A small brilliant boy is tormented by two large idiotic bullies.
 
Roald Dahl would be proud of this adaptation.  It's so much fun.
 
FUN FACT:  Roald Dahl was never seen as a particularly talented writer in his school years, with one of his English teachers writing in his school report, "I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended".