james and the giant peach be a stop motion animation musical base on a story by roald dahl ( charlie and the chocolate factory and the bfg ) . direct by henry selick ( the nightmare before christmas and monkeybone ) and the film start out a a live action film with james ( paul terry ) and his parent have a great life and with plan to move from england to new york city . before they can move james parent be eat by a rhino ( yeah and i laugh too ) and anyway and a you may have guess and james be leave with family member that hate him and abuse him . in this case it be his aunt spiker ( joanna lumley ) and aunt sponge ( miriam margolyes ) . alone and depressed and james draw his dream on a paper and make a hot air balloon with it and a candle . james go outside and be confront by a mysterious old man who give james back his bag and however and it now contain magical crocodile tongue . on his way back up to the house jam stumble and the crocodile tongue go everywhere and dig their way into the ground near a dead tree . a peach then begin to grow on the tree . eventually jam crawl into an opening in the peach . at this point the film go into animation mode . inside the peach jam meet several friendly bug who help him on his adventure to new york city . although the story do not hold my interest and there be a few great scene . there be a scene with a metal steam operate shark that attack james and his friend . there be also a great underwater scene where jack skellington make a cameo appearance a a pirate . although i do not really enjoy the film and i feel that child would enjoy it . however and use caution because there be a few scene that may be too scary for young child .