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.

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.

This is not the Twits at all. Roald Dahl must be turning in his grave. It has hardly anything to do with the book. The story was boring and the whole time I was watching I just wished I was watching an actual adaptation of the book instead of this tripe. Both my kids thought it was rubbish too. Avoid at all costs.

This movie serves as a sort of sequel to the original book "The Twits" by Roald Dahl. It has references to the original film multiple times and has a completely different plot. It also starts out where the first book left out, when The Twits were upside down. There are some scenes however, where they take some ideas from the first book which is really confusing.

This entire movie was really boring to watch. It has so many plot lines mixed up together that it's just not fun anymore. And the actual pranking that the Twits do to each other in the first book is hardly even there in this movie.

Summary of the movie: A mixed-up, confusing convoluted plotline that is ultimately boring and sloppy to watch.

Recommended to watch once if you're interested or haven't read the first book, because you don't really need to read the book to see it.

Sorry what the hell is going on .. like who even is the target audience why is this movie so gross and slow and ?? Did nobody in the production team think "hey this is a stupid idea"???? 2 stars for the animation. Storyline, jokes, plot, characters is a zero. Genuinely so bad idk how this made it to netflix.