History Film / RoaldDahlsMatildaTheMusical

** The number "When I Grow Up" has the scene with the swings replaced with a distant CrowdSong full of different children's {{ImagineSpot|s}} as they go home due to the swings not being cinematic on film.

* AdoptionIsNotAnOption: The Escapologist and the Acrobat want a child desperately, but the thought of adopting one doesn't even cross their minds. It's especially egregious since [[spoiler:in the end, it's all but stated that Miss Honey--their daughter--adopted Matilda.]]

* AdoptionIsNotAnOption: The Escapologist and the Acrobat want a child desperately, but the thought of adopting one doesn't even cross their minds.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the song "Quiet", Matilda has an ImagineSpot of herself in a happy place, wearing a blue blouse and jeans. At the end of the film, when she moves into Miss Honey's house, she's wearing the same blue blouse and jeans.

* VisualPun: When Matilda sings the "grin and 'bear' it" line in "Naughty", she drops into a pile of teddy 'bears'!

* LargeHam: Not to the same extent as [[Film/Matilda1996 Pam Ferris]], but still, Emma Thompson was clearly having a blast playing the Trunchbull.

* LargeHam: Not to the same extent as Pam Ferris, but still, Emma Thompson was clearly having a blast playing the Trunchbull.

* AgeLift: Matilda in both the book and the stage play was 5, while in the oringial movie she is 6. In this adaptation, it's suggested that she and the other kids are 8, which allows Alisha Weir (who is 12) to not look like an example of DawsonCasting, which is not as acceptable in film then as on stage. The film also adds in her parents getting in trouble for not sending her to school to explain why she hadn't been attending

* AgeLift: Matilda in both the book and the stage play was 5, while in the oringial movie she is 6. In this adaptation, it's suggested that she and the other kids are 8, which allows 12 year old Alisha wier to not look like a dawson cast, which is not as acceptable in film then as on stage. The film also adds in her parents getting in trouble for not sending her to school to explain why she hadn't been attending

* PragmaticAdaptation: Unlike the stage musical where [[DawsonCasting the older students are played by adults]][[invoked]], the movie casts age-appropriate kids in the roles since film is a more literal medium.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''♫ When I grow up… ♫'']]

As with previous versions of the story, the plot follows Matilda, a young girl with a big brain and bigger secrets, who finds herself placed by her neglectful parents in a repressive school run by an overbearing [[SadistTeacher headmistress]]. With support from her teacher, Matilda sets out to rewrite her story. The film released theatrically in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2022, and in the United States on December 9, 2022, with a Creator/{{Netflix}} release on Christmas Day 2022 and on June 25, 2023 in their respective regions.

* LongTitle: "The Burning Woman Hurling Through the Air With Dynamite in Her Hair Over Sharks And Spiky Objects Caught By the Man Locked in the Cage" ...and it is the greatest feat ever known to man.

As with previous versions of the story, the plot follows Matilda, a young girl with a big brain and bigger secrets, who finds herself placed by her neglectful parents in a repressive school run by an overbearing [[SadistTeacher headmistress]]. With support from her teacher, Matilda sets out to rewrite her story. The film released theatrically in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2022, and in the United States on December 9, 2022, with a Creator/{{Netflix}} release on Christmas Day.

** The implication that Matilda lost her telekinesis is removed entirely, preferring to go with the [[Film/{{Matilda}} original film]]'s ambiguity by showing her use her powers to remove her father's glued-on hat shortly ''after'' Trunchbull's defeat.