😁
I always thought that J.K. Rowling took some kind of inspiration from this movie. I mean, look at it! A little boy whose an only child has his parents taken away from him by some supernatural villain who is rather magical in an evil way. He is then forced to live with two evil relatives (the bad cousin an extra throw-in by Rowling in Harry Potter), one tall and thin, the other shorter and fatter, who are very narcissistic, selfish and greedy. They treat their nephew like a slave, making him do everything, while they do nothing. One day something magical happens to him and a mysterious stranger turns up to change the little boy's life forever. He then is whisked away on a transportation device far from home and meets new and interesting friends. He then ends up in a wonderful place where dreams come true. All sorts of dangerous yet exciting things happen to him during his adventures, as well. I mean James Henry Trotter even kind of sounds like Harry James Potter. Tell me, truly, how can this NOT be an inspiration for one of the biggest franchises in the world?
I was just thinking the same. "This is kinda like harry potter..."
I'm pretty sure if she took inspiration, it would have been from the book, not the movie. She probably read it as a child. It came out before she was born, and considering how long it would have taken to write, edit and publish Philosopher's Stone, it's unlikely she'd have taken it from a movie that came out only a year before the first publication.
I don’t know why but I love the part where the grasshopper accidentally hits the worm in the face and then just looks at him not saying anything. Cracks me up
Ronald Dahl also wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
I remember being afraid of this movie as a child, now it's one of my favorites
Every few years, I randomly remember this movie 😂 It's another weird movie I never understood as a kid but still loved
"Polly want a smacker!" still makes me laugh so much xD
Me, it's the joke about skeletons because in the french version the centipede says " What is skeletons' favorite game ? The answer is simple, it's the ossicles "
When your kid, this movie had parts that would creep you out. The Pirates and Centipede really scared me. It has this weird charm of being creepy and adoring. As an adult you can understand certain adult undertones and then there are parts that would leave you like WTF?🤨, But watching as a kid it makes perfect sense, why not have a giant peach with seagulls as sails? Why not have a robotic shark that shoots out harpoons? Why not have bugs as friends? Why not have it land on the Empire State Building?
I actually watched this before I read the book. And I was so shocked to find out that Spiker and Sponge died in the book, they were crushed by the peach as it rolled down the hill and the crunch of their bones were even described in gruesome detail. Something I don't mind having been changed in the movie to accomodate the rating perhaps, or for James to have a little better retribution by the end of the story.
This movie made me like spiders forever. to this day, I put them in a cup and put them outside, rather than killing them.
This is one of my favorite animated movies! I loved it as a kid and I still love it as an adult. I read the book when I got older and it's just as sweet. Both the book and movie are surreal and a little bit weird but they're also charming. And they hold a special place in my heart.
God bless you, Nick! Thanks for giving this movie a watch.
Oh my gosh! I’ve never seen this before because as a child a movie about bugs was the most disturbing thing to me. This is my first time watch with Nick, and oh my gosh, Jack Skeleington made a cameo in this!
That skeleton pirate scene used to freak me out as a child. Now, I can appreciate the puns.
OMG SUCH A CLASSIC!!! This is one of my childhood movies. Watched it years after release but I remember having the VHS for this movie XD
The skeleton pirate was the same model they used for Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Oooooh the nightmare scene with the rhino and caterpillar James would TERRIFY as a little kid 😭
The undead pirates scared me too 😂
You know one of those undead pirates is Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas, right.?
@@morganspider-manmarvelfan6110 I literally just left another comment about that lmao I just realized that when I saw it a few minutes ago 😂
@@vixiestarfire Oh wow. My bad. Sorry.
Never noticed the ancestor of Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas before when I saw this in the theaters
Okay, a little note on why James' friends are understandable to everyone. They're mutant bugs because of the crocodile tongues they swallowed. That's why they can communicate and are the same size as the humans. James let Miss Spider free in the garden just before the man with the crocodile tongues showed up, remember? So she got some of the effect. Chances are she could have spoken to James when they first met, but probably her voice was as small as her stature and no human could hear her talk. When the insects appear in New York in the book, the New Yorkers start screaming and saying they're aliens or some other made-up aggressive dangerous creatures, and James has to introduce them all to tell them they're wonderful and not dangerous at all.
Wow one of my FAVORITE Childhood Movies
Fun fact: at least one school banned the original book from their library. The concern was that the story would encourage kids to disobey their parents.
I truly crave peaches every time I watch this movie
oh wow i haven't seen this in years!! i remember being like 8 and watching it many times in my parents living room lol good memories
it's funny, that bag with the green things is like, forever stuck in nostalgia, but i don't really remember half of the things that happened besides that lol
I remember watching this as a kid and liking it
Then I watched it a short while ago with my mom... or we attempted to watch it. Turned it off half way through cuz we were struggling 😂
Did you notice that the captain pirate was Jack of " The nightmare before Christmas " ?
In the french version, the joke Centipede does about the skeletons is : " What is skeletons' favorite game ? The answer is simple, it's the ossicles. "
Wow, you’re bringing out my nostalgia 😭
2012
I always wanted to eat the peach as a kid (and the green squiggly things, tbh) 😆
The rhino freaked me out!!!!!!
Absolutely love this film! Loved it as a kid (Watched it 40 times in a row...literally), still love the film now. I can understand why people would not like it considering how random it can be (the book is hella random, much more than the film). I am just a dreamer I suppose so it appeals to me a but more. And the aunts are awful people. James is just a sweetheart. The kid that played him did a wonderful job. The bug crew is amazing and entertaining!
Used to love this ❤️
Still as wholesome as I remember! As an adoptee, I loved any story that showed sometimes family isn't blood. Or in this case species 😁
In the book if I recall, the rhino was an escapee from the local zoo that ran the parents down. And while this movie doesn’t quite illustrate it, it seems to me that the rhino we see is kinda the bogeyman that developed in James’ imagination - the manifestation of his fears. Same thing as the mechanical shark who just happens to spit the fish heads like his aunts tried to feed him. (Also in the book the peach DID kill the aunts when it was cut from the branch.)
This was one of my favorite childhood movies!
I totally forgot Jack Skellington from Nightmare Before Christmas was in this.
This was actually my favorite film when I was 7. I've always loved animation, especially stop motion animation and I love the shift from live action to stop motion. I loved this film for its weirdness, cuz I was a weird kid growing up, and I was heavily bullied and terrified of standing up to my bullies, so seeing James stand up to the Rhino and his aunts always gave me hope that I could be like him.
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, and Matilda.
All of which I grew up watching as movies written originally as books by Roald Dahl. They’re timeless.
The rhinoceros is a metaphor for storms - his parents died in a storm, but because James is a kid, he imagines it into something he can understand in terms of their death
"I could eat a peach for hours".
- Castor Troy
I remember this movie. It was one of my childhood's favorites.
Just came back to finish watching this video. I know this movie/book was first but I remember when Harry Potter came out it reminded me so much of this because of the way the aunts treat James plus his name being James Henry (common formal name for Harry) Trotter. Not to mention Miriam Margolyes (Prof. Sprout) as his aunt/Mrs. Glowworm and David Thewlis (Lupin) as Mr. Centipede being in it. Just a random thought that came back to me while watching this lol.
Fun fact: the effects of the rhino is done in a huge tank called the cloud tank that holds a ton of gallons of water they use white paint to use clouds to make it look like he is galloping in the sky the rhino is an armature with black fabric skin and makes it look like an actual living phantom like rhinoceros
This movie is so creative. Always holds a special place in my mind. ❤
Can you call Henry Selick some sort of Tim Burton follower in stop-motion animation? In the sense that he adopted the grotesque, but at the same time he has more fairy-tale plots instead of stories about outcasts.
Hey Nick man! This was always another one of my 90's disney favorites too!
Jack Skellington cameoed in this movie.
I’m so glad you got a stopmotion film! Really recommend for you to watch one of the studio Laika stopmotion masterpieces…”Paranorman” and “Kubo and the Two Strings” 🙂
One of my favorite movies as a kid. My twin sister and I could quote every single line in the movie. I’m glad this film finally won the poll. 🙂
This movie scared me as a little kid. I was always terrified of the rhino in the clouds.
I Remember reading the book before watching this movie. I haven’t seen this movie in years!
As far as Roal Dahl films: I place The BFG (1989) as my biggest recommendation.
For Stop-Motion Films: I have many, but I'll say "Chicken Run" followed by "Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit"
I didn’t see that film until the end of December last year and it made my favorite films watched for the year. It was a million times better than the “live action” version by Spielberg.
The part where the peach crushes the car, as a kid did anyone else think Aunt Spiker’s knees were her chest? Lol probably was just me
Yes Nick Spiders can really recollect their webbing. They simply eat it.
Completely irrelevant but "What'll" is such a funny word. Say it out loud repeatedly, it just sounds like you're saying " waddle waddle waddle" 😭🤣
Thank u for reacting to movies no one else does. ❣️❣️
As for James n Pi don't use reality.
And this reminds me of Life of Pi.
My brother LOVED this movie as a kid. He’s 31 years old & I’m 21. Gosh, does time fly!
Rewatching this, it kind of reminds me of how children deal with trauma. He created a fantasy world, and the rhinoceros, to cope with reality. Especially since he had no one to talk to. At least that’s how I view it🤷♂️. I use to watch this movie as a kid
In the book aunt spiker and sponge got crushed by the peach
I’m so happy you watched this! I watched it so much when I was little
I love how you always go into these films completely blind, like, you know literally nothing about them going into them. Most people would have at least seen a trailer first, but you go out of your way to avoid spoilers. I really appreciate that.
One interesting thing worth note with this film is that a lot of the various plot elements are meant to be symbolic. The rhino, for instance, is basically a metaphor for something that would realistically kill parents. There are theories that they actually died in a car crash or something along those lines and James simply sees the car that hit them as a carnivorous rhino. After all, rhinos are herbivores, so logically speaking, it doesn't make sense for one to eat them. (Granted, in the book, they were killed by an actual rhino that escaped from the zoo, but this adaptation isn't exactly like that, so...)
also it's funny because this is the second film in a row that you've reacted to that had to do with bugs and was also scored by Randy Newman.
Oh man, I remember this was the first movie I bought with my own money! 😄 Brilliant character designs and tbh, I love how they pulled off the relationship of the spider and the centipede. The romance is implied, but not quite in your face like most other Disney couples at the time. It’s so heckin’ CUTE. 🥰
I remember this movie that it was released in 1996 vhs 📼. I enjoyed watching this movie and same animation by Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ahhhhhh yesssssss!!! I love this film! ❤️🔥 the shorted aunt is Miriam margoyles, she was professor sprout in Harry Potter :)
What I like about this film is that watching it as a child, everything seems more fantastical and fantasy like, but as an adult, everything is much more symbolic for growing up and loss of innocence and finding companionship where you’d think there is none 🤧
I just finished the video I really liked it Nicky I watched Matilda,bfg , fantastic mister fox , Charlie and the chocolate factory, and this I hope you watch them I loved this movie growing up 😊
Is no one going to talk about how the old green grasshopper is siting in the movie title
Recently finished reading this book with my little one ❤
19:16 I thought this kind of animation in this was amazing as a kid. Now, I think it looks creepy and disturbing 😭😂
In the original book, Spiker and Sponge died from the peach rolling down the hill, crushing them to death in the beginning
I haven’t seen this movie in a long time!
NICK NICK!!! I love YOU!!!✋🏻😍
One of the pirates skelington has the same copy face as jack skeleton from the nightmare before Christmas.
omg yessss ❤ favorite movie
This movie confused tf out of me as a child and I thought this would help me as an adult but nope. Lmao.
Though now watching this I hope one day you do Little Vampire