Madeline
During the movie
The 5 most important characters in the film are; and
the actors playing their voice are:-
- Hatty Jones as Madeline
- Frances McDormand as Miss Clavel
- Nigel Hawthorne as Lord Covington (Lord Cucuface)
- Kristian De La Osa as Pepito
- Ben Daniels as Leopold the Tutor
The story is about a small girl named Madeline in an
old house in Paris that was covered with vines. She lived with another eleven
girls and wherever they go they walk in two straight lines wearing their hats,
in line even when eating and even when brushing their teeth. Madeline is very
good at getting into trouble, but she is also fabulous in solving problems, debating
and commanding as well. However her school mistress Miss Clavel is not too
approving of her. At the beginning of the movie the twelve girls including
Madeline the smallest of the girls likes to eat chicken prepared by their cook
Helene. The plot started when Madeline had appendicitis one night and had to be
rushed to the hospital in an ambulance with her teacher giving her words of
encouragement which is ‘I can do anything’. The scene ends with Madeline being
put to sleep before her operation. Then the other eleven girls went on trip to
visit Madeline in her sick bed at hospital after a few days. However rather
than sick Madeline was way more hyper as usual. The night of the same day,
Madeline sneaked out of her room and went walking. At this part the audience is
given a bit of suspense as in what Madeline is up to. Then she enters a woman’s
room which happens to be Lady Covington’s room. Lady Covington is the provider
of the school in which Madeline stays and in their small talk Lady Covington
told Madeline her secret which is her real name and where she carved her name
when she was in the school as well. Then their talk was disturbed by Lord
Covington whom Madeline seems to despise. The next day after being discharged
from the hospital, Madeline will walk past Lady Covington’s room with Miss
Clavel and she will be wondering where Lady Covington went since the bed was
empty. Miss Clavel will tell her that Lady Covington passed away. While being
driven back home, Madeline will be sitting at the back of car with a chicken.
She thought that the chicken was going to be their pet but the truth told by
their Helene was that the chicken is going to be cooked for dinner since
Madeline is safe and sound. Madeline will be talking to the chicken as though
they are both talking in the same language. At the dinner table, Helene came
bringing the chicken cooked just the way Madeline loved it to be cooked. But
then Madeline will hold as strike saying that ‘Fred’ the chicken was her friend
and she lost her appetite. Then another girl will say she is going to eat the
chicken no matter what. The debate will continue until the other girls start to
pretend and make sounds like a chicken. In the middle of the so called debate
Lord Covington will enter the hall to see Miss Clavel. He will be telling her
that he is going to sell the house since his wife is now dead and that she has
contributed too much to the school. He wants to sell it for an embassy, and his
ruthlessness is such that he even paints over the marks on the wall showing how
the girls have grown over the years. The movie continues with the girls being
hungry in the middle of the night and sneaking into the kitchen to get
something to eat. In the middle of their food adventure they will be surprised
by a ghost suddenly appearing at the kitchen door. All the girls will scream
out of fright meanwhile Madeline will be running toward the ghost yelling that
she is not afraid of anything. However the ghost appeared to have two legs.
Then Miss Clavel and Helene will catch the girls red handed sneaking into the
kitchen. The plot continues with the girls being invited to Pepito’s birthday
party, and the birthday boy appearing in a bull fighting attire and the girls
wearing beautiful dresses. However the birthday does not end well when small
mice’s will be released from their cages by Madeline. Then when running back
home Madeline will steal the key from Pepito’s vespa. The twelve girls will
then be grounded for making a scene a Pepito’s house. The movie is then
continued with Madeline falling into the river and nearly drowning. She will be
rescued by a dog. The dog will then search for her till her school. Madeline
will name the dog Genevieve. 
The movie is continued with Lord Covington trying
to sell the house and Madeline making plans to stop it. In order to revenge
back Lord Covington will catch Genevieve and chase it out of the school. The
next day, Madeline and her friends will go looking for Genevieve and will not
find the dog. In order to cheer them Miss Clavel will bring them to the circus
and this is where Madeline will make a decision to run from the school and join
the circus team, since the school will be selled to ambassador and all the
girls will be sent back to their family but Madeline does not have one. This is
when she will see Pepito being kidnapped by his tutor and she will be tied to
him as well. They will be kidnapped and
Miss Clavel will only realise that Madeline is missing when she reach back home
already. The movie continues with some running and catching and some humor part
but in the end Madeline will safely reach back home and the 12 girls will not
be sent back home.
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The group of
people that would like to watch this film are:-
- Family and children, teenage and even adolescent who still like to watch comedy movie with a good story line.
The group of
people that would like to watch this film are:-
- Family and children, teenage and even adolescent who still like to watch comedy movie with a good story line.
After the movie
Yes, we do like this movie, because we actually got
inspired by the main character-Madeline who always thinks out of the box and
also face her obstacles bravely. Besides, she will not ever give up and shows
perseverance in all her actions and plans.
Rating that we would
like to give for this movie
- 8 of 10
The spoilers that
would ruin this movie if we told our readers about it are:-
- For an example, When Lord Covington decided to sell the school and lastly he got influenced by Madeline to cancel out this decision.
The moral value,
we learn from this movie are:-
- Brave, this moral value is shown by Madeline. This can be seen in the movie when the girls sneaked into the kitchen for their late night supper. At that time, when they were looking around the kitchen for something to eat, Pepito who was dressed up as a ghost came to scare them. All the girls in the kitchen except Madeline screamed their lungs out while Madeline chases the so called ghost shouting “I’m not afraid of anything”. So, this clearly shows that even though all the girls are of same age, Madeline is braver than any of them.
- Perseverance is another moral value shown by the main character, Madeline. This can be seen in the movie when Madeline tried to stop Lord Covington from selling the house to the ambassador. She made a plan to sabotage the house when Lord Covington brought the Indian ambassador.
The title that
we would like give for this review is:-
- The adventurous story of a little girl.
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