The Upper HandRemember the Roald Dahl book Matilda? Quick recap: insanely smart girl is surrounded by complete idiots, and her brain goes into overdrive because she's just. so. bored. Her unused br...

Fancies Himself a GeniusWe'll admit it: the passage of time erodes a few of the jokes in this movie. One of them has to do with our Big Bad's name: "Hedley Lamarr" sounds suspiciously like Hedy Lam...

Drink, Drank, DrunkWhen we first meet Jim, he's a mess. He's a blurry-eyed alcoholic who spends his nights in the drunk-tank of Rock Ridge—which would be insanely depressing if this wasn't a Mel...

Second In Command… And Dead Last In IQ PointsTaggart is pretty much your typical dumb henchman—think of him as a wild west Igor, or the Waylon Smithers of the frontier. But he's pretty good at...

Sehr Sexy, Ja!Lili is proof positive that everything gets old after a while… even being a hottie.As she tells us so many times in her big song, Lili Von Shtupp is just plain tired with life. She'...

Political BlundersGovernor Lepetomane is your typical satire of a corrupt, incompetent politician. He's basically a caricature in a political cartoon, stogie and all. When asked to sign a bill offe...

Welcome to the JungleThis guy is portrayed more like an animal than a human being in this movie, because he's a huge, terrifying strongman. Or as Jim tells Bart in the early going, "Well, Mongo ain...