that new Matilda Netflix remake is utterly bizarre...
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1996 Matilda is an angel child that gets into a bit of mischief but only wants what's best for her favourite teacher.
2022 Matilda will gladly commit arson if you piss her off.
Seriously that made me so mad. I hate how the new one makes her parents less neglectful, we never see them watching Tv and we never see her reading.
2022 matilda screams at miss trunchbull. If the 1996 matilda did that, she would’ve been murdered by miss trunchbull. 2022 matilda never even gets sent to the chokey.
Y’all do realize that they’re two different versions right? Not every aspect is gonna be the same.
@@dakingbey'm afraid it's a losing battle at this point. People are gonna keep comparing it to the 1996 film. I do love that movie but boy I wish stage musicals weren't always shafted. Well the good news is this comment section is one of the worst while either channels actually talk about the musical without comparing so people actually learn about it.
@@dakingbey I know that!! one's American and the other is clearly raised british :)
I feel taking away her brother in the new film makes her seem just angry at her parents but in the first film you could see how she felt like she didn't belong with her family as a whole
This was made completely separate to the 1996 movie? Its based entirely off the musical which is made exclusively off of the book
@@LavenderPi the brother is in the book
@@klenstdp1737 he wasn’t in the musical
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Yes, but as someone that has read the book and seen the first movie, it comes off as odd when people say "The musical that is based off of the book" as defense. Especially at points where it differs from the book. Just say "oh it is based on the musical" without the book part. People constantly adding the book part is just... weird. It is okay that a musical is different. Just if people did not read the book, but have seen the musical just don't use the "book". It is already funny we can watch it on tv while the books roast watching tv
Yeah, I haven't seen the new adaptation but seeing how they treated each child was a big part of understanding the family dynamic. The favoritism shows that they don't like Matilda because she's different from them (and arguably because she's a girl), but without the brother they're just abusive for the sake of being abusive.
Fun fact:there's a scene in both movies. They're missing a scene from the book, which is the parrot prank where matilda borrows her friends talking pet parrot where she pretends there's a ghost in the house to scare her parents
Also, how come Michal (matildas brother) isn't in the new musical movie.
@@judayers8776he never existed in the book the first film put him in for some reason
wdym he exist in teh book too?@@xxBlossomcoquettexx
@@CompSomAnichi does he!?!? Oop I haven't read it for 7 years
Lol XD To be fair I can see why you forgot him. He's never gets any lines if I remember coz it' sjust the dad talking to him/refering to him. Like literally Matilda does not interact with him in the book at all.@@xxBlossomcoquettexx
“Because everyone thinks I hate everything, which to be fair is true.”
MOST RELATABLE THING EVER OML
The thing about Matilda punishing her dad in the movie, and the book, I think, is that he said "When a person is bad, that person deserves to be punished." So, Matilda concluded that since her parents are people, and they were bad, then by her dad's own logic, he deserved to be punished.
you seriously roald dahl would write such an inarticulate line? i’m sorry but that line has always felt so stupid to me!
@@antonbradbury well yes it makes sense that it would sound stupid to a young adult or fully matured adult but to children its perfectly logical
@lord anton I'm not sure. I haven't read the book myself, but I thought I had heard that the line was in the book, but I could be mistaken.
I have read it a bunch of times and I can confirm the line is there also I think that in old books there is a bad person and he/she gets punished at the end so she probably got the idea from the books
I'm 21 and that sounds perfectly logical to me
i feel like the weak point of the musical is the relationship between Matilda and Miss Honey, which is one of the most important parts os the original movie. Here, when Miss Honey adopts Matilda i was like "why? they barely know each other", but in the original movie it makes a lot of sense because the script makes a priority to sell to the audience that they had a real connection from the beggining.
And how like Matilda basically had psychic powers about miss honeys backstop without knowing miss honey at all
PLOT TWIST: In the original Miss Honey just wanted to abuse Matilda's powers which is why she adopted her
Yeah, I noticed that as well
Yeah, they cut too much from Miss Honey. I would’ve kept at least one part of Pathetic
this. they barely showed ms honey being a mother figure to matilda and matilda was too busy being unlikeable and rebellious to be portrayed to need good parents
For the cake scene, in the live musical they can’t have an actor eat a gigantic cake on stage so they have to have a distracting fast pace song so they can have the cake and by the end of the song the cake is gone. They probably just wanted to keep that aspect in it.
why not, i would gladly sit there and watch someone eat a cake for 2 hours in silence
oh my gosh I just was that kid who ate the cake in the musical I did for my school and what happened was I did eat like half the cake but everyone was dancing around me so then I slid the cake into the desk and then showed the empty platter. It was fun, but very stressful!!
The stage gimick for that is so cool as well.
I would gladly eat the entire thing
Yea but that doesn't work in movie format. As Alex said, too many songs are blasted at you too quickly, it really takes away from moments meant to be impactful and the story as a whole.
To be fair, stage musicals (upon which this is based, not the 90s movie) can have little to no dialogue. It is a series of songs sometimes vaguely connected by a few spoke sentences to get from one song to another. It’s why you can buy the original cast recordings of most Broadway stage musicals and know the whole story just from the songs. Stage Musicals are about the the songs. And in honor of it’s stage musical origins, it would make sense that the performances are a bit larger then life.
The larger than life performance is fine, but the pacing isn't. The pacing in a stage musical is fundamentally different from a movie format for many reasons. It's faster and mostly songs, which just doesn't work in a movie. As Alex said, everything comes at you too quickly for impactful moments to actually feel impactful. Also, a lot of the story is lost. It's like adapting a movie into a film, you have to cut and include things carefully. It just feels hollow here.
@@UnfazedPhoenix as a person who’s watched way too many musicals (both movie and stage ), I fundamentally disagree that movies can’t have the same percentage of songs as stage shows, I feel the main audience that watched this has probably only ever seen Disney musicals (which in the renaissance era often only had 4-5 songs) and not use to the concentration of songs in actual broadway musicals
@@UnfazedPhoenix an example of this would be my favorite movie musical of all time, In the Heights. It spends a very similar amount of time on songs and it never had any pacing issues from me (nor the critics or audience on rotten tomatoes who both gave it a 94% which is wildly high for both scores to agree on, if you take any stock in such scores).
My point it, the movie might have suffered from pacing issues, but it was NOT due to the number of songs (corrolation, not causation).
Okay but my favorite line from the original movie doesn’t get recognized enough. When Amanda is spelling difficulty and trunchbull’s response is “Why are all of these women married??”
i think that was in to book too, haven't read it in a while
YESSS! that line cracks me up every time! rewatched the movie again after watching the musical and it still made me laugh.
YES THANK YOU that’s literally my favorite line in the movie i was SO upset it wasn’t in the new one
Me and my sisters always quote that randomly even after years of not watching it lmao
@@esrever777 "My sisters and I." Not "me and my sisters." To know whether to use "me" or "I," remove the other party/ies from the sentence. You wouldn't say "me always quote that regularly." Not hating on you, just trying to help you out. I see people make that error all the time.
I love how in the original, pivotal scenes like being thrown by your pigtails, or being yelled at by your dad, the camera mirrors Matilda’s eye level, really resonating with the young audience and making sure you FEEL that scene on a different level. It does more than just show parents this is how your kid feels, it FORCES you to feel it.
yessss
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Yeah the original is much better. I watched it when I was 8 for the first time and it was sort of scary but in a fun way.
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Agreed, I always thought the original went hard and I've watched it so many times whenever it's come on TV. So when this new one came out, I was like "why would you try to improve on perfection-?"
12:30 When I was a kid, I would always fast forward this scene because it scared the hell out of me and I could never explain why.
Probably all the laughter
I agree, in this rendition of Matilda, the story was too focused on the subplot about Miss Honey's backstory. You hardly even get to see Matilda develop her powers and use them. She uses them twice in this movie and then that was it. Also, this Matilda is giving me The Orphan vibes. 😂
The world does not revolve around magic, I think that demonstrating this twice was more than enough, the old movie could think rationally.
I find it really weird. They only have one song about Matilda’s story in the original musical, and it’s about miss honey’s dad finding out miss trunchbull abused her or something? It just confuses me.
@@stevendalloesingh1214 But the subplot also has mystical elements because Matilda sees, much like a premonition or a vision, Miss Honey's backstory. So the whole movie revolves around magic. I'd much rather the movie focused on Matilda and not Miss Honey.
Ik I'm late lol but yeah. Like the whole subplot of Matilda's "story" is actually kinda heartbreaking when you realise its based around her ideal vision of a family taken away from her. But then it's like "oop never mind Miss. Honey was the main character all along".
Yea they really didn't balance this well. It's like fan service to people who like the musical but it doesn't work in movie format.
5:56 No, "When I Grow Up" is not just about "kids wanting to eat candy". It's about children who are having a terrible childhood dreaming of being free and happy. The idea that someday they'll be strong enough to protect themselves and others and smart enough to find a way out of problems they're facing.
that song on the original album makes me cry, especially when ms honey joins in with “when I grow up, I will be strong enough to fight the creatures that you have to fight beneath the bed each night to be a grown up”
Thank you. I had so much to say about his comment but you worded it perfectly.
“When I grow up, I will be strong enough to carry all the heavy things you have to haul around with you to be a grown up” is another one of the lines that is so poignantly laced with double meaning. When I Grow Up is a very deep and, at times, sad song about the part of ourselves we are forced to give up (through trauma or even just the simple everyday responsibilities of life as an adult) as we grow up. It’s actually quite foundational to the entire Matilda story (and was the first song Minchin wrote for the musical). It is definitely not just about kids eating candy.
It was a joke :) and he knows and comes to it later.
But as I know very much what you are talking about, I understand why it was important to you to point it out so clearly.
Glad to be grown up and safe.
Same, I was in this musical (a school musical) and I was Matilda when I grow up is NOT about just wanting to eat candy.💀👁👄👁🧌🧌🧌🧌🧌🧌
One of my favorite scenes in the original film is when her mom is about to sign the adoption papers she sympathetically admits she wish she could've bonded with her daughter. Like, even the horrible parents have dimension to them. Her saying those lines legitimately pull at my heart.
Same. Not justifying their actions, but they just didn't understand her, didn't know how to relate to her
They kind of do it with the dad in the new one. Still though I do like the older one better.
Ikr, and in the book that doesn't even happen, the parents just leave in the car without caring, so it was nice how it was added to the movie
Danny also narrates 'so Matilda's parents did the one decent thing they had ever done for their daughter' or something at that part too, that line gets me
Guess what? In the book she doesn't even tell Matilda all that in the adoption scene, the only one who actually even ways goodbye is Matilda's brother 🤭🤭
i felt like the pig tail throwing scene made sense, because it shows her desire to be right about everything, it reminds me of a teacher I once knew
The US movie of Matilda was based on the book. The English Stage Production was also based on the book (NOT the US movie). The Netflix Musical is based on the Stage Production. Different interpretations of the same source material. I like them both.
I have no nostalgia for the original movie because I didn't watch when I was young, but I have such a soft spot for it after hearing how Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman were like second parents to Mara Wilson when her mom died.
That’s nice that they did that
I know! It's so sweet.
I was scared of the original movie because of mrs trunchball so I barely watch it, now its just funny
I was going to say something similar to this about them. mara Wilson said that Danny was very sweet nice to her when they weren't filming. she said that he even got everyone to dance with her when she was filming the scene where she's dancing to the song while using her powers because she was scared of dancing by herself
I have nostalgia for this movie and I love knowing now that they were so kind to her.
I think its worth noting that the director (who directed both the stage and movie musical), didn't watch the original movie so its purely based off the book. Anything choice made that is different/the same in the two movies is because they're based off the same book, but the musical is not based off the movie.
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Was about to comment the same thing, I went into this movie with the idea that it’s completely separate from the og movie, but that the og movie and the play just have the same source material
Yeah he literally says that in the first few minutes of the reaction. He knows this is based off of the book. He is just comparing the two movies
@@david-jonballinger6638 he said its based on the stage version which is based on the og film which is based on the book
Personally I interpreted the revolting song as the children not being afraid to misbehave anymore and finally being allowed to be kids
If I were to be honest, I love the part in PE where Matilda started singing (another song 🙃) about how everyone is yelling and how everything is loud and her rage grows but then it’s quiet, because I relate with it so much, my parents fought a lot and it was mostly because of me, I never knew that a childrens musical remake would make me cry.
This is the song that Tim is most proud of writing.
Same
Let us just take a minute to appreciate Amanda's scream as she is thrown by her pigtails.
edit: MHM BUT WHY DID THIS COMMENT GET SO MANY LIKES?
One of the funniest scenes in kids movies😂 (or "family friendly" movies before anyone screams at me about it not just being for kids)
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*gets thrown*
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*quietly makes firework sounds while being 50 feet in the air*
@Skalman LOL
I’m sorry pigtails girl should have died from that throw.
That scene was hilarious
Honestly I was more invested in the story Matilda was making up than the actual movie
Same tbh
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Ghost dad!
One thing I personally loved about this version is the portrayal of Hortensia. In the original movie (which is my all-time favourite movie btw), she is kind of drab. In this movie, she is a total badass; the Grace Vanderwaal bob, a broken arm, the lollipop... I would not want to go up against her.
"The amount of songs." Seriously? It's a musical. You say you seem to know but four minutes of dialogue feels almost more than most musicals take.
What I've learned going to a lot of musicals, if you're going to a musical for the story first, you should just go to a play.
I don't think you understood "when I grow up" the whole point is that miss honey is grown up but still can't fight the demons that she needs to. It's a beautiful metaphor for how some people have dreams and some people just dream about escaping a hellish childhood
Damnit. Normally I spot those types of messages right away. I really think you’re on the money here. Kudos.
Yeah, the first time I heard 'When I grow up', years ago, I didn't consider it to be that relevant to the plot but it soon became one of my favourite songs in the show (if not my fave) as it's so moving with Miss Honey and the kids imagining a day when they'll be free from Miss Trunchbull and can once again be happy and dare to have dreams. It seems simplistic but has a lot of depth and meaning about how childhood isn't always a happy, carefree time and while some kids are forced to grow up too quickly, adults are still growing up and learning too.
This was the first Matilda song I heard from a Tony Awards performance. And at the time, I think the message of the song was delivered well even without context.
When the song is sang by children, there's a bittersweet whimsy to it, because we as adults know that being "grown up" isn't as magical and free as they think it's gonna be.
In the stage choreography, we actually see the kids playing around a set of swings. They would ride and stand on them, they would also twist and spin its strings as they slide across the floor.
But then the music comes to a halt, the swings stay perfectly still... and an adult walks in singing the same words and sits on of the swings. All of a sudden the context of the lyrics change. And all that's left was the sad reality of being grown up.
Again, at the time I didn't know what Matilda is. But this one song made it clear what its all about and I immediately wanted more of it.
I think part of the reason for casting a (slightly) older actress as matilda is that we've learned in recent years how harmful the industry is to child actors, especially really young ones. out of the ones you mentioned, so many of them have spoken about how damaging those experiences were to go through at such a young age, and you can see how it affected their lives even years after it was over (like macaulay culkin, lindsay lohan, etc.) Even Mara Wilson herself has talked about how hard it was on her. And in a musical adaptation where you need to be a true triple threat to sing and dance as well as starring... I wouldn't wish that pressure on any 5 year old. So I'm not mad at them casting a slightly older actress if it means she was emotionally better prepared to handle all of that.
100% agree.
Plus could you imagine the singing quality if they had a five year old as Matilda?
The Olsen twins
Although I do love that the 1996 movie is the exception to that rule, in that DeVito really, really helped Mara Wilson
Does it also have anything to do with UK child labor laws?
I think Alex was referring to how the movie did not make it clear what Matilda's age was supposed to be. In the original, she explicitly states that she is 6 and a half. I don't know if they did that with this one. It's not about the actress herself.
I understand that this one is based off of the Broadway musical, but I still had issues. The lack of development with miss honey and her family- Its just harder to connect with matilda as a character. Also it really bothered me that it felt open ended with matilda and the Librarian idk maybe im missing the point😭💀
For me the file was closer to the book, at least it had the same sprite that the book had.
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That musical number was made because on Stage they didn't make a kid eat all that,so the Number was fast and bright to distract you from the eating of the cake
The kids spelling “Difficulty” on the original movie lives priceless on my mind. Ms. Trunchbull’s “Why are all these women married”
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mrs D mrs I mrs FFI mrs C mrs U mrs LTY
I know right? The First movie was Very well thought on every scene while this one... Well... It's more of a expextacle without meaning. And representation.
Probably why people see 'diversity' as bad now, because of the lack of actual Deepness on characters and plot
That part was great 🤣
@@filmfangirls9163 Morbius lacked depth and coherence as well, and those were mostly white guys. Does that mean white guys make movies awful by association?
@@ianesgrecia8568 I don't think people see diversity as bad but when you single out a certain race , tell people to watch it purely on it , and focus them down even if they are not even part of the main cast it gets a bit ... dodgy to say the least since most of they time they aren't even held equal but above the others
its the same with all these "female empowerment" movies , empowerment does require each gender to be held on equal grounds and not just one made slapstick and the other the only competent ones. That's sexist not empowerment which a lot of these "female empowerment" shows/movies don't seem to get
One of the things I love about the original film is how much Matilda still loves her family, even when her dad is a crook and cops come after her dad, Matilda still go out of her way to protect her father and family
I didn’t really see that as love so much as Matilda knowing that although her parents neglect her she has a lot of freedom, so if her dad was caught, her freedom would be compromised.
In the musical stage production it ends with Matilda protecting her family from the Mafia by talking them down in Russian. It's a really funny scene and I loved it a lot.
There is a dialogue that kinda goes
"your father has been very rude and very very stupid. He has also been rude to you. When I am done with him he will still be stupid but maybe not as rude, would you like that?"
And Matilda is just like "That is a very tempting offer, but he is still my father."
The Miracle song in the beginning is also a lot more of a theme in the stage production, first in the first song, then a few times by miss honey (most of her songs and ark got cut to kinda change the general meaning of the movie from overcoming trauma to finding family, which is a bit more kid friendly but sad cause that ark was my favourite) and then lastly by the mafia boss when he lets the family go because as rude and stupid the family is, they still managed to put some good in the world and he doesn't wanna kill the family in front of her when she is more in favour of rehabilitation.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809 true but also its little details, like when her mom asks her how was school she immediately wants to share it with her, and the big hug he gives her dad when she gets to go to school the next day
@@cooky2991 oh wow thats dark, i never saw the play, thats interesting
@@bradcha5413t's really good. I wish Alex had talked more about that difference between the stage and the Netflix film instead of comparing it to the 1996 film 😅
I don't know if any one mentioned this, but the trunch in the swing 9:30
gives the ultimate vibe of a the swinging cat scene from Cat in The Hat
Dont you mention that horror from the 70th dimension, that awfully produced fever dream, that fuckin ad in a *CAN!*
The original Ms. Trunchbull literally was played by the perfect actress. There is nobody that could have performed that role better than she did!
I think Emma’s performance is closer to the book, while Pam’s is more comedic.
The original Matilda was terrifyingly weird
Agreed, I still can't believe that I was allowed to watch it as a child! 🤣
Fr I prefer this version than that thing-
Fr how so?
Some of the scenes still haunt my nightmares 😅
It’s based on a Dahl book. It comes with the territory lol
Fun Facts? :
-I did Matilda Jr Musical this summer and then the adaptation came out
-The Adaptation actually didn't include all the songs from the original so there are a fewer songs in the movie than the actual stage production
Rip Loud,,, that song was my favorite 😭
@@laurencarlson1235 I was hoping they would include that song 🥲
i remember doing a matilda play in middle school. our theater teacher had this weird tactic of giving us 2 songs at a time and at some point getting new songs stoped being fun and just killed me a little
@@Princessitaandreita I’ve done three productions of Matilda, and my first role was Mrs. Wormwood so I am DEFINITELY a little partial when I say she is the best character and deserved more in this adaptation 😂
Im really mad they didn't include "This little girl", Ms.Honeys song, as is gives her character a lot of depth.
info on when I grow up- basically, the kids singing are saying how when they grow up they will have more freedom. notice how they say “I will be _____ enough” that is because of miss trunchbull implying that they aren’t good enough, or the motto “babinatum eat maggitum” also implying that she hates kids. anyhow, I found this video so funny even with a different perspective/opinion on the film. :)
Say what yall will but in any versuon, Amanda Thwip being launched inti the sky will always be the funniest thing ever 💀
Rip amanda
I think one of the biggest problems I had with this film is the relationship between Matilda and Ms. Honey. Instead of building their relationship they just focus on songs and the circus story. The cottage scene feels really out of place because Ms. Honey and Matilda barely know eachother. In this movie, even though it's not in the book, I feel like Ms. Phelps should've adopted her instead, because they were much more compatible. And at the beginning of the movie you see them already acting like bestfriends. The film did this dumb "oh she accidently knows her life story and this wasn't in the book" thing instead of focusing on the MAIN CHARACTERS relationships!
Idk that just made me kind of upset I'd still rate this movie like a 7/10
The reason Mrs. Phelps didn't adopt Matilda was because she didn't know what Matilda's parents were really like, she thought her parents loved her, therefore she felt like she didn't have the right to take Matilda away from her parents. Also the director of this movie was the director of the musical, and only read the book when creating the it, so it wouldn't make sense for Mrs. Phelps to just adopt out of nowhere. Also Matilda doesn't just accidently know Miss Honey's backstory, her knowing Miss Honey's life is clearly just one of the things that came with Matilda's telekinetic powers.
@@Camp_Vs.I understand that, but I just don't really think the Ms. Honey/circus story was altogether necessary. I feel the ending would've felt more natural if Matilda and Honey had an actual bond to speak of besides knowing her life story (like the book) I'm saying I wish they had a connection like Mrs. Phelps did with Matilda, but that's really just my personal opinion, no disrespect or anything.
@@ellaart7083 I felt like the only connection Mrs. Phelps and Matilda had was that they both liked books and reading.
@@Camp_Vs. true, that was a part of their relationship, but you could see Mrs. Phelps wanted to make sure she was okay at home and cared about Matilda
@@Camp_Vs. Mrs. Phelps was the one trying to figure out if Matilda's home life was okay, though. She knew something was up, but Matilda wouldn't tell her. She felt much more like a responsible adult than Ms. Honey in this story and a much more capable guardian than a teacher who talks to Matilda about her home life one time.
I personally prefer the actual stage version because of how creative the choreography and stage gimmicks are (I love the choice of casting all the older kids as actual adults)
I saw the play on stage a good few years back. I remember enjoying it a lot. I feel like it stayed truer to the book than the Netflix adaptation. Maybe I’m just misremembering tho, it’s been awhile.
Oh wow that’s what we did this year for our school play for Matilda.
I love the aesthetics of the Netflix adaptation, however I agree that there was so much missing with the storyline probably because I noticed that they were missing a lot from the broadway musical it was based on which was slightly sad however I completely understand why they didn’t put it all in because it would be a much longer movie resulting in a higher budget and less chance of profiting, but if we had those missing scenes it would probably have a different rating.
The swing scene on the stage was amazing. And the dance during Revolting Children. But I do love what they did with this film!
would love to know where i can watch it. I can only listen to it sadly
wait until someone tells him that they cut a load of songs from the original musical for this film😭
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The PERFORMANCE seemed effortless, but Pam actually had to sit for prosthetics and her body suit as well.
I have seen Matilda on broadway and I have to say the way the music flows, the choreography, and the sets are amazing. The when I grow up song in that is beautifully done. So impressed by the talents of children in a Broadway production like that.
It's a circus
I loved the choreography for the Broadway production of "When I Grow Up" with the swings. I wish the movie did something similar. I appreciate that they were trying to take advantage of the movie medium by making everything bigger, and being able to do things that just couldn't be done on stage, but I feel like some of the charm from the stage production was lost along the way.
I saw it live when I was a kid. It’s amazing!
@@happychaosofthenorth as someone who played bruce (not on Broadway lmao) the swings were pretty damn cool. I think when i grow up feels like a waste of time in the movie because it’s more to ease the audience back into the show after intermission. Movies just don’t work like that. There are many other examples and thats why I believe movie musicals shouldn’t be made. Filmings of the original musical work because it’s just the musical with extra cinematography. Some things can be lost (like a assume the telly song was cut for the movie) but it is overall good. Movies should be made with the plan to male them musical, taking a whole new original angle. Or, just don’t make it a musical. Problem solved.
Yea also I kinda wished he compared it more the the bway musical bc that’s what THIS movie is based off of instead of like the og movie
Honestly, even if you think the original movie was better or not, the point of the new one isn’t to remake the one that people hold so dearly to their hearts, it is a movie remake of the musical, Matilda. This allows fans of the musical to see a representation of it on screen and I believe that this movie achieved that very well as the songs have amazing choreography, singing and the overall look of the movie is really cool.
Well said!!
But that's the thing. I'm sure that people have very high standards for anyone that re-creates Matilda, especially because of how good and fun it was-- and how the story really stuck out. You can make musicals, but you can't just sing and dance all the time. You can't just leave the plot and make it wave goodbye?
I think that's why people are often a bit harsh on it.. but if you don't compare it to the first Matilda-- it's actually cool I guess.
@@gooseinferior for musical theater fans the story wasn't waved goodbye and was found in the music. Musicals have singing and dancing to tell the story. For us who love the musical, and for me who loved the 1996 film, the musical did a great job with a different retelling of the story. I'm afraid musical theater is shafted many many times.
They changed up the characters completely. While it is an “adaptation”, it doesn’t feel like Matilda per se. it is a nice musical.. but for me it isn’t a very good version of Matilda. But oh well- people have their opinions and you are a people. So, I’ll leave this comment be.
I watched the musical when I was very young, and honestly I don't think it needed a movie adaptation.
Dude 4:10 got me dying on the floor 💀
I was kinda shook when I started this video because it seems you changed your format a bit. I personally like analysis/commentary videos and with the updated animation it flowed nicely. It was just the intro that threw me because I was not expecting this kind of content. I'm also pleasantly surprised that you fit all this in under 19 minutes.
I loved the original Matilda movie, I watched it over and over as a kid. That soundtrack and Danny Devito narrating is just so comforting lyrics nostalgic to me.
I agree that the low camera angles really did make it feel like the movie was shot from a child's perspective. The scene where all the kids are playing at lunch and find a salamander is just pure distilled childhood right there.
Amen! David Newman's score for that film was incredible. I still listen to it! As for Danny DeVito, even as such an unlikeable character, I still couldn't hate him (even as a small child watching the film, haha).
"iTs A sNaKe!1!!11!!1"
Um it's actually a noot
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That version of "The TRUNCH" is Untrunchable
You have to remember this was primarily made for a British audience where practically everybody knows the story of Matilda like the back of their hand.
Even the children this was supposedly made for? No
@@MaxOakland Roald Dahl books were THE books to read for children in the 70s, 80s and 90s in the UK. Ask anyone who went to school during that time and they'll tell you their favourite books from that time. Mine are the BFG, The Witches, James and the Giant Peach, The Twits, Boy and Going Solo. Matilda was also good. I literally bought another Roald Dahl compilation of short stories a month ago to please my inner child's need for fantasy. So, when the original films were made, they were based on the books - that we all had either read, or read after watching the film. Roald Dahl, amazing author.
@@MaxOakland yes lmao, it is taught in year 1 to all children as part of the start of their English lessons
@Chillin_Aspect Not true. I used to watch the hell out of that movie cuz I loved and still love it so much. So do many other people.
@@MaxOaklandI knew about Matilda since I was five....and then read it at 8 years old. She's very well known to children.
people dont realise how good this bloody editing is
I LOVE the new format.. or what you did different in this video because I could tell you put a lot of effort into using new sort of shots and angles.. so yeah keep going we notice!!!
I think actually this film is a fantastic middle point between the movie and the stage version. A lot of the 'new' stuff you've mentioned is a huge part of the stage production, and considering how different the two are, i think this adaptation does a fantastic job of incorporating elements of both.
Some songs from the stage version got cut, and others got moved about or re-worked so that they are in slightly different contexts than they originally were, so that might be why some of them feel a bit jarring, but i heavily recommend going and watching the stage version or finding some clips of it online - you'd have a new appreciation for the choices made in the movie!
Yep i think it’s important to moreso judge it based on that than an (imo) irrelevant version
100% i think a lot of the judgements are misguided considering that the new film is based on the stage play (and if you look into the making of the stage play they deliberately avoided re watching the original film so that it felt like a separate entity)
Yeah. It's tricky, because obviously it's sold as a film, and thus it's obviously gonna be compared to the older one and picked apart like this, but really, because it's an almost exact repeat of the musical (aside from some cuts for time), it's more like a spectacle for people that haven't seen the stage musical/want an alternative for it.
"Musicals directly adapted to film" like Les Mis, In the Heights or The Producers have very different goals and intentions for the audience than "film musicals" like most Disney stuff (and even further removed from normal films like the original Matilda), and this means they usually have a weird feeling flow and writing compared to them.
What hits home for me with Mathilda, is that it's a real-world response to fairytales. There is this little girl, and she is abused by her parents, and a horrible headmaster, but she gets a fairy Godmother who is kind, and loving, and helps her grow. But instead of how it is in the fairytales, Ms. Honey isn't a magical, all-powerful Glinda. She's a person with her own struggles, and suffers the same abuse that Mathilda is suffering, despite being grown up. And so the audience learns that even grown-ups don't have all the answers, and that even kids can be the hero, the all-powerful magical being. And that's the draw. The CHILD is finding the bravery to help the ADULT get free from the abuse she hasn't been able to escape by herself.
Suffice it to say, I don't think it's a concept that lends itself to being explored in musical form, and I'll probably not be watching the new movie.
You probably don't care, but the way they adapt a scene between Matilda making up her own story and retelling Honey's is heartbreaking and beautiful.
You should watch the stage version instead. There were many scenes that were left out of the new movie that help it make more sense.
Agreed.
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The bit where THE TRUNCH throws the kid, I appreciate that you layered Sigma’s boss theme from Mega Man X4 over that. Good to know another Mega Fan of Mega Man.
my onnnly three complaints about the musical are
1) i felt like the ending (when the kids get rid of trunch, and ms honey asks her dad if she can adopt matilda) was too rushed. I feel like they spent the most time on the beginning / middle of the musical that the end was just too rushed & less emotional
2) not showing the house scene where matilda scares the crap out of trunch
3) the "much too good for children" line 💀 it's probably my favorite quote from the original movie
As someone who’s seen the musical I do think it’s funny you thought there were to many songs and no character arc for matilda because many of the songs that were cut were the songs that completed how it’s actually mis honey’s character that grows over the story. The only songs in that outline they left in were the hammer, my house, and when I grow up, since pathetic and loud got cut.
I loved pathetic and this little girl because they actually develop Miss Honey as a character and make her more of a character than a plot device. Loud is also pretty good because it shows the audience what her parents are like and actually contains quite a few truths about life.
And Telly got cut too ☹️
"There's no plot in this musical" = "my one brain cell gets overwhelmed when the lyrics and character emotions are plot"
As a person who’s watched the musical irl. I can definitely say that most of the stuff in this musical movie is just a part of the musical 😭😭 including the whole miss honey backstory thing
OK... And?
@@VicenteTorresAliasVitswow so edgy 😱
@@Eric123_lol yes very edgy but still, I want to know, why is the movie adaptation of a musical, being a musical and using the plot of the musical because it is a adaptation a bad thing
@@scratchpaper345 what?
Exactly
I'll say it again. I love all of the, not dumb, but not like deep deep analysis videos, but i think its also awesome when Alex puts in these deep segments/really thoughtful analysis of shows/movies and their impact
As someone in the musical, I was so excited when this came out and it was to nice to see songs from a musical that me and my freinds took part in.
The parents (especially the mom) get a lot more stage time in the Broadway musical and features vignettes of Matilda trying to teach them about books when they berate her
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@@danielwells5871 it was also on Broadway for a short time
Exactly, and it almost was in this adaptation as well. Like the actress that played Matilda's mother rehearsed the musical's song Loud for months, only for them to cut it in the final version. Like, Loud is a very good song that shows her parents a lot more as people, and I think, even though would've made the adaptation longer, it was definitely needed
Matilda in the musical used reading as an escape from her traumatizing life, which makes the line “reading is like a holiday in my head” make a lot more sense. Also, the creator showed more to the fact that Matilda was traumatized when she sang a song about disassociating while getting yelled at by miss Trenchbull. Traumatized people, like Matilda, sometimes will unwilling disassociate when something bad is happening to them, because it's your brain's way of protecting you from experiencing another traumatizing event. So I think the creator wanted us to know her love for books was because she was trying to escape reality.
Yes! and I think THAT is what this movie-musical did better than the 1996 movie (and perhaps the book but, its been a while since I've read it). I greatly appreciated how they portrayed her disassociating, because I did the EXACT same thing. It made me feel that connection to Matilda that the book and the 1996 movie did. It happens again when her father yells at her and she makes up a story where a father is rescuing her from the abuse and hurt being done to her. I did the exact same thing when I was younger.. watching that scene hurt. The connection with this character ended there though. Over all, I still think the 1996 movie told the full story better. Like the story in this movie-musical was too focused on Ms. Honey and HER growth as a character; all the character development Matilda got in the books and 1996 movie was given to miss Honey in this musical. Yes we see more of Matilda's dissociation and its shown very accurately, but the rest of her character isn't given the same kind of treatment. The story is supposed to be about Matilda.
100% I agree with you!!!
The creator? Do you mean Tim Minchin?
Please, please watch the musical.
I mean the original musical with Lauren Ward, over 110K views. Bootleg on YT.
Quite frankly... this video thinks the musical missed the point of Matilda, and i don't get it. Quiet is masterpiece characterizing her. Did he understood the lyrics at all?
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i would really encourage you to listen to 'quiet' from the musical again, and maybe read the lyrics. Matilda is incredibly neglected by her parents and traumatized and uses school and learning to dissociate from this. The musical focuses more closely on the elements of the book of Matilda gaining control of her environment because she feels so unstable and like she has no control.
The one thing I think the original did better was the goodbye between her and her dad and family. The original dad was scummy and abrasive but it felt like although he didnt get his daughter he did want her to be a part of the family or at least be 'normal' like them. So when they went their separate ways, you could at least get the feeling that he does love her and accepts that while he doesn't understand her, she deserved to be with those who do.
The new one was straight up a jerk through & through, who made it clear he didnt enjoy having her around which made me wonder why he and his wife even kept her instead of putting her up for adoption or something, the ending goodbyes between them is a bit more jarring because he suddenly shows affection (what ever that was) where up to that point, there really was none.
Edit: also, the og one is Danny DeVito. Fight me. >:(
Danny devito is the greatest no one is going to fight u on that my dude.
@@mymyhi9921 My thoughts exactly!
It's better in the stage show. Matilda actually saves her family from the Mafia. Her father actually gains some respect for her, and when after having that moment with her his hat comes off on its own, which I much prefer than the movie where we see Matilda release the glue.
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Completely agreed. I know this one is probably closer to the book, but the Mara Wilson one is just too iconic to beat
I commented this elsewhere but what I loved about Matilda was how, at its heart, it’s about recognizing abusive and neglectful adults. It is whimsical and otherworldly when the parents are mean, or the director is crazy. When it’s only Matilda and miss honey, it is cute and charming, because it is the right place for Matilda to be. Idk the musical lost the “found family” aspect of the story, and how one shouldn’t tolerate abuse, even when it comes from your own parents
"and how one shouldn’t tolerate abuse, even when it comes from your own parents"
did you watch the musical??? There's a massive part of the plot that deals with ms honey accepting matilda s family, and not tolerating abuse from Trunchbull as Matilda learns to do the same.
I mean she sleeps in a dirty attic(seriously why are people overlooking that).... And poor Ms Honey was brutally abused and thrown in a basement. There are many talks of abuse in this.
As much as I remember about the stage production there was a lot more character development about her dad. I feel like they had to cut a lot of it out to fit into a movie length and still keep all the songs.
THIS had me SHOOK when I heard how good the songs were, but what really caught my eye was the choreography and how synced the children were-
One thing really bothered me. Matilda's powers. In the book she needs to practice just to keep a bit of chalk up and she's exhausted after spilling the glass of water. I thought she was kinda overpowered in the first film but it's nothing compared with this one. She is bassicly a god, I mean really, a gigant chain monster? That would have put her in a 10 year old coma if it was in the book
Agreed! Also something not many have commented on, is at the end of the book, Matilda looses her powers. Her abilities are a manifestation of her mind not being challenged enough even when she gets into school, so when the Trunch is ousted, and miss honey adopts her, she gets the education and challenge she needs, and her powers naturally fade away.
Yes! Me and my sister watched this movie and it was so disappointing how the cup of water just immediately floated, in the original movie, the cup not even moving gave Matilda and miss honey some trust because miss honey immediately believed her, no questions asked.
Think the stage version has the right amount of powers. Both films have too much imo. Just because they can do special effects, doesn’t mean they should.
I think the flipped dynamic between Matilda and Ms Honey in the musical, where Ms Honey is the one to learn a moral lesson from Matilda, is more impactful. It makes sense for a grown woman who has experienced a lifetime worth of mistreatment to learn a lesson from a child whose idealism hasn't been worn away yet. Children intuitively have very strong senses of what is and isn't fair. They often know the world's not fair, it's just that they haven't yet stopped believing that it can be.
The song, "When I Grow Up" perfectly encapsulates this. All the children dream of perfect futures, although they'll still have to "fight the creatures that you have to fight beneath the bed". As Ms Honey recites those lyrics, she's backed by Matilda, a child who has always known that life isn't fair, singing of one's responsibility to do what's right, with the former finally taking on the responsibility of a grown up as one to fight for their own fair treatment, in her case by her aunt.
Hasn't that always been the case though?
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@@bluebird1914 eh. I feel like in the og movie it was the opposite
Alex, you're hilarious and amazing - always innovating! Loved the new animation at 1:17 and the acapella tune at 5:59. Thanks for all you do and Happy New Year!
One part of this movie that wasn’t resolved was that the dad cheats gangsters outta a car and they have to flea the country to avoid being killed, like it probably isn’t hard to figure out that Maltilda is their daughter, so the parents giving her away kinda feels a bit sinster.
But in the original movie, it’s cops the family are running from. And by legally freeing Matilda it shows the family has at least some kindness in their hearts.
Also there’s the mum is actually a character in the 90s movie. She knows she cannot understand her daughter, she knows that they are completely different people
But she still picks up that pen knowing she’s giving her daughter a better life
While Mara Wilson will always be Matilda to me, Alisha Weir did a phenomenal job, given how demanding the role is, and how Matilda is in almost every scene. Also, she's Irish in real life, and dons a convincing British accent.
*convincing English accent* northern Irish are British too
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@@pippi2285 no they aren’t. They’re part of the UK (the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
@@NoName-ls6jn Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ireland itself is not part of the UK
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The original play was longer, so there was obviously more time for the story to take place. All this stuff was in the original play, and there is only one new song right at the end of the film. You think there are too many songs? They cut out a few!!!
(Btw crying over the loss of Michael and 'Telly')
@@DoNotreadmyprofilephoto nice cover 👍
But movie musicals always have fewer songs, also stage musicals can go up to 3 hours long.
Also loud would have been amazing!
…and “Loud” and like-all the characterization for Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood!
I know Michael Wormwood didn't play a big role in the Story, but I can't help but feel bad for him for getting cut.
All the songs are an absolute bop
"I think it's a very good musical movie, but I don't think it's a very good matilda movie" Yeah I get that.
As a big fan of the stage musical- the reason why Matilda is telling the stories rather than sitting and reading them- is because the directors realised that watching someone on stage reading a book would not be the most visually interesting and best use of the medium of theatre. In the show Matilda goes to a physical library to see Mrs Phelps where she comes up with her story, and you know from the context that she already has a close relationship with the library and books.
haven't seen the the stage play, but making it Miss Honey's back story is dumb. Also instead of her telling the story make her sing about love for books with a dance conation, the songs in a Musical are suppose to help tell the story, In Beauty and the beast, a Musical shows Belle reading and singing her joy of reading books.
The issue isn't that it was changed from books to storytelling, it's that in the film we've lost why she connected to it in the first place
@@MrSophire I do think the Miss Honey/circus stories in the play are a bit too long and clunky but are a nice addition to the story.
@@dissapointed_spaghetti The songs Matilda's parents sing in the musical (that were cut for this film) "Loud" and "Telly", were about how they think Matilda's interest in books and reading is strange (in their view). I think the film misses that contrast between Matilda and her family, but understand that songs make the film longer.
@@sarahbourne1872 Haven't seen the play but the more I hear about it the more I don't want to see it. sorry it feels like they are making Matilda a Mary sue, but I like I said haven't seen the play
Hats off to Danny DeVito for directing the 1996 Matilda! He did a great job!
And if I recall correctly, the child actress's mom passed away during time of filming (or once the movie came out?) And Danny DeVito took care of her
@@WYIN98 It was during filming! And her on-screen parents became like second parents to her :' )
My dad and his girlfriend took me and my brother to go see this musical last night because of how much we all love the Original movie and book, and I will say, I liked it more than I thought I would due to the fact that I hate musicals. I have the same complaints as Alex though. But it was fun and I got to meet the actors.
This was the first musical that I ever performed and it was amazing to see it on the big screen and hear all the songs I knew by heart. Lots of memories
The movie actually cut out a few songs that are centered and focused on Ms. Honey's development as a character which is why I believe the song "When I grow up" exists (Just because it highlights that adults are still scared of bullies themselves contrary to what children might believe). As a matter of fact, I think that the main character in the Broadway musical should be Ms. Honey since she gets more development than Matilda. I think it focused more on her ability to stand up to her own bully
Edit: just thought I should add I haven’t actually seen the musical but I have been a big fan of the track for years and it is the impression I got by just listening to the songs.
When I grow up, it was about miss honey growing up. And the kids and her still need to grow up. It shows how she still wants to grow up. If that makes sense.
Man i was pissed with these cuts, they are essential for the end to be more deep
In the stage version you do get to see Miss Honey go on more of a satisfying emotional journey- I was cast in a production of Matilda pre covid and the director had a talk with all of us at the callback about how he interpreted Miss Honey as the true lead of the show
I was so sad they cut out the song right before she goes to see Trunchbull the first time
The same for the parents too. You got to know more of Mrs Wormwood through Loud (which then made Quiet that much more impactful) and Mr Wormwood through Telly (rip Michael). Small but important songs to show just how different their daughter is from them.
The new one is very flashy (which makes sense for Broadway) but that makes it feel like a fever dream of a movie. The first one felt like it had more depth and things were paced out and shown better for a movie/book adaptation. They are two different mediums though, I just prefer the earlier one.
The new one is more trying to capture the extravaganzaness of a broadway musical
Because That’s your problem You guys really need to stop putting sequels/remakes/reboots/adaptations in the shadow of the originals and just let them have their own independent successes and be treated as something completely separate it’s a nasty habit that needs to be stopped
@@madnessarcade7447 this is just the wrong attitude to have. With this attitude all we’ll get in Hollywood is remakes. All remakes should be compared to the original because they share the same story. Comparing remakes to the original is like comparing older sibling to younger sibling.
@@madnessarcade7447 nobody is trying to put them in the shadows but the whole point is to improve/ bring a new perspective or expand upon the story . If the new one doesn't improve or add anything to the story then what's the point .
@@kjl4983 yea and that’s incredibly unhealthy for that younger sibling’s self esteem
The younger sibling hates it and wants to make his own mark
I've heard the soundtrack for the OG musical like million times and if they had included all of the songs (also included them completely) the message at the end would be so different. Like for example the beginning with the song Miracle, the doctor also sings some poignant lyrics mocking how parents treat all children like perfect angels and implies that basically makes them all awful brats and that it's the parents' fault. Like one of the key lyrics is "Is it is some modern miracle of calculus,
That such frequent miracles don't render each one un-miraculous?"
Another bit of that song missing is showing how Ms. Wormwood is annoyed at Matilda being born not just bc she is born but rather bc she was supposed to have a tango contest that exact same day, adding nuance to her character.
Honestly, if the had just kept that (without even including the other things missing from the original musical) the story presented would be so much different
ok here we go,
another thing I thought when i was watching the end (when Matilda's family are escaping the country because her dad did an illegal), the 2022 version kinda shows it to be all emotional and that her dad is gonna miss her and straight after an intense musical number, she's like "no... i wanna stay cuz all my friends and hopes and dreams are here even though I've just been traumatized by a megalomaniac of a headmistress" and her dad is like "aww... ok you can stay here then i guess 😥"
But in the 1996 version she's got it all sorted out, like she literally *ALREADY* had the adoption papers and her dad was like "aight, I you're staying here. bye then." and just left
like, the parents really had no holding value in the 2022 movie and were basically just side characters; and yea it makes for an emotional ending, but i feel like it makes the audience torn, and its not as satisfying as the 1996 version where its like "FINALLY! HER PARENTS ARE GONE!!" its like "aw. k bye then."
also she doesn't have a brother in the 2022 version which i feel like kinda changes the family dynamic because at least in the 1996 version her parents were at least parents to one child (her brother) but in the 2022 version they're just like "oops. i guess we have a kid now. oh well they can just exist and we'll call her names on occasion." unlike the 1996 version in which they actively make her life a living hell
had to rant. sorry.
thank you for coming to my TED talk.
What really bothered me was the whole "two wrongs don't make a right" thing. Because the lady repeats it and I'm thinking Matilda is gonna learn THAT lesson but at the end... not really, revenge always worked for her.
EDIT: Ok,since obviously my comment is being misinterpreted:
I'm not talking about the moral of the movie. I agree Matilda was in the right and we obviously need to make a stand.
My comment was about the WRITING. I'm not saying that should be the lesson, I'm saying putting that line there and repeat it makes the audience think it's going to have some effect on the story. It's like saying "hear this, pay attention to this, it's gonna come back later!" But it doesn't. And that's BAD WRITING
Yes! I was confused waiting for that arc to show up even just a little but it's like they threw it in there like a "Don't try this at home, kids" disclaimer but then didn't show any consequences for acting out of revenge. At least the OG movie she believed it was justice based on her father's words.
And her astounding ability to maintain a terrifying amount of threatening eye contact. She really was astounding, but there were so many parts of her scenes in particular that were so uncomfortable to sit through. Going to rate it really high, but it was a really interesting thing to sort through during something during “kid movie night”.
I think the point of that is that lessons adults give to children about bullies don't really work? It was the same about telling the headmistress, kinda saying adults don't have the full context of a bullied kid and their well meaning advice don't always work?
And then Matilda says “unless they do”. More people need to learn that lesson and not be a doormat like Ms. Honey. Standing up for yourself even if it is “wrong” is the only way you are going to make things better.
in the book and the original, it was a lesson Matilda misinterpret. Her father told her "when people do something wrong they need to be punished" So when her parents and other people were bad to her she "punished them". both the book and the original said that this is wrong, that there is a difference between standing up oneself from revenge,
The song about growing up 'When I grow up' is actually a classic Matilda the Musical song so it was kinda necessary in the movie. I remember being in a musical theatre group when I was 8 and this was a song we sung cause it was popular. However some of the new songs aren't as necessary.
There's only one new song...
Yeah you couldn’t have Matilda without naughty or when I grow up😊
@@9A7S6 and they’ve cut some!
@@blake4604In my opinion, it’s fine that they cut some songs. Because this movie had so many songs anyway
@@anikayap6777 yep- one in particular I don’t think would work as well on screen as it did in stage (Telly).
Man, this has to be your best review yet. I think you should make a new version of your Matilda 1996 review, but man, this was awesome.
I hadn't really noticed before that in the original movie the camera shots are lower! I think that's such a good observation of an incredible detail the movie made to show things from the perspective of kids 😊
It’s not a remake, it’s a different adaptation of a stage play of a book! Matilda was my first book I bought myself at 11, it’s not changing anything that’s gone before.
Thank you 🤣 it wasn't bothering me at first but now it's getting silly that people are not researching the musical.
The thing is the new movie wasn’t actually based off the old version, it was more based off of the actual musical. I don’t think you ever mentioned that, but it really is fun to see a musical get turned into an actual movie
Edit: Sorry to start a war- but somebody DID tell me it was said in the beginning. I know that now, but it was just like the whole video was being called nonsense because of the added songs. It also changed a lot from the original broadway musical which I feel would be more accurate to compare from.
no one seems to understand this.
It's So nice to see these comments.
Literally the first minute.
@@Biostar96 he knew it was a musical and said that but through the whole dang vid it kept calling the 1996 film "the original" so he still considers it a remake.
@@filmfangirls9163 It doesn't really imply "remake," it implies that they're telling the same story and the original one came before (the original was a book, but as a film, Matilda was the og). If he said "the first film" people would still complain about the same thing. He'd have to be annoyingly specific the whole video to avoid misunderstandings. People just get hotblooded over their favorite media, it happens.
I used to hate that Shrek the Musical always got shit on because I actually prefer it to the og movie, but now I just accept my fate as the dumbass who likes a musical fanfiction. Basically, the same goes for Matilda, but the other way around. I much prefer the (first) movie over the musical because the musical is nonsense to me while the movie moved me.
I'm a sucker for people getting thrown away and finding other people who were also thrown away and adopting each other I guess.
he always finds a way to make me laugh uncontrollably
I can't believe he forgot about the part where the kid burps and the burp fumes travel in a cloud across the room to Miss Trunchbull and she sniffs at sniffs and licks her lips at a child's magic cake burp. That part made me pause the movie and questions what I was doing with my life.
I think a lot of people are setting themselves up for failure when they go into this movie with the intention of comparing it to the Danny DeVito/Mara Wilson version, because they should be viewed as entirely different entities of an original story.
The musical originally opened in London before transferring to Broadway, so I think it feels more suited to British audiences generally (i.e the jokes, direction etc). Whereas the 1996 version is much more American and it reflects that. Both adaptions take liberties and different story directions from the books and as a result create very separate pieces.
As a musical theatre fan, the musical version is an absolute masterclass. The score and lyrics are truly brilliant and they represent the innocence of youth and the harsh reality of adulthood beautifully. I think the musical also has a much more mature and darker tone, which is fitting for Roald Dahl's preference with story telling. The creator didn't take any influence from the 1996 version, which is why they're so different and should be treated as such. I know many other fans who believe that the musical version is more mature and dark compared the og movie, as there are many creative choices which strive to resonate with both young and old audiences. 'When I Grow Up' is a brilliant example of that, as it represents the innocent view of adulthood that children have, giving younger audiences a chance to feel connected and understood with the characters, while older audiences feel nostalgic and sentimental as they reflect on their own childhood and the experience they had as they became adults.
Mara Wilson's Matilda is much more light hearted and 'warm' if that makes sense. It's still a brilliant movie and still has great acclaim, I equally love both versions and I think that's how they should remain. But the two can't be compared at all, they both deserve to be viewed as standalone equals that tell the same story but in unique and different ways.
I'd very much recommend trying to listen to the musical's score more, especially with the subtitles/lyrics on as you'll truly begin to see the mastery of the storytelling. That's why there are so many songs, as the weave the story between the dialogue and action beautifully. I think watching clips or slime tutorials (bootlegs of the musical) would provide a better understanding of the show's storytelling.
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They can be compared, you are doing it in your comment.
@@carolinagavilan3620 educating people on the stage musical and talking about the different adaptations is not comparing them. It's giving educated information. Something Alex should have done.
Yeah this movie is pretty much completely unrelated to the original so even using that as a premise for an argument is an automatic failure.
The movie still doesn't reflect this and kinda sucked tbh
I absolutely agree about the pacing. It really felt like we didn't get to know any of the characters throughout the movie. Especially with so much time spent on the story Matilda is telling which is such a weird addition to the story. Like why does she know Miss Honey's life story randomly? It's never explained. It's just random.
Im pretty sure it was in the book, correct me if im wrong
@@yfk.abcdefghijk Just reread it and I can say it definitely wasn’t.
@@SweenyTodd98 oh ok maybe im thinking of the musical
I agree, and think that goes back to the songs. Like he said, there were so many that things like character and plot development had to be super rushed.
My issue is that you totally CAN have character and plot development with lots of songs (my favorite stage musical is Les Miserables, for crying out loud, which is 100% singing). You just need to incorporate those things into the songs. In Matilda though each song focused on a single point and sang about it, so everything was on hold, or at least slowed down significantly, during the song.
this is based off the musical.
Bro your editing and animations are underrated
13:41 Really Cracked me up
I loved the book as a kid, so I was assuming it would be similar to the book and it wasn't, which felt like a great disservice (cutting out the brother, the relationship with her parents and a more in-depth development of Miss Honey). My favourite part in the book is when she first discovers her powers and spends literal months pranking her brother and parents - it felt like such a great payback. I haven't seen any of the films include that.
The first film definitely does a lot of the pranking part. I agree though, having seen the stage musical I think the musical writers ended up adapting 'children in Roald Dahl books' more than Matilda as a character. They do however have a lot more in the musical about her family, which was clearly cut for time in the adaptation.
@@ellencoleman4604 The 96' had a good chunk of it, but pranks like the parrot in the chimney were left out (I remember asking my friends if they had a parrot because I wanted to do something similar and we didn't even have a chimney haha). I have never seen the broadway musical, so that's why I just focused on the films that had been made
@@ccrraazzyyggiirrll Because That’s your problem You guys really need to stop putting sequels/remakes/reboots/adaptations in the shadow of the originals and just let them have their own independent successes and be treated as something completely separate it’s a nasty habit that needs to be stopped
She doesn't prank her family with her powers. She does that in the first half with no powers.
@@madnessarcade7447 Independent from the book? On its own yeah it’s awesome, but this was an adaptation from the broadway musical and the broadway musical is an adaptation of the book. It’s a pretty stupid idea to ask people to treat things independently if the idea, storyline and characters are NOT original
I think the movie and plot being rushed and loosing part of the whole story is due to the movie being just about 2 hours, while the stage production is longer giving a bit more space for the story and in between songs. But since the movie had to cram all characters and songs in and still be a watchable length they had to sacrifice a lot, leaving at times only the bare bones of the story left. “Revolting Children” is not supposed to prove Trunchbull right, it’s supposed to show them taking back their free will and minds, the ability to think and stand up for themselves. They are finally able to just BE children and be a bit naughty or act out without fear of literal torture in retribution. This is kind of lost with how it’s performed in the movie
I’m actually playing Miss Trunchbull in our school production and I am genuinely happy and the songs were amazing. 3:42 WELL NO CRAP ITS A MUSICAL. but my favourite is smell of rebellion and I love playing it 😝
I love you're videos I've literally watched all of these videos of this style of yours, except the Riverdale. I binged your videos when I found you, lol no I'm kind of bummed how long I have to wait for a new one. Would love it if you were able to post more! But I understand the may not be possible. Love your videos Alex! ❤️❤️
16:34 “Haven’t I just told you you could neva be on my wigga Matildas level, she a real gangster” - Alternate reality Trunch
am I wrong or does every time Alex brakes and laughs it’s like 12x times funnier
the part about the introduction to matilda's hobby really hits me so hard
I only had one thing that was odd with this film. The dad. He wasn't as angry/scary as he was in the original. He was more... funny. Like when he tried ripping the book up 😂 Great job though, just not how I thought Mr Wormwood was gonna be