MJB784 I saw BFG and was disappointed again. It was artistically well made, but the pacing was slow and it wasn't about much. By the end of the movie nothing seems accomplished. It just seemed to be about this girl with no parents who's taken from an orphanage by the main character and create dreams or nightmares from blue and red potions. There are other giants there that are more nasty, but there's no goal in the movie. Nothing accomplished with no focus.

shelldepledge If only the BFG had eaten the girl at the beginning of the film and saved us all the pain of 1hr and 57mins !

lkloring This movie was all about kick-back, relax and enjoy your childhood once again. Adorable movie.

cinemajesty 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)