BFG Movie Review

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            Roald Dahl, Steven Spielberg, and Walt Disney Studios, three of the greatest storytellers unite to tell the biggest story ever. The BFG is smart, visually beautiful, and cunning in its own way.

The Film starts with Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) an orphaned girl who lives in an orphanage in London. She is up late at night making sure things go smooth in the orphanage. On that late evening she looks out her window and spots an elderly-looking giant. The giant notices her and takes her to Giant Country. The BFG (Mark Rylance) as Sophie calls him, explains to her that he captured her because he did not want her to reveal the existence of giants. Sophie, stubborn as she is, tries to escape and the giant gives her a nightmare to show her the dangers of Giant Country.

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BFG explains to her that the other giants are dangerous and much bigger than him. That following morning Fleshlumpeater (Jemaine Clement) enters BFG’s home and wants his “booboo” healed. He smells Sophie and tries to look around the house. Sophie is not caught yet. After Fleshlumpeater leaves BFG‘s home and reveals to Sophie that he catches dreams in Dream Country.

After that things go crazy after the giants find Sophie’s blanket and noticed that BFG is hiding a human being. From there the story goes on and the BFG and Sophie must stop the giants from noticing her and stopping the giants from hunting children.

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The story does get better but I would not want to spoil the film…. This film has a great cast. Penelope Wilton as Queen Elizabeth II. Rebecca Hall as Mary the queen’s maid. Rafe Spall as Mr. Tibbs, the Queen’s head of security. The giants: Bloodbottler (Bill Hader), Adamthawaite (Michael David), Bonecruncher (Daniel Bacon), Gizzardgulper (Chris Gibbs), Manhugger (Adam Godley), Childchewer (Jonathan Holmes), Meatdripper (Paul Moniz), and Maidmasher (Ólafur Ólafsson).

The music in the film is composed by the legendary John Williams (composer of E.T, Jurassic Park, and Star Wars) and the film is directed by the legendary Steven Spielberg.

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The movie is a great film but the first act seems to be lacking and slow. The film picks up after the second act and only gets better in the final act. The film does have great exposition but something about it seems lacking similar like in E.T maybe it may be Spielberg’s style of direction but I felt a resemblance of E.T when it came to the writing. The film is overall great and it is a beautiful movie but something lacked. It also is exciting that Spielberg is with Walt Disney Studios finally creating a movie. The movie picks up and sets the mood after that Dream Country scene.
The acting is great! The story is good, and the music was beautiful!

If you are a Spielberg, Dahl, and/or Disney fan…. Then this film is for you! It has a beautiful happy ending and a strong message of standing up for yourself and it encourages you to dream.

The BFG gets 3.5 out of 5 stars!