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

Whoever did the makeup for the aunts needs an award.

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

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.

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

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

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.

James and the giant peach was an actual fever dream.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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

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