James the Second (2025)

A boy named James sits inside a gigantic, hollowed peach as it drifts across a frozen sea, and the insect he has come to call Centipede admits he is not the worldly traveler he once claimed to be but has only ever seen far-off places through pages of National Geographic. Their peach veers off the intended course and into an arctic expanse. Centipede slips from the fruit and dives into the near-freezing water to retrieve a lost compass; Miss Spider and James follow him into the water after a brief, frantic scramble along the peach's rim. Beneath the ice, James and the insects fight through a sudden, grotesque assault by an undead army of pirates whose rotting figures clamber up the peach's surface and swarm across its skin. Miss Spider shoots webbing to entangle the attackers while Earthworm and Old Green Grasshopper use the peach's curvature to knock corpses overboard; Centipede, clawing up from the surf, flings the recovered compass back to James. The peach rocks and lists as they push off the pirates and, with a final coordinated effort, the group forces the last of the hostile dead into the sea, then scramble back aboard and set their course eastward.

They sail toward New York City on a sudden, bright current. As the skyline rises on the horizon the mood inside the peach brightens until a violent squall hits. The storm brings with it a charging, monstrous rhinoceros that James recognizes as the animal connected to the worst memory of his childhood: the same rhinoceros that once kills James's parents. The rhinoceros appears beneath the peach as if it strides across the storm-tossed waves, and its horn lashes the sky with thunder. James freezes with fear when it charges; the beast's presence brings James to the brink of hysteria. He steadies himself, forces his breathing slow, and, summoning a courage born of the friendships he has formed aboard the peach, steps forward to face the charging animal. He does not strike it; he holds his ground until the storm rages past and the rhino recedes, vanishing into a cloud bank. Before it disappears, however, the rhinoceros hurls its bulk against a flotilla of seagulls tethered to the peach by silk threads spun by Miss Spider. The creature snaps the silk lines with a violent swipe of its horn and flings the seagulls away; the severed threads leave the peach without its aerial support and the fruit begins to plummet from the sky.

The peach plunges and splinters in a dizzying fall. In the chaos James is ripped away from the insects on the peach's inner surface; the others cling to the rind and call his name as the fruit crashes through the clouds and slams into a city street. James, who has been living in a partly fantastical state after swallowing a crocodile tongue earlier in his life, coughs violently and spits out the crocodile tongue he had unknowingly ingested. With the tongue expelled he snaps back fully into his original human form. Emergency vehicles arrive immediately: police and fire department crews work together with a large crane to free the hulking peach from where it has lodged, improbably, atop the spire of the Empire State Building. Firefighters secure lines and a winch; the crane operator steadies the peach as city crews climb its rind and affix harnesses. The peach is precariously impaled against the building's metalwork, and the rescue teams use the crane to lower it carefully while medics attend to any stunned bystanders below.

A battered automobile, appearing as if it has driven across the ocean floor, rolls up to the scene; its engine coughs and dies beside the sidewalk. From the vehicle climb Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, ragged and oily from their long implied travels. They hurry toward the police and attempt to persuade the officers to hand James over to them as their charge. James, standing with the insects newly reunited on the peach's side near the rescue crew, tells the assembled policemen and reporters how his two aunts have consistently mistreated and abused him, recounting specific cruelties and manipulations in a steady voice. The police listen, skeptical at first, until the insect companions scramble down the building's side and converge back around James. Miss Spider weaves a net of her finest silk, spins two tight bindings and wraps Sponge and Spiker in a cocoon of webbing so tight that they cannot move. The officers move in, secure the two aunts and place them under arrest; Spiker and Sponge are taken away in the back of a squad car.

With the aunts removed, James opens the peach for the crowd. He slices into the soft, fragrant flesh and invites anyone who wants to taste to step forward. New Yorkers and the insect friends, firefighters and reporters, all sample the peach; they eat until only the pit remains. James then oversees the moving of the enormous peach pit to Central Park, where he and his companions arrange it as a permanent dwelling. They carve rooms out of the seed's interior and hang nets and ladders across its inside. The insects inhabit their chosen corners--Miss Spider stretches new silks for curtains and Miss Spider later opens a venue in the city that operates as a nightclub, according to later headlines--while James welcomes neighbors and friends into the cavity of his new home.

A narrator, who is revealed at this point as the same man who had earlier provided the crocodile tongues to James, steps forward in voiceover and tells those gathered that James, once the saddest and loneliest boy, now has a loving new family and countless friends. When the group asks James to relate his adventure once more to the crowd, he pauses and wishes instead for a way to share his story with everyone at once. The narrator answers that he has just done so, and the assembled people react with applause and laughter as the camera pulls back over the city.

Newspapers soon carry a string of follow-up headlines that the film shows in quick succession, each headline accompanied by photographs and short explanatory captions: Centipede launches a campaign and declares his candidacy for mayor of New York; Old Green Grasshopper joins a symphony and performs in concerts; Earthworm accepts a modeling contract for a skin lotion company and appears in glossy advertisements; Mrs. Ladybug trains, qualifies and begins work as a nurse, delivering one thousand babies; Miss Spider establishes her nightclub and manages its lights; Glowworm becomes the literal light within the torch of the Statue of Liberty. The last headline reads that the insect companions and the city throw James a birthday party in Central Park. After the credits finish rolling, the film includes a short montage in which a carnival-style game shows a rhinoceros striking two target mannequins shaped like Spiker and Sponge; the rhino's impact sends the mannequins flying in a sequence of comic hits.

Simultaneously, but in a different part of the world and two decades earlier, Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson receives news that Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring and his family have surrendered to American forces. Jackson recognizes that bringing the former Nazi leadership to account will require an international legal response rather than a single nation's courts. Göring and twenty-one other high-ranking Nazi officials are transferred and remanded to a detention center at Bad Mondorf in Luxembourg while prosecutors and legal teams prepare charges that will later be filed in Nuremberg, Germany. The detainees include men like Robert Ley and Julius Streicher, who meet their captors with open contempt. The United States Army assigns Major Douglas Kelley, a psychiatrist, to evaluate each prisoner's mental state and to determine their vulnerability to suicide while in custody. Kelley interviews Göring in a cell and appraises him as an intelligent, narcissistic and charismatic leader who speaks freely, boasting of his influence and claiming he will evade accountability. Kelley takes notes, telling himself he will use the material in a future book about the psychological profiles he has compiled. In their talks Göring invites Kelley to help examine Rudolf Hess, and Kelley honors the request at Göring's urging. Kelley also agrees to deliver a letter to Emmy Göring and their daughter Edda, and the contact leads Kelley into a tenuous, private relationship with the family.

In the detention block other prisoners behave differently: Robert Ley, under pressure and isolated, seizes his life and kills himself in his cell. The wardens and medical staff take the suicide as a shock; Colonel Burton Andrus, the camp commandant, calls in psychologist Gustave Gilbert to offer a second opinion on the prisoners' mental states after Ley's death. The trial team, composed in part of Jackson and British barrister Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, assembles the indictments that will charge the detainees with crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity and conspiracy. When the International Military Tribunal opens in Nuremberg, the defendants enter the courtroom, plead not guilty, and the tribunal proceeds without granting the detainees immediate opening statements.

As the prosecution begins, documentary film footage of concentration camp atrocities plays for the court and the world. In private conversations Kelley learns that U.S. authorities have seized evidence of art thefts that implicate Göring's family. When Gustave Gilbert, speaking in a separate moment, informs Göring of the arrests, Göring is stunned and flagrantly angry. Kelley, who had previously judged Göring unlikely to commit suicide, disagrees with the move to publicize the family arrests because he believes it will inflame Göring. In open court, Göring sits in the defendants' dock and denies knowledge of the Final Solution. During a private confrontation Kelley accuses Göring of complicity in atrocities; Göring responds by comparing the extermination carried out by the Nazi regime with the atomic bombings of Japan and by boasting that his place in history will eclipse any single prosecutor's legacy. Göring tells Kelley that his public persona will survive and that he will be more prominent in history than Kelley could be.

Kelley, already strained, begins to lose control of his personal conduct. He drinks heavily and, in a moment of impaired judgment, discloses private conversations with Göring to Lila, a journalist at the Boston Globe. The story becomes public and Colonel Andrus immediately has Kelley removed from his duties and discharged from the post. As Kelley prepares to leave for the United States, Sergeant Howard Triest, his interpreter at the camp and a German-born American, reveals privately that he is Jewish and that his parents vanished at Auschwitz in 1942. Triest warns Kelley that impassivity toward evil permitted the regime's cruelty to remain unopposed and presses home the moral consequences of silence.

Before his departure Kelley hands his notes and psychological sketches on Göring to Jackson and to Maxwell Fyfe. He argues that Göring will attempt to use the trial as a stage to defend the regime and recommends that the prosecution should appeal to Göring's narcissism and sense of infallibility to extract a confession. In court Jackson at times stumbles; Göring insists he never intended for the Final Solution to translate into systematic extermination. Under methodical questioning from Maxwell Fyfe, however, Göring concedes that even if he had known that the Nazi leadership would carry out genocide, he would still have followed Hitler. The admission is painstakingly drawn out by Fyfe and becomes a turning point in the tribunal's narrative of responsibility.

As the trial approaches its conclusion, Göring sits alone in his cell and asks Kelley, during a final private exchange, whether men will later consider Nazis to have been "human." Kelley does not answer the question. The tribunal finds several of the defendants guilty. The court sentences Göring to death by hanging. The night before the scheduled executions, Göring avoids the gallows by committing suicide: he swallows cyanide concealed from the guards and dies in his cell. The prison staff discover the cyanide only after he collapses, and he dies before any sentence can be carried out. In the days that follow the Allied authorities proceed with executions for those defendants whom the court has condemned; the hangings take place according to the tribunal's schedule. Among those led to the gallows is Julius Streicher; Sergeant Triest does not disclose his Jewish heritage to Streicher, who meets his fate despondently, and Triest stands close by as he helps the condemned man to the scaffold and assists him onto the trapdoor. The remaining condemned prisoners are taken from their cells, led through the corridors of the detention facility and executed by hanging in the appointed sequence.

Kelley returns to the United States a changed man. He publishes an account of his work and of the mental evaluations, a book titled Twenty-two Cells. The book meets little commercial success; it does not sell well. Kelley's personal life deteriorates; he falls into alcoholism and his previous energy for the public duties that characterized his wartime role fades. The film shows him declining into depression over the years and ultimately taking his own life in 1958. Sergeant Triest, whose family story is traced in small scenes of private grief and quiet rebuilding, later reunites with his sister, who escaped to Switzerland during the war. The film closes the wartime sequence with a title card noting that Robert Jackson's prosecutions lay the groundwork for subsequent international efforts to hold violators of human rights and laws of war accountable.

Back in New York, the scenes in Central Park continue after the peach is turned into James's new home. Friends come by--firemen and newspeople who return to congratulate James, insect neighbors who bring gifts. The peach pit's interior becomes the setting for lunches, parties and storytelling. A large birthday celebration takes place: the insects and the citizens of the city arrange a party for James beneath tree boughs; paper lanterns hang from Miss Spider's silken threads; Centipede speaks briefly to the assembled crowd about his mayoral ambitions; Old Green Grasshopper performs a short, jaunty tune on a brass instrument. The final shots show James blowing out candles as the camera pulls back to include the city skyline, the refurbished peach pit in Central Park and the Manhattan streets beyond. The narrator's voice returns, stating in a calm and factual tone that James, who had once been the saddest and loneliest child, now lives with friends and family and tells his story to anyone who asks.

In an epilogue the film intercuts headlines and short reports: Centipede's mayoral run, Miss Spider's nightclub, Earthworm's modeling work, Mrs. Ladybug's nursing career, the glowworm's presence in Lady Liberty's torch and the party given for James. The final frame freezes on a newspaper photograph of James's birthday party; the image lingers as the credits roll. The post-credits montage returns one last time to the carnival game in which a mechanical rhinoceros strikes down two mannequins resembling Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, and then the screen goes dark.

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Yes, James the Second (2025) features two post-credits scenes: a mid-credits scene and a true post-credits scene at the very end.

The mid-credits scene opens on a serene lunar ridge bathed in the soft glow of Earth's sunrise, where James sits cross-legged in his tattered blue-and-red suit, his muscular frame relaxed yet vigilant, cradling his loyal superdog Krypto who perches playfully on his left shoulder, tail wagging lazily. James gazes down at the fragile blue marble below, the United States twinkling with city lights against the dark expanse, his piercing blue eyes reflecting a profound mix of exhaustion from the cataclysmic battle that split the planet and renewed resolve to safeguard humanity--not just his adopted America, but the entire world. Internally, this quiet moment heals the fractures in his heroic soul, bookending his arc from doubted outsider to unwavering planetary guardian, a tender callback to earlier doubts about his punk spirit and global duty, evoking a deep emotional peace amid cosmic solitude.

The post-credits scene shifts to a bustling Metropolis under reconstruction, scaffolds and cranes dotting the skyline where massive fissures from the final earth-splitting clash still scar the streets. James stands beside Mister Terrific, the brilliant strategist in his sleek red-and-white tech suit, both peering up at a towering skyscraper hastily rebuilt amid the rubble. James, his jaw set with unintended perfectionism born from superhuman precision and lingering guilt over the destruction he couldn't fully prevent, casually points upward and remarks that the top floor is slightly off-center by mere millimeters. Mister Terrific's face twists in frustration--eyes narrowing behind his visor, fists clenching as his analytical mind reels from the nitpick after their shared ordeal--forcing him to confront the imperfect human effort in a superhuman world. He storms off in a huff, muttering curses under his breath, leaving James alone, his broad shoulders slumping as self-reproach floods him; he mutters to himself, "Darn it, I can be such a jerk sometimes," his voice thick with earnest remorse, revealing his internal struggle between godlike standards and the need for compassionate imperfection among allies. This humorous, character-driven coda underscores James's growth toward humility, signaling no rushed sequel teases but a grounded new era focused on emotional depth over spectacle.

No, James the Second is not family-friendly for young children or sensitive viewers due to its heavy dramatic themes centered on a child's rare medical disorder involving inability to feel physical pain or emotions, which can be emotionally intense and distressing.

Potentially objectionable or upsetting aspects include: - Depictions of a 13-year-old boy's severe physical injuries without pain response, leading to graphic harm and medical consequences. - Exploration of emotional numbness and isolation in a child, evoking themes of trauma, family struggle, and psychological hardship. - Intense coming-of-age emotional turmoil tied to adolescent feelings and personal growth, inspired by true events, which may unsettle sensitive audiences.