The Twits

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The Twits

PG

2025

1h 42m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Fantasy

Animation

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Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, most idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia. But when the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city. A hysterically funny, wild ride of a film (chock-full of the Twits' beloved tricks--from the Wormy Spaghetti to the Dreaded Shrinks), The Twits is also a story for our times, about the never-ending battle between cruelty and empathy.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Oct 18

2.5/4

Some of it feels a bit underdeveloped, but the suggestion that we could all be living in Twitlandia if we don’t find deeper wells of empathy on all sides feels like a valuable one.

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Jacob Oller

AV Club

Oct 17

D+

The Twits is exactly what one might imagine a Netflix Dahl adaptation to be: Diluted, simplistic animation, as cloying and feckless and smoothed over as anything from the last decade of Illumination films.

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

Oct 14

2/5

Any of Dahl’s gruesome sense of fun is obliterated by a bulldozing message of empathy and kindness... This is vile and revolting in all the wrong ways.

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Alan French

Sunshine State Cineplex

Nov 28

2/10

This is a mess, and even getting the dreaded shrinks cannot save us from its mediocrity.

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Calum Baker

Radio Times

Oct 29

3/5

The CG picture-book aesthetic varies in quality, but the voice cast is largely excellent, with Martindale and Vegas especially enthusiastic as the crazed, slapstick villains.

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

Oct 27

2/5

The tone never quite settles, and there's a sense of missed opportunity here in making something so specific just a bit too universal.

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Yk R

@Ykridings 12h

Definitely a weird movie but its different from the regular animations that are out there. I thought it was interesting and funny and I grew to like it my the end. The story is new and takes a different approach to what it means to be gross, cruel and horrible and how that can come and bite you in the butt. I thought the animation was cool since I havent seen anything quite like it before. I never read the childrens book, so im not judging based on the original book. Maybe that is why I like it because the rest of the reviews are hating because they didn't get the book interpretation that they wanted.

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Lilly G

@Lilly1234252 Jan 27

Worst movie I’ve ever watched and that’s not an overstatement it was nothing like the book half of it was just made up what the new gen would like glad I know not to show this to my kids for future reference hates everything about it not any positives I can say about it I watched half way and needed to make a complaint.

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Jan 25

Brilliant movie based on its book

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Katy R

@EggplantUno Jan 17

I loved Roald Dahl books growing up, and I don't consider myself as a person lacking empathy. The Twits is a very short book, so I see the need to add content to make it a full length movie, but I think they missed the mark with this one. A fun story about 2 horrible people has an unfortunate conclusion that doesn't match up with the book I loved so long ago.

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Chris G

@Fisher8888 Jan 9

1 hr and 45mins I my life I won’t get back. What a waste. How can Netflix take away some of the best movies just to give us this junk.

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Arthur R

Jan 6

Very little redeemable about this butchering of Roald Dahl... Awful adaptation with worse animation... Johnny Vegas' voice deserved better

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Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, most idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia. But when the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city. A hysterically funny, wild ride of a film (chock-full of the Twits' beloved tricks--from the Wormy Spaghetti to the Dreaded Shrinks), The Twits is also a story for our times, about the never-ending battle between cruelty and empathy.

Director: Phil Johnston, Katie Shanahan
Producer: Maggie Malone
Screenwriter: Meg Favreau
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: Jellyfish Pictures, Netflix Animation
Rating: PG (Thematic Material|Action|Some Language|Rude Humor)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 17, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 17, 2025
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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