Byline: CHRIS HEWITT Knight-Ridder
``I'm smart, you're dumb. I'm big, you're little. I'm right, you're wrong,'' Danny DeVito says, summing up ``Matilda's'' take on parent/child relations.
Played by the grave, matter-of-fact Mara Wilson (``Mrs. Doubtfire''), Matilda is a bright girl whose rotten parents (DeVito and Rhea Perlman) don't care about her. But, with the help of books, Matilda gets back at them and at Mrs. Trunchbull, the sweaty, gin-blossomed shotputter who presides over Matilda's school in the same way that Idi Amin presided over Uganda.
Based on a children's story by Roald Dahl (``James and the Giant Peach''), ``Matilda'' ably captures …
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