why did anyone let their kids watch James and the Giant Peach??
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3:25 If you're wondering why Dahl's children are all plucky heroes and his adults are negligent monsters, he went to an English boarding school in the 1920s.
that really does explain everything
😮 it all makes sense now
😲it all makes sense
Ah, say no more
Yep, it explains a lot! Most kids back then probably had to deal with being beaten on a regular basis (oof)... 0_0
Omg this makes SO MUCH SENSE
Whoever did the makeup for the aunts needs an award.
They grossed me out sooo much watching this as a kid! Lol
They did get an award lol
@@Confuzedturtleproject - Really? Was it for makeup or special effects? Cause those are two separate things.
Also, Aunt Spiker is played by the legendary Joanna Lumley
The taller aunt is the evil step mother in Ella Enchanted 😂😂 that's soooo funny. Always mean lol
As a kid who was growing up in an abusive home with an addict Father, and no access to outside help, stories like James and the Giant Peach saved my life as a child. The story taught me that you can grow in a place, amongst people who do not value you, love you, or protect you, and still break free. That I could find a place, one day, around people who heard me and saw me and cared about me, and that we can build our own idea of family. And that even though nobody else may believe in me, that I could face scary, real things and survive them.
The overarching theme of JatGP is that it is never too late to find friendship, love, and family, no matter how unworthy of these things you've been made to feel by others. All of RD's books focus on themes of fear, loss, abuse, hopelessness....and then finding your own joy and peace on the other side of them. While it would be wonderful if no child could ever relate to these themes, the reality is books and films like these are super important for the kids (and adults) who can.
I dreampt of getting swept into a giant peach; I still do at 37 years old.
I'm proud of you for choosing to go so far in life! Your incredibly strong, and rather beautiful ^^
beautiful (I don't need to see you to know this)*
I hope you found your people and are loved. 💜
Wow you are so strong
@@KelilaBennet I really wish he does
I don't know about anyone else, but the scenes with the shark and the pirates scared the shit out of me as a child, and they haunt me to this day.
Same! I legit got nightmares from this movie…
of that damned peach…
samee and it stuck with me until now
Aunt Spike and Sponge in James dream sequence gave me nightmares as a kid. That part was pretty bizarre but the art style looks badass.
I watched this when I was like five and I always knew I’d seen the pirates before but I could never remember I now realise it was jack goddam skeleton
The whole movie is a nightmare fr
Did anyone else think the peach looked SOOO good as a kid? It gave me unrealistic expectations for peaches
Right and turns out real peaches kind of suck. Yeah I'm saying it.
@@nicoledoubleyou are you guys joking or haven't tried a real.peach. The peachyin my country are fk dealicous and we have like 5 different types of peaches. Can wait for summer just to eat some more peaches
no i never liked peaches. maybe i was fed overripe ones because they were hella slimy.
If you don't like peaches, then you just haven't had a good peach.
@@futurevegan8617 or i just don't like peaches. not everyone likes the same stuff lol
I love how it blended live action with stop motion animation, which really holds up for 1996.
Exactly! It really still looks good unlike cgi which would have looked terrible. I love this movie.
Dude. I remember dying from wanting to see this as a kid- from the adverts.
Watching this video and seeing the aesthetic is one of the few times where I feel like I can high five my younger self for good tastes.
The visuals are beautiful and nightmarish.
@nitely2345 they actually did use cgi for the shark
this movie is in such a niche genre. It's like on the line of looking like claymation and computer animation and they're so creepy 😭. They always have the most wild storylines too. Coraline, The Box Trolls, Dogs, and Kubo definitely fall in this genre too.
What is Dogs? I can't find anything about it
Isle of Dogs I think he means@@novocaine09
@@novocaine09think it was isle of dogs
@@lfc_szn4274 I found it looking up that name. Thank you!
And Paranorman
5:20 direct quote from the book, I'm not joking, the man says: "Come closer little boy, and I will show you something wonderfull"
ah, yes, perfect for a children's book
nothing sus here
This movie definitely scarred me as a kid. That rhino was terrifying when I was 8
Agreed, it was only the opening scene, yet it definitely made an impression.
I wasn't scared of the Rhino as a kid no wonder what I was scared of as a kid:
Oompa Loompas!
Even the remake of Tim Burton when I was a kid I scared of that to.
I used to think the rhino was ho-
@@FTChomp9980 THANK YOU! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS TERRIFIED OF WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY!
Every time it came in the move I ran away, so scary
I always thought that the rhino death part was something that James' brain translated to him because the real reason was too complex for a kid to understand. Like, as if Rhino is the name of some brand that makes machines or whatever and he understood as and imagined the animal cuz he is a kid and that's what he knows.
This is actually a great theory
I admit when i first saw this I thought the Rhino was going to turn out to be Aunt Sponge
In the book it was a rhino escaped from the zoo that ate his parents, but I always had the theory that this was a lie his aunts told him because a rhino might gore you or trample you to death but they don't eat meat.
I always thought it was a storm that he manifested as a rhino because of the way they portray it in the movie it looks like a storm, but I have always been confused what it was actually supposed to mean.
Ironically, I always thought it was a way to make the death of James’ parents _less_ scary bc no child is seriously going to worry about their parents being eaten by a rhino. Until the movie turned it into a goddamn demon anyway.
This was a _huge_ comfort movie for me when I was younger, and if that doesn’t paint a picture of the type of kid I was then idk what does 💀
Same, 7 year old me loved it 😭
Same. I had movies that scared me, but this wasn’t one of them.
SAME
I never really thought of it before but it kind of makes me think about how those comfort movies we watched on repeat as kids shape us. I can't help but wonder if my path to working in software development started with me repeatedly rewatching sci-fi and techy stuff excessively as a little kid. The ones I remember watching the most were Short Circuit 1 and 2, The Last Starfighter, and Flight of the Navigator. That line of thinking though is now making me worry about my nephew that seemed to be always watching the Minions movie for about a year.
ikr, same. it was just wierd but not in a way that hurt the little me, it has comfort and warmth somehow
i loved EPIC 2014 too
This was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I never questioned how the aunts drove across the ocean either. 😅
As bizarre as Roald Dahl stories are, they actually helped me through a lot of tough times as a kid, specifically Matilda (Harry Potter was a big part of this as well). I was bullied a lot as a kid, and there were a lot of fights going on at home, so the idea of something miraculous happening to me that would change everything just sounded amazing. The thought that I would wake up one day and everything would somehow be okay, really kept me going through the years. Even if they don't hold up as much these days, I will never view these books/movies with anything but fondness.
I know what you mean. Even before I fully processed that I was experiencing emotional and verbal abuse at home and that it wasn't ok because to me it was "normal", Harry's muggle upbringing really resonated with me. A few years later I did end up going to boarding school and the parallel with Hogwarts as a temporary escape was such a comfort.
Your parents let you read harry potter, mine didn't I had fighting and what-not at my house too but if anything was slightly "too against god" than i couldn't do it. Like harry Potter I wasn't allowed to read, I wasn't allowed to play chutes and Latters for some reason, and as Minecraft came out and as all my friends played that I couldn't.
Same, this movie and Charlie and the Chocolate factory (2005)
I am happy it helped you guys
I hate seeing that "sensitivity readers" were hired to read his works and replace or remove words like "fat" or "crazy". It's INSANE (another word they wouldn't allow) to me that they are allowed to change his work.
James and the giant peach was an actual fever dream.
Lol
6:56 oh my god he's going back up the woooomb😂😂
As a kid, I thought James’ parents were killed by a rhino-shaped cloud
I mean... they were
After expecting the death of the parents I was not prepared for just hearing the narrator say with 100% seriousness “an angry rhinoceros appeared out of nowhere and gobbled up his poor mother and father” I lost it
In my language, that line was way more terrifying because he said something more like "One day, this dangerous creature came from a storm, a dark rhinoceros, and devoured his parents! Their suffering barely lasted half a second"
In the book they’re eaten by an actual Rhinoceros that escaped from the zoo. Also just before James and Co escape in the peach the Aunts are talking about how they hope he fell over and broke his neck
Ok the Rhino was one thing, but the truly scary part was the aunts arriving in New York. That scared the life out of me as a kid. Their bodies moved and looked like zombies.
As they should, seeing as they're supposed to be dead 😋.
same
For real. Honestly it's their water-logged, partly crushed car pulling up, and the sound it makes, that really freaks me out.
even as a kid i was like, ".........you drove a smashed car across the atlantic to NY."
A bit late for a response maybe on the live action bit at the end the were reanimated by the green bug things. Food for thought .
11:30 there was a part in the book where they see the peach in the sky and call the president who answers in his pajamas while eating cereal
I still got that "we're family song" stuck in my head. Was this movie weird yes? But is it classic yes! Movies like this made me like that stop motion claymation style. Such as chicken run, Wallace and grommet, Carlin, nightmare before Christmas etc(clay fighters). It was fun being a kid in the 90s.
Fun fact: Chicken Run and Wallace And Gromit were both actual stop-motion clay animation movies .
Damn reading we’re family gave me chills and activated me ❤❤❤
The last Unicorn is another children's movie that absolutely terrified me when i was a kid. Would love to see that review.
I still have that film somewhere, I loved it but there where some unsettling bits
Oh, God; not the tree!
I mean, valid?
Not the giant, nightmarish, flaming red bull!
That whole movie unsettled me the older I got.
I adore that movie but the bird and witch lady freaked me out 😭
James and the Giant Peach probably stuck with the most but I swear its the most obscure fever dream of a movie I ever watched as a kid lol
Yup lol
You should watch Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure. That movie made me feel like I was on acid before I knew what being on acid was like.
So true, the other one that gave me that vibe was Labyrinth, hot damn.
Its ironic that a company that makes money off of terrifiying children would be upset with having that pointed out.
When I was younger the peach made me crave one every time I watched it , but every time I had one I was disappointed 😂
I was OBSESSED with this movie as a kid. Terrified, of course, but also completely obsessed. To this day it's still very comforting to me, even if it remains deeply unsettling as well lol
Same lol
Same here, I dunno what it is about it lol
same
That’s how I feel about nightmare before Christmas!! I’ve never seen this movie tbh but I get it 🖤
I have never heard or seen this story before and as an adult I'm very confused 😅
I love the stop motion animation style that goes kind of under the radar nowadays
Stop motion animation and traditional animation need to be utilized more. CG animation is super overused these days.
I feel like every 90s/2000s kid grew up with Stop Motion heck even I and I'm very talented in doin Stop Motion since I still love the the style it's very underrated nowadays.
I know I think the best animation style is stop motion
Its not under the radar, its just so expensive and cgi has gotten so good and cheap people think the lego movies are stop motion.
It is one of the best styles of animation that doesn't involve paper
I was absolutely terrified of the rhino! Also never realised Miriam Margolyes was one of the aunts!!
4:15 I think Mr Myers is one of those people who finds the karate kid scarier than the texas chainsaw massacre
It's crazy how me and many other 90's kids would watch so many effed up movies and shows and didn't even bat an eye.
I remember watching this movie in theaters when it came out and I loved it. I even slept like a baby that night. No traumas :)
But now that I watch this video, I wonder how I didn't get more scared.
I mean I grew up watching Rocko's Modern Life and that isnt really something for kids being so f'd up but was my favorite cartoon as a kid along with tmnt. Thats the thing with being a 90s kid. It was weird but it might just have been the best all around fun decade. We didnt give a crap. We grew up with Saturday Morning cartoons, arcades, and roller rinks. Hell most of the shows we watched was filled with induendos and looking back, still a good time.
Same, I watched this movie tons as a kid and I don't recall any problems from it. I wish we had more kids movies like this nowadays! Not that we don't have any kids movies with dark stuff, but it's not quite the same _type_ of dark or scary (or outright creepy), and it's not the same level of "why did parents let their kids watch this".
Same lol. I watched James and the Giant Peach like a million times as a kid and loved the world/characters. Slept like a baby every night
Did you watch courage the cowardly dog? If so that show made you have no fear
The Great Mouse Detective (basically anything with the bat or Ratigan) and Dumbo's "Elephants on Parade" were pure nightmare fuel (not the 90s, but that's when I watched them). I only watched TGMD a few times but I had to skip the first part until after the dad mouse was kidnapped.
I'm not sure if it's good to be exposed to stuff like that as a kid, but kid's programming seems to have gotten much, much worse even if it's not scary in the slightest.
I was obsessed with this movie as a child I'm pretty sure I watched it 50+ times
same!!!
50+ times? Ha, I wore the tape out!
@zbr76 it's probably more than that lmao it was like the only thing I would watch
Same!! I loved it!
I still love it
I loved this movie as a kid. I also watched it again recently as an adult and man, so terrifying lol. I'm also into horror movie and the tall/thin Aunt is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Props to the makeup team.
Now that you mention it, the Dursleys do feel like characters from a Roald Dahl story
Interestingly, _James and the Giant Peach_ was my first stop motion film I watched, prior before watching _"The Nightmare Before Christmas"_ and the funny thing is at the time when I first watched this film It didn't occurred to me that the Pirate Captain that kidnapped Mr. Centipede was Jack Skellington, so when I re-watched the film for the second time years later after seeing _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ for the first time ever, I said to myself, _"Hey that Pirate Captain looks like Jack Skellington._ Even Jack Skellington wasn't the only Disney cameo, cause Donald Duck himself also appears in this film as a Skeleton Pirate.
Finally, this film was my introduction to Roald Dahl, however when I was a Kid when I first watched _James and the Giant Peach_ I wasn't to familiar with Roald Dahl nor did I realize that this along with the film adaptations of _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,_ _The Witches_ from 1990 (starring Angelica Huston) and _Matilda_ were also books and also by the author, Roald Dahl. So it wasn't until the 3rd/4th grade during Elementary School years later when our class read The BFG and James and the Giant Peach where I became familiar with Roald Dahl as an author and that both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James And the Giant Peach, The BFG, The Witches, The Twits, Fantastic Mr. Fox and his various children's books he's written were done by the same person.
Ah.
I ain’t reading alat
And the thing is... even after he wrote all those books, no one thought to intervene and get that poor man some help.
An enthralling tale; surely worthy of a retelling, someday!
I clicked on this video faster than I ran away from the TV when I first watched that movie.
LMAO SAME 😭
Same
YUP
The ending makes perfect sense to me. Your a new Yorker going about your daily happily convinced there's no such thing as magic or monster. Then this kid arrives on a giant peach accompanied by sentient talking bugs and pursued by mysterious undead women who's skin cracks. Are you going to be the one who tells him to leave or are you just going to leave him alone with the hope he'll one day decide to take his bugs somewhere else?
"You're* a New Yorker." And "whose* skin cracks."
2:25 bro i’m dying i never realized how random that was
Hell yeah! I loved this movie as a kid. I wasn't scared by it as a kid since I was already exposed to The Dark Crystal, Beetlejuice and such, but this was a movie I would love to watch religiously as a kid, and especially near the fall season, so it does hold a special place in my heart. And I would even go as far to say it's an extremely underrated gem of 90s Disney movies and stop motion movies in general.
Oh, sidenote, wanna know how James's parents were killed in the book? They were taking James to the zoo and a rhino broke out of it's cage and ate them. And no, it doesn't even appear in the rest of the story. it's somehow more jarring than the movie because rhinos aren't carnivores. How the peach lands in NYC Is by the military. (Like how they did in Nightmare Before Christmas.) But there were no villains or any risks during their journey at the end so the movie benefited this with a real antagonist to create conflict. I always interpret the rhino as a manifestation of James's fear that the aunts made up and perhaps his parents died in an accident or whatever, and since then, James was always haunted by this entity since then until he learns to stand up to his literal childhood trauma.
I was one of the aunts in the musical and it’s definitely the most fever-dream nightmare inducing thing ever but I‘ve never had so much fun doing a show lmao
Oh yeah - the end of the musical has the part where the aunts got crushed by the peach (and all the awful sound effects from the movie are in the musical too lol)
Woah!!
James And The Giant Peach is an absolute classic, and the original The Witches film is brilliant too! I loved reading Roald Dahl books when I was a kid! Flat Stanley was probably my favourite!
I'm really glad I'm not the only one who finds the spider hot.
James and the Giant Peach was my favourite movie as a kid! The animation really appealed to me. Didn't even know it was a Tim Burton movie but I get that explains a lot lol
Henry selick* movie. Just like the nightmare before Christmas and coralline. Alex even said it at the beginning of the video. Tim Burton unfairly gets all the praise.
@@boomboom1139 Sorry, my bad!
These kind of movies always hurt the most as adults cause you look back at the kid you were as that time that related to how these kids were treated, with adults not just being abusive but down right went out of their way to humiliate you, and you feel so bad for how helpless you were. I love this movie. It hurts to watch the older I get but I still like to go back to it every now and then. I love Roahl Dahl books overall.
I'm pretty sure the reason I loved it so much as a kid was because of how much I related to James, and as an adult now it is so sad rewatching it and realizing how much the adults in my life failed me.
Alex has the greatest laugh of all time
I still remember first seeing of/hearing about this movie by finding it in the VHS tape aisle in Target back in the late 90s. My mom saw me looking at the tape for a really long time and knew that I wanted it, so when we turned to leave, I looked back and she was waving the tape at me with a smile. I was so excited because we rarely ever got to receive things that we actually wanted AND were able to afford in those times.
My sisters and I watched it immediately when we got home. This movie still has a special place in my heart today.
I loved this movie as a kid and it was the first novel I ever read as a kid. My dad bought it for me and wrote little notes on all of the pictures. It's one of my prized possessions to this day.
That's really cute :) it reminds me of how my little sister used to scribble on our DVD cases. Our copy of Gnomeo and Juliet has mustaches on literally everyone
Wholesome
Thank you for this idea for my kids one day.
10:04 maybe it’s referencing The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The children’s book lol
I love that book
Aw same @@yourboySJN
I adored this movie as a child. I didn't realize it scared people until I got to college and someone mentioned it was the only movie they could not watch.
LOL ALEX LAUGHING AT THE RHINO PART!
7:25 Alex trying to maintain our innocence but at the same time trying his hardest to not say
Vore
Hi...
I'm normal and definitely not into G/t Vore.....
The movie that terrified me as a kid was "Chicken Run" I haven't seen it since I was little. But it'd be interesting to see a review of it now
I loved that movie growing up! Lol
🧍♀️ “M R T W E E D Y”
That movie was fire
"What ya gonna need to make it over that fence is THRUST!" 😂
My parents didn’t let me see it growing up
This was one of my favorite stop motion movies as a kid growing up in the 90s! I had fond memories of both this movie and The Nightmare Before Christmas. They actually first gave me a newfound appreciation for these types of stop motion animation with gothic aesthetics. There used to be a lot of stop motion animation in the 90s and that decade seem like the golden age for stop motion. The medium sadly kind of became less common after the mid-2000s. However, I think this decade is starting to feel like a small comeback for stop-motion animation films (mostly through streaming services).
Straight up traumatized me as a kid. I literally got the *worst* fear of bugs after watching this movie.
I'm really glad my parents didn't let me watch it for this exact reason.
My sister didn't listen and watched it anyway and she got the same effect you did.
I now catch her spiders and relocate them for her.
The trailer for a bug's life traumatized me as a little girl and I still hate it to this day. I'm NEVER watching that movie with those ugly insects.
@@Dragontamer135 that's me with the movie "ANTZ"
@@samanthacharlton4123 One of my best friends was also traumatized by that.
I remember watching this movie back in 5th grade, my whole class including me watched it and had to do a project about it. I vaguely remember having a nightmare after that day about the movie and I never wanted to eat or be in close proximity with a peach, mainly because I was scared if insects were in them and I wouldn’t know
So this brought back some good old memories
Keep up the good work Alex, you never fail to amuse me when watching your videos
Honestly I've never considered it but I definitely avoid whole peaches
I was obsessed with this movie when I was little. I was always fascinated by creepy stuff like this though, like coraline for example, my lil brother at the time was not a fan, and every night for a few years was “scared of the big peach” which was just the shadow of his lampshade, and would have it moved every night😭💀
I remember watching this when I was a kid and even then it felt like a fever dream
i have literally fallen down a rabbit hole watching your videos. your takes are hilarious and i appreciate them so much!
As a kid, I remember just wondering why the magic stuff the guy gave James was in an unopened popcorn bag lol! XD
Loved this movie growing up!
Maybe it was the only thing that he could find to put them. Idk.
Honestly I always thought it was like a paper lantern?
If I'm not mistaken he makes a lantern out of it and let's it go out the window. The magic man found the paper lantern and put the bugs in it.
@@hadakuhadaku320 That's what I remember..
I use to imagine my popcorn bag was full of them when I popped popcorn LOL
When I was a teenager and I rewatched this, I thought it was a metaphor for a kid getting into drugs but with a happy connotation. He unfortunately turns to drugs at a young age due to the death of his parents and abusive home life and thus meets a group of drugees that were very close knit like a family. Each one of them were very strange, like a band of misfits, but they were all very kind and took him into their group, letting them stay at their lil makeshift shack and getting him away from his abusive aunts.
That's a really interesting interpretation!! My mind is blown now
I wouldnt say druggies necessarilly but people from street life, like circus people or care free artists
My maiden name is Spiker, I remember finding “Aunt Spiker” funny as did the kids in my class when the book was read aloud to us.
Omg I feel so relieved that you made this video, I thought I was going crazy for years because no one I knew knows this movie, not even my mother and brother
I adored this movie as a kid. It was horrifyingly comforting.
I remember watching this on VHS, it’s my family’s classic kids movie 😂 I plan on traumatizing my son by having him watch it to carry on the tradition
"We're Family" was such a heartwarming song for me back then. It still holds the same emotion for me to this day.
I always wanted to be able to try that peach, despite the sound effects they made it look so delicious lol
5:40 Wow, they predicted Twitter.
7:02 I'm nowhere near as cultured as u are, but that is a _birth canal_ lol
The rhino was simply the representation of death
I LITERALLY LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH AS A CHILD IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHEN OUR 3RD GRADE TEACHER READ IT TO US
THANK YOU ‼️‼️‼️
"They never did catch that rhino" haunted me as a child.
The hot goth spider explains a lot about my adult personality and I don't know how I feel about that.
I am so glad you did this video. My dad who was an avid van of Henry Sellick's work played this for me as a small child and it terrified for me life. Even now nearing 30 that I am still terrified of the rhino in the thunder.
0:15 Wow, TH-cam actually took the side of the Content Creator. That's rare.
@Alex_Meyers_YT No scammer, get a life.
This was one of my favourite movies as a little kid. I watched it for the first time in 1st grade, which was in 2001. I don't remember why we watched it but I was one of the few kids that just absolutely loved the movie. I've always been into the "scarier" stuff as a kid even when they'd give me awful nightmares that I still think about to this day, so it's not surprising that I loved this movie so much
Made my mom take me to see it in theaters no less than 6 times. It was my first time seeing stop motion animation and I've been in love with the art form ever since.
I'm so glad to see your video about this movie!!! I saw this as a kid and was so terrified.
The rhino was in most of my childhood nightmares and I can't explain why
I swear James and the Giant Peach and The Never Ending Story are the biggest fever dream films from my childhood.
i wish more movies looked like this one in the way the direction is pretty camp and dreamlike, they really play around with colors, textures, props and setting. it looks very homemade and endearing while standing out, like what you would imagine while reading the book
Joke at 4:38 had us heaving 😂😂😂
You just unlock a piece of my childhood memory with this movie!
Speaking of 90s animated movies that felt like fever dreams, I'd like to see you review The Pagemaster next! It stars a certain Home Alone kid...
these kind of creepy stop motion animation movies have always been my favourite. yes they absolutely scared me, but that's what i loved about them.
I never was scared of these things as a kid. I actually have fond memories of watching this movie. Now that I'm older and actually notice a lot more of the details, I do see the scare factor in it. But before I watched this video of yours and you asked me the plot of the movie, I would have given you a giant shrug. All I remember from it is the giant peach and the insects with some weird kid. I probably would have thought the kid was shrunk, despite the tittle saying it's a giant peach.
i actually have an original memory from when i was about 5-6 and it was being at ymca camp watching james and the giant peach on my birthday
In high school we did this play and I was costume and makeup! I gave everything a slightly modern spin but I was so fun to do this darker visual theme with whacky antics haha, I also played glow worm and he had a giant peach set piece 💕
In the book, the narrator described that James' parents went to the zoo in London where a rhino broke out in distress and "ate" them. On the other hand, best James shouldn't consume crocodile tears otherwise he'd be in a massive size, so I dunno become Britain's Ultraman and defend the nation from kaiju?
The stopmotion blended with live-action felt like a genuine concept, especially towards the end. Sure six foot bugs sounds terrifying, but they became the true family of an orphaned kid like James. And yeah I agree, the spider is hot af.
Thr spider, along with The Nightmare Before Chrishtmas inspired me to become a goth chick when I was I high school.
This movie and The Pagemaster were some of my favorites as a kid. 90’s and early 2000’s movies and really hit diff.
This was one of my favorites as a child. It pops up in my memory once in a blue moon and I always revisit it.
As a child, I watched this movie. When I heard the rhinoceros part, I was like "Ah yes, no further questions."
I used to love this movie, I hoped you'd do a video on it, this movie was practically my childhood
Also, you're very right about how 90% of grown-ups in Roald Dahl books are monsters [I should know, my Mum named me after one of the characters so I had to read all the books a million times]
Roald Dahl's childhood had a lot of nasty sweetshop owners, teachers etc, so that's probably where he got the inspiration
Which character? Oh god, is your name Verucca?
@@deen7530 No! Don't worry it's Matilda
Oh good. She loved you. If it was Augustis I'd worry.
James and the Giant Peach was more traumatising any of us would like to admit
HE'S LITERALLY DOING THE LITTLE KID MEME!
I remember disney show it on disney channel once when i was real young, and I watched it. I was so mortified as a little kid! I was traumatized and surprisingly became terrified of slow motion animation.
This was always one of my favs as a child. Had it on VHS and watched it almost every weekend. It made my day to hear you talk/rant about the absurdities in it.
It didn’t dawn on me how truly old Miss Glow Worm was until my 30s when it clicked that she said “God bless THE COLONIES” when she was addressing the crowd in New York.
Also, this is the first movie where I saw an end credit scene. The scene is a kid playing a game of Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker being knocked around. I own the dvd and Disney+ but original VHS is still at my parent’s house.
I love this movie, it's weird, but heartwarming. It's a great movie and it was a masterpiece. There needs to be more movies like this. At first its scary, but over time it gets more beautiful. All of my favorite movies are weird, but cool. What I watch is Alice in Wonderland, This Movie, and Coraline. Tim Burton movies are masterpieces.
Except neither this nor coraline are tim burton movies
@@Charles12 well it was animated by tim burton.
@@Charles12 and also i didnt mean alice in wonderland was a tim burton movie
@@SwagPaintballer11 it was produced by burton, but directed by Henry Selick, who also did coraline
The character designs of the bugs are some of the best I think I’ve seen!! Especially fond of the Centipede and his holed cap that gives him the “tough guy look”. 😂
This was one of my favourite movies as a kid! My mom thought I was weird af because she found it creepy and unsettling! But all the “kids movies” I liked she didn’t. Iron Giant, where the wild things are…(and more) such great movies mom! 😁
Iron Giant was such a favorite of mine!! My kids are obsessed with it now! 🥰
What did your mom not like about the Iron Giant lol 🤔?
OMG IRON GIANT
Preach
Ahhh I love that you're doing more stop motion films despite the issues your Coraline video caused you! Great vid as always! Absolutely can't wait for Fantastic Mr. Fox.
I watched this movie so many times as a kid and somehow remembered none of this but the peach texture and sounds
This move legitimately traumatized me at age 9. Multiple weeks in a row I would wake up in a cold sweat after nightmares about being James in this movie. I rewatched it a few weeks ago it was the weirdest thing ever, thanks for bringing back those memories Alex.