why did anyone let their kids watch James and the Giant Peach??

[@Goleon]

Whoever did the makeup for the aunts needs an award.

[@taylorludwig32]

They grossed me out sooo much watching this as a kid! Lol

[@Confuzedturtleproject]

They did get an award lol

[@Goleon]

@@Confuzedturtleproject - Really? Was it for makeup or special effects? Cause those are two separate things.

[@weldonwin]

Also, Aunt Spiker is played by the legendary Joanna Lumley

[@allyburnett3315]

The taller aunt is the evil step mother in Ella Enchanted 😂😂 that's soooo funny. Always mean lol

[@hjt091]

3:25 If you're wondering why Dahl's children are all plucky heroes and his adults are negligent monsters, he went to an English boarding school in the 1920s. that really does explain everything

[@SofieCarmine]

😮 it all makes sense now

[@kirakiralyra5287]

😲it all makes sense

[@noahartis1377]

Ah, say no more

[@Scarshadow666]

Yep, it explains a lot! Most kids back then probably had to deal with being beaten on a regular basis (oof)... 0_0

[@Arthas30000]

Omg this makes SO MUCH SENSE

[@freitasgst]

I always thought that the rhino death part was something that James' brain translated to him because the real reason was too complex for a kid to understand. Like, as if Rhino is the name of some brand that makes machines or whatever and he understood as and imagined the animal cuz he is a kid and that's what he knows.

[@Little_shop_by_the_sea]

This is actually a great theory

[@liamwarner5749]

I admit when i first saw this I thought the Rhino was going to turn out to be Aunt Sponge

[@FF-tp7qs]

In the book it was a rhino escaped from the zoo that ate his parents, but I always had the theory that this was a lie his aunts told him because a rhino might gore you or trample you to death but they don't eat meat.

[@_namasteshay]

I always thought it was a storm that he manifested as a rhino because of the way they portray it in the movie it looks like a storm, but I have always been confused what it was actually supposed to mean.

[@anerrorhasoccurred8727]

Ironically, I always thought it was a way to make the death of James’ parents _less_ scary bc no child is seriously going to worry about their parents being eaten by a rhino. Until the movie turned it into a goddamn demon anyway.

[@JJ-gr9yz]

As a kid who was growing up in an abusive home with an addict Father, and no access to outside help, stories like James and the Giant Peach saved my life as a child. The story taught me that you can grow in a place, amongst people who do not value you, love you, or protect you, and still break free. That I could find a place, one day, around people who heard me and saw me and cared about me, and that we can build our own idea of family. And that even though nobody else may believe in me, that I could face scary, real things and survive them. The overarching theme of JatGP is that it is never too late to find friendship, love, and family, no matter how unworthy of these things you've been made to feel by others. All of RD's books focus on themes of fear, loss, abuse, hopelessness....and then finding your own joy and peace on the other side of them. While it would be wonderful if no child could ever relate to these themes, the reality is books and films like these are super important for the kids (and adults) who can. I dreampt of getting swept into a giant peach; I still do at 37 years old.

[@veronicarodriguez1751]

I'm proud of you for choosing to go so far in life! Your incredibly strong, and rather beautiful ^^

[@veronicarodriguez1751]

beautiful (I don't need to see you to know this)*

[@KelilaBennet]

I hope you found your people and are loved. 💜

[@LaurettaOladiji-ro1tl]

Wow you are so strong

[@LaurettaOladiji-ro1tl]

@@KelilaBennet I really wish he does

[@anerrorhasoccurred8727]

This was a _huge_ comfort movie for me when I was younger, and if that doesn’t paint a picture of the type of kid I was then idk what does 💀

[@sammiwhite9575]

Same, 7 year old me loved it 😭

[@snausages43]

Same. I had movies that scared me, but this wasn’t one of them.

[@Radechanicalarsonist]

SAME

[@mavortius8768]

I never really thought of it before but it kind of makes me think about how those comfort movies we watched on repeat as kids shape us. I can't help but wonder if my path to working in software development started with me repeatedly rewatching sci-fi and techy stuff excessively as a little kid. The ones I remember watching the most were Short Circuit 1 and 2, The Last Starfighter, and Flight of the Navigator. That line of thinking though is now making me worry about my nephew that seemed to be always watching the Minions movie for about a year.

[@caramelgirl6962]

ikr, same. it was just wierd but not in a way that hurt the little me, it has comfort and warmth somehow i loved EPIC 2014 too

[@trinaq]

I love how it blended live action with stop motion animation, which really holds up for 1996.

[@SocialExperiment232]

Exactly! It really still looks good unlike cgi which would have looked terrible. I love this movie.

[@RP-mp4ow]

Dude. I remember dying from wanting to see this as a kid- from the adverts. Watching this video and seeing the aesthetic is one of the few times where I feel like I can high five my younger self for good tastes. The visuals are beautiful and nightmarish.

[@AlyxAesthetics]

​@nitely2345 they actually did use cgi for the shark

[@amanda-leemarie87]

This movie definitely scarred me as a kid. That rhino was terrifying when I was 8

[@trinaq]

Agreed, it was only the opening scene, yet it definitely made an impression.

[@FTChomp9980]

I wasn't scared of the Rhino as a kid no wonder what I was scared of as a kid: Oompa Loompas! Even the remake of Tim Burton when I was a kid I scared of that to.

[@Sedfee]

I used to think the rhino was ho-

[@randomdude8790]

@@FTChomp9980 THANK YOU! I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS TERRIFIED OF WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY!

[@vinvin4931]

Every time it came in the move I ran away, so scary

[@n4musica]

Did anyone else think the peach looked SOOO good as a kid? It gave me unrealistic expectations for peaches

[@nicoledoubleyou]

Right and turns out real peaches kind of suck. Yeah I'm saying it.

[@gaburierusan8179]

@@nicoledoubleyou are you guys joking or haven't tried a real.peach. The peachyin my country are fk dealicous and we have like 5 different types of peaches. Can wait for summer just to eat some more peaches

[@sandymakesplans]

no i never liked peaches. maybe i was fed overripe ones because they were hella slimy.

[@futurevegan8617]

If you don't like peaches, then you just haven't had a good peach.

[@Schnipps]

@@futurevegan8617 or i just don't like peaches. not everyone likes the same stuff lol

[@Pretty_Mess]

This was one of my favorite movies as a kid and I never questioned how the aunts drove across the ocean either. 😅

[@sassycourt25]

this movie is in such a niche genre. It's like on the line of looking like claymation and computer animation and they're so creepy 😭. They always have the most wild storylines too. Coraline, The Box Trolls, Dogs, and Kubo definitely fall in this genre too.

[@novocaine09]

What is Dogs? I can't find anything about it

[@afriendofepicproportions]

Isle of Dogs I think he means@@novocaine09

[@lfc_szn4274]

@@novocaine09think it was isle of dogs

[@novocaine09]

@@lfc_szn4274 I found it looking up that name. Thank you!

[@The1Dragonprincess]

And Paranorman

[@thatguy1651]

James and the giant peach was an actual fever dream.

[@SofieCarmine]

Lol

[@samanthaaiello]

Ok the Rhino was one thing, but the truly scary part was the aunts arriving in New York. That scared the life out of me as a kid. Their bodies moved and looked like zombies.

[@rubynall80]

As they should, seeing as they're supposed to be dead 😋.

[@CrêpesSuzette-u8b]

same

[@NoriMori1992]

For real. Honestly it's their water-logged, partly crushed car pulling up, and the sound it makes, that really freaks me out.

[@dalime605]

even as a kid i was like, ".........you drove a smashed car across the atlantic to NY."

[@Spacen1213]

A bit late for a response maybe on the live action bit at the end the were reanimated by the green bug things. Food for thought .

[@nadine101ify]

James and the Giant Peach probably stuck with the most but I swear its the most obscure fever dream of a movie I ever watched as a kid lol

[@SofieCarmine]

Yup lol

[@Jenny-if7kx]

You should watch Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure. That movie made me feel like I was on acid before I knew what being on acid was like.

[@xKiittyWhitex]

So true, the other one that gave me that vibe was Labyrinth, hot damn.

[@alvafairchild13]

Its ironic that a company that makes money off of terrifiying children would be upset with having that pointed out.

[@BabyBearTv]

6:56 oh my god he's going back up the woooomb😂😂

[@robbiewalker2831]

Maybe that’s the rebirth that the movie was talking about. James the Coward is dead, and James the Courageous is born.

[@Seriouspugfellow]

James and the doing back up

[@madison12456]

The last Unicorn is another children's movie that absolutely terrified me when i was a kid. Would love to see that review.

[@mongoosedaloaf4100]

I still have that film somewhere, I loved it but there where some unsettling bits

[@zefiro6829]

Oh, God; not the tree!

[@HellStitcher]

I mean, valid?

[@kjb379]

Not the giant, nightmarish, flaming red bull! That whole movie unsettled me the older I got.

[@sugamamasbabycrow4957]

I adore that movie but the bird and witch lady freaked me out 😭

[@emilythecrazedanimefan3664]

As bizarre as Roald Dahl stories are, they actually helped me through a lot of tough times as a kid, specifically Matilda (Harry Potter was a big part of this as well). I was bullied a lot as a kid, and there were a lot of fights going on at home, so the idea of something miraculous happening to me that would change everything just sounded amazing. The thought that I would wake up one day and everything would somehow be okay, really kept me going through the years. Even if they don't hold up as much these days, I will never view these books/movies with anything but fondness.

[@isw_1214]

I know what you mean. Even before I fully processed that I was experiencing emotional and verbal abuse at home and that it wasn't ok because to me it was "normal", Harry's muggle upbringing really resonated with me. A few years later I did end up going to boarding school and the parallel with Hogwarts as a temporary escape was such a comfort.

[@FrostedOven]

Your parents let you read harry potter, mine didn't I had fighting and what-not at my house too but if anything was slightly "too against god" than i couldn't do it. Like harry Potter I wasn't allowed to read, I wasn't allowed to play chutes and Latters for some reason, and as Minecraft came out and as all my friends played that I couldn't.

[@shylizard47]

Same, this movie and Charlie and the Chocolate factory (2005)

[@blueblack3591]

I am happy it helped you guys

[@JSainte17]

I hate seeing that "sensitivity readers" were hired to read his works and replace or remove words like "fat" or "crazy". It's INSANE (another word they wouldn't allow) to me that they are allowed to change his work.

[@xo-wawie-xo]

After expecting the death of the parents I was not prepared for just hearing the narrator say with 100% seriousness “an angry rhinoceros appeared out of nowhere and gobbled up his poor mother and father” I lost it

[@LeoDBW]

In my language, that line was way more terrifying because he said something more like "One day, this dangerous creature came from a storm, a dark rhinoceros, and devoured his parents! Their suffering barely lasted half a second"

[@SakuraLuckyStar]

In the book they’re eaten by an actual Rhinoceros that escaped from the zoo. Also just before James and Co escape in the peach the Aunts are talking about how they hope he fell over and broke his neck

[@Flower-ix7vq]

@@SakuraLuckyStarI always thought the rhino was a metaphor for a storm that killed his parents (like a tornado that “gobbled them up)

[@SakuraLuckyStar]

@@Flower-ix7vq I'm unsure what the film's intentions were (you're probably right) but yeah, in the book the Rhinoceros is much more literal

[@me5197]

5:20 direct quote from the book, I'm not joking, the man says: "Come closer little boy, and I will show you something wonderfull"

[@wasellc8888]

ah, yes, perfect for a children's book

[@ourochroma]

nothing sus here

[@bluebunanimates6590]

I was reading the book in the library where I work, and I snickered when I read that line

[@Concept_Dud3]

When I was younger the peach made me crave one every time I watched it , but every time I had one I was disappointed 😂

[@mariaah3073]

I was OBSESSED with this movie as a kid. Terrified, of course, but also completely obsessed. To this day it's still very comforting to me, even if it remains deeply unsettling as well lol

[@SofieCarmine]

Same lol

[@flawedsanity]

Same here, I dunno what it is about it lol

[@mswesbaker]

same

[@baieeleaf]

That’s how I feel about nightmare before Christmas!! I’ve never seen this movie tbh but I get it 🖤

[@WildRabiea]

I have never heard or seen this story before and as an adult I'm very confused 😅

[@EChacon]

Interestingly, _James and the Giant Peach_ was my first stop motion film I watched, prior before watching _"The Nightmare Before Christmas"_ and the funny thing is at the time when I first watched this film It didn't occurred to me that the Pirate Captain that kidnapped Mr. Centipede was Jack Skellington, so when I re-watched the film for the second time years later after seeing _The Nightmare Before Christmas_ for the first time ever, I said to myself, _"Hey that Pirate Captain looks like Jack Skellington._ Even Jack Skellington wasn't the only Disney cameo, cause Donald Duck himself also appears in this film as a Skeleton Pirate. Finally, this film was my introduction to Roald Dahl, however when I was a Kid when I first watched _James and the Giant Peach_ I wasn't to familiar with Roald Dahl nor did I realize that this along with the film adaptations of _Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,_ _The Witches_ from 1990 (starring Angelica Huston) and _Matilda_ were also books and also by the author, Roald Dahl. So it wasn't until the 3rd/4th grade during Elementary School years later when our class read The BFG and James and the Giant Peach where I became familiar with Roald Dahl as an author and that both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, James And the Giant Peach, The BFG, The Witches, The Twits, Fantastic Mr. Fox and his various children's books he's written were done by the same person.

[@ptolemeeselenion1542]

Ah.

[@notoriousthug121]

I ain’t reading alat

[@eshbena]

And the thing is... even after he wrote all those books, no one thought to intervene and get that poor man some help.

[@UnprofessionalProfessor]

An enthralling tale; surely worthy of a retelling, someday!

[@RHouseThreat]

It's crazy how me and many other 90's kids would watch so many effed up movies and shows and didn't even bat an eye. I remember watching this movie in theaters when it came out and I loved it. I even slept like a baby that night. No traumas :) But now that I watch this video, I wonder how I didn't get more scared.

[@wiplash123987]

I mean I grew up watching Rocko's Modern Life and that isnt really something for kids being so f'd up but was my favorite cartoon as a kid along with tmnt. Thats the thing with being a 90s kid. It was weird but it might just have been the best all around fun decade. We didnt give a crap. We grew up with Saturday Morning cartoons, arcades, and roller rinks. Hell most of the shows we watched was filled with induendos and looking back, still a good time.

[@NoriMori1992]

Same, I watched this movie tons as a kid and I don't recall any problems from it. I wish we had more kids movies like this nowadays! Not that we don't have any kids movies with dark stuff, but it's not quite the same _type_ of dark or scary (or outright creepy), and it's not the same level of "why did parents let their kids watch this".

[@At_Amsterdam]

Same lol. I watched James and the Giant Peach like a million times as a kid and loved the world/characters. Slept like a baby every night

[@pikapi7429]

Did you watch courage the cowardly dog? If so that show made you have no fear

[@encycl07pedia-]

The Great Mouse Detective (basically anything with the bat or Ratigan) and Dumbo's "Elephants on Parade" were pure nightmare fuel (not the 90s, but that's when I watched them). I only watched TGMD a few times but I had to skip the first part until after the dad mouse was kidnapped. I'm not sure if it's good to be exposed to stuff like that as a kid, but kid's programming seems to have gotten much, much worse even if it's not scary in the slightest.

[@theycallmetundraboy]

I haven't thought about this movie since I was scarred by it as a child, and just seeing that clip of the rhinoceros running brought me Vietnam flashbacks. Literally my heart started racing.

[@me5197]

11:30 there was a part in the book where they see the peach in the sky and call the president who answers in his pajamas while eating cereal

[@Gabe4223.]

I love the stop motion animation style that goes kind of under the radar nowadays

[@carter_lovejoy]

Stop motion animation and traditional animation need to be utilized more. CG animation is super overused these days.

[@FTChomp9980]

I feel like every 90s/2000s kid grew up with Stop Motion heck even I and I'm very talented in doin Stop Motion since I still love the the style it's very underrated nowadays.

[@eliroland6373]

I know I think the best animation style is stop motion

[@johnschwalb]

Its not under the radar, its just so expensive and cgi has gotten so good and cheap people think the lego movies are stop motion.

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

It is one of the best styles of animation that doesn't involve paper

[@beauty.001]

I was obsessed with this movie as a child I'm pretty sure I watched it 50+ times

[@footballcatsmiley]

same!!!

[@zbr76]

50+ times? Ha, I wore the tape out!

[@beauty.001]

@zbr76 it's probably more than that lmao it was like the only thing I would watch

[@taylorludwig32]

Same!! I loved it!

[@AvaNetDeer]

I still love it

[@brandonspain12345]

Hell yeah! I loved this movie as a kid. I wasn't scared by it as a kid since I was already exposed to The Dark Crystal, Beetlejuice and such, but this was a movie I would love to watch religiously as a kid, and especially near the fall season, so it does hold a special place in my heart. And I would even go as far to say it's an extremely underrated gem of 90s Disney movies and stop motion movies in general. Oh, sidenote, wanna know how James's parents were killed in the book? They were taking James to the zoo and a rhino broke out of it's cage and ate them. And no, it doesn't even appear in the rest of the story. it's somehow more jarring than the movie because rhinos aren't carnivores. How the peach lands in NYC Is by the military. (Like how they did in Nightmare Before Christmas.) But there were no villains or any risks during their journey at the end so the movie benefited this with a real antagonist to create conflict. I always interpret the rhino as a manifestation of James's fear that the aunts made up and perhaps his parents died in an accident or whatever, and since then, James was always haunted by this entity since then until he learns to stand up to his literal childhood trauma.

[@WolfmanArt]

Now that you mention it, the Dursleys do feel like characters from a Roald Dahl story

[@SocialExperiment232]

These kind of movies always hurt the most as adults cause you look back at the kid you were as that time that related to how these kids were treated, with adults not just being abusive but down right went out of their way to humiliate you, and you feel so bad for how helpless you were. I love this movie. It hurts to watch the older I get but I still like to go back to it every now and then. I love Roahl Dahl books overall.

[@laurenwilson9383]

I'm pretty sure the reason I loved it so much as a kid was because of how much I related to James, and as an adult now it is so sad rewatching it and realizing how much the adults in my life failed me.

[@riibon4701]

James and the Giant Peach was my favourite movie as a kid! The animation really appealed to me. Didn't even know it was a Tim Burton movie but I get that explains a lot lol

[@boomboom1139]

Henry selick* movie. Just like the nightmare before Christmas and coralline. Alex even said it at the beginning of the video. Tim Burton unfairly gets all the praise.

[@riibon4701]

@@boomboom1139 Sorry, my bad!

[@afoolishfopdoodle3284]

I don't know about anyone else, but the scenes with the shark and the pirates scared the shit out of me as a child, and they haunt me to this day.

[@karma8395]

Same! I legit got nightmares from this movie… of that damned peach…

[@shereenanajwa1149]

samee and it stuck with me until now

[@fallenlotus9572]

Aunt Spike and Sponge in James dream sequence gave me nightmares as a kid. That part was pretty bizarre but the art style looks badass.

[@Stacysrevenge-dq5m]

I watched this when I was like five and I always knew I’d seen the pirates before but I could never remember I now realise it was jack goddam skeleton

[@lelelew2735]

The whole movie is a nightmare fr

[@Mx.muffin]

I love this movie! It's a big comfort movie for me, and I also love the designs of the bugs tbh. I also just really love Roald Dahl's books. But if you thought this movie was kinda scary, wait til you get to "The Witches"

[@thelonesage3146]

I still got that "we're family song" stuck in my head. Was this movie weird yes? But is it classic yes! Movies like this made me like that stop motion claymation style. Such as chicken run, Wallace and grommet, Carlin, nightmare before Christmas etc(clay fighters). It was fun being a kid in the 90s.

[@susantherestorer]

Fun fact: Chicken Run and Wallace And Gromit were both actual stop-motion clay animation movies .

[@remyhatfield3066]

Damn reading we’re family gave me chills and activated me ❤❤❤

[@filipimelo1284]

I clicked on this video faster than I ran away from the TV when I first watched that movie.

[@Ari_Beauty17]

LMAO SAME 😭

[@ashleyhawthorn6010]

Same

[@ImAnnabelle_8D]

YUP

[@taylorl9263]

I was one of the aunts in the musical and it’s definitely the most fever-dream nightmare inducing thing ever but I‘ve never had so much fun doing a show lmao

[@taylorl9263]

Oh yeah - the end of the musical has the part where the aunts got crushed by the peach (and all the awful sound effects from the movie are in the musical too lol)

[@summerheart9834]

Woah!!

[@amalia2390]

I was obsessed with this movie when I was little. I was always fascinated by creepy stuff like this though, like coraline for example, my lil brother at the time was not a fan, and every night for a few years was “scared of the big peach” which was just the shadow of his lampshade, and would have it moved every night😭💀

[@jill3n]

I loved this movie as a kid. I also watched it again recently as an adult and man, so terrifying lol. I'm also into horror movie and the tall/thin Aunt is one of the scariest things I've ever seen. Props to the makeup team.

[@travelwithbec374]

I was absolutely terrified of the rhino! Also never realised Miriam Margolyes was one of the aunts!!

[@reizak8966]

I loved this movie as a kid and it was the first novel I ever read as a kid. My dad bought it for me and wrote little notes on all of the pictures. It's one of my prized possessions to this day.

[@afoolishfopdoodle3284]

That's really cute :) it reminds me of how my little sister used to scribble on our DVD cases. Our copy of Gnomeo and Juliet has mustaches on literally everyone

[@jackofspades3845]

Wholesome

[@nicoledoubleyou]

Thank you for this idea for my kids one day.

[@kiwifruit4423]

I remember watching this movie back in 5th grade, my whole class including me watched it and had to do a project about it. I vaguely remember having a nightmare after that day about the movie and I never wanted to eat or be in close proximity with a peach, mainly because I was scared if insects were in them and I wouldn’t know So this brought back some good old memories Keep up the good work Alex, you never fail to amuse me when watching your videos

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

Honestly I've never considered it but I definitely avoid whole peaches

[@flawedsanity]

I adored this movie as a kid. It was horrifyingly comforting.

[@michaelward5370]

James And The Giant Peach is an absolute classic, and the original The Witches film is brilliant too! I loved reading Roald Dahl books when I was a kid! Flat Stanley was probably my favourite!

[@saturnslastring]

I adored this movie as a child. I didn't realize it scared people until I got to college and someone mentioned it was the only movie they could not watch.

[@Chef.joyardee]

10:04 maybe it’s referencing The Very Hungry Caterpillar. The children’s book lol

[@Byebye24151]

I love that book

[@FillTheCanvas]

Aw same ​@@Byebye24151

[@trinityriddell3296]

The movie that terrified me as a kid was "Chicken Run" I haven't seen it since I was little. But it'd be interesting to see a review of it now

[@_namasteshay]

I loved that movie growing up! Lol

[@anerrorhasoccurred8727]

🧍‍♀️ “M R T W E E D Y”

[@user-qv2mc3dw5o]

That movie was fire

[@KoriandrOfTheStars]

"What ya gonna need to make it over that fence is THRUST!" 😂

[@RastaLlama]

My parents didn’t let me see it growing up

[@ariadnefrolich7243]

Made my mom take me to see it in theaters no less than 6 times. It was my first time seeing stop motion animation and I've been in love with the art form ever since.

[@Mushruums]

As a kid, I thought James’ parents were killed by a rhino-shaped cloud

[@ourochroma]

I mean... they were

[@nifralo2752]

4:15 I think Mr Myers is one of those people who finds the karate kid scarier than the texas chainsaw massacre

[@Scarshadow666]

As a kid, I remember just wondering why the magic stuff the guy gave James was in an unopened popcorn bag lol! XD Loved this movie growing up!

[@erinchappel1359]

Maybe it was the only thing that he could find to put them. Idk.

[@JackalopeBunny]

Honestly I always thought it was like a paper lantern?

[@hadakuhadaku320]

If I'm not mistaken he makes a lantern out of it and let's it go out the window. The magic man found the paper lantern and put the bugs in it.

[@JackalopeBunny]

@@hadakuhadaku320 That's what I remember..

[@animalcrackergirl]

i wish more movies looked like this one in the way the direction is pretty camp and dreamlike, they really play around with colors, textures, props and setting. it looks very homemade and endearing while standing out, like what you would imagine while reading the book

[@eden8992]

When I was a teenager and I rewatched this, I thought it was a metaphor for a kid getting into drugs but with a happy connotation. He unfortunately turns to drugs at a young age due to the death of his parents and abusive home life and thus meets a group of drugees that were very close knit like a family. Each one of them were very strange, like a band of misfits, but they were all very kind and took him into their group, letting them stay at their lil makeshift shack and getting him away from his abusive aunts.

[@naan000]

That's a really interesting interpretation!! My mind is blown now

[@thedaychr]

I wouldnt say druggies necessarilly but people from street life, like circus people or care free artists

[@sunspotmill1291]

This was one of my favorite stop motion movies as a kid growing up in the 90s! I had fond memories of both this movie and The Nightmare Before Christmas. They actually first gave me a newfound appreciation for these types of stop motion animation with gothic aesthetics. There used to be a lot of stop motion animation in the 90s and that decade seem like the golden age for stop motion. The medium sadly kind of became less common after the mid-2000s. However, I think this decade is starting to feel like a small comeback for stop-motion animation films (mostly through streaming services).

[@Congratulations_778]

9:34 YOU ARE DOWN BAD FOR THIS SPIDER GOD DAMM

[@robertfaucher3750]

7:25 Alex trying to maintain our innocence but at the same time trying his hardest to not say Vore

[@Everything_Random614]

Hi... I'm normal and definitely not into G/t Vore.....

[@ShotaPit]

This was one of my favourite movies as a little kid. I watched it for the first time in 1st grade, which was in 2001. I don't remember why we watched it but I was one of the few kids that just absolutely loved the movie. I've always been into the "scarier" stuff as a kid even when they'd give me awful nightmares that I still think about to this day, so it's not surprising that I loved this movie so much

[@SammybearSenpai]

I remember watching this on VHS, it’s my family’s classic kids movie 😂 I plan on traumatizing my son by having him watch it to carry on the tradition

[@Flower-ix7vq]

I LITERALLY LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH AS A CHILD IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WHEN OUR 3RD GRADE TEACHER READ IT TO US THANK YOU ‼️‼️‼️

[@pwnytown8418]

2:25 bro i’m dying i never realized how random that was

[@DemonPorkRAWR]

This was always one of my favs as a child. Had it on VHS and watched it almost every weekend. It made my day to hear you talk/rant about the absurdities in it.

[@dearlantsov]

these kind of creepy stop motion animation movies have always been my favourite. yes they absolutely scared me, but that's what i loved about them.

[@Heybrosifmosif]

Ahhh I love that you're doing more stop motion films despite the issues your Coraline video caused you! Great vid as always! Absolutely can't wait for Fantastic Mr. Fox.

[@wolfie9229]

"We're Family" was such a heartwarming song for me back then. It still holds the same emotion for me to this day.

[@owljpeg]

the animated one pretty much traumatized me when i was little

[@billybongthornton2091]

This movie and The Pagemaster were some of my favorites as a kid. 90’s and early 2000’s movies and really hit diff.

[@Contherage]

I never was scared of these things as a kid. I actually have fond memories of watching this movie. Now that I'm older and actually notice a lot more of the details, I do see the scare factor in it. But before I watched this video of yours and you asked me the plot of the movie, I would have given you a giant shrug. All I remember from it is the giant peach and the insects with some weird kid. I probably would have thought the kid was shrunk, despite the tittle saying it's a giant peach.

[@SakuraLuckyStar]

I used to love this movie, I hoped you'd do a video on it, this movie was practically my childhood Also, you're very right about how 90% of grown-ups in Roald Dahl books are monsters [I should know, my Mum named me after one of the characters so I had to read all the books a million times] Roald Dahl's childhood had a lot of nasty sweetshop owners, teachers etc, so that's probably where he got the inspiration

[@deen7530]

Which character? Oh god, is your name Verucca?

[@SakuraLuckyStar]

@@deen7530 No! Don't worry it's Matilda

[@andywinslow9638]

Oh good. She loved you. If it was Augustis I'd worry.

[@sunspotmill1291]

You just unlock a piece of my childhood memory with this movie! Speaking of 90s animated movies that felt like fever dreams, I'd like to see you review The Pagemaster next! It stars a certain Home Alone kid...

[@watchermostcharmed]

i have literally fallen down a rabbit hole watching your videos. your takes are hilarious and i appreciate them so much!

[@mainlyliz541]

This was actually my favorite movie as a kid! I would watch it on repeat almost every day. I think it just gave me hope as a kid, sometimes real family can let you down but you can choose your friends and create a chosen family and some day you will be an adult and move far away from that place that brought so much sadness

[@VamLoveAndKisses]

I swear James and the Giant Peach and The Never Ending Story are the biggest fever dream films from my childhood.

[@alexandrasandu3947]

7:02 I'm nowhere near as cultured as u are, but that is a _birth canal_ lol

[@AArdW01f]

I was born in 1992 and saw this in the movie theater whenever it came out. So I was really little. I found this movie deeply unsettling and, honestly, still do.

[@liamwarner5749]

The ending makes perfect sense to me. Your a new Yorker going about your daily happily convinced there's no such thing as magic or monster. Then this kid arrives on a giant peach accompanied by sentient talking bugs and pursued by mysterious undead women who's skin cracks. Are you going to be the one who tells him to leave or are you just going to leave him alone with the hope he'll one day decide to take his bugs somewhere else?

[@englishatheart]

"You're* a New Yorker." And "whose* skin cracks."

[@87alsjth]

It didn’t dawn on me how truly old Miss Glow Worm was until my 30s when it clicked that she said “God bless THE COLONIES” when she was addressing the crowd in New York. Also, this is the first movie where I saw an end credit scene. The scene is a kid playing a game of Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker being knocked around. I own the dvd and Disney+ but original VHS is still at my parent’s house.

[@hvelie16]

The hot goth spider explains a lot about my adult personality and I don't know how I feel about that.

[@AtomicSuperMe]

This brought back memories. I remember my dad reading me the book and watching the movie a couple times as a little kid but man I could not tell you anything beyond kid escapes abusive family in a giant peach with bugs

[@DelilahGannon]

As a child, I watched this movie. When I heard the rhinoceros part, I was like "Ah yes, no further questions."

[@GlitchyXion]

Omg I feel so relieved that you made this video, I thought I was going crazy for years because no one I knew knows this movie, not even my mother and brother

[@Mar_the_Mar]

"They never did catch that rhino" haunted me as a child.

[@mmca9323]

James and the giant peach was the first creepy movie for kids I saw and it put me on a path of loving creepy things. After that I saw courage the cowardly dog, invader Zim, ahh real monsters, nightmare before Christmas etc. I love them all

[@sheshankamajith-4841]

Let be honest this movie is so underrated! This movie deserve all the love

[@PieaterProducts]

You could say there's a giant peach in the big apple.

[@kunakic1499]

Thinking back on it, a lot of movies during 80s and 90s were surprisingly dark and horrifying. The Secrets of Nihm use to give me lots of nightmares. And it was a family movie.

[@gabriellemadrid2831]

The make up and prosthetics used for the aunts is amazing. Holds up well to this day. 💯 Thank you for bringing this back Alex.

[@Gothdollyqueen]

This was one of my favourite movies as a kid! My mom thought I was weird af because she found it creepy and unsettling! But all the “kids movies” I liked she didn’t. Iron Giant, where the wild things are…(and more) such great movies mom! 😁

[@taylorludwig32]

Iron Giant was such a favorite of mine!! My kids are obsessed with it now! 🥰

[@CLDJ227]

What did your mom not like about the Iron Giant lol 🤔?

[@Funeral_Mannequin]

OMG IRON GIANT

[@packedentertainment2866]

Preach

[@limeDEC15]

This was actually something that huanted me in my childhood. I don't know when or where I saw this but for a long time I thought it was just a nightmare I had once... thank you for reminding me of my nightmares 😅

[@LMaeCook]

My maiden name is Spiker, I remember finding “Aunt Spiker” funny as did the kids in my class when the book was read aloud to us.

[@kamichan127]

In high school we did this play and I was costume and makeup! I gave everything a slightly modern spin but I was so fun to do this darker visual theme with whacky antics haha, I also played glow worm and he had a giant peach set piece 💕

[@Netherwolf6100]

I absolutely love this fever dream of a movie. One of my favorites from my childhood along with Matilda

[@tny1757]

5:40 Wow, they predicted Twitter.

[@footballcatsmiley]

this is def one of my favorite movies as a kid!!! still holds up 🙌🏽 the asmr in this movie go crazy

[@smileynetlover]

I love this movie, it's weird, but heartwarming. It's a great movie and it was a masterpiece. There needs to be more movies like this. At first its scary, but over time it gets more beautiful. All of my favorite movies are weird, but cool. What I watch is Alice in Wonderland, This Movie, and Coraline. Tim Burton movies are masterpieces.

[@Charles12]

Except neither this nor coraline are tim burton movies

[@smileynetlover]

@@Charles12 well it was animated by tim burton.

[@smileynetlover]

@@Charles12 and also i didnt mean alice in wonderland was a tim burton movie

[@Charles12]

@@smileynetlover it was produced by burton, but directed by Henry Selick, who also did coraline

[@PixarShark]

The character designs of the bugs are some of the best I think I’ve seen!! Especially fond of the Centipede and his holed cap that gives him the “tough guy look”. 😂

[@J329-s4h]

2:18 I read the book this movie was based on when I was a kid, and this is exactly what happened there, too. Word for word.

[@FeministCatwoman]

I still remember first seeing of/hearing about this movie by finding it in the VHS tape aisle in Target back in the late 90s. My mom saw me looking at the tape for a really long time and knew that I wanted it, so when we turned to leave, I looked back and she was waving the tape at me with a smile. I was so excited because we rarely ever got to receive things that we actually wanted AND were able to afford in those times. My sisters and I watched it immediately when we got home. This movie still has a special place in my heart today.

[@sofiawhyte2730]

James and the Giant Peach was more traumatising any of us would like to admit

[@paluza9]

This was one of my favorite movies ever. Idk why. The dark style really appeals to me. I also loved most of Tim Burton's projects since I was a kid without knowing they were Tim Burton of course

[@SofieCarmine]

Same. I just loved this and other tim burton movies too 😀

[@Charles12]

even though one is not really tim burton?

[@brideofcthulhu347]

Despite the fact that Tim wasn't involved at all with James and the Giant Peach, nor any of the actual stop motion claymation involved in these films? 90% of the time its Henry Selick, not Burton (and that includes Nightmare Before Christmas, which Burton only produced and wrote the story for)

[@Bloom2Grow]

I remember I’d get emotional seeing him take a bite of the peach and seeing the pleasure on his face for the first time 😢 I hated the thought of a child being starved and neglected. I was so little at the time when this came out. I was obsessed with it and still am.

[@Corgix2077]

0:37 isle of dogs was weird to me and it slightly scared me.