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It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The film was beautifully crystal clear and colorful. The giant world was incredibly well shot and realistic. The visuals were simply incredible, especially once they entered Dream world, which featured some of the most spectacular images I've seen on screen. The production design and cinematography were awesome!I did find the little girl way too confident considering her circumstances and that was unfortunately not very believable, although her ultimate friendship with the BFG was sweet and rather special. The entire feel of the movie plummeted to a bit of silliness once they went to see the Queen, and it felt it was aimed at a young demographic. It had turned funny (in a non-humorist way) instead of fun. Despite this, I couldn't help but marvel at the visuals. In the giant world, I also found the giants to be too kiddie-ish. I understand Spielberg wanted to make a family film, but it lacked credibility. While adults will find they visuals amazing, the story itself might not be captivating enough for a mature audience.

Movie Review: "The BFG" (2016)This kindly-received children book adaptation by "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) screenwriter Melissa Mathison (1950-2015) gets upscaled by director Steven Spielberg to an over-whelming feast of digital motion-capture extravaganza with leading actor Mark Rylance in motion-capturing suit as a reluctant, remotely-living Giant in the twilight zone of a rural English landscape in a cave full of tiny inventions, a miniature ship and rocking chair feelings before befriending an 11-year-old girl Sophie from the Real world, lying awake in an orphanage at night captured in moody cinematography by long-time Spielberg-protége lighting cameraman Janusz Kaminski, who together with the director and production designer Rick Carter, supported by highly-talented visual effects supervisor Robert Stromberg, known for directing "Maleficent" starring Angelina Jolie for Walt Disney Pictures in 2014, deliver the deep-diving journey of Sophie into the world of mystic giants, where the big-friendly one called just "The BFG" lacks courage to fight off his man-eating relatives.The original book by author Roald Dahl (1916-1990), published in 1982, creates magic "The BFG" hiding in tight-spotted allies at night in dead-quiet streets of surburban London, to give and take away street-lights spending dreamy kids a vision of a world beyond the ordinary, when Steven Spielberg's screen version shares pleasant scenes of quality motion picture entertainment in an over-long, at times back-and-forth swinging suspense-distracting editorial between slight winks of teen horror in the beginning, when the Giant world scenario gives in to emotionally-distant computer-generated-imagery (CGI), when the slapstick finale furioso at Present world in Buckingham Palace interiors, featuring actress Penelope Wilton as all-too-amused interpretation of Queen Elizabeth II and her assistant Mary, performed by unmotivated, yet professional actress Rebecca Hall, can hardly convince themselves to let "The BFG" pass with green-ale smuggling table manners of another pair of Western-culture bathroom jokes.This digial animation live-action combiner of a children feature film produced by Amblin Entertainment with an one-time exclusive distribution deal through Walt Disney Pictures had the chance to be a modern classic for kids as their parents alike; unfortunately "The BFG" can only be enjoyed fully with acknowledgment of another leap of splendid digital animation achievements, opening the world of limitless imagination for future filmmakers; but the movie's editorial pace of a 110 minutes and some indecisive directions within the all-too plain, at times blank emotional states of main character Sophie leave most children out in the cold. FAZIT: Picture rejected (overthrown)© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

A great movie with a surprising and fun story, great acting from the two leads. The Movie looks great, and the soundtrack is amazing.The soundtrack in combination with the scenes invoke a sense of wonder and innocence at times,the friendly giant is almost immediately a very likable character as also Sophie played by Ruby Barnhill. The performances by Ruby Barnhill and Mark Rylance are memorable, and fun.Steven Spielberg made a wonderful and memorable movie, that i will certainly remember for a very long time.

i stalled watching this movie with my 6 year old, because of it's rating. now i regret it, she loved it. it was a colorful world, and definitely made for kids (boring for adults, i admit). I believe Steven Spielberg has the ability to see the world from a kid's eyes. the special effects were also brilliant.