James and the Giant Peach - Nostalgia Critic

This WAS a strange little movie, wasn’t it?
Originally aired on September 13, 2011.
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[@megaflygon1348]

I died at "One day, a terrible thing happened. A angry rhino appeared out of nowhere and gobbled up his mother and father."

[@QWERT-ht7vd]

How was the funeral.

[@InvaderTak176]

QWERT the funeral was shitty... literally

[@Liz_ArdE]

So did his parents

[@woodpencils9355]

QWERT awkward

[@Wow-cr2ll]

Mega Flygon! "And then a rhino ate him up!"

[@spud4806]

In the book, it's explained that the Rhino escaped from the London Zoo and killed James' parents while out shopping, but still......WHAT???

[@Talonistrying]

I know, right? Why a rhino?!

[@spud4806]

No one but the late Roald Dahl knows.

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

it didn't even eat them, it just stomped them to death which means the movie writers read that part of the book and said "yeah this is pretty fucking insane, but let's make it so that the rhino EATS THEM"

[@amyschildgamerlive4519]

Rhino's dont even eat meat they're herbivores lol it's so weird.

[@alan62036]

@@ripleyandweeds1288 It did eat them in the book. Probably was changed in reprints. I read the book way before the movie and I remember doing a triple take on the sentence to make sure I didn't misread it. Heck I even asked my parents for an explanation about it. XD

[@cartoonmaster2401]

"Wait, I thought rhinos were vegetarians." -- Ice Age, 2002

[@tristanhartup4936]

"An excellent point."

[@anthonyoliva7191]

“Shut Up”

[@comradeemoji9920]

@@anthonyoliva7191 "no you"

[@thomasjones6216]

Rhinos are herbivores they eat only plants - this is why I can never read this book I like Roald Dahl's work but this book irks me due to my zoo Biology degree

[@phousefilms]

​@DavidThe DrawBird8 "You know, I don't like animals that kill for pleasure!"

[@thetinthdoctor]

The kid who played James eventually went on to become a maths teacher at my secondary school.

[@l0sts0ul89]

Really? Do people ever bring it up?

[@slightlyistorical1776]

Fun fact: the voice actor who played baby Bambi joined the U.S. Marine Corps, became the youngest drill instructor to dawn the campaign hat, served three tours Vietnam where he gained a reputation of fierceness, was promoted to Major, and earned the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts

[@simoneichler7320]

@@slightlyistorical1776 and that with this voice, very empresiv

[@TheDoctor2007]

Just checked it out ya he’s a maths teacher, that’s so cool sure the article was from 2017, but still neat sry for doubting your comment wish I had a actor be my math teacher, instead I got a Harry Potter fan still cool.

[@joshualee7006]

He is?!

[@CuddlyZombieBacon]

I think that James was too young to really remember what happened to his parents, so his aunts made up the rhino thing to scare him. Makes more sense than it actually happening, doesn't it?

[@RineYFD]

Makes more sense then anything else in the godamn book or movie

[@iluvyurbles]

Rhinos? pfft everyone know it was really a hippo! Hippos are satan's man soldiers

[@meltedbonddika3859]

iluvyurbles really? is Gloria the only satan's woman soldier?

[@meltedbonddika3859]

I meant the hippo from madagascar

[@williambishopgarfield342]

Hey William bishop. it's William bishop.

[@trashcatsnark]

I know this is probably just me way overthinking it. But I think the little "My name is James" song was maybe meant to show him trying to reclaim his personhood. Abuse is extremely dehumanizing, constantly being referred to as nothing and treated as such makes an individual feel as if they are really worthless and somehow not even truly a person. So, maybe it was meant to come across as James refusing to let himself be demoralized and choosing to hold on to who he is, "I'm not nothing, I'm James, I'm a person and I matter." sort of thing. Again, probably overthinking it.

[@inkheart151]

Yeah, I think that was the point. I liked the songs in this movie.

[@booklover4330]

+Mariah Osborne Actually, you might be right, abuse, especially child abuse can be dehumanizing so James is probably trying to tell himself that he matters.

[@mercury7d]

Wow. That... That is actually really well thought out. If that was the intention of the film for that song, that makes things a little better, and it certainly brings the song into a more meaningful and less phoned-in light.

[@number4148]

His aunts literally never call him by his name. And those were the only people he lived with. Hey didn't even let him play with other kids. The real silver lining is at the end of the movie when a resident child in New York asks for his name an he replies "my name is James" it's actually kinda touching.

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

See, that's clever. But this film isn't. So really, it's a shame you weren't writing it.

[@TheAdorkableRJ]

With the way James's aunts keep bringing up the rhino when they're bullying him into working, I figured they actually killed his parents themselves and have used the rhino story ever since as a way of controlling him with gullible childhood fear. But then the rhino may or may not have been real? Or a symbolic obstacle for James to overcome? Or something? I don't think even the movie knows.

[@pedroxruz6032]

I noticed that the fishes on a plate that the aunts eat were the same fishes on a plate produced by the mechanical shark. Which makes me think that if it turns out that the rhino was also a machine that was made by the aunts which was created to kill the parents so they could have James to work for them it would have been a really cool twist.

[@davideferrari1194]

Or maybe it was an evil wizard (the dark lord Rhinomort!) who wanted to kill James because a prophecy designated the last one as the only one able to defeat him: James Trotter and the Philosopher's peach/Peach of secrets/Prisoners of Peachkaban/Peach of fire/Order of the peach/Half-house peach/Peachly hallows!

[@thatbonehead105]

@@davideferrari1194 alright, Dave bugoti, you can stop mocking him now, I think its a good headcanon

[@gionnijohnson69]

I HATE HIS AUNTS!!!!

[@mask938]

@@gionnijohnson69 Who doesn't hate his aunts?

[@joshuaosborne9203]

I only liked the movie for one reason. 1.) I like the fact that they were traveling in a peach. It just feels cozy.

[@TheSefirosu200x]

I always thought that, too, but I like the whole movie. The cool stop motion style and effects are just... Well, cool.

[@ellnats]

in real life that would be sticky and juicy all over, but who cares

[@rpgqueen8737]

And that's a bad thing because? ;-)

[@ellnats]

i'd also go for a green apple, a lemon, and a watermelon

[@guinealover6674]

Joshua Osborne The book is better.

[@AcrosstheKeyofSeaCouple]

Ok, so here are some explanations behind some of the confusing parts about this story. Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force and fought in World War II. When he settled down to become a writer a lot of his books contained metaphors for WWII, some of the stories entirely being about that time in English history. James and the Giant Peach was one of those stories, and like all of Roald Dahl's books, it was told from the perspective of a child and thus had a lot of imaginative explanations behind things that the child couldn't comprehend at the time. James lost his parents to a sudden event where a giant black rhino descended from the sky and destroyed them, resulting in him getting evacuated to the rural area of England where his aunts lived. That is a reference to the air raids, meaning his parents were likely killed by a bomb. Children living in populated areas of England were evacuated during the air raids to rural areas for their safety. He and his parents had aspirations to migrate to America because the war was not happening at the time over there (America only got involved at the last possible second of WWII). Now stuck with his abusive aunts, he wanted more than ever to migrate to America. He was given something he didn't understand by a man in military garb (it was most likely a ticket or a passport of some sorts) that guaranteed getting him to America. He then stowed away on a giant flying peach with 5 giant bugs. If you noticed, the bugs were either foreigners or elderly. Those were most of the people fleeing the country to America at the time. The peach was suspiciously similar in shape and function to a hot air balloon. It was likely a military zeppelin, which explains why it sailed in the water. Occasionally to save power (especially on long journeys) pilots would deactivate them on nights where the wind was favourable and let them sail in the water for a while. Enter the mechanical shark. One of the most popular German vessels in World War I and II was the Untersee, or submarine. After World War I, a rumour spread that if submarines were painted a certain way, they could avoid sonar (it was obviously not a true rumour and resulted in a lot of ridiculous looking submarines from that era). Some of these submarines were painted to look like sharks. There's actually an old relic of one of these in the harbour of my hometown! The shark that they encountered in the story was most likely a German submarine that attacked them because that's just what people tend to do in a war. I can't really explain the bit about diving into the Arctic Ocean, but I hope this little brief lesson in British history actually helped clear up a few things! :D Thankyou for reading

[@connoravila5332]

That makes this movie infinitly better

[@skeletik3121]

Dunno if any of what you said is true, but I'll believe it. Thanks for taking the time to write this, loved this movie as a kid.

[@peucoman]

I don't really see foreigners on the "non-elderly" bugs (I mean, asides the ladybug and the nightbug, who clearly are based on elderly british ladies), I mean, accent-wise, I think the grasshopper's either italian or german, the earthworm's spanish, and the spider's obviously french, but what about the centipede?

[@sewthernbelle]

Across the Key of Sea this definitely explains a lot, but they should have tied it back to reality to make more sense for the movie!

[@MemesToa]

Puecoman Well he's obviously meant to be a New Yorker. He possibly represents the pilot of the zeppelin, since he regularly boasts about having gone to many places around the world, and is, at least at first, the one navigating the journey.

[@rupertsadevil]

Nostalgia Critic: breathes Guns: how many times do we have to tell you this old man

[@squirtyflirty6829]

It do be like that sometimes

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

Really cringe to thank people for likes on KZbin.

[@commentspae]

that's clearly supposed to represent the people who like the film for everything it shows being ultra defensive over it

[@patrickpreston3904]

5:35 Still a more graceful Mufasa death than what we got in the 2019 remake

[@dremcrak5647]

XD

[@adamprince2869]

Patrick Preston 10000000000000000000000000000000000.1% better

[@vincenthawthorne9360]

LOL.

[@etrianregigigas1761]

Little did we know, the elephant graveyard was actually just where the rhinos dumped their leftovers

[@kingnothing915]

Those aunts were ancestors of Rihanna! "WORK WORK WORK WORK!"

[@RogerMilton537]

Exactly😂

[@TheChikius]

Isn't that Iggy Zanalea?

[@emmaa9161]

+Chiki Lezhava em nope

[@MasterDisaster64]

That's probably the most braindead song I've ever heard.

[@mrwindupbird101]

I always thought she was inspired by the Covenant Elite's from Halo 1 "WORG WORG WORG WORG"

[@awesomeinspector5270]

Can you imagine James' parents' funeral eulogy? "Thank you all for coming. But let's all be honest here; you aren't here to listen to me go on about how much we'll miss them. You're here because these two people were fucking EATEN ALIVE by a giant, flying Rhino made of an electrical storm. I honestly have to say that is a first for me. I'm not sure how common something like this occurs, but here we are. I mean seriously, what were the chances?! There's nothing like that in the bible, I've checked, so I'm going to have to wing it. So, uh...yeah this young couple was just minding their own business and were suddenly fucking eaten to death by a huge-ass storm rhino COMPLETELY out of nowhere and now their son is going to be raised by two piles of chicken excrement named Sponge and Spiker. And so, yeah, this was fucked up. Storm Rhinos exist, they can fly, and I am utterly scared shitless right now because of it. So thank you all for coming and may God not let you be eaten by the aforementioned big-as-Hell storm Rhino in the sky. Amen."

[@winterweasel425]

Hilarious

[@ashermundo3766]

Awesome Inspector You deserve more likes 😂😂😂

[@juliinoy]

I laughed too hard at this

[@RachelRamirezCaroline]

Best eulogy ever!

[@1aundulxaldin]

Your comment for the win.

[@lefthandersrule9419]

Man this guy loves tearing apart my childhood but I still come back for more XD

[@commentspae]

*HE'S CALLED. THE NOSTALGIA. CRITIC. WHAT DID YOU EXPECT!?*

[@lordnastrond1]

*IT'S ALL IN JAMES' IMAGINATION* the Rhino is his way of coping with whatever killed his parents in front of him (most likely a storm or natural disaster considering how it appears), his aunts play on his explanation to torment him. He even admits in his confrontation with it - "You're not even a real rhino!". The shark resembles the old oven he has to clean, and it spits out the fish heads he is forced to eat. The bugs, including the spider he sees earlier in the movie, are the only living things he comes across that don't torment him, so he projects anthropomorphic qualities onto them so that he can pretend to have friends. They all want to go to New York because that was the holiday with his parents he never got to go on so he idealizes it as a place where wonderful things can happen. He imagines the giant peach because the idea of being free is almost as impossible as the old dead peach tree he sees every day finally producing fruit. The reason the aunts keep turning up, his dream, the figurehead on the underwater ship, and finally at New York is because they are his harsh reality threatening to shatter his escape into dreams. This is also why so many strange little flourishes in the story exist - like the objects floating around the peach during the "love" song. This is the story of an incredibly lonely boy using his powerful imagination to craft a better reality for himself - its very sad. BUT in the end he uses his imagination, this story "he dreamed up" to find some strength in himself and realize his self-worth: he has real dreams and ambitions and that's something to be proud of, the Rhino is just "smoke and noise" used to scare him, and its his aunts who are "nothing" - not him. This is of course in the context of the movie, not the book - I feel like this is the direction the director was going, not Road Dahl.

[@PinkGoldAbby]

**claps** My Dude. You are my fcking savior.

[@hayato3820]

the movie is still shit, though

[@Poppy_and_ponies]

The people who made this film probably aren’t smart enough to make that symbolism

[@mckenzie.latham91]

@@hayato3820 it’s actually not bad...i always find it interesting when people like the critic demand more films that delve into creativity and imagination, and when one like this does that as the OP points out, they slam it for those she qualities,

[@mckenzie.latham91]

@@Poppy_and_ponies except they did make the symbolism since all those scenes as he points out are in the film...

[@theman3736]

Remember Critic, you can't express your opinion on the internet!

[@vodamiinurl1337]

oh no! you have a different opinion than me! someone call the internet police!

[@TroyB42]

+vodahmiin nonamehere Lock The Critic UP!!! NO PAROLE!!!!

[@iluvyurbles]

In fear of my life I'm going to agree with you!

[@mikeyeaton4964]

Oh, how far Humanity has fallen.

[@iluvyurbles]

Mikey Eaton it fell once youtube comments were a thing

[@nanuqo2006]

I want a full version of "Rhinos; They scare little boys"

[@streetman23]

Jack SpinoRex only if you pay randy to write it

[@cowlord7926]

Is it it wrong I love even though how stupid it is? Oh who am I kidding I LOVE stupid!!!

[@SofaPop.]

Me too

[@SurroundProductions]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYisZpWCgairi9k here it is.

[@beegee9327]

(i made something close for you and i tried to make it dumb and fantastic so if you think i spelled something wrong it's meant to be in there) rhinos: they scare little boys. assassinating parents, don't bring them much joy! the rhino, is no fun when it's killing you and everyone! HEY. that rhino made one little boy sad. and that's really really bad AND sad! Mr rhino please stop ripping out my lungs i can't sing my sungs! LA LA LA LA LA LA! rhinos, they come from a cloud! they are very very very big and loud, n' stuff. the rhino can't be nice....it's needs a bag of rice! YEAH!!!! LYRICS, RHINOS, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (he's so scary, you guys!) rhinos: they scare little boys, they eat your face off and lick your blood of clean like a cloth, i hope. one day. he will see the joy to will pay when one day happiness will come true COME ON GUYS SING A LONG! rhinos they scare little boys assassinating parents don't bring them much joy the rhino is no fun when it's killing everyone RHINOS RHINOS THEM MEAN MEAN RHINOS RHINOS them MEAN MEAN MEAN RHINOS RHINOS RHINOS MEEEEEEEAAAAN DOGS- *no wait*

[@robinsaxton7875]

Also as for James singing that song "my name is James" I just saw it as a person responding to the mental and emotional abuse that they go through with someone who basically says "don't be your daydreaming lazy self and work, work, work, work". It is his way of reminding himself that he is a human being who is worthy of being themselves.

[@PBarr]

In the book it explains what happened to James’s parents better

[@oscarramirez2697]

From what i remember they get trampled to death by an actual rhino, right?

[@queenofnevers6990]

In fact it doesn't really matter

[@springingsometraps9036]

@@oscarramirez2697 little tip when you go shopping while a rhino is there..try not to get stomped on..

[@Neat0_o]

What really happened to his parents?!? I need to know now!!?!!

[@archiekershaw-brutus9432]

The critic obviously hasn’t read the book !

[@FilmmakeroftheFuture]

"I flew the giant peach across the ocean, and I beat the Cyclops, and I rode the Hasselhoff!

[@unwelldanny7108]

I... I... I'm... I'MMA GOOFY GOOBER! ROCK!

[@mrcritical6751]

“Hey look it’s the wizard that freed us”

[@saulcarlin191]

WE’RE ALL GOOFY GOOBERS

[@pinky0558]

FilmmakeroftheFuture “and I got the crown back! So yeah I’m a kid, and I’m also a goofball, and a wingnut, and a knucklehead mcflazzletron! But most of all....I’m...I’m..I’m... IM A GOOFY GOOBER!”

[@creepykidpasta5993]

Take it easyyyyy WHAT THE SCALLOP!?

[@my2randomcents]

when I was little I thought the metal Rhino meant the parents died in a car crash and it was James way of coping with his fears...but...it turns out I looked too much into it

[@miaria2049]

Nagato Sora I thought that too!

[@requiem4391]

Nagato Sora When was there a metal rhino

[@my2randomcents]

Kryptic Mortal the rhino obscured and blowing steam looks like a machine

[@coralaisly]

I always thought they got hit by a train, since the rhino was huge, metal and breathed smoke. I thought James called it a rhino because that's what it reminded him of.

[@John12494]

I always took it as they died in a hurricane or tornado or something.

[@epicmaj8r]

Jack: Now, tell me all you know about...Christmas Land I died

[@jazzydrawz3792]

This movie literally gave me a nightmare. It was weird too...They turned someones mum into chocolate them ate them, weird blood chocolate spilling out. They then asked if I wanted the same done to my mum. I was like 5 years old and I can just remember me saying "uhh...no?" LMAO.

[@LeagueOfVillains32]

I’ve Watched This Movie A Lot Of Times And I Definitely Don’t Remember That Being In The Movie.

[@EpicJosh84]

@@LeagueOfVillains32 he said it was his nightmare about it I got confused reading it too, don't worry

[@dmoe329]

I think I found Rihanna's inspiration for her song "work"

[@jamesofhoenn4790]

SOMEONE MAKE THAT A REMIX, THIS NEEDS TO BE MADE

[@cryingwithrage]

Dmoe329 Holy crap I was about to say that and then I scrolled down and you beat me to it. This is still better than drake

[@smitherson1346]

me too XD!

[@yammy20000]

John Blowme. Have you listened to Anti?

[@rynemcgriffin1752]

Dmoe329 work work work work work work this is the entire song work work work work work work totally original work work work work work work Rihanna made this shit song? work work work work work work

[@Quadrenaro]

In the book, the Rhino escaped from a zoo in London and ran down James parents while they were out shopping. Oh and in the book, it's not a rhino that knocks the peach from the sky, it is a passenger jet.

[@narayanasupramati1394]

In other words... Stick with the book .. I am the resurrection and the life I am the resurrection and the life I am the resurrection and the life

[@crimsonwizahd2358]

well, giant flying peaches aside, that does make a little more sense......

[@sheepbeeps3369]

welp... the script writers doing the adaptation got high again then. well at least it's not videogame adaptation levels of wierd.

[@orangetangyvideos]

YES! Finally someone who read the book!

[@crimsonwizahd2358]

look at it this way, imagine if the writers of any JRPG got their hands on it............I imagine James kills God with the power of friendship.

[@punishedburger9689]

"Rhinos" By Randy Newman Rhinoth They thcare little boyth Athathanating parenth! They don't bring 'em much joy! Ith Randy!

[@BananaHoovyJ.Rabbit]

15:19

[@Poppy_and_ponies]

Such cinematic brilliance bravo bravo

[@Dorian_Scott]

*NEWMAN!*

[@jeremiahhester6408]

He doesn't even sound like that. LOL

[@phoenixpruett2097]

I laughed so hard

[@kylelucero7848]

Didn't Randy Newman write " You've got a Friend in me" from Toy story, that was a pretty good song

[@furioussherman7265]

He also won Oscars for his work on the soundtracks for Monsters Inc. and Toy Story 3.

[@abdurrahmanqureshi3030]

He also made the song "The Time of your Life" from A Bug's Life as well as "Strange Things" from Toy Story, both of which are legendary. So I'm really not sure where this take on Randy Newman came from. That was a BAD take.

[@tuxedotoad4160]

“All of a sudden an angry Rhinoceros gobbled up his poor mother and father”. What?!

[@melissacooper4282]

I know. In the book the rhinoceros doen't gobble up his parents. It simply says that the rhinoceros trampled them to death

[@dantan1249]

Tuxedo Toad hey. In the 90s the world was a dangerous and different place

[@o0Scarrow0o]

If I had a dollar for every time that's happened to me

[@NeoSaturos123]

@@melissacooper4282 Weird. I also have the book. 1988 Puffin Books edition, pdf form (I have to translate it into Polish for a college translation class). In that version it says on page 5 "Both of them suddenly got eaten up (in full daylight, mind you, and on a crowded street) by an enormous angry rhinoceros which had escaped from the London Zoo.". I guess it depends on the edition.

[@willipphittebane5741]

I hate it when a dangerous herbivore suddenly gets a taste for human flesh.

[@strikerbeedrill1058]

As an arachnophobe, I don’t know how I would feel about a human sized French female spider telling me dinner is ready.

[@MaCabaret]

Always kinda turned me on.

[@Talonistrying]

I like spiders and even I'd find that creepy.

[@DrDolan2000]

I mean spiders are pretty creepy, especially when they get the jump on you. But I don't think I have arachnophobia, so I'm totally down

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

Isn't she Japanese?

[@DrDolan2000]

+@@strawberrysoulforever8336 Nah, fam. Listen to her accent. Definitely French

[@milenartmeire2588]

I really loved this film as a kid, and I still really like it(but I agree it's kinda weird). I always believed that the rhino was metaphoric, or a way James imagination worked, builded up by his aunts abusive mocking. To me the rhino was actually a thunder storm/hurricane, wich was what killed their parents, and his childsh imagination turned it into a giant rhino...for some reason, maybe it was a copping mechanism, to give his fear a physical form, to me what he feared was actually thunder storms/hurricanes. Or maybe his aunts invented that story to abuse the boy's mind further and scare him. My brother actually always feared the rhino in this movie when he was a kid, even today he doesnt like the rhino scenes because it brings back bad memories. Btw, one my brother's biggest fears are thunder storms, so it makes sense.

[@LordMegatron-qk2gz]

Whats your problem? It makes sense.

[@MabuseXX]

It is written in the book that it was a rhinoceros that had escaped from the zoo.....

[@milenartmeire2588]

@@MabuseXX Yeah, but it was not in the movie. Movies sometimes are diferent from the book.

[@Mar1o_640]

Well... Newman DID write “You got a friend in me”, so...

[@dailygeek1334]

Mar1o 640 There has to be at least one daisy in a field of weeds, right?

[@mrmeowsermoney]

@@dailygeek1334 he wrote a LOT of good songs

[@orangeslash1667]

@@mrmeowsermoney Really, did he Really?????

[@mrmeowsermoney]

@@orangeslash1667 when she loved me, friends on the other side, strange things, etc He was good with Disney, anyway

[@orangeslash1667]

@@mrmeowsermoney Ok I'll give you that much. Still, Lot of people like the Nostalgia Critic thinks that Randy Newman songs don't have much flavor compared to say Alan Menken, David Zippel, or Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.

[@JamesBuschell]

My name is James. That's what mother called me

[@scaledjames98]

My name is James, so it's always been

[@thomasalvarez6456]

My names JAMES!

[@anatayGrande123]

James Buschell "My name is Jeff."

[@ShaunInce123]

James Buschell Best lyric ever.

[@jeniferjoseph9200]

Thomas Alvarez but isn't it Thomas?

[@whyamihere4269]

"My name is James That's what my mother called me" No shit

[@nifralo2752]

Human maybe his dad called him that or his granny. How ever could we have gone on not knowing that.

[@whyamihere4269]

Toad Lash Oh ok XD

[@17moonbeams]

About the rhino. At least in the book it had escaped from London Zoo. But a rhino appearing out of nowhere? I'm with the Nostalgia Critic with that! Also I'm surprised he didn't put in Manny's line from Ice Age in. "Wait a minute. I thought rhinos were vegetarians!" Thank you anyway Nostalgic Critic Guy! I love James and the giant peach and you are always a funny guy. From Virginia Clark. 🤣🍌🌸🦋🐦🍓🐮.

[@mckenzie.latham91]

I always assumed the rhino in the film was a metaphor/a representation that james brain made up to cover for the truth This is all implicated during the final confrontation where james says the rhino isn’t even a real rhino and the bookworm tells him to do what his father said and look at it another way...which is why the rhino turns into a regular lighting storm before dissipating.

[@splatem546]

I had a very stupid theory that the rhino was only a curse,made by the aunts to to torment James,the reason is because of jealousy,they wanted a person to work for them and James was the one they wanted.

[@17moonbeams]

@@splatem546 I love your theory! I always wonder what it would be like if James managed to change the Rhino into a friend and use it agasint his Aunts. Also I'm sorry he lost his parents.

[@splatem546]

@@17moonbeams Perhaps someday,... someday...

[@corban7503]

18:20 NOOoooooooo.... **squish** RHINOS, THEY SCARE LITTLE BOYS

[@OMEGATHENIETZCHIAN]

"Why do the best parents always have evil siblings?" Well Timmy, all the goodness goes into the one child leaving not but evil for the second because there's only so much goodness in the womb and writers are lazy.

[@bryanegelhoffsanimationtec257]

That's what happened to my baby sister. And I have a twin brother as well! I love them to death, but my brother is grumpy a lot, and my sister was a huge pain up until she reached 7.

[@bryanegelhoffsanimationtec257]

I don't hate my siblings. They can just be a pain at times.

[@triple7marc]

*relatives

[@mrrunodan8119]

@@bryanegelhoffsanimationtec257 Loud House vibes

[@fatalduchessdineondirt6629]

Damn it, a giant Rhinoceros ate my parents again! THAT'S THE THIRD PAIR THIS WEEK!

[@kellyr1403]

TheSpycicleGamer I'm actually really happy, cause the rhino ate my rude, snobby, happen to be relatives of really nice parents this week!

[@coralaisly]

Cut to James wrapping his aunts in leaves and foliage to try and attract the rhino

[@mememan3447]

“Really? We’re singing a song about eating the goddamn peach?” Yes we are, because this song was from the book.

[@Matt-nd1li]

I grew up watching this movie as a kid, this was litterly my favorite film don't care if some people dislike It, I personally enjoyed It.

[@aii5748]

"My name is James" song. When he refers to his name, he's referring to his identity. He's forgetting who he was as a person and losing his self-confidence. Who his parents raised him to be. But the lyrics are boring.

[@giancarlojacobs9982]

Especially after the aunts always refer to him as some kind of vermin. :(

[@lightscameraaction5159]

Awesome

[@HolyKhaaaaan]

Yeah. A name is not merely a word. It stands for who you are. There's a similar degrading scene in Outcast of Redwall. A young badger, who was captured and enslaved by a weasel warlord, was called "Scumtripe" by said weasel. When he finally broke free, he didn't know his real name. So, with the help of a friend, he guessed and invented a new one: Sunflash, as he had a great yellow stripe down his face, and struck blows like bolt lightning.

[@yolkeggs]

ai i thank you!!!! I’ve been thinking bout this!

[@johnychrist5475]

His parents didn't raise him cause they were killed by a rhino when he was a kid

[@IfIHadMyTimeAgain]

Actually the song about eating the peach was written by Rhoal Dahl, not Randy Newman and was in the original book

[@julianfaranda]

The music too or just the lyrics

[@caleblucas3006]

@@julianfaranda Just the lyrics. there are a few others in there too, but that's the only one i remember. the aunts die early on in the book too - run over by the peach.

[@springingsometraps9036]

DAHLMEN!!

[@strangebrew1231]

Really?

[@mrcritical6751]

Wonder what his opinion on Fantastic Mr Fox is

[@emersonmurillo9776]

Person 1: He says he didn't like the movie Person 2: Kill em Nostalgia Critic: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

[@jeremiahhester6408]

Man that was funny. That scream.

[@techne360]

I said 'What?' right before he lifted the paper I'm dying 😂😂

[@analuizadefigueiredosouza7851]

The parents death is even more rushed in the book. The movie turns the rhino into a metaphor, which is pretty interesting. In the book, a rhino runs out of the zoo and eats Jame's parents in the middle of the street. It's more like a comic and nonsense approach. So...the movie addapted it pretty well.

[@impatienstheshmuck5348]

The book even lampshades the oddity of the whole thing: "In full daylight, mind you, and on a crowded street".

[@analuizadefigueiredosouza7851]

Impatiens the Sorry Shmuck Hahaha true! I like both the movie and the book, but they go on different directions.

[@analuizadefigueiredosouza7851]

Gary Matrix Haha true. I read it last year, so I assumed it was a) a wrong concept of the time; b) just the author adding a little craziness in the story; c) both options haha.

[@polpot6]

Ah, so a metaphor ate James’ parents? That make more sense.

[@ThorDude]

Ana Luiza Figueiredo ... a metaphor for what? Like. Hating clouds?

[@katitax508]

Mufasa: Look, Simba. Everything the light touches is our kingdom. *Mufasa gets eaten by a Rhino* Roll credits

[@davidturbo8566]

Rhinos are vegans

[@LiveNiceness14]

Rhinos, they scare little boys.

[@aguynamelex3146]

Well if Cows eat penguins than anything is possible Marine Biology, some weird video my friend found about penguins, we still wondered about it to this day

[@lucygault2275]

A Guy name Lex lol

[@lucygault2275]

A Guy name Lex also thats weird 😮

[@Wishbone4evr]

"Where's this loner backstory come from?" Maybe they're just trying to make the spider not so one dimensional. Make sense?

[@infinityzer054]

4:36 I wonder how the movie would have been if the line was instead of “an angry rhinoceros” It would have been “the devil in the form of a rhinoceros abducted his their parents” or something along the lines of that

[@fuzzydragon]

I remember being a kid and not being able to follow anything in the movie because I was to busy trying to figure out how a rhino. ...a herbivore that lives several thousand miles away gobles up two adult humans in 35 seconds out of literally nowhere!

[@fire-nrg7962]

Maybe it's actually some kind of evil cloud god.

[@geekyashwilliams2872]

In the book it escaped from the zoo while the parents are Christmas shopping and it trampled them instead of eating them

[@bluewinterstorm]

His parents died of pneumonia, one of the main causes of which is the *rhino* virus

[@jordan999fire]

I assumed it was a really bad storm (that's why he sees the Rhino in the clouds) and they died but the aunts told him it was a Rhino

[@flooferjay3245]

James: the boi who lived

[@pikhik816]

'kryptonite pasta' i'm dead

[@tristanhartup4936]

R.I.P Pik Hik, you will be missed.

[@pikhik816]

Give me a good send off bro

[@woodpencils9355]

I always see these comments like "oh i read this at the same time it happened woowowowow" and I'm always thinking *yeah bullshit* but....it just happened......to me...…..it makes it even more hilarious

[@its_a_poncho]

Pik Hik same

[@AlphaHannah-oj9gh]

I remember watching this movie when I was younger and literally didn’t remember that there were any songs in it. I don’t recall a SINGLE song. 😂

[@matthewkarim5919]

honestly my favorite character in this movie is Ms. Spider. I don’t know why but I feel like she stands out the most in this movie. And honestly The subplot of the others being afraid of her would be great, which will give her character development to be more social.

[@Stacysrevenge-dq5m]

Mommy spider

[@aidanbarnes4290]

"Can you imagine if one of the Disney movies did that?" This is a Disney movie

[@darkstar5081]

Aidan Barnes It was a Disney movie?

[@3layerdipstack726]

That’s explains the singing

[@deejaysilver9]

I'm pretty sure that was a joke.

[@s.l.thecoffeeaddict1657]

But it isn’t a classic animated film...

[@CloverBell13]

Eh... kind of. The production company was disney if I remember right but it was not filmed/animated by the disney studio.

[@dawsonbrannan9977]

Ah, yes... I remember a time when a cloud-rhino teleports out of nowhere and killed my parents while leaving me at a beach. Basic 90's stuff.

[@davidconnelly2766]

Pretty much

[@andrewkent6402]

It's like the fucking circle of life. The same happened to me yesterday

[@intergalactichumanempire9759]

Dawson Brannan That happened to me 3 times last week

[@rainbowsherbertcandle]

A rhino killed my fiancee. Best.Rhino.Ever

[@GuyontheInternet525]

Dawson Brannan it happens to me all the time

[@MythicSuns]

20:04 and then Spider-man shows up and says "HEY, THAT'S MY SHTICK!"

[@georgeeastwood6930]

I saw this in our room in Disneyland Paris in 2002 on repeat, because it was all we had that wasn’t in French. While it’s no masterpiece, I still like it after all these years. In the age of reboots, this is one movie I actually wouldn’t mind a reboot for. It could be set in 1939, when Germany invaded Poland & World War II started. James & the incects (maybe including a butterfly this time) all plan to evacuate to New York City to get away from the war (which the United States enter a few years later). All of the incects have European accents & want to go to New York to escape the war in Europe. The guy who gives James magical green pasta could be a wizard who actually comes along with them battles the rhino, who could be his own boogeyman-like entity without any affiliation with James’ abusive aunts (who could actually die when the peach crushes them inside their car). The rhino could be a dark cloud-like monster that shoots destructive lightning from his horn, & floods places from underneath him. He won’t have (or even need) legs at all, because he’s a cloud-like being. Instead, he could float around like a ghost & even shrink or grow depending on the situation. James uses courage & bravery to defeat the rhino, inspiring children to do so. While they ever defeat him, they live above (as if he represents fear in general). Now, HOW IS THAT FOR A RHINO?! 😊

[@memori02]

It'd be a lot better if the imagery were representations of a real life sequence though a child's eye. Maybe the parents actually died in a car crash because they couldn't see in a storm and the clouds looked like a rhino. This would also explain why the shark is mechanical. Maybe it was cold and raining and that'd explain the sequence of having to fight pirates under cold water. It could actually be making sense if it tried hard enough.

[@rlinders9972]

Paradox The Pro That doesn't explain why it was firing fish heads, though.

[@krackkorn7205]

+The Art of Ａｇｏｒａｐｈｏｂｉａ I think that the Rhino supposed to represent a larger truck that rammed into James's parents car

[@AcrosstheKeyofSeaCouple]

I'm actually pretty sure it's a reference to World War II. Roald Dahl was a WWII veteran and referenced the war a lot in most of his books. A big black rhino that descended from the sky could very well represent a bomb. Most children in England were evacuated to rural areas (like Aunt Sponge & Spiker's house) so that would explain why James was not killed with them.

[@dynastylobster8957]

Paradox The Pro Butts make poo he says , BURTS DON'T MAKE POO , STOMACHS MAKE POO

[@dynastylobster8957]

DANG AUTO CORRECT *DAMN

[@hypotheticaltapeworm]

Isn't it odd how Rihanna's "Work" has the word "work" said 5 times at the first line of the chorus, just as many times those Aunt characters scream it?

[@keegster7167]

That's so weird!

[@Mr_Meatbox]

Doug A someone make a remix of that right now

[@nicolerivera289]

Doug A Rhianna said work 6 times

[@unwelldanny7108]

And Tetris Blast, along with that gorram ad for it. Yes, cockroach. It's supposed to be a GAAAAME.

[@kamikelly3908]

When they said work my mind immediately went to the work song lol

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

The movie turns 25 today! I remember actually having the book too. I forgot Tim Burton produces and Henry Selick directs. You recognize Danny Elfman's music here. The movie acts as a direct response getting through difficult times. Continues to resonate as poignancy, tenderness, and sweet charm. Love the stop-motion animation, the world is imaginative, and the bug characters are charming. It's a story no less attuned to issues of pain, grief, hostility in the home, and, in the form of big bugs wearing inexplicably tailored clothing, the treatment of society’s maligned and marginalised. The little boy as James is good and the late Pete Postelewaithe. The rhino is an amalgamation of James’ pain and suffering: a striking representation of the all-encompassing darkness that consumed his parents and, in turn, any hopes of a happy existence. The film is at times clumsy but remains timeless as well as creative. Still it's all about growth, a touching reminder of the value of perspective. Sometimes looking at things another way helps us look to the horizon of hope and happiness overcoming fear and sadness. It's too bad it failed at the box office but it won over many critics and the book is still treasured to this day by many celebrities.

[@zacharykim295]

Beautiful comment. Now that I'm older I can appreciate the symbolism in this film.

[@robertyeah2259]

The thing I like about this movie is that it does capture my imagination. Also I like how despite how meta textual this entire video is, people are still upset that he criticized this movie.

[@Ryan-Streams]

I'm pretty sure Roald Dahl was just batshit crazy. I mean, just go and read the plot summary on Wikipedia of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator.

[@inkheart151]

Ryan's Rants did and done

[@strawberrysoulforever8336]

He's written worse stories. His children's books include mutation and metamorphosis (The Witches, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and The Magic Finger), child abuse and abuse of power (Matilda), unhealthy eating habits and nightmares that come true (The BFG), etc. Also, do you realize the bugs terrify James in the book by talking about how they're starving from the minute he finds them? While staring at him so he thinks they're going to eat him?

[@gabeitch9142]

He was also an ass

[@impatienstheshmuck5348]

Great Glass Elevator is hilarious. About 40% of the story focuses on the US government, as well as a fictional president. Roald was a British spy, so this little piece of comedy had obvious roots in that job.

[@baranguirus]

Yeah, that was a really shitty book. While the original Chocolate Factory had a clear story and plot drive, Glass Elevator is aimless and goes off on tangents like a bad fanfiction, plus I felt that the characters were flanderized.

[@amorfm4071]

I was like 7 when I watched this for the first time, and I just lost my shit when I saw jack. "Hey u guys jack is having another identity crisis he thinks he's a pirate now"

[@xavier84623]

The press conference was amazing. Actually best apology ever.

[@journeyrivenburgh1052]

I think the reason why James refers to himself as a third person in his opening song at the begining of the movie is because he's essentially rehumanizing himself. He is completly and utterly alone; both of the parents who named him and loved him are dead (the only thing left behind is his name), his aunts hate him, and dont even call him by his name (they dehumanize him by calling him a beast), and he has no friends or family other than two people who hate him. All he has is himself. So it feels lile he's repeating his own name to remind himself that he's still a person and that he was once loved and that life was happier once ( "My name is James. James...where are you? Isn't it a lovely day?").

[@adamfox8348]

I thought the rhino was for james to cope with that a storm or a tornado killed his parents And his aunts reference the Rhino because it keeps him from running away and to be obedient subconsciously But that is just me But I just learned about the book and it makes more sense but it was not hard to imagine without the book

[@DeSoulTV]

Maybe a rhino represents a rhinovirus. Like they got sick and died.

[@DreamBelief]

I can understand you thinking that if you saw the movie first, as it does suggest it. The book has no mention of a storm at all, and as you said does explain the rhino much better, so I always wondered why the storm was added to the movie. There was no purpose for it, and it was misleading.

[@vinnytheplayer5500]

I dont get it

[@wendigowithwifi8494]

Yeah they treated him like a slave

[@YuukiTakemoto1996]

@@DeSoulTV But a cold is easy to cure.

[@jordanschmidt8940]

Is it just me but the scene where James is telling how he made it across the ocean in the peach, it reminds me of how spongebob talked about how he made it to shell city

[@nightmare2750]

Jordan Reviews he's a goofy goober yeah

[@brownsfan6447]

Lol

[@guitarguy7847]

Jordan Reviews same

[@mrcritical6751]

So the peach is Hasselhoff’s testicle

[@paulhanratty9604]

Why boy

[@leprechaunfarmer4081]

I saw this movie in a theater when I was five and it traumatized me so much that I didn’t go see movies in theaters again for eleven years (I would just wait for them to come out on video)! And yet I still bought the VHS lol

[@The_Fabulous_Mochi]

I feel so bad for nostalgia critic, this man has to deal with one of the most toxic fanbase's I've ever seen. Hats off to you man, God bless you.

[@The_Fabulous_Mochi]

@BullfrogWisdom well, the opening of this video should be evidence enough. The fact that he has to talk about and make up for ONE bad video is Insanity. And then the fans started demanding an amazing video to make up for it. Sounds pretty toxic to me

[@alextelson4416]

@@The_Fabulous_Mochi you have another subscriber

[@The_Fabulous_Mochi]

@@alextelson4416 thanks man ☺️

[@Jamie_Pritchard]

Well... As odd as the film appears, it sticks pretty damn closely to the bizarre source material. I guess Roald Dahl isn't as big in America as he was in Europe.

[@masterknife8423]

Jamie Pritchard Matilda was made into a film the same year as James and the Giant Peach and unlike JATJP it was set in America but it also followed the source material pretty closely too.

[@babyyoshi3099]

"Sticks close to the book" What about the whole Rhino thing?

[@dalime605]

the rhino was in the book too. but it says it escaped from a zoo and killed his parents. i think it did appear in the clouds at the end like in the movie.

[@allisonwillett6251]

Dunno. I live in America and grew up with a lot of his classics, personally.

[@brownsfan6447]

We read The Witches, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the Glass Elevator in elementary school (I think it is primary in europe). Edit: BFG and The Twits too He’s huge over here!

[@pkmntrainermark8881]

Apparently, the rhino was unsurprisingly an actual rhino escaped from the zoo in the book. Not sure why the movie made it a storm, though... Maybe that's how James's child mind nightmared it?

[@Janoha17]

In the book, the peach falls because a plane flew past and the propellers cut the lines. And the aunts were flattened to death when the peach rolled them over in act 1.

[@melissacooper4282]

Well I was shocked in the movie version when Aunts Sponge and Spiker suddenly appeared in New York looking like drowned rats. I was thinking "What are they doing there?! They are supposed to be dead!" Meaning that in the book the women were flattened by the giant peach. It even said that they looked like two flattened pancakes.

[@geoffreysorkin5774]

The My Name is James song is about how he holds onto his identity and his hope in spite of being an orphan whose Aunts are trying to strip him of both his identity and hope. In particular, the song is about the importance of imagination and childhood. Can't imagine why someone who liked The Neverending Story wouldn't get that.

[@Wishbone4evr]

"Mapquest can suck it" LMFAO!!! They sure can, cloud. They sure can. XD

[@LainWithSweetTea]

Lol I get better bus directions from freaking Google maps

[@Connor_Tyler]

Wow, we need to surround you with insane amounts of military-grade firearms more often if you get *this* positive!

[@plushbunny6800]

Indeed. I'll send in reinforcements soon.

[@ravnhaveland9594]

I got no less then 5 misils, 7 tanks and 6 other wepons to help him to stay "wilingli" nice!

[@gooboi8317]

Nice spelling what are you 7?

[@photoacc1945]

Let’s grab some guns...and ships...

[@ravnhaveland9594]

Almost 14, #NORWAY

[@MisterSpocktopus]

James and The Giant Peach was one of the movies I loved to watch as a kid, in fact I rented it constantly at the video store whenever my parents and I went there. But now that I'm older, I can see it's flaws. It's definitely trying to tell a creative and imaginative story, but I feel like it loses its intention by rushing exposition and trying to turn it into a semi-musical.

[@DragicaOfficial]

SomethingAboutSean I find it amazing how you switched your it's and its there, almost as if you tried.

[@Bluecho4]

SomethingAboutSean When I was young we got this movie on video, but the tape got messed up or lost or something, and I never got to watch it like a billion times, like I would have. Still, I have fond memories of it. I think it could have been better if they'd replaced some of the bland musical numbers with more character-building scenes, as the cast of bugs have pretty varied but ultimately limited personalities. The quiet scenes with the Spider and Grasshopper were probably among the best scenes simply because we got to know them.

[@sayo-nara6523]

In the book, the rhino escaped from London zoo

[@not.supermario]

They really should have kept that part of the book in the movie. Really would have made much more sense than just a random rhino appearing out of the sky.

[@boisegameshowguy]

4:16 “Mapquest can suck it” Very true! I actually gave up on Mapquest ten years ago when Google Maps got better than them. Oh yeah and if those were my aunts I’d have run far away too. I can see why Doug thought this film was awkward, but think for a moment: How quickly do fortunes change in many peoples lives? Exactly. The quick pace of explanations in James and the Giant Peach may not make sense to some, but to many of us it’s like they know us by name. 🍑

[@uhhhjok9415]

lost my shit at "garfields anus"

[@NEETKitten]

I lost my shit at "Seiko Shinohara".

[@epitaph574]

I lost my shit when someone stole it.

[@komalkeesara1903]

Perkybawlz

[@TheQuashingoftheTub]

Hallo, Seiko. How's School-Hell working out for you?

[@themajesticmelon7295]

Rhinos are herbivores... But, screw, it's a fucking book/movie, nobody gives two shits about logic.

[@randod1683]

I identify as a rhino and when people generalise I get triggered, when kids dress up as rhinos I get triggered, when I see nature programmes I get triggered.

[@celebitto7869]

The Majestic Melon the rhino was symbolic of a bomb raid, the writer was in ww2 and so a lot of his books have subtle references to the war.

[@gordonjamescowiest]

The Majestic Melon Rhino's have been known to kill people if step on to their territory but yeah the Rhino thing makes no sense in the book or movie. Though Roald Dahl was a dark author so that might explain things.

[@randod1683]

Queenofawesome2524 Yes but that would defeat the point.

[@twilightzoneseinfeld]

Junkyard Jams Wasn't it explained in the book that the Rhino escaped from a zoo or something?

[@DrSlick]

I used to watch James And The Giant Peach on HBO cable channels that you had to pay for! What a time to be alive.

[@colesellers8384]

Centipede was the absolute best character in the movie 😩 I absolutely LOVE his character, his voice, and his personality

[@Jmorris3265]

This review is just so wonderfully passive aggressive and sarcastic.

[@osmosisjones4912]

First I thought the Rino was a metaphor but later it's it's literal

[@billyjackson9968]

The reason the rhino doesn't have much explanation is because it was created by James's imagination to deal with the death of his parents.

[@jgirlinluv55]

I loved the book and the movie and the songs were beautiful

[@wazzupyuwu]

"Look Simba. Everything the light touches, is our kingdom." "Wow..." "And then a rhino came and ate him up. *nom*" THE END "WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK, WORK!!!!"

[@cretethemoonman]

I think the rhino in the movie was meant to represent the explanation his aunts gave him instead of what REALLY happened... You see, the explanation was purposely rushed, and you never saw anything beyond the dark, stormy clouds. You see a vague shape of a rhino, but not much else. Considering James has an active imagination and the movie was smart enough to show him finding shapes in the clouds with his parents, it makes sense that he would see the shape of the rhino there. This is further supported later on, when James overcomes his fear of the rhino and reveals it for what it really was...just a bunch of noise. If the aunts are really that horrible, it's not too big of a leap to think they killed his parents to inherit their property, especially seeing as they don't really have any jobs and yet can still afford to eat and live in what had once been a pretty nice house. Images of the aunts can be seen in a few parts of the movie, so one could assume that they represent the fear of his aunts and the repressed memories of abuse "following" him throughout his adventure. In addition to this, the aunts put James through massive emotional and mental abuse and force him pretty much to do a slave's work...part of this, of course, is constantly referencing the rhino and how if he doesn't work hard enough, it will get him too...perhaps a subtle threat that they'll kill him, as well, if he doesn't do what they say? Finally, when James sings "my name is James", this seemingly innocent song echoes a pretty eerie concept...those who are abused and treated like a thing eventually break down and lose their sense of identity and personality, and in such an abusive household, it's pretty easy to see James eventually break down and lose the spirit he once had. As a side note, many of the songs that were made in the movie were actually in the original book and were mostly unchanged, so Randy Newman, surprisingly enough, wasn't guilty of making these kind of bland/pointless songs...think of them sort of like the oompa-loompa songs from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, meant to set up a tone/mood and show the budding camaraderie in the group...to be honest, my only gripe was that there wasn't any context shown before the songs were sung, unlike in the book. As far as the rest of it, I think it's just creative liberties...the sharks in the book (yes there was more than one) weren't mechanical, they were real...perhaps they used a mechanical shark and only one because they were limited on their budget and couldn't waste time on making realistic models of sharks to animate, so they resorted to one super-mega-shark. The dream James had actually had a purpose, however, as the shapes of his aunts, instead of the rhino, are shown in a pile of dark, looming clouds. This supports what I mentioned earlier about the aunts most likely being the ones who killed James' parents...perhaps his dream is his sub-conscious attempting to deal with memories or thoughts his mind blocked out in a way that wouldn't induce severe psychological trauma, similar to victims of abuse who suffer from PTSD. In my opinion, when looking at the film this way, it's sort of like a simpler, children's version of Fight Club...hidden messages and a hidden sub-plot that explains just what was really happening under the confusing and seemingly non-sequetor appearance. I personally give it a 7/10...a few annoying flaws were in the movie that should have been fixed before it was released, such as context for the songs some of the insects sing, and maybe some songs should have been removed and replaced with more quiet, somber scenes, but overall this movie is pretty good. I loved it as a kid, and the hidden meaning behind the film keeps me coming back.

[@cretethemoonman]

Wafflefrogs101 Yes, that's in the book, but James in the movie never mentions anything about actually seeing it, only that his aunts told him it exists and killed his parents. The point I'm getting at is that the movie may have portrayed the rhino differently than in that book. In the book, the rhino is a metaphor for death. It could be literally a rhino, or it could be sickness...it's never described. However, if you think about it, the movie sort of makes the rhino seem much more fake than the book did, perhaps implying that it was a lie devised by his horrible aunts.

[@apollorock3r244]

10:00 I like how Doug made a mistake on that line. XD He could’ve used the correct word “pear” since that was in the original song. XD

[@mafumafusnumberonefan]

No matter how many times I watch it, this movie always feels like a fever dream.

[@SomaCruz666]

this movie could be a metaphor for almost anything

[@juliank6793]

***** Does that make an excuse for the laziness and plot holes?

[@SomaCruz666]

Julian Kritic no, not at all

[@juliank6793]

***** OK then. Juuuust checking

[@buttAttack]

Julian Kritic well yeah it kinda does.. I mean a ton of movies leave plot holes and leave it to the audience to figure it out.. I think they are called Art Films...

[@SomaCruz666]

123456789 987654321 oh thats kinda true, I wouldn't like inception nearly as much if it wasn't for the ending where they don't show the top stopping, so its up for the audiences interpretation, if it stopped it would have just been a cliche happy ending

[@AlexG-tf9bi]

That house at the ending is pretty physically impossible.

[@kennandunn7533]

so is a peach growing a thousand times it's size in less than a minute. So is said peach being lifted by only about a thousand seagulls. So is going to bed off the coast of Britain and waking up in Antarctica the next morning while under the power of said seagulls.

[@troy801]

So are giant talking insects Alex.

[@commenturthegreat2915]

To be fair, nearly everything you pointed out was in the original book.

[@GB.Gaming]

15:18 I spat my drink out when this part came on. Ever since I saw this review, my girlfriend and I can't say the word "rhino" without saying "RHINOATH" lol Hilarious

[@bluebreeze4258]

That scream at the end was gold

[@Katerine459]

I didn't much care for this movie when it first came out in theaters, but I do appreciate why others really like the movie. Let's take the really convenient clouds, followed by the extremely sudden, extremely unbelievable, and extremely unexplained explanation for James' parents' deaths. Taken in the context of the rest of the movie, there's clearly a purpose to this, and that purpose is to throw any adult viewer into the unconscious mindset of, "ok, this is an unreliable narrator, and an unreliable *lens.* We're supposed to read between the lines." This movie shows us the world as James - a child who's just lost his parents and has been sent to live with two abusive aunts - sees it... not as it actually is. Whether you see the entire "peach" storyline as literally happening in the story, or as James' escapist fantasy, is up to the viewer, but everything that comes before it... the aunts are definitely abusive (it takes a special kind of cruelty to learn that a child believes his parents were devoured by a rhino, and mock him for it instead of sitting him down and explaining the truth - whatever the truth may be), but they're probably not really that *cartoonishly* abusive - that's just how *James* sees them. And the camera shows us the world as James sees it. The songs are still... meh. Not quite as bad as NC is making them out to be (there's a real sadness to "my name is James. That's what mother called me. My name is James. So it's always been. Sometimes I forget..." - his aunts never call him by his name, so he has to remind himself what it is), but musically speaking, they're nothing special. And NC's point about the spider character is a good one. And I personally *like* suspending disbelief - to me, that's the entire joy of fiction - so a movie that's purposely telling you *not* to suspend disbelief isn't my cup of tea - but it's very artfully done, and I can see why others love the movie.

[@rainydaze4409]

What does the mechanical shark represent? I'm with you on all of this, but if all of that has an explanation, what is the explanation for the shark?

[@nifralo2752]

@@rainydaze4409 or the skeleton pirates ? You could argue I guess they are extensions of the rhinosarus and aunts but there's not really any link to them. In the book there are sharks but they are normal sharks. So it really feels like it's there just for an action sequence. No piarats at all in the book but there are "cloud men" who are kinda similar to the movie rhino. It dose seem like some of it is meant to be symbolism but the other half is pure cartoon nonsense.

[@PixarShark]

Say what you will about it, but I still stand by that the centipede and the spider made a heckin' cute couple that doesn't get enough love. And it was played out surprisingly subtley for a 90s Disney movie. Which made it even sweeter. ❤️

[@katysikkema]

This was the first video of this channel I watched, back in middle school

[@Snqwy]

"I landed on the tallest building in the world!" *New York isn't located in Asia*

[@fimband3855]

It was the tallest building in the world when Dahl wrote the book...and i think when the movie was made too

[@silveryote1]

No, when the movie came out the Sears Tower was the tallest building in the world, not the Empire State Building.

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

The movie is set in the 1920s which at the time the empire state building was the building in the world

[@Lord_Skeptic]

Empire State Building Was The tallest building from 1931. The tallest building in the 1920's was Woolworth building.

[@Charles12]

fun fact, this was during the 50s or something, and the empire state building was built in the 1910s, and was the tallest building for over 40 years. DUHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! (no offense)

[@tyanathriller]

I think the machanic shark was made by Egg man.... so that's what he does in his free time!

[@MasterAnakinSkyWalker]

All that was missing was the classic Egg Man boss music from Sonic 2

[@cryingwithrage]

PINGAS

[@RineYFD]

Or Dr. Wily.

[@thenameguy8126]

Rine The Hedgehog NO, PINGAS

[@bernebelmont1857]

a giant metal shark that eats fish and turns them into cooked meals, probably

[@arninordfjord]

when nostalgia critic had hair 😩

[@aceq6207]

Lol he had hair here?

[@arninordfjord]

@@aceq6207 some hair

[@littlemshashtag]

Shots fir3d

[@its_kumar_babyyy]

LOL

[@its_kumar_babyyy]

His hair dipped because of all the negative vibes

[@Awesome-oo9vz]

I heard that they’re doing a live-action version of James and the Giant Peach said by Disney+

[@LadyOnikara]

I will only watch it if Pedro Pascal is the grasshopper.

[@Noseybonkeys]

The only part I ever watched from this film was when they found the pirate ship with Jack . Best part 10/10