Released in 1996, J’ames and The Giant Peach’ is a Disney flick, with a
combination of live action and amazing animation. It is the story of a recently
orphaned boy called James. His sole property is a bag of glowing, magical
crocodile tongues, which grows into a gigantic peach, when he drops some of them
accidentally. James rushes to hide in the fruit, to escape from his harsh and
nasty aunts and uncles and finds a new family in the six insects living inside
the fruit. There is adventure, danger and happy-ending in the movie.
The movie is based on a novel published by the same name in 1961, authored by
Roald Dahl. It has been produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick, the
famous American stop motion director and writer. The film 'James and the Giant
Peach' is a combination of live action and stop motion and it won the award of
Best Animated Feature Film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Music, Best Original Musical
or Comedy Score (by Randy Newman). A great flick to watch on a Halloween night!
Plot
James Henry Trotter is an ordinary four-year-old orphan boy, whose parents were
swallowed by a rhino. He has to live with his two cruel aunts, named Spiker and
Sponge, who make him work hard and scold him a lot. Hope came alive in James
when he receives a small sack of magical gift, consisting of ''crocodile
tongues'', from a stranger who promised that it would bring him wealth,
happiness, and great adventure. But James trips and drops the sack and the
tongues fall into the root of an old peach tree. Soon, amazing things begin to
happen.
In a few days, the long-barren peach tree in James’ garden puts forth a single
fruit that first grows to double the size and then goes on to gain gigantic
proportions. The peach is home to six giant bugs, including a Centipede, Miss
Spider, Old-Green-Grasshopper, Silkworm, Ladybug, and Glowworm, all of whom
become friends with James. James and his friends manage to break the peach off
the tree and roll over to the Atlantic Ocean for their adventure, while
flattening the evil aunts along the way. James ends up reaching the New York
City with his friends and finally learns to face his fears.
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