James and the Giant Peach
Walt Disney Pictures | Release Date: April 12, 1996 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
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Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
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31
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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60
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
As you'd expect from Disney, the film's a technical tour de force, with flawless stop-motion animation and some imaginatively realized live-action sequences. What's surprising here is how much of Dahl's misogyny is allowed to surface. James's elderly aunts are unconscionably grotesque. Read full review
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Baltimore SunChris Kridler
A visual feast of colorful stop-motion animation, offers many bite-size delights. Ultimately, though, it isn't nearly as flavorful as Roald Dahl's deliciously perverse children's book, upon which the movie is based. Read full review
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Slant MagazineChris Cabin
Though certainly not a travesty of any sort, James and the Giant Peach does strike me as the weakest thus far of Dahl’s to-screen adaptations and this mostly has to do with the problems Selick encounters with mixing the world of imagination with the real world. Read full review
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NewsweekDavid Ansen
Dahl himself thought his book would be impossible to translate into film, and for all the ingenuity that's been thrown at the screen, perhaps he was right. This overgrown peach never ripens. Read full review
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