Sophie und der große freundliche Riese (1989)

Sophie und der große freundliche Riese: Directed by Brian Cosgrove. With David Jason, Amanda Root, Angela Thorne, Ballard Berkeley. A young orphan girl, Sophie, gets taken away to a faraway land populated by Giants and Dreams.

“I had just finished reading the original Roald Dahl novel (which I thought was brilliant), and at the video store I found the DVD of an animated version. Curious to see if it would be as good as the book, I checked it out.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI canu0026#39;t say I wasnu0026#39;t a little let down with it. The animation bothered me a little in some scenes (jerkiness, etc.), though in general it wasnu0026#39;t too bad (I really liked some of the backgrounds). And it could have done without the songs, which really got on my nerves. Thankfully thereu0026#39;s only two, so it could have been worse.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI thought the BFG was very much in character, but the Queen and Sophie were a bit more interesting in the book. The evil Giants also had a lot more to them in the book, and were even more sinister, yet a bit funny too. That was lacking in the cartoon adaption.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAll in all, not a terrible cartoon, just not very good. I very highly recommend the book, and once youu0026#39;ve read it, you might want to check out this cartoon, but you may be let down (or you may not. No one has the same tastes). I just feel somethingu0026#39;s missing here.”