Peachy

James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Directed by Henry Selick this adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel of the same name stars Paul Terry, Pete Postlethwaite and a number of others in voice only. A young orphan lives with his horrid aunts but goes on an adventure to escape them.

What the film does is blend live action book ends with the majority of the film being being stop motion animation and this works fairly well. There are some differences between the novel and the film but nothing that changes the overall tone of the story. Adding some musical sections to the film did little to either add or detract from the story and in the end this is a passable adaptation.

3/5