I honestly really love the ending in this musical/film. In the book, when Matilda found out they were moving, she ran to Miss Honey’s house and practically begged her to ask her parents to let her live with her, which Miss Honey gratefully accepted. In the 1996 film with Mara Wilson, Matilda asked her parents to let her live with Miss Honey, along with already having adoption papers, but Miss Honey was already on board with the idea of taking her in. This version however has Miss Honey be the one to ask if Matilda wanted to live with her. I love this ending out of the three renditions of this story because throughout the entire musical/film, Matilda believes she can only rely on herself and nobody would ever do anything for her, so to have someone as kind as Miss Honey want to take care of her is beyond heartwarming. Not to mention the hug she gets at the end is also sweet because it’s obvious she’s been deprived of any positive human contact, hugging being one of them.

This might be my favourite adaptation tbh, the children are all so incredible in this

I absolutely loved the original Matilda, but the direction they took this musical was so inspired and well written it actually blows my mind

Yours is my favourite reaction I’ve yet seen to this movie. You noticed little details and didn’t compare it to the Devito movie like everyone seems to feel compelled to do. I love the musical, love this film, and loved seeing you react to it. Bravo all around!

I love how he's taking notes of everything they say 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

"Heavily inspired by real events." He says having no idea exactly how true that is.

Tim Minchin is a lyrical genius

I love this story so much and the musical is probably my favorite version of it. Cleverness, compassion, and courage triumph over stupidity, cruelty, and selfishness--an important and timely lesson.

the school song is so clever they sang it twice for you to learn the alphabets the second time

We loved this movie. We were already fans for the Danny DeVito version as well as the Broadway version.

Alisha Weir, from Dublin, Ireland, was awesome in this movie. She played her part with perfection, evidently having put many a long hour into learning her lines, her songs, her expressions, her movements. Astonishing performance from one so young. Wishing her all the best and many more great movies to come.

I haven’t seen anyone else notice this, but young Miss Honey has braided pigtails - maybe that’s why Miss Trunchbull hates them?

It’s such a well performed story

Growing up I loved watching the original Matilda movie. I admit it took 2-3 watches for me to really love the musical, but that is only because it's so lyrically dense! But what a touching story, with some really great songs. My favorite is probably Revolting Children. It is a real earworm for me, and this version is incredible.

This adaptation made me so emotional, it reminded me of what it was like to be a kid again.

This is such a great musical! It probably has some of the most clever lyrics I've ever heard (though I would expect nothing less from Tim Minchin)...some fun facts about the stage productions: ~they would cast four young actors to rotate the role of Matilda, and in the Broadway production, one of the original Matilda's was Milly Shapiro, who went on to play Charlie in Hereditary! ~Miss Trunchball is played by a man onstage ~"When I Grow Up" uses swings for it's choreography and it's just *chef's kiss*.

no cuz im listening to this album nonstop since this was released 😭🤣

As a thespian, I’ve watched a lot of musicals, and I’ve performed in some. Matilda the musical has to be one of my favorites, and I really love it makes the parallels between her and Miss Honey. My only critique was they should’ve kept the brother Michael, the storyline of Mrs. Wormwood of being a ballroom dancer with her song “Loud” or even Mr. Wormwood’s song “Telly”. And if they ever revived the musical on stage, need to add “Holding My Hand” as the finale. If you love musicals or musical. Other Dahl works you should check out are BFG, James and the Giant Peach and The Witches (1990). If you were wanting more musicals I highly recommend these: Hairsplitting (2007), Mamma Mia, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sound of Music, Sister Act 1-2, Annie (1982 and 1999), Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz, Cats (1998), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1999), and Rodger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella (1997). 👩🏻👩🏾‍🦱📚🧠

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If nobody has informed you yet, the person behind the music in this also has another musical under his belt, his name is Tim Minchin snd he did the Groundhog Day musical and it's fantastic

It's by watching this reaction that I just realized, Matilda's story comes to her for the first time right when she just met Miss Honey! "Once upon a time, there was a little girl who was trapped", GREAT parallel between those two little girls who grew up abused

I love watching uplifting movies with you, Chris, because you're so much fun! Now I have to watch the whole movie.

I'm a great fan of musicals, this adaptation made it in my top five. I really enjoyed your reaction, very engaging and sincere.

This is the best reaction to this movie

Fantastic reaction to an amazing movie. Well done!

I was an usher at a big theatre in our city when the stage production of Matilda came to town, and I still remember how magical it was. (Since it was my job, I got to see it almost every night for months.) To answer your question, the movie is very faithful to the show! The "When I Grow Up" song was always my favourite to watch. They had swings on stage, hanging from the very roof of the theatre down to the stage, for the kids to sit on while singing. And then when the adult dancers/actors (playing the older kids/teenagers) came in and took their turn on the swings, they would get a running start and dive into the swings on their stomachs and soar out over the audience. Between that choreography, and the swelling music, and the beautiful message of the song, it was hard not to get chills, even after seeing it 20+ times ❤

As a lover of theater and being an actor myself, I can confidently say that this adaptation was nearly perfect! They only cut a few songs, and the small changes that they did make serviced the film very well. A fun fact about the Stage version of this show is that Miss Trunchbull is always played by a man! Miss Trunchbull is supposed to be a massive, hulking and ugly woman with a deeper vocal range, and the best way to achieve that on stage is by gender swapping the actor. Obviously doing this wouldn't translate well on screen, so I think that thy made the right call on casting Emma Thompson. If you get the chance, I'd HIGHLY suggest listening to the original Trunchbull Bertie Carvell, he's INCREDIBLE in the role, and I think he's even better than Emma Thompson for me. Great Video, and I look forward to seeing more from you!

Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe. Also RIP, Lance Reddick, the concierge from the John Wick movies passed away yesterday morning at the age of 60.

23:22 Lawyers cost money, and she has only enough to keep herself going (she mostly gets by on the free lunch at school). Also, she's gained enough courage and confidence to move out of the house and find a small place for herself, but I don't think then she had enough confidence to fight her aunt publicly like she'd have to in court.

The visuals were stunning, the characters had such good actors/actresses, the songs were amazing, the values/lessons to learn were all amazing. There was the sense of kindness and respect on how to treat others coming from ms. Honey. There was the sense of bravery and acceptence from Matilda. In a way even the trunchbull had a lesson to be gained. That would be to be responsable and productive at school or work. Her methods were completely wrong and her actions towards the students were aggregious. Which is why Ms. Honey has such an easy time with the kids compared to her. Nobody likes to be told what to do especially children. That being said they still have to be productive and learn. They cannot always be rebelling against the system. Ms. Honey tries to understand the children and their needs in order to keep them happy and willing to learn. An act of kindness can go a long way. On a seperate note I dont really care if they switched up the story a little from the older movie with Danny Devito even though I loved that one too. I didnt care that certain characters races were different because that didnt matter. They still acted the same as they shouldve and didnt bring up a bunch of political mumbo jumbo as some remakes are today. The additional content to Ms. Honeys backstory made it feel more authentic too. It came together very well. I was a little curious as to why the brother wasnt in this though? The updated settings and animation for Matilda's powers were so cool. The chains moving looked awsome. I loved how they included multiple chokeys after Matilda broke the 1st. It seems like a thing the trunchbull would try to do. Ya know up the ante. She is very competitive in nature due to her career as an athlete. The librarian getting more time was so cool too. She was so kind and interested in Matildas stories. You could tell she cared about her well being when she questioned if everything was going allright after the stories got darker. Bruce getting more of a highlight after trunchbulls downfall was great. After being sent to the chokey in front of everyone due to the cake scandal it felt like he would be the best person to inform everyone of the news through the mic.

one of my favorite comments from when this first came out was "I learned that the UK has an absolute army of children who can dance"

I loved your reaction so, so much! I was a fan of the book after seeing the movie as a child; and a couple years ago I watched some of the videos from the west end shows here on youtube, and I knew it was special, so I got the ost from the musical, and fell in love. I really, really wanted to see it live but, while it was in Toronto, I couldn't afford the ticket price, so I was so happy they did a movie adaptation. And I enjoyed how much you enjoyed and felt the story. Thanks for deciding to share the experience and making it a reaction.

I watched a few seconds of your review and got hooked ... thank you! Now I want to see the movie ... R (Australia)

If you haven't seen the Matilda with Danny Devito. It's comedy and heartfelt moments too. Definitely worth a watch! It's really good, Matilda and Miss Honey are precious. Thank you for showing this, I enjoy Musical versions and don't have N*tflix.

Tim Minchins music combined with these tallented children!!! This is one of the best musicals/movies ive seen in years.

Tim Minchin's a flamin' genius!

Hahaahah what a lovely reaction, good job! Brazilian fan here, keep doing such a nice content!😂❤

this movie is based on the original book. and Matilda was published in 1988 the year I was born; ❤

This resonates with me deeply because my parents separated when I was 6 and the man my mother dated for 3yrs hated my dad and because I was dad and my mother’s bio daughter he took his hatred for dad out on me. I went through a lot in those three years when it was their time to have us neither of them knew how to handle my disabilities well either. Dad wanted to watch this movie with me back in January and I had to have him fast forward through where she gets pushed into her room and yelled at thats happened to me then when she tells about the girl locked in the cellar and her dad saving her and dying my dad would have been unalived too or any other family member in his household if i told so I too had nobody to save me after seeing the movie I started getting flashbacks and having sudo seizures as well as real ones and was hospitalized for 2 days and diagnosed with depression anxiety and cptsd I go to childhood trauma therapy now weekly

I love that you are doing musical reactions!!!! Not enough people react to them and as someone who works in theatre professionally (behind the scenes) it makes me so happy to watch people discover the magic of musicals. I want to recommend a few pro shots (filmed live performances instead of movie musicals) I HIGHLY reccomend; Billy Elliot live (hardest child role ever. Based on the hit movie. Music by Elton John) Hamilton (about Alexander hamilton and the other founding fathers told in a contemporary way, written by Lin Manuel Miranda) Newsies the musical (based on the Disney movie about the newsboy strike in nyc. Insane dancing) Come from away (based on real life people and their stories when their plane got grounded on 9/11) Waitress (based on the movie about a young married women who bakes pies in a small town) All of those are completely different genres/vibes and all really excellent In The Heights is great too.

My favorite song in Matilda the musical is the school song and Revolutin children it is sooo funny 😂😂😂😂

Alisha totally deserves to be Matilda. She nailed it! But my only question is…for British movies they choose British actors cuz ya know, it’s easier. And they won’t let u audition if ur not British. And she’s Irish. And the rest of the cast is British

Make sure you watch the stage musical version of the song "When I grow up." This movie was fantastically done but there's something about the way that song is staged that makes it magnificent. I feel sorry for the filmmakers trying to translate that feeling to the movie format.

Subbed I a huge fan of this movie ever since I 1st saw it ❤

22:11 the fact lavender dosent care that she literally lost her pet 'isaac' 💀💀💀

Annie meets Carrie.

13:21 That long burp scene reminds me Fred 3 Camp Fred on belching contest scene Fred’s friend William drank the gas burp drink thing and he burp so loudly and they got the points of camp iwannapepe

ty for this.

2 cutest characters in the musical movie ( show me yours ) 1 bruce bogtrotter 2 lavendar

“And you’re not a BALLERINA, please calm down”

Matilda is amazing 🥰

I love this musical so much. Im not sure I'll ever finish but I'm literally writing a video essay on how not only is it an amazing story as is but it is one of the most explicitly revolutionary antifascist pieces of media I've ever seen. The way it uses the one hierarchy everyone can relate to, between children and adults, to demonstrate the tyranny innate in these structures and that the only way to demolish them is through solidarity. I've watched it maybe a dozen times in the few months it's been out and it gets better every single time

This musical put my theatre department into debt because of a turntable

YES

I first watched Matilda the movie on an airplane

Wow 🤩

i have see it so good

This musical at to be a big adaptation, matilda the musical or matilda original?

I really liked this adaptation musically. And I liked having more insight about why Matilda’s parents were so evil to her. My only annoyance is all the miss honey backstory - the original one was clear and interesting enough, in this version it becomes a huge focal point and almost overshadowed the neglected children that the film is supposed to be centering.

How beautiful! 😊

The best song Revolting.

They actually only skipped 2 songs from the show which are the two songs from the wormwoods fleshing out her they thing there’s mr wormwoods song ‘telly’ which is an act 2 starter with him talking about why need books when you can mindlessly watch tv and miss wormwoods song ‘loud’ which she sings to mrs honey when she comes to tell her about Matilda being a genius where she tells her books and smarts don’t matter as long as you’re pretty and are loud and boisterous. They also cut out Michael, Matilda’s older brother and a bit at the end where Matilda reasons with the mafia and mr wormwood finally calls her his daughter and she gets really exited about it and hug before they leave and Mrs honey adopts her

I know someone in the movie

If you have to break a horse your'e doing it wrong.

I am so glad you found this and shared your reaction. Here's a couple of videos of some performances of the stage show. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLuSapBqrqqpXWQ.html (from the Tonys. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/faqCd8-Y1arceKc.html When I Grow Up at The Prince Albert Hall kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m9iqg9qfsb-ul4k.html Naughty at The Royal Shakespeare Company that originally produced the show I'll leave it there. I don't want to hijack your comment section, sharing my love of this musical with you.

This film gives me weird, mixed feelings... It's still a somewhat beautiful movie and I prefer the pacing and storytelling of this movie to the stage musical, but I have issues with the way they did that, because it made this movie less faithful to the book, keeping stuff they added for the musical version (that I'm not a fan of) and cutting out other things which were more true to the book... and I'm not totally keen on how they altered the tone... Yet it's arguably still a decent adaptation of the stage musical and the choices they made do still kinda make sense... Personally, if I had to pick one adaptation from this film, the older film and the stage musical, I would have to say that the older, Danny DeVito film is probably the best option... Though the original book is my favourite ^_^;;. I have some issues with the old film, but they are relatively minor... There are aspects of this film and the stage musical which I love more, but there are also things I dislike more... Complicated feelings here lol.

My name honey

i love the musical veersion netflix made but i also HAAATE what they did with miracle the babies just. i dont like it. i've done matilda before and thye changed miracle a lot in this version and it makes the song more.. unlikeable imo

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