Instead, this film is a little in the vein of Pan's Labyrinth and Coraline as it integrates fantasy and reality. This movie has the most blatant and forward integration. Fantasy is real for everyone to see. It comes off as more of a kids movie than either of the others.
It is a decent little family movie, a Cinderella story, with music intertwined in a rather important way, but some of the songs that are song are laughably stupid. They might be entertaining to a 5 year old, but anyone else caught watching at that moment might choke. It's got several highly stereotyped characters, similar to other projects by Roald Dahl, and some architecture characteristic of Tim Burton.
James and the Giant Peach doesn't do anything particularly unique or highly interesting, but it can be a simple and entertaining movie. Watch it with young kids, older kids will just scoff at it.
I haven't read the book yet, so there is no comparison I can make. However, Burton seems to usually appreciate Dahl's vision.
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