The movie version is pretty good. Though I don't know that Jude Law as Elemino Pea was the best casting choice.

I can still remember the night that MAGIC trailer first played on TV, during Saturday Night Live (what we used to call SNL). I was 12, watching TV alone, and for the next few months every pause for a commercial would cause a wave of terror, because the trailer was only the dummy's face, and there was no escaping it.…