In the book, a rhino broke out of the zoo and ate his parents and James ran home only to find it was being sold to a new family (....because word travels fast, I suppose?) I'm not sure if there's such a thing as "dark whimsy" but this IS Roald Dahl we're talking about.
George's Marvelous medicine has some kid try to make a monster concoction drug in an effort to make his grandmother a nicer person, and the story refuses to address that poor George, in his innocence, doesn't realize this amounts to him trying to poison her.
(...funny, true story, though: when my 2nd grade class read this book, the teacher/class kept track of all the shit George loaded the medicine with. When attempting to make the second, failed batch, it turns out that it had everything the original did EXCEPT for anti-freeze.)
Brandon Anderson
They need their forced dyke stronk woman falseflag fake popular marketing fuck up to be a good guy. Even throw the entire movie under the bus to do so.
Also, Frozen 2 bombed.
Blake James
>Killed off I was freaked out for a moment there but then I remembered how fucked up Dahl books can be so that sounds about right.
Brandon Reed
if you think about it her whole life got wrecked by 8 weeks old puppies
>Gets jobbed out in like 10 seconds because of a fucking string. Never forget that this guy lost because he left in the middle of his plan to go play with some feet
I agree Aron Ra is a week Villain even in terms of fedora lords
Asher Hall
Awful film. Just awful
Luis Long
I dunno man. If it wasn't using her fortune to legally and illegally acquire dozens upon dozens of puppies with the intent of skinning them for a fucking wardrobe (I mean... soft puppy fur or no, I wasn't aware dog hair made for good clothing) god only knows what kinda human-centipede meets Miss Havisham snuff dungeon shit she'd be getting into.
What I'm saying is Cruella seems intrinsically self-destructive. Maybe in another life she'd have died with *all* the drugs showing in her system after some fashion world part scandal or something.
Logan Ross
In the book it's just an ordinary rhino. The movie version is an improvement and gives James more of an arc of overcoming his fear, which culminates in him standing up to Spiker and Sponge at the end. The book has Spiker and Sponge crushed flat by the peach as it leaves the house, and the conflict at the end is simply the crowd in New York being terrified of the bugs.
