{ "title": "What A Cartoon Movie! - James and the Giant Peach", "link": "https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-cartoon-and-151186462", "pubDate": "Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:00:07 GMT", "enclosure": { "url": "https://www.patreon.com/api/rss/u/rmyy4wk9sUVniMKwwBiVvXERM46rLVJR/e/151186462.mp3?sig=oy-i7xtK-YMOI2xhpSnm6slrd4Mn8WdBxYjJntAThz0%3D", "length": "405209117", "type": "audio/mpeg" }, "content": "


In the early '90s, The Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick turned to his pal Tim Burton to help pitch a new project that would keep his stop-motion studio afloat. It took a lot of convincing, but Disney eventually agreed to fund an adaptation of James and the Giant Peach: a tale of orphans, child abuse, and giant vermin wriggling around inside a massive fruit. Unfortunately, the film ended up being too weird for an audience who just had their minds blown by Toy Story, and Selick's version of James faded into obscurity as an underappreciated curiosity. This month on What A Cartoon Movie, join us as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of this strange, flawed film full of accents, bird violence, and oddly arousing spiders.

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