James and the Giant Peach (film)

James and the Giant Peach is an American fantasy film from 1996, based on the children's book James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. It was produced jointly by Allied Filmmakers, Skellington Productions Inc. and Walt Disney Pictures.

Action

The boy James Henry Trotter lives with his beloved parents by the sea. They dream of a voyage to New York. But then his parents are suddenly killed by a giant rhinoceros, a metaphor for lightning, storms and thunder, and James has with his two horrible aunts, Sponge and Spitzig live. His life has become unbearable, until something unbelievable happens: A mysterious stranger gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues, the ingredients for a secret potion that will save James from his fate. When he wants to go back into the house, but he stumbles and the Magic Hüpflinge seem to disappear without a trace in the bottom of the garden. A little later grows a peach at this point to a barren peach tree. He will soon be twice as large as the tree itself While the aunts make the Giant Peach for money to flaunt, James crawls one night in the peach and befriends with giant insects, ( the reserved Lord of Locust, the bragging Mr. Tausendfüß, the neurotic and paranoid Mr. Würmle, the opaque Mademoiselle Spider and the good-natured Mrs. Ladybug ). Shortly after breaking the peach rid of the tree, rolled over James' aunts and floating on the Atlantic Ocean. James binds the peach firmly to a crowd of seagulls and they fly through the air. Along the way they experience many adventures. In the end, James has his aunts and the rhinoceros questions and overcomes his fears. Be arrived in New York James and his friends by the Company recorded, and James wrote a book about his experiences.

Awards

In 1997 the film won, among others, the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Animated Feature and the Young Artist Award for Best Animated family film. He was nominated for an Academy Award ( Best Film Score, Randy Newman), the Saturn Award ( Best Fantasy Film ), Satellite Awards and Young Artist Award (Paul Terry ).

Criticism

" Inconsistent, amazing in some passages wearisome in other parts of filming of the children's book by Roald Dahl, which is unsuitable because of its oppressive atmosphere for children. The animated sequences sometimes achieve high artistic quality. "

1986 in film Henry Selick Screenplay Tim Burton Denise Di Novi Jake Eberts Hiro Narita Academy Award for Best Original Score Quentin Blake
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