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Film Review: The BFG

"Yes, two adult tickets for The BFG, please." Interesting sentence, both in of itself and one to start a film review with. But there is a point, I promise. Little while ago I reviewed a recent Disney film and marvelled (kind of) at Pixar and Disney's skills in combining kid and adult friendly gags into the one plot coherent film. But there is another way of this, making a simple film wonderful for all ages, without all the drama of balancing out the jokes for two different age groups and simply putting an one size fits all. Generally helps when the source material is written by Roald Dahl or Dr Seuss (Theodore Geisel), as their storytelling has been entertaining the world over since it was published. Roald Dahl, who wrote the book The BFG, had given the beautiful story a touch of the whimsy and the magical. A sense of anything might happen. So it makes sense for the director and the screenwriter of this film adaptation to be the same team up who brought the fil