The Twits

I find The Twits (2025) is ok, Because it's not really the best movie adaptation of the Roald Dahl Stories. The main protagonists that I feel very sorry for are Beesha the Orphan Girl and The Muggle-Wump Monkey Family. But the main antagonists are the insufferable imbecilic couple called Mr. James Twit and Mrs. Credenza Twit, They make Dr. Marcus Fry and Mrs. Melisha Tweedy from Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget (2023) look like sophisticated evil geniuses by comparison. If you wanted to watch the Roald Dahl Movie Adaptation, Please recommend Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory (1971), The BFG (1989), The Witches (1990), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Matilda (1996) over this. I'm giving this an average 6/10.

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.

I am a huge fan of the twits, But this just wasn't it, It felt so of paced and the people carrying the building, it was just ridiculous.

I would of rather instead of doing this storyline i would, instead, do what the first book did, or do The Twits Next door a kind of spin off book, Also the animation was off it was rough from here to there, johnny Vegas as Mr twit was pure gold though, the vioce was just right, I give this movie 5 stars.

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.

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.