{"id":498537,"date":"2022-10-05T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical-review-a-perky-screen-transfer\/"},"modified":"2022-10-05T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:30:00","slug":"watch-roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical-review-a-perky-screen-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical-review-a-perky-screen-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Roald Dahl&#8217;s Matilda the Musical&#8217; Review: A Perky Screen Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9b0046b7f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9b0046b7f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical-review-a-perky-screen-transfer\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Roald_Dahls_Matilda_the_Musical_Review_A_Perky_Screen_Transfer%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Roald Dahl&#8217;s Matilda the Musical&#8217; Review: A Perky Screen Transfer&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-roald-dahls-matilda-the-musical-review-a-perky-screen-transfer\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Roald_Dahls_Matilda_the_Musical_Review_A_Perky_Screen_Transfer%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Roald Dahl&#8217;s Matilda the Musical&#8217; Review: A Perky Screen Transfer&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Roald_Dahls_Matilda_the_Musical_Review_A_Perky_Screen_Transfer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Roald Dahl&#8217;s Matilda the Musical&#8217; Review: A Perky Screen Transfer&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Roald_Dahls_Matilda_the_Musical_Review_A_Perky_Screen_Transfer%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Roald Dahl&#8217;s Matilda the Musical&#8217; Review: A Perky Screen Transfer&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    What children love about Roald Dahl\u2019s books is the very thing other writers tend to dodge when adapting them: that icy, unapologetic streak of misanthropy, so exhilarating to kids who have been instructed to see the good in everyone, opening their eyes to the nastier, more ironic adult world that awaits them. Even the craftiest, classiest Dahl adaptations tend to mollify that cruelty somewhat: Nicolas Roeg\u2019s \u201cThe Witches\u201d is viciously frightening but tacks on an unmitigatedly h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y ending, while Wes Anderson\u2019s \u201cFantastic Mr. Fox\u201d muffles the violent survivalism of its source tale with its director\u2019s more gently quirky world-building. Already based on one of his kindlier stories, \u201cRoald Dahl\u2019s Matilda the Musical\u201d further softens matters by pruning the presence of its funniest adult grotesques to accommodate more child\u2019s-eye exuberance. The long-late author probably would have grumbled; young viewers will be delighted nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    And yet, even as its script dictates otherwise, grownups still get the upper hand in director Matthew Warchus\u2019 bouncy screen transfer of his hit stage musical. 12-year-old Alisha Weir\u2019s agreeably precocious title character and a large, eager ensemble of self-proclaimed \u201crevolting children\u201d fill the screen in one busy number after another, as they vocally stand up for kids\u2019 right to be kids in the face of authoritarian adult opposition \u2014 only for Emma Thompson\u2019s towering, truck-jawed antagonist to rather greedily pull focus from them with each rancorous line reading. The film, on balance, is cheery, sherbet-colored stuff, bursting with goodwill for all good people. What you remember from it, however, is each scene in which elder malevolence deliciously spoils the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That balance, correct or otherwise, isn\u2019t likely to diminish the cross-family appeal of this year\u2019s London Film Festival opener when it lands in theaters in December. By the time it cannily hits Netflix on Christmas Day, \u201cMatilda\u201d could well grow into a phenomenon \u2014 especially in Britain, to which the film has been uncompromisingly tailored. (That makes sense, given that with a four-year Broadway run, the musical was merely a success Stateside; still going in the West End after 11 years, it\u2019s an institution at home.) That\u2019ll come as a relief to any purists who objected to Danny DeVito\u2019s brashly Americanized 1996 film of Dahl\u2019s book. This Matilda Wormwood drinks tea and eats Cadbury Curly-Wurlies in a corner of suburban England that is updated in its <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> diversity but otherwise carefully era-non-specific. No cellphones or computers in sight here: all the better to encourage our heroine\u2019s prodigious book-reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Cutting the long, episodic setup of Dahl\u2019s story and hewing close to his own Tony-winning stage book, screenwriter Dennis Kelly skips right past Matilda\u2019s life-changing discovery of literature, instead taking her advanced genius as, well, read. Also getting short shrift here are her gleefully vulgar, anti-intellectual parents, to the extent that all their numbers have been excised from Tim Minchin\u2019s fizzy song score \u2014 a shame, really, given how riotously they\u2019re played by an ideally cast Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough, who at least luridly make off with the few scenes they\u2019re given.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But there\u2019s little time to waste in this restless two-hour movie, with Matilda soon bundled off to school (years overdue, not that her parents care) at the appropriately named Crunchem Hall. There, her extraordinary smarts immediately attract the admiration of nurturing teacher Miss Honey (a lovely Lashana Lynch, suitably sweet but never cloying) and the hostile ire of child-loathing, athletics-loving principal Miss Trunchbull (Thompson, perma-clad in a tank-shaped wax jacket that represents the peak of Rob Howell\u2019s playful costuming). Those familiar with the stage show aren\u2019t in for any great surprises from here on, as Matilda\u2019s overly foreshadowed discovery of telekinetic powers upends the Trunchbull\u2019s reign of terror, while Kelly\u2019s ornate story-within-a-story exposition framework \u2014 one of the show\u2019s wobblier innovations \u2014 makes a somewhat clunky return. Only the gaudily elaborate CGI of the climax veers from expectations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That\u2019s no complaint, since Warchus\u2019 film mostly thrives on what already worked on stage: the speedy lyrical wordplay and energetically shouty delivery of Minchin\u2019s songs, the deliberately heavy-footed stompiness of Peter Darling\u2019s choreography and the booming pantomime presence of its villain and, let\u2019s be honest, star attraction. Relishing a role conventionally played in drag on stage, hulking into each of her scenes with enhanced arms akimbo, Thompson is entirely a scream, whether throwing herself into grand-scale slapstick or putting a snide, venomous spin on kid-targeted putdowns like, \u201cHe should have thought of that before he made a pact with Satan.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    If that sounds less funny written down, Thompson\u2019s eccentric physical and verbal tics provide the bulk of the laughs in an adaptation that goes light on Dahl\u2019s more raucous humor. Irish-born Weir\u2019s Matilda is an appealingly serious, watchful presence, though the film stresses the character\u2019s earnestness over her more wry impulses. Indeed, even as large collective numbers like \u201cNaughty\u201d and \u201cRevolting Children\u201d espouse the virtues of stepping out of line, the enthusiastic, exactingly on-their-marks young ensemble could have been directed to be a little more unruly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The filmmaking, too, wants for a bit of anarchy, or at least some itchy verve. Tat Radcliffe\u2019s lensing looks airbrushed and a little over-bright; Melanie Ann Oliver\u2019s editing moves at a brisk, even pace, but never quite kicks to the rhythm of the music. A gifted stage director who brought tactile period texture to his last film \u201cPride,\u201d Warchus here doesn\u2019t demonstrate quite the cinematic ingenuity to make a great screen musical: Bar the odd glittery switch between inner and outer consciousness \u00e0 la Rob Marshall\u2019s treatment of \u201cChicago,\u201d the showpiece numbers here aren\u2019t vitally reimagined for simultaneously widescreen and close-up possibilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Still, it feels churlish to carp too much about a lively, likable film that sincerely celebrates youthful imagination and joy, and is surely to spark those qualities in a large proportion of its audience \u2014 even if it\u2019s most fun when it\u2019s least inspirational. Title notwithstanding, \u201cRoald Dahl\u2019s Matilda the Musical\u201d isn\u2019t really Dahl\u2019s at all, but a good-humored, humane and appropriately accommodating update of a story that, now to a few generations of readers and viewers, feels very much like their own. 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