The Twits

Just terrible. How could this (ab)use the Roald Dahl name? I guess its just now part of the Netflix sausage machine.

I can sort of understand "Americanising" the original story but this just ends up weak and too mangled with annoying characters. My 8 and 11 year olds were pretty bored throughout. The only saving grace I can come up with is the animation is ok.

When the original material is a revered classic, why mess with it? Turning The Twits American, then tossing in Johnny Vegas, makes no sense. The charm, the bite, the Dahl-ness... all gone. Roald Dahl would emphatically not have approved. An utterly joyless and soulless reimagining that misses every mark.

It is very confusing that the animation sometimes feels like it's for adults not for children. Sometimes disturbing scenes and not funny at all. We couldn't really connect and after some time it just became a video for the background we started doing different things. And like is it a musical animation or not? It's so mixed up with everything that i just couldn't connect. Good potential and good idea but nope they mixed up so many ideas and the plot became so boringly confusing.

Everything that makes a Roald Dahl story fun, from the characters to the world building to the dialogue, has been surgically removed from this absolute train wreck of a film. One of the worst screenplays I think I've encountered in the past few years. Is Meg Favreau Jon Favreau's daughter? Is that how she got this gig?

Disorganized from the start, it begins in medias res but in a way that does not add any tension or suspense. We are repeatedly told-not-shown, and not even in a fun Dahl-ian way, just in characters robotically stating "this is good" "this is bad" "I like her because she is nice and cool." Despite treating its audience like babies, the script jumps all over the place in a confusing and jarring way with no control of tone. Visually, it promises to be a feast, but the faces of the clearly-meant-to-be sympathetic characters are so disturbingly and poorly done I don't want to look at them and instinctually I find myself wishing ill upon them. It's just not nice or fun to look at.

A disaster on every front, it begs the question, why was this an adaptation at all? I have no issue with updating and changing source material but even tonally, thematically, this is unrelated to the original Twits. The answer is likely "this was the only way we could trick people to watch it."

My four year old got bored of it and asked to switch it off within three minutes. Let yourself have fun and go watch The Boxtrolls instead, which feels like a closer relation in terms of tone and quality to the original The Twits than this putrescent adaptation does.

The Twits do all they can to get their theme park, Twitlandia, open. Kids from the local orphanage attempt to rescue magical creatures from the Twits, creatures that power Twitlandia.

By far and away, my favourite book as a child, packed with wit, the grotesque, plus a side of compassion mixed in with all of the nastiness. A book for all ages. I wanted to love this film. I didn't hate it, but sadly it's not very good.

As soon as it begins, you'll get a sense that it just doesn't feel right; the story, the artistic choices- I couldn't help but feel that it was some sort of poor man's Wallace and Gromit.

The source material is magical; it's so funny! Why the need to totally reinterpret it? I did enjoy the presence of Johnny Vegas, though; I just felt he needed better material. I don't know about Mrs. Twit, though; I'm not feeling it.

Not terrible, just not very good either.

4/10.