Matilda is the first musical to open the London Film Festival and this adaptation of the mega-successful West End show is brightly coloured – though full of darkness – exuberantly performed and inventively shot.
Many adults will likely become a tad restless when Emma Thompson – as scary and batshit crazy headmistress Miss Trunchbull – is off screen. But for the under-12s, the movie offers one jolt of joy after another.
