Matilda (Special Edition)
by Danny DeVito
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Actor: Danny DeVito, Embeth Davidtz, Mara Wilson, Pam Ferris, Rhea PerlmanDirector: Danny DeVito
Brand: Sony Pictures
Producer: Danny DeVito
Producer: Joshua Levinson
Producer: Liccy Dahl
Producer: Martin Bregman
Writer: Nicholas Kazan
Writer: Roald Dahl
Writer: Robin Swicord
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Special Edition, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Matilda (Special Edition)
DVD Review: FANTASTIC FUN MOVIE.! NEEDS TO BE WIDESCREEN!
Summary: 4 Stars
Mathilda Wormwood (Mara Wilson) is an extremely curious and intelligent young girl who is very different from her low-brow, mainstream parents (Danny DeVito and real-life wife Rhea Perlman), who quite cruelly ignore her. As she grows older, she begins to discover that she has telekinetic powers. Not until a teacher shows her kindness for the first time does she realize that she can use those powers to do something about her sufferings and help her friends as well. Villains from the awful Miss Trunchbull (Pam Ferris), headmistress of her miserable school Crunchem Hall, to her parents and older brother begin to feel her ire. Look for Paul Reubens (aka Pee Wee Herman) in a small part as an FBI agent investigating Mathilda's shady father.
The mordant vision of author Roald Dahl's world probably appealed to the director of War of the Roses and Hoffa, for it permeates this witty, eccentric, dark-toned children's film for adults. Matilda (Mara Wilson), an unusually bright 8-year-old whose reading fare runs to Moby Dick and For Whom the Bell Tolls, is saddled with a pair of comically selfish and obtuse parents (Danny De Vito and Rhea Perlman) whom she has to persuade to allow her to go to school. But her principil, the child-hating Miss Trunchbull Pam Ferris, proves no more enlightened than her parents. This hilariously exaggerated, Lewis Carroll-like version of the world is probably not too far from what many children may feel on a bad day. De Vito and Perlman camp it up outrageously and Ferris gives a terrific performance as a cartoonish villain. Cinematographer Stefan Czapsky shoots from a number of strange angles, making this perhaps the first expressionist film for children.
This DVD of course has just the awful fullscreen version and, there is so much picture information missing from the sides. This was shot in the ratio of 2:35 so, we are not seeing all that we should be.
Thankfully I have the laserdisc widescreen version which I just recently put to DVD-R and so now I can enjoy MATILDA'S beautiful picture quality and in its widescreen beautiful glory!!
By the way, the extras on this special edition DVD is great, especially the piece that Mara shot on the set of the movie. She uses a vidcam and,its just so adorable. This is the best part of all the extras in my opinion.
So, even tho the DVD is in fullscreen, which really stinks, the extras are a treat and, oh yes, on some of the extras they show the widescreen version and, this is nuts because if they used the widescreen to show samples of how they did the special effects and other things, then WHY did they not use the widescreen version for the DVD??
Description of Matilda (Special Edition)
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?MPAA Rating: PG
?Format: DVD
?Runtime: 102 minutes
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