Roald Dahl's The BFG is brought to CGI life by Steven Spielberg.
Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is a lonely 10 year old girl living in an orphanage. One night she spots outside her window the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) wandering around the streets of London. He takes her to giant country, his world of giants.
The BFG cannot take the risk that Sophie will tell the world about him. However in his world, the BFG is not that much of a giant. He is friendly, he can read, he collects dreams and he is a vegetarian.
The others giants are much bigger, crueller and eat humans. The BFG needs to protect Sophie from the other giants who might smell her.
Sophie has a plan to forge a nightmare of giants eating British children and give it to Queen Elizabeth II. This would prompt her to send the army to battle these flesh eating giants.
The special effects and the performance capture is very good. The story less so. The film is too long, sluggishly paced, I felt bored and once it gets to Buckingham Palace the film lost something when it entered the human world. There was no whimsy.
The BFG
2016
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
The BFG
2016
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
Plot summary
The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!
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November 16, 2016 at 01:45 AM
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Needs Better Editing But There's a Number of Positives Here
I'm also quite surprised by all the negativity thrown at this film. Yes, it does have its slow spots and could certainly use better editing, but it can be quite wondrous, humorous, and has some important messages to relay as well.
I thought the scenes with the Queen (Penelope Wilton) were highly imaginative, funny, and warm-hearted. Both Mark Rylance and young Ruby Barnhill were excellent in their lead roles.
As others have noted, this is not the best Spielberg film ever, but perhaps over time it will gain more favor. The late Melissa Mathis wrote the screenplay, as she did for Spielberg's classic "E.T.". It's based, of course, on the great Roald Dahl book.
All in all, I agree with those that don't think this movie deserves the pummeling it's getting, and I feel there's lots to like here, for those that want to give it a chance.
Better than expected Dahl adaptation, courtesy of Spielberg
THE BFG is the second adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's book, following the 1989 animated version that featured the voice of David Jason. This one's a big-bucks Hollywood attempt at the tale, directed by none other than Steven Spielberg. After he made such a mess of his aimless and interminable TINTIN adaptation I wasn't expecting much, although I'm pleased to report that THE BFG is a rather pleasant surprise.
This film is no masterpiece but it is quite watchable and it does seem to remain true to the book throughout; Spielberg's penchant for random CGI action scenes is limited to only one particular moment (the car skating scene). Otherwise, this has a pleasant, HARRY POTTER-style atmosphere, and it utilises some great CGI work to bring the BFG to life. I'm no big fan of Mark Rylance, but his voice is rather good here and fits the character very well. Ruby Barnhill is less assured as the slightly annoying child lead, but Penelope Wilton is great choice to play the queen late on in the story. THE BFG is rather overlong but at least it's never boring, and even the low brow humour works quite effectively.