Product Description: Wonderful adventures abound after James escapes from his fearful aunts by rolling away inside a giant peach. No Track Information Available Media Type: DVD Artist: DISNEY Title: JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH Street Release Date: 08/28/2001 Domestic Genre: CHILDREN'S VIDEO
Amazon.com essential video: Roald Dahl's modern classic for children becomes a delightful combination of live action and stop-motion animation by the team that made The Nightmare Before Christmas: director Henry Selick and producers Tim Burton (Batman) and Denise Di Novi. The story concerns young James (played for real and through voice-overs by Paul Terry), who is orphaned and left in the charge of two cruel aunts (Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley). Rescued by a mysterious fellow (Pete Postlethwaite), James ends up inside a giant peach, drifting over the Atlantic Ocean in the company of a gentleman grasshopper (voiced by Simon Callow), a fast-talking centipede (Richard Dreyfuss), an anxious earthworm (David Thewlis), a matronly ladybug (Jane Leeves), and a sexy spider (Susan Sarandon). The collection of actors and their creepy-crawly alter egos are a delight, especially when some of the song-and-dance numbers (tunes are written by Randy Newman) get everyone going. --Tom Keogh
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Disney EAN: 9786305950271 Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Live, Special Edition, NTSC ISBN: 0788822365 Label: Walt Disney Video Languages:EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1 Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video MPN: D20100D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 03, 2000 Running Time: 79 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: April 12, 1996
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Now THAT"S a giant peach!
This is one of the darker clay-mated films that can be enjoyed by those who relish (or don't) in this sort of genre. Adapted by the famous children's novel by Roald Dahl, the story tells of James, whose parents were killed by a mysterious rhinoceros. He lives with two cruel aunts named Spiker and Sponge, who do nothing but verbally abuse him ever since he has moved in with them. On a typical summer day, James comes a cross a stranger who gives him a bag of "crocodile tongues." These tongues are important, ... Read More