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On Rotten Tomatoes, Matilda has an approval rating of 92% based on 25 reviews, with an average rating of 7.6/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Danny DeVito-directed version of Matilda is odd, charming, and while the movie diverges from Roald Dahl, it nonetheless captures the book's spirit". [20]
All versions of Matilda—the 1988 novel, the 1996 film directed by Danny DeVito, the West End/Broadway stage film, and the 2022 Netflix movie musical—differ from each other in key ways.
They let Matilda stay, and in return she unsticks her father's hat. With Miss Honey as the new headmistress, the students rename Crunchem Hall "The Big Friendly School". They renovate the school and add a new playground and a giraffe. Matilda finishes her story for Mrs Phelps, who is overjoyed that Matilda's now true story has a happy ending.
This would later inspire Dahl to include a scene in Matilda where Matilda's friend Lavender puts a newt into Miss Trunchbull's water jug. [2] According to Dahl's widow Felicity's annotations in More About Boy the matron at St Peter's preparatory school in Weston-Super-Mare, which Dahl attended could have been another inspiration as she was a ...
"Matilda" was among the many other stories he wrote, including books for adults. His works have been translated into 68 languages the world over, and scholars consider him one of the globe's best ...
Matilda Wormwood, also known by her adoptive name Matilda Honey, is the title character of the bestselling 1988 children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl.She is a highly precocious five and a half (six and a half in the 1996 film) year old girl who has a passion for reading books.
Matilda is a 1988 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl.It was published by Jonathan Cape.The story features Matilda Wormwood, a precocious child with an uncaring mother and father, and her time in a school run by the tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull.
David Cote, in Time Out New York, wondered whether the show was too English for Broadway tastes; he wrote, "Matilda is a kids' musical, not a musical that happens to be about a kid. As such, its attractions may be limited to younger spectators and die-hard Dahl fans. That would be a pity, since Matilda is wickedly smart and wildly fun". [119]