When talking on the phone, Matilda's mom briefly mentions "implants".

When Matilda's father comes home and finds his wife entertaining two men, he says that he should find dinner on the table without having to "wade through a convention of male strippers".

When Matilda's mother is on the phone to her friend, she mentions that she should try waxing down there. Implying waxing pubic hair.

Zinnia's wardrobe reveals a lot of cleavage.

A woman grabs another woman by the arm and threatens to break her arm like she says she did once before.

Miss Trunchbull threatens to burn down Wormwood Motors while threatening the owner with a lawsuit over the phone.

In a flashback, Miss Trunchbull throws a boy out of a second story window. It is never stated specifically what happened to him. When Matilda asks another girl if he was OK, she replies "he lived, if that's what you mean."

Zinnia tries to pull off Harry's hat that's been superglued to his head. As they struggle in a restaurant they bump into other diners and then cause a desert tray and it's contents to go flying through the air.

The students are terrified of "the chokee" a small, cramped room where "bad" students are sent and only have room to stand while avoiding the sharp, pointy items sticking out from the walls.

Trunchbull is seen holding a boy upside down by his foot (in order to empty his pockets), and then drops him on the floor.

Trunchbull drags Matilda into the "chokee" and slams the door shut. (Kids will worry about her - but she's rescued by Miss Honey).

Trunchbull forces a boy to eat a slice of cake then makes him to eat an enormous chocolate cake all by himself. Several times throughout the scene, he looks like he will get sick. When he successfully finishes the whole thing she smashes the large glass cake plate on his head, shattering the glass, though he is unharmed.

Trunchbull, superstitious of black cats, is confronted by one. She tries to back away, but when it doesn't leave she gives it a swift kick across the yard (where it lands unharmed).

Trunchbull violently slides the student's desks across the room and into a wall as she gets all of the students to line up in front of her.

Matilda causes Trunchbull to be hit with many chalkboard erasers until she collapses (faking it) on the floor.

A woman drinks a glass of water with a newt in it, she finds this and gets scared. A girl then tips the glass of water on her and the newt leaps on her shirt and she screams and threatens the students.

Trunchbull tries to run over another student but she misses and crashes through a door.

Trunchbull is knocked on a globe by a student. A girl then causes the globe to spin around sending Trunchbull careening into a wall.

Harry pulls Matilda away from the table by grabbing her ear.

Matilda's brother throws marshmallows at her.

A girl uses her telekinesis powers to terrorize a woman at her home, she opens and closes windows and plays with her alarm clock, shifts her chair and burns one of her photographs from her wall onto her fireplace.

There are numerous scenes involving child abuse.

Miss Trunchbull uses a ball and chain (normally used in the Olympic "hammer throw") to chase after the intruders (Matilda and Miss Honey) in her home. She also uses it to smash a statue out on her lawn.

A girl is thrown by her pigtails; she flies over a spiked fence and lands in a bed of flowers. She is not harmed.

A woman throws a boy out of a second story window. He flies back in, he is unharmed.

A woman is frequently shown chasing, threatening, and/or grabbing children.

Matilda then causes food to pelt Trunchbull and the other students then join in throwing food and toilet paper rolls at her until she runs away and never returns.

One use of "hell."

Miss Trunchbull drops a kid and calls him a "squirming worm of vomit".

When locking a kid in a closet, Miss Trunchbull calls her a "festering ball of pus".

Miss Trunchbull calls Matilda "piss-worm". In this movie's TV airings, it is censored and replaced with "pin-worm".

The word "bazooga" when Miss Trunchbull threatens Harry Wormwood with a lawsuit over the phone is used as a slang word for "ass".

"Dodo's," "Dip face," "Twit" "Your mother is a twit," "Puke," "Shut up," "You lying little earwig," "Squirming worm of vomit," "You villainous sack of goat slime," and "Piss worm."

Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood are shown drinking beer.

A boy offers a teacher visiting in the house a can of beer, but she rejects.

A boy is held upside down by Miss Trunchbull. He is then dropped on the floor.

Some kids may find the scenes where Trunchbull confronts, terrorizes and bullies the students as frightening and/or tense. She is a very large, intimidating, loud and occasionally violent person, so little kids who don't see the cartoon nature of her behavior might be terrified of her.

Matilda uses her powers to "haunt" Miss Trunchbull's house, which can be a bit unnerving even though the audience knows Matilda is behind it

Matilda's family regularly mistreats her. Her father yells at her a lot and in one scene, he tears up a book she is reading. Her older brother throws food at her and calls her "Dipface". Although at times this is done for comic relief, it may still be distressing for some viewers.

Miss Trunchbull smashes a glass tray that held a large cake onto a boy's head in front of the students in the assembly, which he belches afterwards. By the end of this scene, it is implied she locked the boy into the Chokey.

Miss Trunchbull may be creepy and abusive to some viewers.

The movie overall is pretty intense throughout.

Miss Trunchbull confronts, terrorizes, and bullies the students.

Miss Trunchbull locks children in "The Chokey", which resembles a coffin and is tall enough to stand in. Nails are sticking in the door of it and steam pours out of it when it is opened. No one is depicted as being actually injured from being in it.

When Miss Honey and Matilda sneak into Miss Trunchbull's house, she realizes that someone is there and goes on a violent rampage using a ball and chain trying to find them, while Miss Honey and Matilda hide wherever they can. A highly intense scene with suspenseful, threatening music throughout. Although, in the end, Matilda and Miss Honey get away safely.