The Dark and Depressing Story of James and the Giant Peach

[@BionicPIGtv]

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[@HavenEris]

poggers

[@goldswaggamer4007]

Sure

[@banquetbaby]

I'll keep waiting for Jack and Cuckoo Clock Heart

[@Aash1r]

I have ADHD and your reviewing every movie I forgot

[@raceemrobinson2578]

Do why did I look like a rip off Version of Heisenberg from resident evil 8

[@ruffswami7853]

The fact that James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, BFG, and Fantastic Mr Fox were all written by the same guy amazes me because of how different the movie adaptations are to eachother

[@spencerstabio5936]

Maybe Fantastic Mr. Fox is another one BP should check out.

[@Thecleetus]

Fantastic Mr Fox is one of my all time favorite movies

[@megmoo96]

Fantastic Mr Fox is my absolute favorite movie !! I would die if bionicpig would review it !

[@ElementalWhispers]

And The Witches!

[@angiem6674]

And they are all somehow great movies and some of my favorites idk about BFG tho cause I never saw that but still

[@haleypoluchuck9752]

The aunts totally get squished in the book. Dahl has no chill.

[@someguy9893]

Based.

[@sanstheskeleton9965]

@@someguy9893 how is that based

[@aquafreshfan3022]

@@sanstheskeleton9965 abusive guardians get killed. Very based

[@emeryltekutsu4357]

Oh yeah, I remember in the BFG a bunch of school children get eaten by giants. I was like, "Damn. I guess that happened". Then the book just carries on.

[@HopePapernacky]

I was gonna mention that

[@KinyokuChannel]

Early 2000s and 90s stop motion movies always scared me as a kid and I don't know why.

[@megharoni]

Cuz they're creepy. Objectively creepy.

[@leorickaldana366]

Bruh... I just saw your community post before finding this video.

[@mariahholden2088]

SAMEEE

[@calevoid]

Because their movement and expression flow is uncanny. You know what you're seeing, but your brain doesn't trust it.

[@roxassora2706]

They made me learn how to enjoy the art of animation and stopmotion/claymation (that and Monster High stopmotion videos from 2010+)

[@a.jjoans5822]

I always thought that the rhino was symbolic of death because children have different perspectives on death, I never thought that it was literal

[@liv-uu1fi]

maybe it symbolizes grief and how his aunts following him and blowing that.. rhino gas(?) it's like his ptsd and grief coming back to him when he isnt surrounded by his founded family

[@hawwaulya326]

No it's just dahls humor A lot of things like that happen in his books

[@laranovelletto8694]

"Funny" fact: the child actor got arachnophobia after being bitten by the spider in the room scene He stopped acting alltogether because of this trauma, and is a math teacher now

[@Pihsrosnec]

Bruh

[@owie8212]

One spider bite, and he had to change his whole career

[@capperbuns]

Lmao

[@edie4321]

@@owie8212 , If you know anything about the Hollywood executives you know how much they enjoy traumatizing children so I'm sure that it was more than a spider. This child is lucky to have gotten away. The little girl from Poltergeist was not so lucky.

[@edie4321]

@@owie8212 , I'm not talking about the movie I'm talking about what goes on behind the screen. Hollywood is run by satanic pedophiles.

[@amberwingtundrawing776]

I'm realizing Rohld Dahl had a lot of stories about kids getting away from their abusive bio families and finding new ones

[@pixiestxNyomouf]

This is the equivalent to Walt Disney and dead bio moms

[@lunarsprinkle6580]

@@pixiestxNyomouf Walt Disney's mom died in a fire so he wrote those stories to relate.

[@pixiestxNyomouf]

@@lunarsprinkle6580 i know, that's why I commented that

[@hoiyawhal5695]

Oh-

[@GamingintheAM0801]

@@lunarsprinkle6580Walt's mom died due to carbon monoxide poisoning in their home. Walt had bought his parents the home as an anniversary gift, and so he felt personally responsible for his mother's death.

[@debbiesuesteele9639]

Roald Dahl was the Stephen King of children's books.

[@standingonbusiness1441]

Yep

[@HazbinCovenWitch]

And R.L Stine

[@AverageAwesomeDude]

I remember being terrified of him describing getting his tonsils removed, it’s just lot of fleshy plops and stuff. Tho nowadays the stuff I watch and read are ridiculously gorey, but I remember reading the book in class as a kid and feeling really really uncomfortable

[@owenmaleski2203]

I've read some of Dahl's other stuff, his straight up horror, and it's pretty dark stuff. And the way things are looking, it wouldn't be difficult to imagine this as a subtle way of telling the story of a kid becoming a drug addict to escape the hellish life he's living.

[@emilywarden1979]

THISSS

[@atomic.procrastinator]

The amount of characters this man has created is absolutely ridiculous... and I'm all for it

[@kayhaven4710]

The only person who has him beat is Nostalgia Critic and KallmeKris.

[@TheNewPrometheus]

the Filthy Frank universe also had lots of characters

[@g1r1b1og]

thought you were talking about rold dahl but bionic big is def up there with his wacky characters :D

[@Bopperann]

Okay, if you're James, this lovestarved desperate abused child and a weird old guy offers you a bag of magic crocodile tails that will make things "marvelous," you're gonna snatch that bag. Anything to escape those demon spawn directly-from-hell excuses for aunts.

[@615treyray]

thank you

[@melissacooper8724]

I've always wondered if Sponge and Spiker are siblings to James's mom or his dad? Or better yet, how could they be his relatives in the first place?

[@liv-uu1fi]

"Coraline" and "James and The Giant Peach" were my favorite childhood movies, even now still. A lot of people credit Tim Burton for having the gloom, dark aesthetic but Henry Selick's main work has always appealed to me more and the way he tells stories in such an interesting way. I'm really excited to see his upcoming, "Wendell and Wild".

[@liv-uu1fi]

Also, Coraline scared me more than this which had more sense than whatever THIS movie is.

[@dreamieskies056]

Tbh Tim Burton is budget Henry Selick

[@Charles12]

Exactly. I'm in the exact same boat where everything I hear about those movies was that Tim burton made them, but I loved jatgp since I was 4 and always knew Selick as the guy who made every hot topic goth whatever's favorite movie, even before I knew who burton was. Mostly just mad at disney for that, and that they canceled Selicks original movie, the shadow king, because it was too original and dark. this is when the remakes were becoming popular, burton having made the billion dollar grossing alice in wonderland even tho that was dark as hell. Thank god netflix is letting him make wendell and wild, and jordon peele is backing it up so you can't say no to that.

[@bluubandette8871]

My Child heart

[@MephProduction]

@@dreamieskies056 If it wasn't for Burton Henry would be still working at MTV

[@Tony-rc9jb]

This, Holes, Matilda, and Robots were the only movies at my senile Grandma's house growing up. I have them memorized still and can quote them nearly word for word

[@camppidame82]

Yes yes yes!!! The best movies ever!!

[@Bone_Chaser]

Yeah I really remember watching Matilda and James and the giant peach a lot when I lived at my grandmas house

[@spoodercat3980]

Really? I remember watching crappy off-brand movies

[@barbararab6390]

Matilda and robots are amazing

[@naconaco1]

Wow same 😅 literally same

[@invest-i-gator8896]

I was so naive I didn’t even understand his parents died to a rhino

[@justsomevikingwhodiscovere1026]

same as well, sheeeeeeeesh

[@Gallant_Silver]

As a kid, I thought it was a metaphor for some sort of weather phenomenon. So when Pig mentioned the rhino, I was just like, "The what?"

[@flying-magpie]

Not to mention rhino's are herbivores. Sure, they are still dangerous, but they don't eat people.

[@tonymontes4778]

Me either

[@katc2040]

Bruh, I always wondered what the fuck those rhinos in the clouds meant it was so scary but I thought they died in a storm I guess

[@nothanks7263]

fun fact: that IS Jack Skellington, literally the same models from Nightmare.

[@jacknapier8201]

The real question is: Reference or they needed a skeleton and the director had a skeleton?

[@iangallagher4135]

@@jacknapier8201 Tim Burton was part of this so he probably let them use it

[@jacknapier8201]

@@iangallagher4135 okay, but that doesn't answer the question

[@iangallagher4135]

@@jacknapier8201 it’s most likely a reference probably since the director and Tim worked on this movie and they both worked on nightmare before Christmas

[@imalittlestinker]

I'd say... think of it like a Stan Lee marvel movie cameo

[@TheFloraBonBon]

In the book, the creature is an actual rhinoceros with a carnivorous appetite that escaped from the zoo and killed James' parents. In the film, the Rhino is a giant black cloud that is shaped like a rhinoceros with glowing yellow eyes. But i don't know because i never read the actual book.

[@lulolie]

I think the movie turning it into the giant nightmarish storm could actually be a good interpretation of how a kid's memory of a traumatic event can be twisted by their emotions and imagination.

[@gabriellevalentine2057]

@@lulolie I read on a Reddit post that apparently the Rhino represents a train.

[@iantaggart3064]

My guess is that his parents were struck by lightning. And the cloud resembled a rhino. He told his aunts and they pretended that it was an actual rhino, using that to keep him in terror.

[@fluffycloud9]

The yellow eyes could also represent the lights of a car. Rhino could = car. So maybe the parents were run over? Maybe the aunts did it

[@gwencatz2483]

I always thought the rhino was a metaphor and his parents died during a car crash in a thunderstorm, like Lilo's parents from Lilo and Stitch. Finding out it was an actual rhino feels way more brutal, lol

[@robbiewalker2831]

Actually, James’ parents were in fact eaten by a rhino; likely because the rhino was provoked at the London Zoo, which made it go on a rampage and lose sense of reasoning.

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

-Now we're lost." -"We are not lost." -"Then where are we?" -"Somewhere North...or possibly very very far South." -"What's your latitude? What's your longitude?" -"HEY AY AY! Dat's poy-sonal, bub."

[@tornadodee148]

Hahahahaha🤣

[@projectxs107]

Centipede was my favorite character in that movie lol. I hate centipedes irl though.

[@tornadodee148]

@@projectxs107 same I have Chilopodophobia too(fear of centipedes/millipedes) its all those feet that freak me out, and they squirm, and those suckers are fast!! impossible to squish. But yeah Centipede in this movie is awesome lol XD

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

Best two characters of the film.

[@josephseed9164]

"he's eating a little peach and his creepy ass aunts come up out of nowhere and squirt" -BionicPIG 2021

[@ashamed5232]

beautiful

[@ACorruptedKat]

Beautiful

[@MIGHTYMANGO69]

Time stamp?

[@movingchannels2203]

Beautiful

[@josephseed9164]

@@MIGHTYMANGO69 17:28 (sorry for being way late).

[@animaleal]

BIonicPig: the guy that show me the movies that I liked as a child are extremely sad

[@EmeeStacy]

The biggest rule of Roal Dahl stories is “it’s Roal Dahl don’t question it”

[@emeryltekutsu4357]

Roald Dahl's books are trippy. They always feel like, "And then a bunch of random stuff happened. ...The end." I know other movie adaptations of his books changed a lot of things, like "Fantastic Mr. Fox", so I wonder how true to the book this one was.

[@ZIMMOTHI]

I know this comment is two years old, but as someone who read the book in elementary school before watching the movie, it's extremely accurate besides about two scenes! I want to say it's mostly minor dialogue changes to Centipede and something pertaining to the pirate fight, but I could be wrong

[@LeNefariousLadyBones]

I had a wretched childhood in a very abusive household and this movie was everything to me. I *loved* this movie. It meant a lot to me as a kidlet. One of my all time fav movies.

[@nexus7512]

I'm glad you found comfort in this movie!! That's so sweet

[@timyuusis3372]

I wish i had this movie as a kid, maybe would have helped me

[@BOBINDUN]

Is your pfp your art? Or is it based on someone 👀

[@BTG911Turbo]

Such a goated movie so relatable smh

[@BTG911Turbo]

@Max Taelor still a work in progress but I appreciate it 💜

[@wsmith521]

The bugs are obviously adults that’s why he lives with them they’re his legal guardians now

[@dakotaneumann1259]

Thought: do the bugs only live for as Long as they normally would, or do they get human length lives? It would be rlly fuckin sad if his friends die within the next couple years

[@Tushii]

@@dakotaneumann1259 more like weeks

[@Robofrog100]

​@@dakotaneumann1259 I Presume that they have vastly extended lifesans due to the magic that made them giant sentient mutants

[@artificerdrachen6908]

The adoption agency would be really confused trying to figure out how the logistics would work for a sapient french spider woman adopting a british kid in the united states.

[@nman551]

Ooh

[@DreemyDreemz]

"Your dad didn't see that rhino coming because he had dreams" No, he didn't see the rhino coming because why tf would there be a random rhino gobbling people up?

[@burntgrahamcracker2866]

Something I never see people think about is whether the rhino is real or not I’ve always thought that James parents died in a car crash and his aunts told him the rhino story to scare him and control him, as a rhino is fast hits hard and gets rid of the body... like a car, it’s also so sudden. And really the only people that would tell James would be his aunts.

[@Hikarukun11]

@@burntgrahamcracker2866 Well in the book it's said that James's parents went to London to do some shopping, then 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. They were dead and gone in thirty-five seconds flat. So take that as you will.

[@sadboiindigogaming124]

Whoever wrote this forgot rhinos are herbivores 💀

[@Hikarukun11]

@@sadboiindigogaming124 Roald Dahl really didn't think of that one huh

[@kaiswplays05tch3]

IDK why but your conversation made me think of hippos, which can also be surprisingly aggressive and has a strong jaw force.

[@SilliesrShark109]

I remember watching this back in middle school and having to write a story about what happened afterwards after the ending of movie. I proceeded to write that the lady bug character ended up marrying and having kids with a fire fighter and now the town as a group of bug-people running around. Good times.

[@Gloss613]

ah, yesz the first furry fanfiction

[@Charles12]

@@Gloss613 more like a buggy fanfiction

[@sundere6198]

jatgp fanfiction omg

[@laraschroeder5195]

Thats the ending of the actual book… I don’t know if it was in the movie but I remember very clearly that was in the book. Did you write a story about that?

[@CheshireCad]

@@Charles12 - Exoskeletonny fanfiction

[@laurens3857]

The peach represents a nurturing environment for James and he learns lesson like trusting in friends and such to nurture the emotional side and trama of his childhood away.

[@Spinosurfer]

Beginning bit is the greatest crossover is history. No cap

[@AxxLAfriku]

Don't let this distract you from the fact that I get bullied because my classmates think my videos are the worst. Please don't agree, dear wpi

[@solemn_opossum6290]

@@AxxLAfriku your classmates are right.

[@football4life85]

@@solemn_opossum6290 straight savage!! 😂😂

[@thatblueeyedwolf]

It's gonna spill everywhere with no cap

[@muffinboio7669]

@@solemn_opossum6290 bruh they literally have 30k subs, I hate to break it to ya but i think people enjoy Axxl's content

[@STOKERMATHALLAN]

The aunts really went Pirates of the Caribbean but instead of a boat, their car was a submarine somehow. Love it

[@jackmichael2442]

To me the man selling magic bugs represented opportunity, an opportunity to change his life forever and get away from his abusive relatives. James accepting the man's offer and taking the magic bugs was his leap of faith. The sentient bugs in this movie were different odd, strange and unique people that he met after taking that opportunity, who were very different compared to the rest of society but were more of a family to James than his own. The peach was the fruit of James' choices which came with time, and him sharing it with the children to eat in the end represented sharing the same opportunity he had and the values he developed with them. Him and his new family making the pit, or "core," of the peach (the root of his opportunity, or his humble beginning) and turning it into a house with his friends represented the values and ideals that kept him and his friends together as a family from then on until the end. This is one of my favourite childhood movies, even until now.

[@Duplicitousthoughtformentity]

Excellent assessment of the symbolism in this story. I think you hit the nail on the head.

[@GodsArtGallery111]

Wonderful Job! Couldn’t have said it better myself 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@thatgrumpychick4928]

7:34 Basically that whole sentences was how my mother talked to me. "How dare you think of leaving, there's still use I can get out of you. You're lucky I put up with you because no one else will"

[@dark.faedream]

I remember loving the novel as a kid, my second grade class read the book and ended up doing a play for it. My teacher gave me the part of James, something about being a girl being able to play a boy's part was very special to me. I'm normally very shy but I really enjoyed being the lead that one time and to this day it's probably one of my favorite elementary school memories

[@artisticfruitloops5097]

This movie scared me, made me hungry for peaches,and made me want to have a spider mom

[@shirleymaemattthews4862]

bruh

[@g1r1b1og]

spider mom fetish origins story

[@conspiracypanda1200]

I mean, between her and Charlotte from Charlotte's Web I would be ok with a spider lady to gently teach me life lessons too.

[@frmad9329]

@@g1r1b1og mmmmmmmm

[@thegreatpapyrus3644]

So you want the other mother?

[@danib2389]

I loved this movie. That peach used to make my mouth water. I don’t even like peaches lol

[@anthonyrangel7239]

Same thought it's the texture I can't stand then I found out they breed peaches with an apple like texture and those I can't get enough of

[@aurorathomson2051]

I think its cause it looked like edible gooey clay and most of us were kids anyway so at least one of us wanted eat clay without it tasting bad Other than that I have no clue

[@fabplays6559]

Anthony Rangel You mean… unripe peaches?

[@anthonyrangel7239]

@@fabplays6559 no I've had unripe peaches they're not as sweet the ones I'm talking about i got at a market place on a ranch outside my city was as big as two fists put together and as sweet as a regular ripened peach but sadly can't get them anymore people got sick from the live chickens they were selling word of the wise never buy live stock unless you know what you're buying they also had fantastic horse rides but thats neither here nor there just something I liked about the place

[@GreatOldOne9866]

“They ate the peach all the way down to the pit, and the next day everybody had explosive Diarrhea.”

[@phenomcosmic450]

I always thought the rhino was a euphemism for his aunt's having murdered his parents out of nowhere

[@gavinsiville9969]

Holy crap, I can actually get behind that

[@gavinsiville9969]

Wow, that actually sounds like a good theory

[@deathhwishh3072]

I like to think that the rhino being a storm-like figure is actually a representation of how James interpreted the incident, how traumatizing it was, and the affect it had on him

[@Aaronmajowskavitz]

The rhino in the sky was so much scarier and more mysterious, thought it was like a spell the aunts cast

[@someonewhocommentsonyoutub3779]

I always interpreted it as one of two things 1. A personification of a really bad storm 2. A metaphor for death itself

[@drawnborn5896]

@@someonewhocommentsonyoutub3779 Or 3. Both. A personification of a Bad Storm *AND* a metaphor of Death itself. 😅

[@sheepy2027]

Gotta admit, you are the only youtuber that makes sponsor cuts interesting and not worth skipping

[@investdough]

If I said you were wrong I'd be lying

[@tertiaryfriend3002]

Internet Historian has some pretty interesting ads. But I enjoy Bionic Pig's too.

[@Dynoids]

Him and Noodle

[@Zangetsu_999]

Beatemups too

[@SleepParalysisMoth]

Pyrocynicals are... interesting

[@critterball2614]

The fact that the movie has a bunch of bugs, and Pig keeps saying "ants" and not "aunts" is both endearing and confusing

[@idkwhatislife7120]

I mean... Ants and aunts soind almost the same in my family, took me a while to pronounce the u, so matbe thats how his family is

[@flurderburger]

Some people don't pronounce aunt as "ahnt". I've personally always pronounced it "ant". Might be a Midwest thing.

[@taurusnamedjade]

6:19

[@peje6564]

Im from the east coast and that's how we pronounce it

[@penntopaper9305]

saying it like "ant" is the general american pronunciation

[@gothicbatqueen]

The message about cutting out toxicity in your life cuts deep with me, I am sadly in a family full of it. I am hoping that soon I can get out of it, but until then I will just need to keep moving on. by the way great video Bionic like always!

[@LygerGaming]

So much symbolism to appreciate as an adult, as well as the nostalgia of the film as a whole is a great experience.

[@pipparice2043]

My tiny child brain never realised that the spider-lady is the spider that James saves in the beginning 🥴😂 12:31

[@gorehammer42o]

Miss Spider

[@musicbox193]

He even says so at one point

[@arianabell9351]

That’s why she knows his name. Cuz he never stopped telling her it. 😂

[@princeOpalite3650]

I mean i also didnt notice but it was because i was to busy crushing on her...she is the only reason i dont have arachniphobia any more...technicly

[@arianabell9351]

@@princeOpalite3650 she’s is one of many reasons why I have a respect for spiders even though some scare me. Also she is just the best bug.

[@rikmcdik6662]

“They can eat the crap out of the inside of the peach” The crap you say?

[@emmadobbins694]

I guess it sorta makes sense, I mean, bugs...?

[@rikmcdik6662]

@@emmadobbins694 bugs do have quite the palate

[@apersonwithastockimage6289]

yes

[@nodesire9291]

the dream/nightmare scene TRAMATISED ME. so upsetting

[@cbennett7480]

dude, the thing that traumatized ME was at the very end, after the credits roll is this INCREDIBLY unsettling old carny boardwalk style game that had creepy dolls of the aunts tied up and the black rhino head butting them (a la that old school robot boxing ring game) till the rhino "won" and all while this is being played by unseen hands and creepy music playing. It felt like an unbelivable nightmare seeing that on the VHS tape as a little kid in the 90's. (link to the bit for those interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaireYSrjd6ei7M )

[@nodesire9291]

@@cbennett7480 honestly this whole movie traumatized me as a child. the worm and the centipede had upsetting designs. the others were fine though. I think it was the worm's lack of eyes and the centipede having a combo of horn things AND antennae.

[@LemonyLamb]

Tunnel in the peach- There is so much innuendo I’m seeing that doesn’t exist and I feel terrible for it

[@pumkin610]

It probably does exist I mean disney of all the companies thought it was okay to put an eggplant on the cover of a movie but it wasn't an eggplant

[@viyhexe131]

2:37 Why yes, The BFG is really good. In fact it's so good it can wipe out an entire room full of zombies with a single shot!

[@realmalphaofficial5966]

More like demons but good point

[@viyhexe131]

@@realmalphaofficial5966 I consider the possessed zombies. And that first shot you take into a crowd of them is a highlight of the whole damn game

[@realmalphaofficial5966]

@@viyhexe131 ah I remember that part wouldn't call it the highlight I would say the cyberdemon boss was but that's just my opinion

[@robbietheweirdo]

But the sad thing is they changed the ending in the book he stayed in London and learnt proper English. and the evil giants became a tourist attraction and due to drunkards falling in they put up a sign saying "do not feed the giants" and it implies at the end that the BFG wrote the book.

[@storminajar]

The story perfectly reflects the peach itself. A peach pit is toxic to people to consume, but James takes something toxic and uses it to create something beneficial. And he surround himself with things that are sweet and good for him like the flesh of a peach. EDIT: OMG thank you guys for all the likes, my phone blew uuuuuup

[@anthonyrangel7239]

The sweetness of this comment is so pure I think I'm going into a sugar induced coma

[@nerathechildoflight9974]

Hate when people make a nice comment and then fucking go “OMG THANKS FOR THE LIKES GUYS!!!1111!!1”

[@princevegeta7487]

@@nerathechildoflight9974 yeah me too its annoying asf

[@jarenwhite9845]

Bruh, I watched this movie when I was like in 5th grade.. holy shit, time flies.

[@kapqosmoviecorner8741]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5W8aYqfiZ6CbLs

[@Airi61]

I honestly wanna see BionicPig’s little summary/review of Meet the Robinsons, I love that movie and the message.

[@tomlinson1710]

Me too

[@GirlYouDontKnow-rx3lm]

When I was little, I was terrified of Claymation films like Chicken Run and The Nightmare Before Christmas. But strangely, this movie never scared me as a child. I loved it! And I still do: I read the book when I got older, and it's just as enjoyable as the film. Awesome video as always, BP!

[@Lucy34277]

It didn’t scare me as a child but it does now 😅 the bugs look so creepy

[@melissacooper8724]

Were you scared of claymation shows like Gumby and Davey and Goliath?

[@mckenzie.latham91]

the centipede being voiced by Richard Dreyfus, the earthworm being voice by David thewlis, and Spider being voiced by susan sarandon was trippy for me.

[@IncorrectHB]

The centipede was always my favorite for some reason I deadass never realized that James' parents were actually killed by a rhino. I thought the rhino was literally just there. I sucked at details as a kid

[@schawangus]

The only part I didn’t like as a kid was that 2D dream sequence and the aunts. I think the two things I liked the most were Jack Skellington’s appearance.... and I was a bit down bad for the spider when I was little. Edit: okay, I don’t care about likes. I just wanna say one thing. After a rewatch of the film, I can say for absolute certain that YES! I fucking love Miss Spider. She’s sweet and motherly, and yes… hot I guess. Idk there’s no real way to say it without it being weird, but you know what I mean. And because someone else asked, yes. She’s for sure one of the characters that formed my love of goth girls.

[@NobodyM.D]

I actually scrolled pretty far through the comments just to find someone who felt that way about the spider. FML

[@cursed-cat9126]

When I was a kid the spider gave me big mommy vibes, and I think I kind of wanted the spider to be my mom.

[@smusky4643]

You must really like Elise from League of Legends...

[@llama4president195]

Same here 😂 I used to have the fattest crush on miss spider

[@steampunkemo9211]

Oml I'm not alone about the spider??

[@roboticgamer8273]

I remember watching this as a kid and the rhino cloud thing that “ate” his parents disturbed me

[@irvinalexanderflores]

Oh definitely thats like the only part that stayed fresh in my mind since the last time i saw this film.. like 15 years ago.

[@kingradley3413]

I’ve always really liked the spider. It’s really cute that, despite being a spider, she’s portrayed as being really sweet and nice. Also, I had a weird low key crush on her as a kid. Still do. That voice just does things to me.

[@deejayf69]

"he made BFG" Oh so that's the guy who made the big fcking gun from DOOM

[@tiara3808]

YES, THISSSS MOVIE WAS MY CHILDHOOD

[@kapqosmoviecorner8741]

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[@thomasramirez5132]

Same here, I love it

[@kapqosmoviecorner8741]

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[@templeknight9338]

Same I used to watch it at least once a week!

[@Bone_Chaser]

Yeah I watched this quite a bit

[@butcherpete2286]

I'm glad to see I wasn't the only person that seemed to watch this movie religiously specifically at their grandma's house lol

[@brendanbetts5650]

You too

[@smilesface3741]

I watched it once and the movie just disappeared. I still remember the caterpillar. Quite disturbing.

[@madison4968]

The book is really similar to the movie oddly enough, tho the aunts straight get killed by the rolling peach in the book

[@DeviantYoshie]

the centipede was always my favorite character as a child. still is.

[@bb-ih9hg]

I love this movie so much. A lot of nostalgia. But it's one of the best 'found family' stories with healthy family dynamics.

[@MakayKakescupcakes]

I remember only being confused about one part of this movie: when they were underwater, but were able to speak with no problem and gravity seemed to be almost the same even though they were under water

[@Jackson._Euph3879]

As a kid this did actually scare me especially when he went into the peach so disturbing

[@triggeredcat120]

I loved Roald Dahl’s books. And I loved this movie as a kid.

[@TheMorbidHobbiest]

I always thought that his parents were hit by a train, and the rino was just the nightmare form his mind gave it. That's why it was surrounded by smoke/steam/clouds. And bodies are pretty destroyed by trains, so no open casket; to a kid that means no bodies. Why no bodies? Because the rino ate them. I also thought that the ending implied that the aunts were the monsters that James faced on the way. The centipede always creeper me out, too.

[@sS0O0L]

that dream sequence reminded me a lot of that angela anaconda show, which freaked me out so much for how creepy it was. It is a pretty creative way how they keep changing from animation to live action, and how the animation also changes it's style depending on the feeling they want to pass, but still creepy

[@wolfidessdragondol]

I honestly thought this movie was a terrifying fever dream for a few years as a child because I didn't think what I watched was actually a thing.

[@bohrokgaming5770]

despite being Bionic, he has yet to do the Bionicle movies. absolute childhood classics

[@purpledragon1945]

Let's take a closer look at those falls

[@ms.yawhaw8831]

The 2 aunt actors did a really great job to act as one of the most greedy aunts

[@williamhanekom9882]

Funny enough. I always had a feeling that the rhino was a story made by the aunts to control James and that they were the ones who actually murdered his parents. The idea of a carnivorous rhino sounds preposterous enough, but considering how the dream closely associates the aunts and the rhino as this symbiotic evil, it kind of makes sense that they'd use that idea to keep him from running away. So when James lands in the city and has already conquered the fear his aunts put in him, they resort to physical violence...only to be met by their own fears coming out to fight for James in the form of his giant insect friends. Thats my theory on it anyway.

[@eggalytheegg5567]

in the book the rhino is just a rhino the broke out of the zoo and ate his parents. also the aunts are crushed by the peach and die early on.

[@WC3fanatic997]

I remember reading this in 3rd(?) grade. I was enamored with Miss Spider. Saw the movie later and loved her even more, especially her design; the snazzy little Beret, the seductive voice with a French accent, the thigh-high boots, those weird little eyes she has, genuine femininity mixed with a dark, mysterious, lonely allure . . . I think she did something to me during my development but I haven't been able to properly place it yet.

[@dumbgeniusesfilmpodcast8879]

Why does every roalh Dalh movie has to be so traumatizing

[@g1r1b1og]

bro he's some kind of genius

[@dumbgeniusesfilmpodcast8879]

@@g1r1b1og I know this guy hates kids

[@douchopotamus3755]

Roald Dahl wanted kids to be able to deal with actual trauma in their lives. It's important to be able to address the feelings presented in his books.

[@jackmarshall3255]

This movie scared me when I was a kid I don't know why but it did.

[@jtberry9058]

The centipede’s part at the beginning of “That’s The Life For Me” is so. Fuckin. Fantastic. I always forget how outstanding this movie is.

[@maya6304]

The bugs were so fun in this movie. They all had chemistry and played off each other very well, especially when interacting with the centipede. I loved the part at the end where we get a "where are they now" thing, because it makes so much sense.

[@kirikakirikakirika]

After slipping out of Miss Spider's webs and suffering a humiliating defeat, Aunt Sponge reflected on her life choices. She realised what a horrible person she was and apologised to James. In an attempt to make up for past sins, she took up herbology--in honour of the peach that sprouted her epiphany--and devoted her life to teaching children the importance of environmentalism. After earning her professorship, she moved back to England, changed her name, and became the renowned Head Herbology at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

[@fightingfaerie]

Oh shit, I didn't even realize, but now I see it its so obvious lol

[@saycandace1341]

Didn't she died in the original book tho.

[@douglasnewdell]

@@saycandace1341 Aunt was sent to hell and was forced to teach kids about magic plants instead.

[@CallMeSheyzie]

In retrospect I can see why I LOVED this movie so much as a child (and still do). I could definitely relate to Jame's death-anxiety (even as a kid I interpreted the rhino as a metaphor for his parent's death - like his parents died in a car crash or something and the rhino was either a story James told himself to make sense of their death, or it was made up by his aunts in order to scare him). My mum would threaten that the universe would kill her if I misbehaved (she would fake heart-attacks when she knew I was lying to her), and today I still am terrified of dying or ppl I love dying because of me... seeing James confront the Rhino before plummeting to the ground at the end of the movie really goes hard for me. I hope one day, I also won't be afraid!

[@bluubandette8871]

I thought they were fr about the rhino eating ppl. As kid, I went along with the book and the movie but your perspective makes more sense^^

[@fluffycloud9]

I thought every mom did that…?

[@footh1013]

This movie used to scare the crap out of me, especially the centipede guy and the rhino. I still watched this movie multiple times as a kid, though

[@MariktheGunslinger]

I always watched a tape of this movie on my parents' camcorder whenever we went on long roadtrips. It was so comforting. I never realized until now that it was about overcoming fear and escaping a toxic situation. Even if it's simple and whimsical, the imagination on display helps the message land.

[@dadenelson7570]

That jack in the boat isn't even just a reference, it's one of the same physical models they used for nightmare

[@rebbekahcannons9805]

I watched this again recently and it made me feel as uncomfortable and weird as it did in the late 90s when I last watched it in hospital. I recall it feeling old in style sorta cloudy and thinking it was just my memory but nope it looked exactly the same. Nearing my 30's and I am still terrified of this movie.

[@notateendemon]

It's been like 10 years or something. But in elementary school when my teacher read the book to us, the robot shark was actually just a bunch of normal sharks trying to eat the peach and just sink them in the ocean.

[@rishikabhalwal1869]

His frustration while talking to a charachter he created is something I resonate with

[@noizetv4240]

Reminder, Bionic is married. Someone has to deal with this on a daily basis. God bless her.

[@tonymontes4778]

Sounds like fun...

[@matthewmccartney]

I’m jealous 😰

[@apexfenix9623]

Ugh wish it could be me....cuddle that homie all NIGHT 🥰🥰

[@leeshioliii3313]

Fun fact: that is actually jack skellingtons head. It was an intended reference

[@daisywaisywoo]

I watched this movie when I was like 9, so I was old enough that I understood all the implications and metaphors but young enough that those implications scared me, and it rlly stuck with me. Even now it makes me feel just slightly sick, but I still always loved it despite all of that- maybe even because of it idk

[@aboringredmop]

I read the book WAY before I watched the movie, or even heard of it, and when I saw the insects (who I absolutely adored as a child) I had nightmares for weeks

[@bquncy550]

“Raald Daal” Great pronunciation. Extraordinary, and not at all butchered.

[@Anrd0meda]

Theory; James got caught eating the peach and gets beaten so badly he dies and the entire rest of the movie is his journey into the afterlife

[@justalittleblue9228]

Dark

[@irvinalexanderflores]

Yeah then the end when his aunts find him means they eventually died and went to the afterlife too but getting wrapped up by the spider symbolized them being judged and sent to hell unlike james unlike james who ended up in heaven or something like that idk lol

[@nexus7512]

Can't it just be a movie about a kid that makes friends with giant bugs? Is that so much to ask?

[@pixiestxNyomouf]

@@nexus7512 literally none of the world's best stories and tales are actually innocent and pure. I blame Disney

[@flying-magpie]

Ah yes, the "They were dead all along" theory. Haven't seen that one before.

[@SolisFactor]

Roland Tembo from The Lost World giving James magic bugs is an image that's been engrained in my mind forever.

[@jng5252]

How the hell did I not remember a single thing from this. I loved Roald Dahl as a kid, and I definitely read James and the Giant Peach. This entire story is a goddamn acid trip, how did I remember none of it.

[@FrancisR420]

This was one of those movies that was extremely interesting to watch but left me very depressed.

[@bananabandit2007]

Yeah when I woke up today I didn’t think I would be called thicc by a guy talking to his multiple personalities

[@RisingRevengeance]

I watched it in first grade and had many trippy dreams afterwards. As I grew up I thought about it but never remembered the name, so I basically gaslighted myself into thinking it must've been a real dumb dream.

[@morgantrousdale2322]

I totally forgot about this movie, I grew up with this movie, as a kid I don't think I realized just how dark and absolutely weird it was especially that dream sequence gave me nightmares man.aldo btw Love you're videos dude They never fail to make me laugh, and I love you're fallen pine music I listen to it everyday👍. That opening skit was gold

[@marcellinabennett8515]

I have come back to watch this again like three times just for the intro with all of the characters interacting. It's amazing.

[@declanfeeney5354]

this movie had a genuinely sweet message, i'm glad you expanded more on that towards the end :)

[@megharoni]

This movie creeped me out as a kid. I haaated it. It was one of the movies they'd always try to put on at the end of the year on the last day of school and UGH I just couldn't stand its grotesque imagery. Still can't. I will never watch this movie again.

[@randomdaydreamer9970]

I remember this movie, it's kind of nostalgic looking back on it. I don't know how I just kinda accepted that the aunts drove through the ocean in their messed up car, that literally makes zero sense how did I just accept that part as a kid? There's so many other things that I just kind of accepted as a kid but looking back on them they just confuse me. Honestly though this movie was legitimately good and very unique compared to most other kids movies.

[@luci_datum]

How dare you, I was considering rewatching it and this brought up such horrid memories that I had suppressed as a child This is why I love this channel

[@emmadobbins694]

I feel this- I had forgotten (repressed, stuffed down?) the scene in The Brave Little Toaster with the fireman-clown. I thought Tim Curry's "IT" was what made clowns so terrifying for me, but I had a visceral reaction to seeing the evil fire-clown again for the first time in years. It absolutely brought back the carnal fear you feel as a child; I ended up throwing my phone, totally out of a caveman fight or flight response. Suffice it to say, I have a new phone now.

[@miengu7005]

it's so ironic that James and The Giant Peach has a more child-friendly plotline and story compared to Coraline, but it has a more nightmare-ish visuals and cinematics than the latter.

[@Charles12]

That's Roald Dahl in a nutshell, kid friendly ideas with creepy ass execution.