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James and the Giant Peach
Directed by
Henry Selick
PG
1996
79m
Animation
,
Adventure
,
and more
6.7
91%
66%
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An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.
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Cast of James and the Giant Peach
Paul Terry
James Henry Trotter
Miriam Margolyes
Aunt Sponge / Glowworm (voice)
Joanna Lumley
Aunt Spiker
Pete Postlethwaite
The Magic Man
Simon Callow
Grasshopper (voice)
Richard Dreyfuss
Centipede (voice)
Jane Leeves
Ladybug (voice)
Susan Sarandon
Miss Spider (voice)
David Thewlis
Earthworm (voice)
Steven Culp
James' Father
Susan Turner-Cray
James' Mother
Cirocco Dunlap
Girl with Telescope
Kathryn Howell
Woman in Bathrobe
Mike Starr
Cop
Michael Girardin
Reporter #1
J. Stephen Coyle
Reporter #2
Tony Haney
Reporter #3
Mario Yedidia
Street Kid
Jeff Mosley
Hard Hat Man
Jeff Bennett
Centipede (singing voice) (uncredited)
Sally Stevens
Glowworm (singing voice) (uncredited)
James and the Giant Peach Ratings & Reviews
Bill S.
3d ago
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Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
Another superb stop-action animated film from the same team responsible for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
This movie remembers what fun is.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
James and the Giant Peach shines with weird, whimsical invention.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
At its lyrical best, James and the Giant Peach, an adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1961 children's classic, evokes the casual enchantment of a book that, for many kids (including me), cast the spell of a goofily blissed-out mirage.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
One of the brightest, giddiest and most outlandishly exciting of all the Disney Studio's recent major feature cartoons.
Seattle Times
Doug Thomas
James and the Giant Peach proves the best effects are even better with a strong story.
New York Daily News
Dave Kehr
The film is a technical tour de force, featuring a wealth of inventive design ideas. But James never develops the emotional dimension that Nightmare possessed.
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
James and the Giant Peach is frequently so alluring that viewers may feel the urge to get lost in the picture's curious shadings, intricate merriment and fantastical atmosphere.
Newsweek
David Ansen
Dahl himself thought his book would be impossible to translate into film, and for all the ingenuity that's been thrown at the screen, perhaps he was right. This overgrown peach never ripens.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Jeff Strickler
A snappy, fun adaptation that entertains young viewers without speaking down to them.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
As a tribute to the cranky genius of Dahl, it's both fond and, in the best sense, fruitful.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
We fully anticipate the wrath of several generations of possessive children when we declare that the new Disney film of James and the Giant Peach is an improvement on Roald Dahl's 1961 backyard fantasy.
Variety
Jeremy Gerard
An extraordinary achievement.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
The latest in an impressive string of first-rate movies for kids.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
In general the magic as well as the heart of Roald Dahl's novel has remained stubbornly on the page, leaving us with this overly mechanical copy, as appetizing as a once-flavorful peach that's been in cold storage for far too long.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It will, I think, entertain kids for whom stop-motion animation is the last thing they're thinking about.
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
A stunner with a breathtaking array of eye-teasers.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
James and the Giant Peach, the latest animated film from Disney, is a technological marvel, arch and innovative with a daringly offbeat visual conception. But it's also a strenuously artful film with a macabre edge that may scare small children.
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