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Matilda uses her telekentic powers to get even with her parents, her brother and the evil school principal and also helps her friends and a caring teacher. No Track Information Available Media Type: DVD Artist: WILSON/DEVITO/PERLMAN Title: MATILDA Street Release Date: 05/23/2006 Domestic Genre: FAMILY
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
