8 interesting films about giants for children and adults

8. Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

• USA, 2010.
• Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure, Family.
• Duration: 85 minutes.
• IMDb: 4.9.

Lemuel Gulliver works in the letters department of a New York newspaper and is hopelessly in love with editor Darcy Silverman. Hoping to impress the girl, the hero goes to Bermuda to get sensational material. But the storm carries Lemuel away in an unknown direction, and the hero wakes up in the country of Lilliput, for whose inhabitants he looks like a real giant.

Rob Letterman's comedy has little to do with Jonathan Swift's original source. And for those viewers who are not ready for toilet humor, it is better to bypass this film. But for fans of the charming Jack Black, the picture may come.

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7. Honey, I enlarged the child

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

• USA, 1992.
• Science fiction, romance, comedy, adventure, family.
• Duration: 86 minutes.
• IMDb: 4.9.

A few years ago, inventor Wayne Zalinski accidentally shrunk his kids and two neighborhood kids. Now the youngest son - two-year-old Adam - becomes a victim of his experiments. The child grows into a two-meter giant, and his unlucky parents will have to figure out how to return Adam to his normal size before he causes trouble.

The fantastic comedy "Darling, I Shrunk the Children" was so successful that the studio Disney thought about the sequel. Then the producers just turned up a script under the working title "Big Kid", which was conceived as an independent story. As a result, it was simply rewritten, remaking the characters for the main characters of everyone's favorite hit.

6. Attack of a 50-foot woman

Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

• USA, 1958.
• Horror, fantasy.
• Duration: 65 minutes.
• IMDb: 5.1.

Quiet and meek Nancy Fowler marries Harry Archer - an incorrigible womanizer. He does not love his wife, cheats on her with a young mistress, and even plans to get his wife's money. Everything changes after Nancy accidentally manages to visit the inside of a flying saucer. The woman grows to an unimaginable size, and now it is no longer so easy to offend her.

This film cannot be called a masterpiece, but for some reason the audience liked it so much that it spawned a bunch of sequels and even copycat paintings with similar names. In addition, the tape has become the object of parodies. For example, cartoon studio DreamWorks Monsters vs. Aliens is inspired by this very work.

5. I fight the giants

I kill giants

• USA, Belgium, Denmark, UK, Sweden, China, 2017.
• Fantasy, thriller, drama.
• Duration: 106 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.2.

Schoolgirl Barbara Thorson is a typical outsider. Classmates do not like her, there are problems at home, but the girl does not care: she lives in the world of her fantasies. Barbara is sure that only she can save people from the terrible giants that live in the forest.

Danish director Anders Walter Hansen perfectly adapted the story from the eponymous comic by Joe Kelly. But if you expect to see fabulous action, you will almost certainly be disappointed. Almost all the battles with the giants were shown in the trailer. In fact, the viewer will get a drama about growing up, in which fictional monsters personify difficulties. transitional age.

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4. Jack the Giant Slayer

Jack the giant slayer

• USA, 2013.
• Fantasy, adventure.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.2.

Orphan Jack works on his uncle's land. One day he is sent to the city to sell a horse and cart, but the hero brings home magic beans instead of money.

At the same time, Princess Isabelle, who escaped from her father, enters Jack's hut to wait out the rain. One of the beans falls into a puddle and sprouts, and the hut together with the royal daughter is carried away on a giant stem to the heavens, where bloodthirsty giants live. A squad of daredevils will have to save her, and Jack joins it.

The X-Men director's film with Nicholas Hoult is a pleasant surprise. At first, the picture seems a little boring, but then the plot accelerates rapidly and pleases with unexpected twists, funny irony and well-staged action scenes.

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3. My girl is a monster

Colossal

• Canada, USA, Spain, South Korea, 2016.
• Science fiction, thriller, comedy, action.
• Duration: 110 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.2.

New York journalist Gloria loses her job and since then has been unable to get out of the binge. The boyfriend puts the girl out on the street, and the heroine has to leave for her hometown. There she meets a former classmate who takes her as a waitress to his bar.

Meanwhile, the capital of South Korea is being attacked by a giant monsterthat destroys skyscrapers. And Gloria suddenly realizes with horror that a monster in another part of the planet exactly repeats all her movements.

The strange Russian translation of the title may alienate potential audiences from the film, but be sure to give the film a shot. At first it seems that Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis are acting out a romantic comedy. But then director and screenwriter Nacho Vigalondo will surprise viewers with unexpected plot twists that are definitely worth seeing.

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2. Big and kind giant

The bfg

• USA, India, 2016.
• Fantasy, adventure, family.
• Duration: 117 minutes.
• IMDb: 6.4.

Sophie, an orphan living in an orphanage, does not sleep well at night and one day sees a real giant in the window. The giant grabs her and takes her back to his country. But, fortunately, he turns out to be kind - in contrast to relatives who love to eat children. Sophie and her new friend decide to stop the evil giants. But for this you need to get to know the English queen and persuade her to help them.

Director Steven Spielberg took great care of the original source - the eponymous fairy tale Roald Dahl. The fact is that the short story had to be turned into a full-length film, which meant that many new scenes had to be invented. And screenwriter Melissa Matheson, who already worked with Spielberg on Alien, did a great job. The result is a cute and simple-minded movie that will delight the smallest viewers and bring adults back to childhood for a while.

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1. Monster voice

A monster calls

• UK, Spain, USA, 2016.
• Fantasy, drama.
• Duration: 108 minutes.
• IMDb: 7.5.

Connor O'Malley, 13, lives with a sick mother. The treatment does not help, and the hope of healing is gradually dying out. One night, an old yew tree near the house comes to life and turns into a giant monster. He promises to tell three stories and demands that Connor tell his own in return.

The Spaniard Juan Antonio Bayona is considered to be a student of Guillermo del Toro. Under his creative direction, Juan directed his debut film, Shelter. Perhaps that is why “Voice of the Monster” so strongly resembles “Pan's Labyrinth”, where an otherworldly creature also came to the child in difficult times.

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