Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Pretty Good

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Zany, wacky kid fodder from the mid '90s. Adapted from a Roald Dahl book with just a little dash of modernization, it's technically faithful but spiritually thin. Director (and supporting star) Danny DeVito, never particularly known for his nuance, seems dedicated to reenacting every last one of the silly, cheesy moments but whiffs on the book's heartier aspects. In his defense, that does seem to be a difficult target to hit, as many of Dahl's other works have been failed similarly. Garishly colorful, with an over-active wardrobe and ridiculous effects work, it's precisely the kind of movie you'll want to throw on for the youngsters before leaving the room.

A charming and fun children's movie with some nice lead performances. It's nothing that hasn't been done before, but it does everything well enough to get a solid recommendation from me. It's just an entertaining and light-hearted film that will definitely resonate with its target crowd of younger children, but it made me feel like a kid at the same time. The film is smart and doesn't have juvenile humor or a half-baked story. It's actually a very well told story with a good message and is well directed by Danny DeVito. There's plenty of memorable characters played wonderfully by some lesser known actors/actresses. Imaginative and unique, Matilda is a movie that children of all ages will likely enjoy on some level, but also happens to be a worthwhile time for the whole family.

You take a book about the love of reading and turn it into a 101 story for children about revenge!Basically all the elements from the book are there, put in chronological order, more or less, but what in the book is a MIRACLE - the power to move things, and thus have influence in the world, explained as a product of all the books Matilda read, bubbling away inside of her - in the film becomes a SUPER POWER with which she can take revenge on the horrible headmaster of her school!In the film Matildas many read books are no more than an explanation of Matilda being very different - a special child, whom no one can really relate to. Which is why her family has to be portrayed as even worse than in the book, total trailer trash, criminals, scum and un-caring in all ways - in order to shift all attention to Matilda. And then her powers are regarded as magic, incomprehensible, which is exactly what they seem, seeing as they come out of nowhere. Or rather: They come from ANGER in the film. A product of anger - rather than, what they really are in the book: An analogy of what reading books can bring: The power to move things. i.e. affect the world with absorbed knowledge. Watching it today for the first time I found it more and more unbelievable: Its a movie about PAYBACK! It's got nothing of the relevant framework making the book such a great identifier for children: That cruel and unimaginative adults can be countered by curiosity and knowledge!Avoid this movie like the plague. Do NOT serve to your self or any children. READ it to them instead. And revel in your own memories of horribly, terribly, ghastly stupid and cruel adults, as you take on the role of headmistress and hear your children giggle from all of Roald Dahls inventive cursing!

Matilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson) is a brilliant girl born to neglectful boorish parents Harry (Danny DeVito) and Zinnia (Rhea Perlman). She goes the library by herself in search of books to read. As she grows older, she gets into ever greater struggle against her father as she punishes him. He's under surveillance by the FBI. He sends Matilda to the rundown Crunchem Hall run by the cruel headmistress Agatha Trunchbull. She finds solace in the students and the kind-hearted Miss Jennifer Honey (Embeth Davidtz).This is a movie for little kids who yearn for power over the adults who don't pay attention. I don't want to discount that demographic. It's not necessarily for me. There's really nothing for anybody over 12. The movie needs Miss Honey earlier in the movie. She's the only nice adult in the entire movie.