Matilda (1996)
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 98m
Director: Danny DeVito
Cast: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Pam Ferris
Synopsis:
A young girl's gift for reading is despised by her family but nurtured by her adorable class teacher, Miss Honey.
Review:
The opportunities for gross-out humour and mayhem inherent in Roald Dahl's popular children's classic are gleefully appropriated by DeVito and his team, though the Americanisation will be too much for some older fans, and it is very noisy. (The arrival of a musical version soon rendered such criticisms irrelevant!)
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 98m
Director: Danny DeVito
Cast: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Pam Ferris
Synopsis:
A young girl's gift for reading is despised by her family but nurtured by her adorable class teacher, Miss Honey.
Review:
The opportunities for gross-out humour and mayhem inherent in Roald Dahl's popular children's classic are gleefully appropriated by DeVito and his team, though the Americanisation will be too much for some older fans, and it is very noisy. (The arrival of a musical version soon rendered such criticisms irrelevant!)
Country: US
Technical: col/Super 35 98m
Director: Danny DeVito
Cast: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Pam Ferris
Synopsis:
A young girl's gift for reading is despised by her family but nurtured by her adorable class teacher, Miss Honey.
Review:
The opportunities for gross-out humour and mayhem inherent in Roald Dahl's popular children's classic are gleefully appropriated by DeVito and his team, though the Americanisation will be too much for some older fans, and it is very noisy. (The arrival of a musical version soon rendered such criticisms irrelevant!)