Matilda’s adult ally at school is Miss Honey (Lashana Lynch), an angelic teacher who adores her students, much to the chagrin of her horrible boss.Ī useful aspect of watching the movie on streaming rather than onstage is you can turn on the subtitles to catch all of Minchin’s clever lyrics. Thompson is more tickling than hilarious. While there is some guilty pleasure to be had in watching Thompson transform into the hulking villain, I missed when the role was played in drag on Broadway by the far funnier Bertie Carvel. Emma Thompson (right) plays the oppressive Miss Trunchbull. The tykes she particularly can’t stand get locked in the “chokey,” a dangerous wooden locker in the forest, or swung in the air by their pigtails. “Matilda” is more madcap and enjoyable during the scenes at Crunchem Hall school, lorded over by the vicious Trunchbull (Emma Thompson), an imposing woman and former competitive hammer-thrower who loathes sniveling children.
This tacked-on side plot, which weaves into the action later on, stops the movie dead in its tracks. Phelps (Sindhu Vee), is the dramatic circus romance of an acrobat and escapologist.
One tale that she tells a friendly traveling librarian, Mrs. They ignore and resent their daughter, so she finds solace in novels and making up imaginary stories. Matilda Wormwood, played by the adorable Alisha Weir, is a brilliant mind and voracious reader who was born to two negligent idiot parents (Andrea Riseborough and Stephen Graham, not getting enough laughs). Alisha Weir plays Matilda Wormwood in “Matilda the Musical” on Netflix. Stage directors, by and large, are inept at making movies and yet we keep allowing them to make movies. The movie looks like every other Netflix show shot in Britain - “Sex Education,” “Heartstopper” - except that here children break into song on unremarkable cobblestone streets. The lesser film version, directed by Matthew Warchus who also helmed the live musical, is unfortunately absent of any invigorating aesthetic to rouse viewers. 25.Īustralian composer Tim Minchin’s show - whip-smart if somewhat frigid - ran on Broadway for four years and continues to play in London, and onstage the distinctive musical has a sickly, subversive, nuclear sludge-like atmosphere shrewdly broken up by the occasional sweet song sung by little kids.Īudiences love nothing more than watching a pack of perky preteens sing and dance. Rated PG (thematic elements, exaggerated bullying and some language).
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