![]() ![]() Corden is something of a divisive actor, and many of you reading this will have formed an opinion based on just seeing his name. The character is everything Hoppy isn’t – large, loud and brash – and Cordery plays him with obvious relish, but the part feels perfunctory, a necessity to fill out the running time rather than a genuine creative decision.Īlso sprinkled throughout the film is James Corden as the on-screen narrator. The biggest of these is the new character of Mr Pringle (Richard Cordery), who is brought in as an antagonist and possible love rival for Mr Hoppy. ![]() It’s a bold move to try and add to Dahl’s canon, and unfortunately several of the additions to the film only serve to detract from the main story. ![]() Consequently, it would probably be fairer to call the film Richard Curtis’s Esio Trot, such is the amount of material that’s been added for this adaptation. ![]() However, the book on which the 90-minute Esio Trot is based contains just 45 pages of text – only one of which doesn’t contain any of Quentin Blake’s marvellous illustrations. Much criticism has been levelled at Peter Jackson over his decision to turn The Hobbit into three movies, with the final film running at around two minutes per page of the book. ![]()
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