Review – James and the Giant Peach

Though I can’t say exactly why, this production just didn’t do it for me. It was far too cutesy, but that seems to be par for the course for children’s movies. The combination of live action and stop motion animation was awkward, driven more by the budget than by art. And the Randy Newman musical numbers were nothing short of excessive. They would have killed the plot dead if there’d been much of a plot to kill. That was the biggest problem. For a movie about an orphan who drifts away on a giant peach full of giant bugs, not much happens. Mildly amusing