James and the Giant Peach is odd, somewhat nightmarish, and ultimately not particularly good. The characters lack the charm of the earlier Nightmare Before Christmas, and the songs are pedestrian.
Cabaret is an interesting study of its setting, though also a fairly plotless one. Bizarre cabaret scenes are interspersed between scenes showing the intense but doomed love affair between cabaret singer Sally Bowles and student Brian Roberts, and there's always the background awareness that Naziism is rising. I enjoyed it, but thought that listening to Ute Lemper's "Berlin Cabaret Songs" album is a much better way to get the feel of the period.
Spiderman 2 is good silly superheroic fun. I loved Alfred Molina as the tragically villainous Doc Ock, driven mad by the AI in his superpowerful arms; his performance was the highlight of the movie for me.