I recall me and my sister use to watch this film all the time on VHS when we were younger, one thing that drew us to it was it was done in stop motion by the creators of nightmare before Christmas, we really loved that style and couldn't get enough of it. To this day I still really love stop motion films, one my favorite movies of all time, that was also done in stop motion and was also based on a Roald Dahl book is Fantastic Mr. Fox
I think most of the events in the movie play out better than in the book. Without the antagonists making it until the end in the book, it defeats the purpose of the biggest obstacle for James. The villains are just as essential to stories as heroes are.
This is a case of no matter which version, this is just an entertaining story. And I'm saying this as someone who both the chapter book and movie weren't some of my earliest memories.
There's one thing that you can understand: in the movie, there's a nice long fence on the peach and then it comes off the peach by the struck of lightning and in the book, there's no fence on the peach to climb up or down!
Recently just saw this film yesterday and honestly it still holds up as a pretty good film. As for the book it has been ages since I last read it and i agree that the film was a pretty good adaptation.
I'd like to hear about The Witches. I've heard that Roald didn't like the movie much at all despite how loyal an adaptation was, probably because they changed the ending. The movie was about as disturbing as the book, though. I didn't mind the ending because the main character was still living a functional life and making plans for the future.
In my opinion, I prefer the book, although there are some aspects of the movie I admire, like the animation. That being said, I don't think the movie justifies itself as an adaptation with the live action scenes, even the villains in the movie were way too comically evil. The songs were also pretty weak, for the composer of Toy Story and The Princess and the Frog, to be completely honest.
I see the intro used the first few chapters of "The Haunted Mask". i paused it when I saw the names Steve and Chuck pop up. Looks like you'll have to do a review on the Goosebumps TV show and books...that is, if you haven't already.
Hannah Shribman-Brown (gasp) my secret has been discovered! Actually, no. I don't have plans for a Goosebumps episode. I just used those because the book was available at the time I made the intro. In the seven years I've been doing this show I think you're the first person to actually notice that. Thank you. 😊
I was curious. Thing was, last month, I was a student teacher, and that was the book I was reading to my class during their milk break! I actually convinced one girl to check out The Curse Of Camp Cold Lake at the school library (she likes books about camps and she was enjoying Goosebumps, and that happened to be the only one there at the time).
It's obvious why they kept the aunts alive, but not his parents: The parents needed to go in order for the plot to start, but Disney and Selick probably felt that killing the aunts off early in the story and ending their threat would be too weak for the movie, and having them follow James to New York to try to take him and the peach back would be more dramatic for the movie, and they were right.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 It sounds like she's trying to do French but it comes off much more as German (I say this as someone who knows many French and German people). The beret, Parisian bob "hairstyle," the mime inspired colour scheme, and some of her expressions seem to indicate that she is supposed to be French.
@@elfarlaur Fair enough. I'm European by heritage and not location, and although I've visited Paris and had stopovers in three different places in Germany, I'm sure you'd know better than I would.
It’s best to not to ocused the book because it is well a children’s book stop ocusing one book of New York’s inhabitants it’s just a children’s book so stop complaining children’s book always never predicted New York liked ive went to New York to times and it was great no crime lords my dad he was going back to India but that’s where the Twin towers acured
New York was amazing. Times Square felt like walking into a movie. I guess I could say I felt like Annie from the musical of the same name during the song "NYC". Crime is high, but so is excitement. I saw Annie, Chicago and Potted Potter while I was there (I've seen them all in my home country, but still...probably the only one I liked more was Potted Potter and that's because I was with a Potterhead friend and we were in the front row, so she even got to interact with the actors), and loved them all. Kind of fitting to walk into a theatre in 2013 and go back 80 years, but to the same place I was in (for those of you who don't know, Annie takes place in New York, during Christmas of 1933 during the Great Depression, and if you've only seen the 1982 movie or the modern one from 2014, you might not even know that the original musical was supposed to be during winter).
I recall me and my sister use to watch this film all the time on VHS when we were younger, one thing that drew us to it was it was done in stop motion by the creators of nightmare before Christmas, we really loved that style and couldn't get enough of it. To this day I still really love stop motion films, one my favorite movies of all time, that was also done in stop motion and was also based on a Roald Dahl book is Fantastic Mr. Fox
I think most of the events in the movie play out better than in the book. Without the antagonists making it until the end in the book, it defeats the purpose of the biggest obstacle for James. The villains are just as essential to stories as heroes are.
I noticed something interesting. I'm pretty sure that during the song number "Family", the cloud people make a brief cameo.
This is a case of no matter which version, this is just an entertaining story. And I'm saying this as someone who both the chapter book and movie weren't some of my earliest memories.
Hey Snivy. It's been years.
There's one thing that you can understand: in the movie, there's a nice long fence on the peach and then it comes off the peach by the struck of lightning and in the book, there's no fence on the peach to climb up or down!
Recently just saw this film yesterday and honestly it still holds up as a pretty good film.
As for the book it has been ages since I last read it and i agree that the film was a pretty good adaptation.
I have a theory that the aunts summoned the rhino to kill them for their money
Centipede is MY MAN!
Or in this case, MY BUG!
any plans for the next page to pictures on Roald Dahl's work. The Witches, Fantastic Mr. Fox or even the BFG?
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I'd like to hear about The Witches. I've heard that Roald didn't like the movie much at all despite how loyal an adaptation was, probably because they changed the ending. The movie was about as disturbing as the book, though. I didn't mind the ending because the main character was still living a functional life and making plans for the future.
Skip all intros 5:11
I'm sure he and Doug Walker would have much to talk about.
Oh I have reasons to smash that man's face in that don't involve his opinions :-P
@@Jaimetud Well, just so you know I meant that you having issues with pop culture figures named James is kinda similar to him hating the cartoon Doug.
@@Jaimetud Doug Walker Hates Randy Newman.
@@orangeslash1667 add that to the list of reasons why Doug Walker sucks now.
In my opinion, I prefer the book, although there are some aspects of the movie I admire, like the animation. That being said, I don't think the movie justifies itself as an adaptation with the live action scenes, even the villains in the movie were way too comically evil. The songs were also pretty weak, for the composer of Toy Story and The Princess and the Frog, to be completely honest.
Wait who are all the people in the title card image? I see Animat and I think Tony Goldmark but that’s all I know
The worm is Hewy Toonmore, but I don't recognize Grasshopper and Spider.
@@Alejandroigarabide Fun Fact: Jeff Bennett provides the singing voice for Centipede, he also played Johny Bravo.
Can you do Fantastic Mr. Fox?
A lot of folks have requested me to do that. I might just have to someday :) Thanks.
@@Jaimetud Oh I hope it will come soon and believe me it's more Fantastic than the book itself even that I do enjoy both the book and the movie.
nice episode
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I see the intro used the first few chapters of "The Haunted Mask". i paused it when I saw the names Steve and Chuck pop up. Looks like you'll have to do a review on the Goosebumps TV show and books...that is, if you haven't already.
Hannah Shribman-Brown (gasp) my secret has been discovered! Actually, no. I don't have plans for a Goosebumps episode. I just used those because the book was available at the time I made the intro. In the seven years I've been doing this show I think you're the first person to actually notice that. Thank you. 😊
I was curious. Thing was, last month, I was a student teacher, and that was the book I was reading to my class during their milk break! I actually convinced one girl to check out The Curse Of Camp Cold Lake at the school library (she likes books about camps and she was enjoying Goosebumps, and that happened to be the only one there at the time).
7:30 JESUS CHRIST THAT LOOKS HIDEOUS!!!!!!
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Please do a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory review!
Theatre Geek I might just do that. don't forget to subscribe!
It's obvious why they kept the aunts alive, but not his parents: The parents needed to go in order for the plot to start, but Disney and Selick probably felt that killing the aunts off early in the story and ending their threat would be too weak for the movie, and having them follow James to New York to try to take him and the peach back would be more dramatic for the movie, and they were right.
The one thing about this movie that annoys me is the obviously French-coded spider that has a German accent
Does she? That's Susan Sarandon playing Miss Spider. I couldn't figure out what she was either, but I was between Japanese and French.
@@strawberrysoulforever8336 It sounds like she's trying to do French but it comes off much more as German (I say this as someone who knows many French and German people). The beret, Parisian bob "hairstyle," the mime inspired colour scheme, and some of her expressions seem to indicate that she is supposed to be French.
@@elfarlaur Fair enough. I'm European by heritage and not location, and although I've visited Paris and had stopovers in three different places in Germany, I'm sure you'd know better than I would.
In certain dubs they gave her a more pronounced french accent.
What joana
One person's comedy is another's insult.
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It’s best to not to ocused the book because it is well a children’s book stop ocusing one book of New York’s inhabitants it’s just a children’s book so stop complaining children’s book always never predicted New York liked ive went to New York to times and it was great no crime lords my dad he was going back to India but that’s where the Twin towers acured
New York was amazing. Times Square felt like walking into a movie. I guess I could say I felt like Annie from the musical of the same name during the song "NYC". Crime is high, but so is excitement. I saw Annie, Chicago and Potted Potter while I was there (I've seen them all in my home country, but still...probably the only one I liked more was Potted Potter and that's because I was with a Potterhead friend and we were in the front row, so she even got to interact with the actors), and loved them all. Kind of fitting to walk into a theatre in 2013 and go back 80 years, but to the same place I was in (for those of you who don't know, Annie takes place in New York, during Christmas of 1933 during the Great Depression, and if you've only seen the 1982 movie or the modern one from 2014, you might not even know that the original musical was supposed to be during winter).