Matilda [Region 2] |  | Director: Danny DeVito
Actors: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris
Category: DVD
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Rating:  160 reviews
Sales Rank: 265203
Format: NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Russian (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 102 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5024165753279
ASIN: B00004CWJ9
Theatrical Release Date: August 2, 1996
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Danny DeVito's adaptation of the Roald Dahl book for children is mostly just fine, helped along quite a bit by the charming performance of Mara Wilson (Mrs. Doubtfire) as young Matilda, a brilliant girl neglected by her stupid, self-involved parents (DeVito and Rhea Perlman). Ignored at home, Matilda escapes into a world of reading, exercising her mind so much she develops telekinetic powers. Good thing, too: sent off to a school headed by a cruel principal, Matilda needs all the help she can get. DeVito takes a highly stylized approach that is sometimes reminiscent of Barry Sonnenfeld (director of Get Shorty, a DeVito production), and his judgment is not the best in some matters, such as letting the comic-scary sequences involving the principal go on too long. But much of the film is delightful and funny. --Tom Keogh
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 Matilda March 16, 2010
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The movie is fantastic I have seen it before I just wanted my own copy. I purchased it from moviesonsale and I would not recomend them. They said it was used in new condition, well it has some glitches where the digital stop and does nothing for about 15 seconds then continues. If they sell like new that should mean like new without glitches in it. No fault of AMAZON it was MOVIESONSALE.
 I love this! March 3, 2010
J. Eckardt (Sacramento, California United States)
I have loved this movie since I first saw it on television when I was a child. I am glad to have the special edition with the additional content. It enhances the movie as well as the world it is set in.
Matilda February 8, 2010
Hi my name is Kamry Lawson have you ever seen Matilda I consider it to be one of my favorite movies of all time. It's about a little girl who used magic which we know me all want to use magic. The characters names are Matilda, Lavender, Miss Honey, and the mean Trunchbull. Matilda parents were the worse ever imagine your parents leaving you in the car when you were first born. By the time she was three she learned how to cooked pancakes everyday her parents, and brother would walk out, and leave her. When they left she would go to the library and sit in the corner, and read. At the age of seven she went to school. The only reason she got to go was because her dad made a plan with the Trunchbull. On her first day she met a girl named Lavender the two girls were in the same class, and evidently they became great friends. They were both in the same class Matilda favorite teacher was Miss Honey. If you where bad the Trunchbull would put you in the chokey it had holes and nails in the inside of the door. She would lock you in there for hours and leave. Matilda' parents was moving, but she got adopted by Miss Honey the two girls were happy living together.
A Gifted Child, A Caring Teacher, and an Odious Child-Hating School Principal January 25, 2010
Jan Peczkis (Chicago IL, USA)
If you are a teacher or student who would like to get back vicariously at an unfair school principal, this movie is especially for you. The principal in this movie, Agatha Trunchbull, is worse than a martinet: She is diabolically mean, even reminiscent of some of the SS women in charge of the defenseless prisoners at Nazi-German concentration camps during WWII.
Eight-year old prodigy Matilda had been the offspring of parents who had no time for her. They cared only about money and pleasure. Her father was a proudly-dishonest used-car dealer, about to be busted by the FBI. She basically raised herself. When entering school, Matilda met her 2nd-grade teacher, Miss Honey, and soon showed that she was years ahead of all the other students in terms of academic skills. This teacher appreciated her talents and her increasingly-obvious magical skills, took her under her wing, and became her closest friend. Miss Honey exhibited a decidedly different vision of school teaching, and childrens' needs, than did the principal. Miss Honey was no less afraid of the principal than the children of that school.
So how to deal with the indifferent parents and the horrible child-hating principal? Watch this hilarious movie and you will be entertained and surprised.
 Kid's Review January 22, 2010
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Warning This Is a WHITCH Movie which means this is A Bad movie, I Just Really Didn't Like this movie because Of the whitchcraft. And then it turned out That this is an EVIL movie. and I Got 6 words For this Pile of junk. 1 the Child called Matilda was a Gentle girl but, there was a Problem with this movie, that witches are helping Matilda . 2 the Invincible Whitches Attacking the teacher, oh and 3 the teacher.Shes a Really monstrous human The teacher is throwing them out thru the Window Holding them by the hair , and calling them well she says kind of a Ugly words. 4 Matildas Parents are like if her parents had a bad Family, 5 Matilda teaching her parents a lesson and That is not Very Good, 6 The whole thing is Boring, I Don't know why People Keep Putting Great Reviews About this movie but. if you ask Me The Movie Called Hercules was bad enough But This Is the Worst Movie I've Ever Seen so make sure that you will see all the reviews Before buying A movie.
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