Every 2016 Disney Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

Rotten Tomatoes: 75%

Take one much-loved Roald Dahl kid’s book, stir in Steven Spielberg, add a dash of Disney and what do you get? A rather middling big screen, big budget of The BFG that’s what. Starring Mark Rylance as the eponymous Big Friendly Giant, the movie tells of his adventures in Giant Country with young orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) where they come up against a not-so-friendly group of kid-eating giants. It’s by no means an awful film but where Spielberg trips up is in his disregard of the deliciously dark humour that ran through many of Dahl’s works, here swapped for the kind of syrupy sentimentality more at home in the likes of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

It’s saved from utter mawkishness, however, by Rylance who gives a great performance as the loveable CGI-rendered giant and delivers Dahl’s quirky, made-up vocabulary with aplomb. Still, overall all The BFG is more snozzcumber than frobscottle.