Every Roald Dahl Movie Adaptation Ranked Worst To Best

For those who haven’t had the pleasure of reading the book and/or seeing the film, Matilda is the tale of a precociously intelligent young bookworm with a talent for telekinesis who harnesses her powers and intellect to get one over her incredibly stupid and often neglectful parents and horrible headmistress – kind of like a cuter, less scary Carrie White minus the pig’s blood and religious whack job mother.

In the film, the action is moved from England to America but with Danny DeVito (who also directed the movie) and his real life wife Rhea Perlman as Matilda’s awful parents and the Anglo injection of British television stalwart Pam Ferris as the ruddy faced, tyrannical Mrs Trunchbull we can’t complain too much.

Fun and up there with the most kid-friendly of Roald Dahl’s movie adaptations, Matilda is a heart-warming little film that captures the essence – resourceful children who triumph over adversity and the often cruel adult characters around them – of what so many Dahl books are about.