Film
James and the Giant Peach
- Director
- Henry Selick
- Certificate
- U
- Running Time
- 80 mins
Roald Dahl considered this story of an orphan who flees his horrendous old aunts inside a large succulent fruit the most unfilmable of all his books. But he never met Henry Selick, director of The Nightmare Before Christmas, whose combination of live action, stop-motion animation and computer-generated imagery captures Dahl’s fantastical imagination perfectly.
https://youtu.be/ICfORHWj_3w
This surpasses Nightmare for technical achievement, producing some truly breathtaking moments: the battles with a mechanical shark and a bunch of skeleton pirates are just awesome, while the live action sequences are distinguished by a surreal, dreamlike quality and hatefully funny performances from Miriam Margolyes and Joanna Lumley as the aunts. Quite simply, one of the best children’s films ever made.
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