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Director:
Tim Burton
Stars:
Eva Green,
Asa Butterfield,
Samuel L. Jackson
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Ten-year-old Sophie is in for the adventure of a lifetime when she meets the Big Friendly Giant. Naturally scared at first, the young girl soon realizes that the 24-foot behemoth is actually quite gentle and charming. As their friendship grows, Sophie's presence attracts the unwanted attention of Bloodbottler, Fleshlumpeater and other giants. After traveling to London, Sophie and the BFG must convince Queen Elizabeth to help them get rid of all the bad giants once and for all. Written by
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The rank of The Bloodbottler (Bill Hader) was second-in-command to The Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement) whose rank was the unofficial leader of all the giants in Giant Country. See more »
Goofs
[French version only] The tags on the dream bottles are translated in French. However, after Sophie comes back to Giant Country, we see a close-up shot of the bottles with French dream titles and a couple of shots later, the titles seen in the background are in English. See more »
Quotes
The BFG:
[to the Queen of England; awkwardly yet politely]
Your madjester, I am your most humbug servant.
[Sophie puts her hands to her face, embarrassed]
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Crazy Credits
The Amblin Entertainment logo has the rare theme in it. See more »
Air from 'Atys'
Written by Jean-Baptiste Lully
Performed by Capriccio Basel Baroque Orchestra
Conducted by Dominik Kiefer
Courtesy of Tudor Recording AG
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Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), an orphan girl, encounters the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) one night in London. He takes her to his home in Giant Land and, despite his intimidating appearance, turns out to be a kind-hearted soul who is considered an outcast by the other giants because, unlike them, he refuses to eat children.
Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers there is no doubt about that. Ever since "The Terminal" though I have found it hard to fully enjoy a picture of his, "Bridge of Spies" being definitely the best one, yet still leaving me slightly cold. Here however, I was presented with an absolute disaster of a film, which proved to be so hurtful knowing from where it was coming from, there was no heads nor tails to be made out of the mess I experienced.
I mean the only merits I can really attribute the film is that its not nasty or mean in any way, its heart is in a good place even if that is not really a saving element when there is no morality to your story. Visiually the film is remarkable too, the combination of practical and CGI is really seamless, much more so than Spielberg's past efforts. Moreover, as always we get a distinct visual world and there are many shots in the film that are as complicated and brilliant as they are technically advanced. Yet, even that, in the eyes of this mess of a story, proved to be quite a useless feature.
Were to start to point out what isn't working in a film where story-wise nothing is working? I mean right from the opening sequence of the film I had no idea what was going on. The while first act was cut into the first 90 seconds. We aren't shown who Sophie is, we don't get to know her and we are already experiencing her adventure, but there is absolutely no conflict whatsoever. The BFG moreover proves to be the most adorable giant ever right from the moment we see him, once again proving there is absolutely no conflict.
We are then presented to an extravaganza of story disaster when about three different plots are weaved together into a senseless mess. First we're into this whole dream story-line, then we are fighting giants and then finally we go where? To the Queen? I could not believe my eyes. But that's not even the worst part. We are served a full quarter of an hour sequence were Sophie and the BFG are served breakfast. I am not joking. We spend a full quarter of hour in this totally ridiculous scene with zero character beats. I was almost starting to get offended.
There is no correlation to what is going on on-screen. It is just random events happening one after the other, which are supposed to feel sweat and fairy-tale-like solely because we have John Williams playful score playing in the background. I mean there is no moral, no thematic undertaking the film does, no character goes on a journey of change especially because we aren't shown these people in a situation that's different from where the conflict is supposed to be. What we end up with is visual noise that can be as pretty and advanced as you want, but when we are in the hands of a headache-inducing mess of story I just checked out.
"The BFG" is right up there with one of Spielberg's worst films for me and unfortunately, one of the worst of the year. I strongly recommend to stay away from this pretentious and honestly offensive family film which was void of any kind of substance.
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Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), an orphan girl, encounters the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) one night in London. He takes her to his home in Giant Land and, despite his intimidating appearance, turns out to be a kind-hearted soul who is considered an outcast by the other giants because, unlike them, he refuses to eat children.
Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers there is no doubt about that. Ever since "The Terminal" though I have found it hard to fully enjoy a picture of his, "Bridge of Spies" being definitely the best one, yet still leaving me slightly cold. Here however, I was presented with an absolute disaster of a film, which proved to be so hurtful knowing from where it was coming from, there was no heads nor tails to be made out of the mess I experienced.
I mean the only merits I can really attribute the film is that its not nasty or mean in any way, its heart is in a good place even if that is not really a saving element when there is no morality to your story. Visiually the film is remarkable too, the combination of practical and CGI is really seamless, much more so than Spielberg's past efforts. Moreover, as always we get a distinct visual world and there are many shots in the film that are as complicated and brilliant as they are technically advanced. Yet, even that, in the eyes of this mess of a story, proved to be quite a useless feature.
Were to start to point out what isn't working in a film where story-wise nothing is working? I mean right from the opening sequence of the film I had no idea what was going on. The while first act was cut into the first 90 seconds. We aren't shown who Sophie is, we don't get to know her and we are already experiencing her adventure, but there is absolutely no conflict whatsoever. The BFG moreover proves to be the most adorable giant ever right from the moment we see him, once again proving there is absolutely no conflict.
We are then presented to an extravaganza of story disaster when about three different plots are weaved together into a senseless mess. First we're into this whole dream story-line, then we are fighting giants and then finally we go where? To the Queen? I could not believe my eyes. But that's not even the worst part. We are served a full quarter of an hour sequence were Sophie and the BFG are served breakfast. I am not joking. We spend a full quarter of hour in this totally ridiculous scene with zero character beats. I was almost starting to get offended.
There is no correlation to what is going on on-screen. It is just random events happening one after the other, which are supposed to feel sweat and fairy-tale-like solely because we have John Williams playful score playing in the background. I mean there is no moral, no thematic undertaking the film does, no character goes on a journey of change especially because we aren't shown these people in a situation that's different from where the conflict is supposed to be. What we end up with is visual noise that can be as pretty and advanced as you want, but when we are in the hands of a headache-inducing mess of story I just checked out.
"The BFG" is right up there with one of Spielberg's worst films for me and unfortunately, one of the worst of the year. I strongly recommend to stay away from this pretentious and honestly offensive family film which was void of any kind of substance.