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Not so fun fact: Mara Wilson aka Matilda' mother became very sick with breast cancer during filming. Danny Devito took care of Mara, and made sure her mom got an advanced copy of the movie, so she could see it before she passed. Then Devito continued to care for her after the movie, which was dedicated to her memory.
Yeah, Danny and his partner Rhea Pearlman, in a turnaround from their movie characters, actually became something of a second family to Mara. She's been very vocally grateful to them for being there for her at that time in her life.
Hmm I never knew that about Mara Danny and Rhea. Just proves you can play a shitty character in a movie, but you can’t be a shitty person in real life.
Pam Ferris, who plays Trunchbull, is a lovely human being. So much so that even though she tried to keep her distance from the kids to try & help keep their reactions to her more natural, they still flocked to her. On the anniversary of the movie coming out years later, the cast had a tea party, and she came in while everyone was seated & recreated bits of the pigtail scene. It's adorable.
Didn't they also recreate the chocolate cake scene, but with cupcakes? I saw a clip of that and, holy crap, did the guy who played Bruce Bogtrotter slim down.
Honestly, Matilda being punished for her dad selling Trunchbull a faulty car is quasi realistic. When I was a kid, I would get punished at school for things my parents decided. We weren't allowed to do homework in ink, but when I told my mom that, she insisted I do my homework even though we were at the dentist and didn't have any pencils available, only pens. I got punished at school anyway. At least a handful of times, I was late to school because of my parents decisions about when to leave the house and with what, and I was the one who had to sit detention, as if I had a license and a car at 13 years old. My mom even said to the admin office, "she's in trouble even though it was my fault?" Punishing kids for their parents' actions is just something schools do.
Okay, while I empathize with what you went through, the difference here is that the Trunchbull literally is taking her anger out at the wrong person. I mean, Mr Wormwood sold the car to her, not Matilda. I think a better comparison would be Professor Snape and Harry's situation where he has Harry in is class despite knowing who his father is, and punishes him despite not doing much wrong nor listening to him for Harry's side of things, because Snape only remembers how his father use to act and believes "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree". Personally, I think the book did Mrs Trunchbull's treatment of Matilda far better.
@@osmanyousif7849 I can't speak of the book because I haven't read it,but everything else you said...I agree 100%!👍This is why I don't get how so many people can love Snape so much. Yes,he's not a _Villain_ but _he is_ a bully with his students and that's unacceptable and you can't just gloss over that because you like the character!😡💢
@@Nicamonthis is my biggest gripe. People seem to just brush off everything he did, saying it was part of his cover. Like no, this man went out of his way to be a bully, particularly targeting Harry for his father’s sins.
@@Mia_M *Exactly!!* 1st of all,he didn't target _only_ Harry,he was rude and mean with any student who wasn't a Slytherin...he literally *traumatized* poor Neville...when *your biggest fear* is 1 of your teachers,that teacher is *definitely* doing something very wrong!! 2nd of all,since when you can justify someone for making a child pay for his father's sins? 3rd of all... what kind of cover is that?!? If you are a deatheater(like Snape was pretending to be)and your Dark Lord is presumably dead how is daily bullying his mortal enemy a smart thing to do?LET HIM TRUST YOU and then bring him to the Dark Lord as soon as the chance presents,like Quirrel and Barty Crouch Jr did!! If you act OPENLY like a Potter Hater while Voldemort is not around you just keep Harry's allies on their toes,letting them know you're 1 of"the Bad Guys"!! A deatheater who *declares* to be a deatheater during Voldemort's fall is the stupidest thing ever,it makes *NO SENSE* to be undercover like THAT!!🤦♂💢What?The deatheaters were like:"DUMBledore must be called that for a reason...he's keeping 1 of us like 1 of Potter's teachers!!🤣"instead of thinking:"Dumbledore CAN'T be that dumb and keeping 1 of us like 1 of Potter's teachers...there must be something going on...that Snape guy can't be trusted.🤨"???😵
Miss Honeys house is very different from the book. The main difference being that there is literally nothing in there besides a small camping stove, and two wooden boxes. Matilda didn't decide to help her just to get justice for Miss Honeys father. She also did it because Miss Honey needed serious help.
This movie is a lot less dark than the book. Dahl pretty much wrote kids'-eye horror. The musical (by Tim Minchin) is brilliant, but it definitely focuses more on the fact that Matilda's powers are a trauma response. The song Quiet... well I just have to think about it and I tear up. It's also very heightened reality and campy, so it's a real roller coaster. If you watch it have tissues.
Here's a little Easter egg, Miss Honey's doll is named Lissy doll. If you watch the end credits you'll see one of the producers is Roald Dahl's real life daughter Lissy. Lissy Dahl
This is one of my favorite childhood movies! Such a good story, it's funny, it's wholesome, it's savage and it's fun! There is a sad story however that Mara Wilson's mother was sick during this time and sadly passed away before the movie was able to premiere. However, Danny DeVito arranged it so that she could watch an early access to the movie so she was able to watch it before she passed away. Danny was so loving towards Mara and basically acted as her secondary parent. HUGE contrast to how his character treats Matilda.
i've said this before on other reactions, but i was A LOT like Matilda growing up. i was literally different from my siblings, i read books (willingly), i LOVED school, the only difference is that my parents paid attention to me and had actually not neglected me. but, even then, i always sought comfort in this movie because i related so much to Matilda.
I loved that you reacted to this!!!! Fun fact about the actress who plays Miss Trunchball......she also played Aunt Marge, Vernon's sister, in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azakban. It makes a little funny that she treats 2 magical kids and gets her butt kicked by two different magical children, lol. This film is my childhood, this and Beauty and the beast is what got me into reading books, preferably fantasy books. Mara Wilson is such a little legend!
The cast killed it this film is amazing watched it growing up definitely some scary moments but over all sweet movie truchball scared the shit out of me when I was a kid 😅😂
The musical is absolutely WONDERFUL, and I’d love to see you compare and contrast the different takes on the material. It’s easily one of Netflix’s best original films, and among the best musicals to hit Broadway in probably 15 years
@@nsasupporter7557 same goes for being overly cynical about people just enjoying themselves. Linguistic trends exist, congrats, you discovered them 200,000 years late. You can start your cult about not liking people using certain words.
Miss Honey has to be one of my all-time comfort movie characters. I remember seeing this movie in the theater when it came out. I was 5. I loved it, but my mom thought it was too dark/mean so she would never buy it for me. Literally had to wait until I was in college and buy the dvd for myself. 🤣 I do appreciate that you pointed out the music. "Whimsical" is a perfect way to describe it. And I will say that the piece that plays when Miss Honey gets Matilda from the chokey is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Also...I know Trunchbull is the villain but she has some of the best lines. "Why are all these women married??" kills me every time!
There's a magnet inside the chalk, and someone is using a magnet to write the words backwards. With the words already written backwards on the other side.
😎👍 When I was in elementary school, Roald Dahl's books "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory," "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "James & The Giant Peach" were all mandatory reading. "Matilda" was published a couple of decades later, so unlike the other three, I was completely unaware of the plot when the movie version came out. While watching it, I couldn't help but notice the similarity between Miss Trunchbull and the characters Aunt Sponge & Aunt Spiker from "James & The Giant Peach." 🍑 Dahl was very much into peppering just about all of his stories with evil adults who get what's coming to them in the end. 😉
21:07 That's how it worked in the book, principally as Miss Honey theorized, from subconscious frustration at not being able to use her brain at optimum capacity. Her ability actually subsided when she got into higher-level classes, and her frustration ebbed.
Honestly, the way Matilda was treated by the principal, her parents, and her sibling is similar to how I was treated as a child. Sure, I was a cute, happy girl who was "mommy's little girl," but when I was being disciplined, I didn't get any time out, and I wasn't grounded. Instead, my dad and sometimes my mom punched and smacked me in the face, and honestly, it all hurt a lot. I cried and cried like a baby, and from what I remember, they hated it when I cried because, like everyone else, you don't really know what to do when someone cries like a baby. I clearly remember my mom saying, "STOP CRYING, IF I HEAR ONE HUM FROM YOU, THAT'S IT!" My parents even used the "I'm big and you're small, and I'm right and you're wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it" quote from the movie, probably before I even watched the movie. The environment at home was just so toxic to the point that I tried to force myself to stop crying forever, but obviously, you can't. My older sister enjoyed hearing or watching me be abused because she thought she could get away with anything with me being the little sister. After all, almost everything was blamed on me. I was so scared that my parents would one day murder me as a kid because I honestly thought they hated me a lot. I used to love my sister, but after she started fat-shaming me and she started going through puberty and after the hormones came in, I hated her because she was so mean to me, exactly like how Matilda's brother was mean to Matilda. We fought a lot, and, to be honest, I wish I had Matilda's powers to teach my entire family to stop treating me like I was the problem. It's just something that happens when you have parents who grew up being abused by their own parents, and without knowing it, they abuse you as a kid. It sometimes haunts me so much that I have to stand up to my own mother, like yell at her every time she's being a bitch. Nowadays, my sister, despite being married, is still so mean to me. Does she even love me? Secretly maybe, but she never showed it. It was worse when her "bridezilla" side came out a day before her wedding. I get it, the wedding had to be perfect and beautiful like in your dreams, but it's not worth it if you treat your blood relatives like a piece of shit. To be honest, I hope no kid ever has to be abused like that now because it's traumatizing to the point of putting a strain on your family.
Im surprise you actually went to her wedding and didn’t excommunicate your parents. It’s very brave of you and it takes a lot of strength to be willing to be a part of that kind of family. But I would just cut off communication as soon I left home😅. Best of luck to you
Matilda has been my favorite story for as long as I can remember. As a little kid, I would ask my mom to rent the movie every single weekend. To this day, I still know every word and always watch it when life gets a little weird. You should also check out the musical-it's another take on the story, and I loved it almost as much!
It's funny you mentioned the eye color thing, because eyes are my blind spot. People talk about that all the time (in reference to Harry Potter is a big one) and I just never, ever, ever notice!
I grew up watching Matilda, Beetlejuice, The Witches, Ghostbusters, Edward Scissorhands, Hocus Pocus and many films that are now classics even in my country. I was happy to remember one of my rare moments of happiness from my childhood.
fun fact! if im remembering right, the book actually ends with matilda losing her powers - they arose from stress and hardship and the forced inability to use her brain for things by her family, so once she was safe and loved and able to challenge herself how she wanted, she didnt have the powers anymore. personally i like that ending better, but i get why they changed it for the movie
The film adaptation is very much a product of its time, and yet is also timeless. And it is indeed a beautifully whimsical film. Also, got to love that Matilda has telekinetic powers and it isn't even the craziest thing about the movie. haha
Trenchbull was played by the same woman that played the Aunt that gets blown away in Harry Potter. Also, the kid that eats the cake is also in The Wedding Singer. And Matilda was also in Mrs. Doubtfire.
Like you said: "Whenever we watch Matilda we think of the "teachers" we are thankful for!" For me it is my mother Till 3rd grade I refused to read anything at all, but she kind of tricked me with my favorite cassettes records to get into reading! She was also the first to recognise my strong skill lay with logic and math..... I love you, mum!!!!!
My mom made me and my siblings watch this movie. Cause she watched this movie as a kid and I loved it. I Think it’s Cool that at the time Danny and his actual wife back then, Played a married couple in this movie. 2:54 True. True. I love how Sanny is known for playing a Short characters, like the Lorax, Philoctetes, It just adds to the comedy he does. 4:43 Same. I mean I can Read, I just choose not to. 4:54 I start School in August. 5:25 True. 6:31 I could never do that. Matilda is a Very Talented kid. 8:02 True. 9:39 Yeah. Also the dad destroyed a Public Library book, Like 10:51 Always Tell your parents if something Very Serious or Scary or Anything Inappropriate Happens. 11:11 Aw. 10:56 Yeah. 9:49 One Thing I’ll never Understand. 10:05 Well Better than Nothing. 11:50 She’s So Good, I kinda Got Cinderella Vibes from her. Like Her backstory. I mean The Parallels. 12:22 Okay, Human Calculator. I could never. 12:41 Every school I went to have desks like that, My Elementary, Middle, and Now My High school has desks like that. I actually, Or My teacher read The Roald Dahl Book to my Third grade class. Which is Cool I know the actual story. 15:48 That actually looks delicious. 17:13 True.
I used to read constantly as a kid. I was reading a book a day at one point. I tapered off in later years. More of a movie/game nerd these days, but I do like reading if something catches my interest. I guess most of what I read now is informational when I get curious about whatever subject.
whenever i saw Matilda Crying and a single tear drops down ontop of the Book softly and seeing her in tears. it just breaks my heart so much, i love Books Picture books and Fiction books. By far this is the Most childhood movie ive ever Seen and from Roald Dahls Books
Another fun reaction Clariss. Several years ago my father was in his late 70’s and he happened across this movie on TV one day. This guy who was raised on old TV Westerns and James Cagney movies laughed so much and openly cheered for Matilda as she defeated Miss Trenchbull. After the movie was over he looked at me and said that all movies should be more like this one.
There's a whole bit in the book that mentions that the Trunchbull told her that now that she's an adult, she has to start paying her back for everything she did for her. The only money she had was a pound a week. The Trunchbull made her sign a paper that would redirect all of her paycheck directly into her bank. But what's really gonna mess with your head is the assumption is she killed the father for the inheritance, and we find out Miss Honeys inheritance was never touched all this time, so the natural conclusion here is that after the father died, Trunchbull was informed she wasn't entitled to the money part of the inheritance because it's in Miss Honeys name, and thus took it out on Miss Honey by stealing her wages.
This movie was my part of my childhood greats. Even just watched it the other day. Put it on so my nieces could see, they had to leave soon after but I kept watching 😂 it’s amazing
Matilda was such an influential for so many of us. Such a charming movie. Timless and fun yet has a great message. The cinematographer writing anf acting all create such a fun whimsical/over the top world like you said. Defintely watch the cast reunion tea party video on youtube if you enjoyed this a lot. Oh and years later there was a "Matilda Challenge" where people try to recreate the Little Btty Pretty One scene of Matilda practising her powers. It works well because in the movie it was moslty practical effects so its timeless and easier to recreate for home videos. Anyways cheers to a great reaction. Im rambling now 😅
Also I've always got this as a movie that uses a little bit of magic and imagination to cope with a hard upbringing. Must have been a source of comfort to a lot of kids. I started reading the book and it is way more emotional.
First off: at the time they filmed this, they actually were husband and wife. So what they did for the hat scene was put on a harness under the suit he's wearing, that connects to the hat, so when she tries to pull it off, he's holding it on with his whole body. So when you see her cutting the hat off in the next scene, she's actually cutting the wires from the harness off of the hat. The shot of the mom backflipping off the table wasn't her, it was a stunt double. And as for the cream tarts, what they did was set up miniature catapult seesaws, put a tart on one end on them, and essentially send them flying.
I always felt so bad for Miss Honey. She probably went through so much trauma that was left unexplained or not mentioned in the movie. I dont know her story fully or what she went through but ive always loved this movie and shes one of my favourite characters. And the fact that she went through so much but still remained a good person isincredible.
Yep, Danny DeVito directed it, narrated it and acted in it! Between his role as the narrator and Mr. Wormwood, do you find that rather curious? Perhaps, the narrator IS Harry Wormwood?
People associate Roald Dahl with childrens books, but his works range to adult sci fi, fantasy and horror. .....and adult adult stories 🤣(My Uncle Oswald)
After growing up on Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitter's Dead, I have always had a really hard time thinking of that librarian as a sweet little old lady. 🤣 I always think she's up to something! lol
when Truchnbull is at her worst it helps me to remember that her actress, Danny, and Rhea are very nice people in rl. in fact did you know that Danny and Rhea took care of Mara when her mother had breast cancer and let her watch a recording of it before anyone else because she was loosing her battle? I tear up every time I think about it.
4:00 I never realized this before, but i have to give props for the librarian for realizing that Marilda was responsible enough to have a card, especially considering she was FOUR Society has such a low view of children that it is rare to see an adult recognize a child as someone capable
Love this movie, the little girl in it, Mara Wilson is a good child actress, if you've never seen it, for Christmas this year check out her version of 'Miracle on 34th Street' it's great.
There’s a reunion the entire cast did about ten years ago including a few of the kids. It was a tea/picnic reunion where they ate and even reenacted some scenes. It’s on TH-cam if you want to check it out.
fun fact Pam ferris who plays Trunchbull said she believes Trunchbull is on steroids but health conscious but would mess up and eat cake and all of that's why she's so angry and she saw a woman during the olympics she found pretty and is very repressed it seems. atleast that is how pam ferris played her it makes sense
Something I found out as an adult is that the woman who played Matilda was very close to Danny and his wife. When they filmed this, her mom was sick, so his wife and he used to comfort her and basically became like family to her growing up.
If you've watched "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", number 3... You'll notice that Harry's "aunt" is played by the same actress as "Headmistress Trunchbull".
the sequence at the house with miss honey and matilda, I thought the same thing when I saw this as a kid. the whole ordeal of trying to escape the principle would definate make great reference for a horror movie
Thank you for reacting to this lovely movie. I love your reaction to Matilda. It's funny that you said that there was a horror feel at times. I like to think of this movie as 'Carrie', but for kids.
My favorite trivia about this movie is Mara Wilson was very self conscious when it came to the scene she had to dance. So Danny DeVito got everyone on set to dance too. All so she wasn't alone.
One of my favorite movies, and I don't know why. I love Westerns, Historic War movies, Action Adventure, and good comedy. Matilda does fit any of these yet it is part of my DVD and Online purchases. My favorite character is Miss Trunchbull.😮
Mara Wilson was cast first. The actress cast to play 4-year-old Matilda got sick, and had to be replaced last minute with the little girl we see in the film. That’s why they have different colored eyes.
Fact about this film: Mara Wilson’s (Matilda) mother was very ill with breast cancer while she was filming this, so Danny DeVito and his wife, Rhea Perlman, both looked after her during shooting. Before Mara’s mother passed away, Danny made sure that he had a rough cut to show her.
Amazing reaction to this gem! I’d really love to see you do a reaction to the musical film! One significant difference about Matilda’s powers in the book and stage adaption is that in the end she no longer has them. While Matilda believes the reason is that she has no need for them anymore, Miss Honey believes that her mind is now being more challenged in her schoolwork than it was before. 👩🏻👩🏼🦱📚🧠❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🩷
The kid didn't eat all of it, but he still did have to eat a lot of it. In fact after they finally finished, he got sick to his stomach. I think what they basically did was have 4 to 5 different cakes, each with more cake missing, to make it look like he'd been eating it.
This was my movie back in the day when I was a little kid. I still have it on DVD. It brings me back a lot of fun childhood memories especially the song Send me on my way. Now I don’t watch it all that too much because of the horrible trash adult characters. Miss Trunchbull makes me sick to my stomach and Matilda’s terrible parents make me so mad.
If you liked this, you should try watching the Musical Movie version. It's based off the Broadway production and while it's vastly different, I think it still holds it own and is enjoyable.
cute fact: the scene with matilda dancing on the table, mara was too shy to do it at first so the cast behind the camera started dancing with her. Also when she messed up saying charles dickens it was an actual mess up of her line but they left it in cause it was too cute
Love this movie, Everytime i find a eating competition i try to start a bruce chant. I didnt read as much as her but i did win the "readapalooza" at my library buy reading 100 books over summer break 3 years in a row.
9:19- Moby Dick is a good book, it just has a sad ending. One, they kill whales which is a big no-no. And two, Captain Ahab's unhealthy obsession with getting revenge on a whale for taking his leg makes me sad how he wasted his life instead of moving on. Captain Ahab ended up dying along with Moby Dick, so the revenge thing was pointless. Ahab should've just let it go and he would've lived. 32:43- That's rude to wish death on someone. Trunchbull needs mental help and repentance.
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I’ll try to watch more of your videos on your channel. Only reason I haven’t earlier because I’ve been watching your collaborations with Tim. I like seeing you guys together. Yall are like a role reversal of my wife and I. You’re like the female version of me and Tim is like the male version of my wife.
Love your channel say less......
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When I was a kid 👦 I loved the read comic books 📚
I was 8 years old when this movie came out
Not so fun fact: Mara Wilson aka Matilda' mother became very sick with breast cancer during filming. Danny Devito took care of Mara, and made sure her mom got an advanced copy of the movie, so she could see it before she passed. Then Devito continued to care for her after the movie, which was dedicated to her memory.
Danny didn't ask permission for that advanced copy, he just took it and no one knew for years.
@@dynamodan8216 "Better to ask forgiveness than permission."-Devito, probably.
"So anyways, I started blastin'!"-Frank.
Yeah, Danny and his partner Rhea Pearlman, in a turnaround from their movie characters, actually became something of a second family to Mara. She's been very vocally grateful to them for being there for her at that time in her life.
Hmm I never knew that about Mara Danny and Rhea.
Just proves you can play a shitty character in a movie, but you can’t be a shitty person in real life.
I know that when her mom died she never did any big movie or TV show appearances, and it may have just been a guess appearance here r there
Pam Ferris, who plays Trunchbull, is a lovely human being. So much so that even though she tried to keep her distance from the kids to try & help keep their reactions to her more natural, they still flocked to her. On the anniversary of the movie coming out years later, the cast had a tea party, and she came in while everyone was seated & recreated bits of the pigtail scene. It's adorable.
Pam Ferris was also Harry Potter's evil aunt in prisoner of Azkaban.
@@wadeintonature2975 She was also the lady who sacrifices herself in "Children of Men"who was a schoolteacher before, ironically.
Thanks for that fun fact.
Didn't they also recreate the chocolate cake scene, but with cupcakes? I saw a clip of that and, holy crap, did the guy who played Bruce Bogtrotter slim down.
@@Lycan4 I think so, yeah! And he definitely did.
Honestly, Matilda being punished for her dad selling Trunchbull a faulty car is quasi realistic. When I was a kid, I would get punished at school for things my parents decided. We weren't allowed to do homework in ink, but when I told my mom that, she insisted I do my homework even though we were at the dentist and didn't have any pencils available, only pens. I got punished at school anyway. At least a handful of times, I was late to school because of my parents decisions about when to leave the house and with what, and I was the one who had to sit detention, as if I had a license and a car at 13 years old. My mom even said to the admin office, "she's in trouble even though it was my fault?" Punishing kids for their parents' actions is just something schools do.
Okay, while I empathize with what you went through, the difference here is that the Trunchbull literally is taking her anger out at the wrong person. I mean, Mr Wormwood sold the car to her, not Matilda. I think a better comparison would be Professor Snape and Harry's situation where he has Harry in is class despite knowing who his father is, and punishes him despite not doing much wrong nor listening to him for Harry's side of things, because Snape only remembers how his father use to act and believes "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree".
Personally, I think the book did Mrs Trunchbull's treatment of Matilda far better.
@@osmanyousif7849 I can't speak of the book because I haven't read it,but everything else you said...I agree 100%!👍This is why I don't get how so many people can love Snape so much. Yes,he's not a _Villain_ but _he is_ a bully with his students and that's unacceptable and you can't just gloss over that because you like the character!😡💢
I had an older brother who was a big trouble maker and teachers always judged me cos they knew I was his younger brother
@@Nicamonthis is my biggest gripe. People seem to just brush off everything he did, saying it was part of his cover. Like no, this man went out of his way to be a bully, particularly targeting Harry for his father’s sins.
@@Mia_M *Exactly!!* 1st of all,he didn't target _only_ Harry,he was rude and mean with any student who wasn't a Slytherin...he literally *traumatized* poor Neville...when *your biggest fear* is 1 of your teachers,that teacher is *definitely* doing something very wrong!! 2nd of all,since when you can justify someone for making a child pay for his father's sins? 3rd of all... what kind of cover is that?!? If you are a deatheater(like Snape was pretending to be)and your Dark Lord is presumably dead how is daily bullying his mortal enemy a smart thing to do?LET HIM TRUST YOU and then bring him to the Dark Lord as soon as the chance presents,like Quirrel and Barty Crouch Jr did!! If you act OPENLY like a Potter Hater while Voldemort is not around you just keep Harry's allies on their toes,letting them know you're 1 of"the Bad Guys"!! A deatheater who *declares* to be a deatheater during Voldemort's fall is the stupidest thing ever,it makes *NO SENSE* to be undercover like THAT!!🤦♂💢What?The deatheaters were like:"DUMBledore must be called that for a reason...he's keeping 1 of us like 1 of Potter's teachers!!🤣"instead of thinking:"Dumbledore CAN'T be that dumb and keeping 1 of us like 1 of Potter's teachers...there must be something going on...that Snape guy can't be trusted.🤨"???😵
Miss Honeys house is very different from the book. The main difference being that there is literally nothing in there besides a small camping stove, and two wooden boxes. Matilda didn't decide to help her just to get justice for Miss Honeys father. She also did it because Miss Honey needed serious help.
Yeah, I remember. It was little more than a shack and she said she had to bathe with a bucket and a sponge, as there was no bath or shower.
@@phousefilms oh christ poor Miss Honey
As Danny devito would say:
I get it
THANK YOU FOR POINTING THIS OUT WHEN I READ THE BOOK
All the insults Ms. Trunchbull gave always has me dying of laughter 🤣
She was very creative on her burns. Somehow she sounded so incredibly awful and mean and yet it didn’t go above the PG Rating 😂
@@kay-jay1581 Can't believe I'm late in this reply but what you said at the end sums up what I was thinking 😂👏👏👏👏👏
Danny DeVito is a very underrated director.
DeVito is just awesome, all around.
Wild that his production company is also responsible for Pulp Fiction. 😊
Underrated is such an overrated word!! Please stop saying it, I’m so sick of hearing it
@@nsasupporter7557 Overrated is equally overused. Stop saying that.
@@darkkhalwb no it isn’t, “overrated” is not overused like “underrated” is! Underrated is the most overrated word in this generation
Miss Honeys fathers portrait is actually of a young Roald Dahl
Omg I didn’t know that
Was here to comment this
I only found that out a few years ago
Mara Wilson was actually really nervous about dancing on the table, so Danny Devito got the whole cast to dance behind the camera with her.
It was actually the crew
This movie is a lot less dark than the book. Dahl pretty much wrote kids'-eye horror. The musical (by Tim Minchin) is brilliant, but it definitely focuses more on the fact that Matilda's powers are a trauma response. The song Quiet... well I just have to think about it and I tear up. It's also very heightened reality and campy, so it's a real roller coaster. If you watch it have tissues.
Here's a little Easter egg, Miss Honey's doll is named Lissy doll. If you watch the end credits you'll see one of the producers is Roald Dahl's real life daughter Lissy. Lissy Dahl
His wife, actually.
@@norikotheguardianwasn't his wife dead?
Stop making things up, Felicity (Lissy) was his wife, not his daughter
This is one of my favorite childhood movies! Such a good story, it's funny, it's wholesome, it's savage and it's fun! There is a sad story however that Mara Wilson's mother was sick during this time and sadly passed away before the movie was able to premiere. However, Danny DeVito arranged it so that she could watch an early access to the movie so she was able to watch it before she passed away. Danny was so loving towards Mara and basically acted as her secondary parent. HUGE contrast to how his character treats Matilda.
i've said this before on other reactions, but i was A LOT like Matilda growing up. i was literally different from my siblings, i read books (willingly), i LOVED school, the only difference is that my parents paid attention to me and had actually not neglected me. but, even then, i always sought comfort in this movie because i related so much to Matilda.
I loved that you reacted to this!!!!
Fun fact about the actress who plays Miss Trunchball......she also played Aunt Marge, Vernon's sister, in Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azakban. It makes a little funny that she treats 2 magical kids and gets her butt kicked by two different magical children, lol.
This film is my childhood, this and Beauty and the beast is what got me into reading books, preferably fantasy books.
Mara Wilson is such a little legend!
The cast killed it this film is amazing watched it growing up definitely some scary moments but over all sweet movie truchball scared the shit out of me when I was a kid 😅😂
The musical is absolutely WONDERFUL, and I’d love to see you compare and contrast the different takes on the material. It’s easily one of Netflix’s best original films, and among the best musicals to hit Broadway in probably 15 years
“MOBY WHAT?!” Has been living in my head for 20 years
How he thinks is the other meaning of Dick right away 😂
To me "your car's about to run a stop sign" in the most matter-of-factly tone is probably the funniest line in the whole film. It's very underrated.
Since everybody is so infatuated with the word “underrated” then they should start a cult where you can worship it
@@nsasupporter7557 same goes for being overly cynical about people just enjoying themselves. Linguistic trends exist, congrats, you discovered them 200,000 years late. You can start your cult about not liking people using certain words.
Matilda was one of the first books I ever read myself as a kid and completely fell in love with reading because of it
Miss Honey has to be one of my all-time comfort movie characters. I remember seeing this movie in the theater when it came out. I was 5. I loved it, but my mom thought it was too dark/mean so she would never buy it for me. Literally had to wait until I was in college and buy the dvd for myself. 🤣 I do appreciate that you pointed out the music. "Whimsical" is a perfect way to describe it. And I will say that the piece that plays when Miss Honey gets Matilda from the chokey is absolutely BEAUTIFUL.
Also...I know Trunchbull is the villain but she has some of the best lines. "Why are all these women married??" kills me every time!
There's a magnet inside the chalk, and someone is using a magnet to write the words backwards. With the words already written backwards on the other side.
No matter how I’ve seen this see I’ve never gotten bored of it. One year I watched this movie on my birthday as a grown up and ate chocolate cake 😊
😎👍 When I was in elementary school, Roald Dahl's books "Charlie & The Chocolate Factory," "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and "James & The Giant Peach" were all mandatory reading. "Matilda" was published a couple of decades later, so unlike the other three, I was completely unaware of the plot when the movie version came out. While watching it, I couldn't help but notice the similarity between Miss Trunchbull and the characters Aunt Sponge & Aunt Spiker from "James & The Giant Peach." 🍑 Dahl was very much into peppering just about all of his stories with evil adults who get what's coming to them in the end. 😉
I'd already seen Carrie by the time I saw this and I can't help but link the two in my head. Obviously this one has a much happier ending.
21:07 That's how it worked in the book, principally as Miss Honey theorized, from subconscious frustration at not being able to use her brain at optimum capacity. Her ability actually subsided when she got into higher-level classes, and her frustration ebbed.
Honestly, the way Matilda was treated by the principal, her parents, and her sibling is similar to how I was treated as a child. Sure, I was a cute, happy girl who was "mommy's little girl," but when I was being disciplined, I didn't get any time out, and I wasn't grounded. Instead, my dad and sometimes my mom punched and smacked me in the face, and honestly, it all hurt a lot. I cried and cried like a baby, and from what I remember, they hated it when I cried because, like everyone else, you don't really know what to do when someone cries like a baby. I clearly remember my mom saying, "STOP CRYING, IF I HEAR ONE HUM FROM YOU, THAT'S IT!" My parents even used the "I'm big and you're small, and I'm right and you're wrong, and there's nothing you can do about it" quote from the movie, probably before I even watched the movie. The environment at home was just so toxic to the point that I tried to force myself to stop crying forever, but obviously, you can't. My older sister enjoyed hearing or watching me be abused because she thought she could get away with anything with me being the little sister. After all, almost everything was blamed on me. I was so scared that my parents would one day murder me as a kid because I honestly thought they hated me a lot. I used to love my sister, but after she started fat-shaming me and she started going through puberty and after the hormones came in, I hated her because she was so mean to me, exactly like how Matilda's brother was mean to Matilda. We fought a lot, and, to be honest, I wish I had Matilda's powers to teach my entire family to stop treating me like I was the problem. It's just something that happens when you have parents who grew up being abused by their own parents, and without knowing it, they abuse you as a kid. It sometimes haunts me so much that I have to stand up to my own mother, like yell at her every time she's being a bitch. Nowadays, my sister, despite being married, is still so mean to me. Does she even love me? Secretly maybe, but she never showed it. It was worse when her "bridezilla" side came out a day before her wedding. I get it, the wedding had to be perfect and beautiful like in your dreams, but it's not worth it if you treat your blood relatives like a piece of shit. To be honest, I hope no kid ever has to be abused like that now because it's traumatizing to the point of putting a strain on your family.
I'm sorry you experienced the things you went through. No child should ever have to live like that.
Im surprise you actually went to her wedding and didn’t excommunicate your parents. It’s very brave of you and it takes a lot of strength to be willing to be a part of that kind of family. But I would just cut off communication as soon I left home😅. Best of luck to you
Matilda has been my favorite story for as long as I can remember. As a little kid, I would ask my mom to rent the movie every single weekend. To this day, I still know every word and always watch it when life gets a little weird. You should also check out the musical-it's another take on the story, and I loved it almost as much!
It's funny you mentioned the eye color thing, because eyes are my blind spot. People talk about that all the time (in reference to Harry Potter is a big one) and I just never, ever, ever notice!
same here, I've watched this movie for 26 years and never once noticed 😅
I grew up watching Matilda, Beetlejuice, The Witches, Ghostbusters, Edward Scissorhands, Hocus Pocus and many films that are now classics even in my country. I was happy to remember one of my rare moments of happiness from my childhood.
I cackled so loudly I woke my kid when you started to ring the bells of shame! Great reaction this is a childhood favorite 😂❤
fun fact! if im remembering right, the book actually ends with matilda losing her powers - they arose from stress and hardship and the forced inability to use her brain for things by her family, so once she was safe and loved and able to challenge herself how she wanted, she didnt have the powers anymore. personally i like that ending better, but i get why they changed it for the movie
The shot of her using her powers to pull a book off the shelf is actually a guy with a fishing pole pulling it off while laying on a skateboard.
This is absolutely the best and most hilarious reaction of this movie I’ve seen 😂I love this movie always and forever ❤
The film adaptation is very much a product of its time, and yet is also timeless.
And it is indeed a beautifully whimsical film. Also, got to love that Matilda has telekinetic powers and it isn't even the craziest thing about the movie. haha
Trenchbull was played by the same woman that played the Aunt that gets blown away in Harry Potter. Also, the kid that eats the cake is also in The Wedding Singer. And Matilda was also in Mrs. Doubtfire.
Like you said: "Whenever we watch Matilda we think of the "teachers" we are thankful for!"
For me it is my mother
Till 3rd grade I refused to read anything at all, but she kind of tricked me with my favorite cassettes records to get into reading!
She was also the first to recognise my strong skill lay with logic and math.....
I love you, mum!!!!!
My mom made me and my siblings watch this movie. Cause she watched this movie as a kid and I loved it. I Think it’s Cool that at the time Danny and his actual wife back then, Played a married couple in this movie. 2:54 True. True. I love how Sanny is known for playing a Short characters, like the Lorax, Philoctetes, It just adds to the comedy he does. 4:43 Same. I mean I can Read, I just choose not to. 4:54 I start School in August. 5:25 True. 6:31 I could never do that. Matilda is a Very Talented kid. 8:02 True. 9:39 Yeah. Also the dad destroyed a Public Library book, Like 10:51 Always Tell your parents if something Very Serious or Scary or Anything Inappropriate Happens. 11:11 Aw. 10:56 Yeah. 9:49 One Thing I’ll never Understand. 10:05 Well Better than Nothing. 11:50 She’s So Good, I kinda Got Cinderella Vibes from her. Like Her backstory. I mean The Parallels. 12:22 Okay, Human Calculator. I could never. 12:41 Every school I went to have desks like that, My Elementary, Middle, and Now My High school has desks like that. I actually, Or My teacher read The Roald Dahl Book to my Third grade class. Which is Cool I know the actual story. 15:48 That actually looks delicious. 17:13 True.
I used to read constantly as a kid. I was reading a book a day at one point. I tapered off in later years. More of a movie/game nerd these days, but I do like reading if something catches my interest. I guess most of what I read now is informational when I get curious about whatever subject.
It’s funny and cute that the actor for Matilda as shy to dance in front of the camera so the people danced with her
Before Harry Potter's Umbridge there was The Trunchbull.....
Who also happened to be Aunt Marge.
@danflashes7125 we all hated her Too
whenever i saw Matilda Crying and a single tear drops down ontop of the Book softly and seeing her in tears. it just breaks my heart so much, i love Books Picture books and Fiction books. By far this is the Most childhood movie ive ever Seen and from Roald Dahls Books
Another fun reaction Clariss. Several years ago my father was in his late 70’s and he happened across this movie on TV one day. This guy who was raised on old TV Westerns and James Cagney movies laughed so much and openly cheered for Matilda as she defeated Miss Trenchbull. After the movie was over he looked at me and said that all movies should be more like this one.
There's a whole bit in the book that mentions that the Trunchbull told her that now that she's an adult, she has to start paying her back for everything she did for her. The only money she had was a pound a week. The Trunchbull made her sign a paper that would redirect all of her paycheck directly into her bank.
But what's really gonna mess with your head is the assumption is she killed the father for the inheritance, and we find out Miss Honeys inheritance was never touched all this time, so the natural conclusion here is that after the father died, Trunchbull was informed she wasn't entitled to the money part of the inheritance because it's in Miss Honeys name, and thus took it out on Miss Honey by stealing her wages.
This movie was my part of my childhood greats. Even just watched it the other day. Put it on so my nieces could see, they had to leave soon after but I kept watching 😂 it’s amazing
I haven’t seen this movie in years but “whyyy are all of these women married?!” lives rent free in my head😂
My aunt said the same thing when I told her the names of most of my middle school teachers
Matilda was such an influential for so many of us. Such a charming movie. Timless and fun yet has a great message. The cinematographer writing anf acting all create such a fun whimsical/over the top world like you said. Defintely watch the cast reunion tea party video on youtube if you enjoyed this a lot.
Oh and years later there was a "Matilda Challenge" where people try to recreate the Little Btty Pretty One scene of Matilda practising her powers. It works well because in the movie it was moslty practical effects so its timeless and easier to recreate for home videos. Anyways cheers to a great reaction. Im rambling now 😅
Also I've always got this as a movie that uses a little bit of magic and imagination to cope with a hard upbringing. Must have been a source of comfort to a lot of kids. I started reading the book and it is way more emotional.
First off: at the time they filmed this, they actually were husband and wife.
So what they did for the hat scene was put on a harness under the suit he's wearing, that connects to the hat, so when she tries to pull it off, he's holding it on with his whole body. So when you see her cutting the hat off in the next scene, she's actually cutting the wires from the harness off of the hat.
The shot of the mom backflipping off the table wasn't her, it was a stunt double.
And as for the cream tarts, what they did was set up miniature catapult seesaws, put a tart on one end on them, and essentially send them flying.
I always felt so bad for Miss Honey. She probably went through so much trauma that was left unexplained or not mentioned in the movie. I dont know her story fully or what she went through but ive always loved this movie and shes one of my favourite characters. And the fact that she went through so much but still remained a good person isincredible.
I've always thought Matilda represented Ms honeys inner child 💕
Yep, Danny DeVito directed it, narrated it and acted in it! Between his role as the narrator and Mr. Wormwood, do you find that rather curious? Perhaps, the narrator IS Harry Wormwood?
6:59 fun fact Peewee is one of the FBI agents
People associate Roald Dahl with childrens books, but his works range to adult sci fi, fantasy and horror.
.....and adult adult stories 🤣(My Uncle Oswald)
After growing up on Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitter's Dead, I have always had a really hard time thinking of that librarian as a sweet little old lady. 🤣 I always think she's up to something! lol
Speaking of Christina Applegate, it’s so sad that she has MS
My childhood❤😢
when Truchnbull is at her worst it helps me to remember that her actress, Danny, and Rhea are very nice people in rl. in fact did you know that Danny and Rhea took care of Mara when her mother had breast cancer and let her watch a recording of it before anyone else because she was loosing her battle?
I tear up every time I think about it.
Matilda is great movie and story. A best in my Childhood and even in the present it’s not outdated
4:00 I never realized this before, but i have to give props for the librarian for realizing that Marilda was responsible enough to have a card, especially considering she was FOUR
Society has such a low view of children that it is rare to see an adult recognize a child as someone capable
Love this movie, the little girl in it, Mara Wilson is a good child actress, if you've never seen it, for Christmas this year check out her version of 'Miracle on 34th Street' it's great.
There’s a reunion the entire cast did about ten years ago including a few of the kids. It was a tea/picnic reunion where they ate and even reenacted some scenes. It’s on TH-cam if you want to check it out.
I love your amazing reaction my favorite movie.
fun fact Pam ferris who plays Trunchbull said she believes Trunchbull is on steroids but health conscious but would mess up and eat cake and all of that's why she's so angry
and she saw a woman during the olympics she found pretty and is very repressed it seems.
atleast that is how pam ferris played her
it makes sense
Honesty Ms honey is one of the best in Matilda. I still love Matilda 👍👏
This movie was the only Cheerios ad I ever needed.
Something I found out as an adult is that the woman who played Matilda was very close to Danny and his wife. When they filmed this, her mom was sick, so his wife and he used to comfort her and basically became like family to her growing up.
This is the darkest kids movie I’ve ever seen. I was 9 when it came out in 96 and I didn’t give it much thought to how dark it was until years later
The woman who played Trunchbull did such a good job, Top tier villain performance
The scene with them in Trunchbull’s house… those were the most intense minutes of my 6-year-old life at the time lol
If you've watched "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", number 3... You'll notice that Harry's "aunt" is played by the same actress as "Headmistress Trunchbull".
Embeth Davidtz is incredible as always.
the sequence at the house with miss honey and matilda, I thought the same thing when I saw this as a kid. the whole ordeal of trying to escape the principle would definate make great reference for a horror movie
31:25 "Yes Miss Trunchbull SIR" 😂
6:40 PEEWEE HERMAN!!😩❤️🙏🏾 RIP
Matilda is a great movie. She's a great kid and has amazing magical powers. Most of the funniest parts never gets old
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It was the most dark kids movie I’ve ever seen. I’ve never seen a kids movie so dark before
Thank you for reacting to this lovely movie. I love your reaction to Matilda. It's funny that you said that there was a horror feel at times. I like to think of this movie as 'Carrie', but for kids.
Great video!
I don’t know if you were aware, but one of those detectives was Pee-Wee Herman. It was the same actor… his name was Paul Reubens… rest his soul
My favorite trivia about this movie is Mara Wilson was very self conscious when it came to the scene she had to dance. So Danny DeVito got everyone on set to dance too. All so she wasn't alone.
I remember first time seeing this movie when I was a kid. Didn't realize till later that Danny DeVito was also the narrator.
One of my favorite movies, and I don't know why. I love Westerns, Historic War movies, Action Adventure, and good comedy. Matilda does fit any of these yet it is part of my DVD and Online purchases. My favorite character is Miss Trunchbull.😮
Mara Wilson was cast first. The actress cast to play 4-year-old Matilda got sick, and had to be replaced last minute with the little girl we see in the film. That’s why they have different colored eyes.
Fact about this film: Mara Wilson’s (Matilda) mother was very ill with breast cancer while she was filming this, so Danny DeVito and his wife, Rhea Perlman, both looked after her during shooting. Before Mara’s mother passed away, Danny made sure that he had a rough cut to show her.
Than i don't think this Fact Is Fun
"To Sir, With Love" is a good 'good teacher' movie
Amazing reaction to this gem! I’d really love to see you do a reaction to the musical film! One significant difference about Matilda’s powers in the book and stage adaption is that in the end she no longer has them. While Matilda believes the reason is that she has no need for them anymore, Miss Honey believes that her mind is now being more challenged in her schoolwork than it was before.
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The kid didn't eat all of it, but he still did have to eat a lot of it. In fact after they finally finished, he got sick to his stomach. I think what they basically did was have 4 to 5 different cakes, each with more cake missing, to make it look like he'd been eating it.
Fun fact: The lead FBI official keeping track of the Wormwoods is played by Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman.
Love how much shade the narrator throws at most in their 20’s 😂
Matilda Is One Of My All Time Favorite Movie's,Nice Reaction Sweetheart ❤
I wish there was a way for you to see the muscial. Because that one is AMAZING and builds even more on the book and this movie
Like the broadway musical I mean
This was my movie back in the day when I was a little kid. I still have it on DVD. It brings me back a lot of fun childhood memories especially the song Send me on my way. Now I don’t watch it all that too much because of the horrible trash adult characters. Miss Trunchbull makes me sick to my stomach and Matilda’s terrible parents make me so mad.
If you liked this, you should try watching the Musical Movie version. It's based off the Broadway production and while it's vastly different, I think it still holds it own and is enjoyable.
I love Matilda the funniest movie when she getting revenge on her parents and principle
cute fact: the scene with matilda dancing on the table, mara was too shy to do it at first so the cast behind the camera started dancing with her. Also when she messed up saying charles dickens it was an actual mess up of her line but they left it in cause it was too cute
My mother is afraid of cats....
Kittens barely get a pass from her
She doesn't know why she's afraid
She just is.
I wish they had included the parrot trick Matilda pulled on her parents in the book
‘Rattle my boooooooonnnnessss!’
If you've watched the Barbie movie, you'll have already seen the actress that plays Matilda's mom, she plays Ruth Handler
gee this was one of those movies we watched lots and lots as a kid, good fun and im glad you enjoyed it!
I love Matilda! My fav movie ever, hope u like it
Love this movie, Everytime i find a eating competition i try to start a bruce chant. I didnt read as much as her but i did win the "readapalooza" at my library buy reading 100 books over summer break 3 years in a row.
Childhood movie
9:19- Moby Dick is a good book, it just has a sad ending. One, they kill whales which is a big no-no. And two, Captain Ahab's unhealthy obsession with getting revenge on a whale for taking his leg makes me sad how he wasted his life instead of moving on. Captain Ahab ended up dying along with Moby Dick, so the revenge thing was pointless. Ahab should've just let it go and he would've lived.
32:43- That's rude to wish death on someone. Trunchbull needs mental help and repentance.