The Twits Film Review

Netflix has come under fire alot recently for alot of there older animated shows all of which had been cancelled for many years now and so what do they do to counteract act they release another animated project only this time it's a film. To be frank this film won't have anything harmful for kids in it with the only thing that's harmful in this film is the fact that it's a bad film and well as I read the book that this film was adapting when I was a kid it only made sense that I check out the film adaptation the first chance that I got and so then join me as I review the film that the original author Roald Dahl would have hated much like how he hated the 1971 film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory with the film in question being called simply just "The Twits" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when there theme park is condemned by the local government The Twits wage a war on a local orphanage when two children free a family of magical animals from there theme park. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad as this is a plot that never happened in the original book as the original book was about there pet monkeys getting revenge on them after being treated harshly once to often and yet the makers of this film got rid of all of that no no reason whatsoever and while it is was to be expected that some things from the book would need to be changed as even the books plot isn't long enough for an entire movie it is still a plot that could have been the plot of a movie as the books plot was alot more fun and entertaining whereas with the film however the plot just comes across as being convoluted as nothing about the plot makes sense with it seeming like this films writers the films director and producer Phil Johnston and Meg Favreau had never read the book growing up or had read to any younger relatives as there's nothing about this films plot that makes it feel like it's trying to be a Twits movie as nothing about the plot from the book is included in this films plot with the plot of the film as it felt like the plot of the book was changed for no good reason whatsoever and while the plot of this film does get credit for being a strong plot that's not the plot that the people are coming to this movie to see as they would want to see the plot from the books with the plot of this film not even being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Johnny Vegas as Mr. James T. Twit and Margo Martindale as Mrs. Credenza S. Twit. Also starring in this film is Natalie Portman as Mary Muggle-Wump , Emilia Clarke as Pippa , Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Beesha , Ryan Lopez as Bubsy , Jason Mantzoukas as Mayor Wayne John John-John , Timothy Simons as Marty Muggle-Wump , Alan Tudyk as Sweet Toed Toad , Nicole Byer as Beverly Onion , Mark Proksch as Horvis Dungle , Rebecca Wisocky as Dee Dumdie-Dungle and Charlie Berens as Gorb Klurb.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With alot of this films actors turning in some pretty decent at best performances but at the same time tho alot of this films actors feel miscast like for example Margo Martindale as Mrs. Credenza S. Twit who is good in this film but at the same time she's not someone that you think off when you want to hire someone to play this truly evil character and she seems miscast with the same thing being true for Emilia Clarke who is the films narrator and yet she doesn't feel right for that role this is s despite the fact that we the audience know that she can act really well but she still needs to be perfect for the role that she's playing and that's sadly something that's not the case for alot of this films actors as they feel like that they were cast for name recognition alone and not because they were right for there characters with the only actor who is perfectly well cast for this film is Johnny Vegas as Mr. James T. Twit who feels like that he was born to play this character with him even being the best actor in the film as he is just so much fun to listen to in this film with it feeling like that he was the only one that was actually trying to turn in a good performance in the film and it is something that does shine through in the final cut of the film with the acting that's in this very film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hard the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Jellyfish Pictures. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as the films animation is very clearly of a high quality but at the same time tho it does look unfinished alot of the time which makes the film on the whole feel not only cheap to make but also really rushed as well with things like the water effects looking like they came right out of a cheaply made kids animated TV show and not something that you'd expect or even want to see in a Netflix animated feature film with the only positives that there are to find in regards to the films animation being the fact that all of the characters do have some really unique designs to them with even the design of Mr. Twit harkening back to the original design by Quentin Blake and even the Twits house does look oddly fitting for them as it looks like The Addams Family mansion for the nineties movies mixed together with the house from the 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre only more derelict and decrepit which is perfect for those characters and The Twits are characters that wouldn't care about personal hygiene or things like that and so they would of course have a house that helps to reflect that with the films animation however being let down by it's backgrounds as all of the backgrounds outside of The twits house just look bland and generic with even The Twits own theme park Twitlandia looking bland when it's meant to be something that's meant to standout.

For those of you that don't know this film is of course meant to based off of the book of the same name by author Roald Dahl. However outside of borrowing the name and the titular characters the film has nothing to do with the book whatsoever and instead feels like the makers of the film wanted to make anything other then a Twits movie with the only thing that the makers of this film got right about the titular characters being the fact that they hated each other so much so that they refused to divorce the other just to make the other person even more unhappy then what they already were in the first place and that's it as the the film takes so little from the book that it might as well be a different movie with a different title all together as in the book there's no orphanage the characters don't have a run down theme park and they don't waste there time chasing kids to get back some magic creatures that they stole as all they do in the book is play jokes on each other and train there animals as that what they used to do for a circus where as here in this film none of that is adapted granted it would be hard to adapt this book into a feature film as at best you could maybe get into a short film but it's something that's not impossible as heck they did it with Charlie & The Chocolate Factory and there's not alot in that book that would make for a good film so it is possible to do you just need the right team to it and sadly the makers of this film aren't that team as they come across as being people who had never read the book in the first place as they only kept in the bare minimum from the book and that's really and it's obvious that this film will not please people who did read the books as there's so little from the books in either content or spirit in this film in the first place.

For some odd reason the makers of this film chose to make this film a musical as that's what you think of when you think of The Twits you think of badly done songs. With the songs in this film being written by David Byrne with the film only having three songs in the whole entire film it makes you wonder why the makers of this film chose to have songs in this film as none of the films songs as well written as they are add nothing to the overall plot of the film and instead feel forced and outplace as not every kids animated film needs to be a musical and yet for some reason that's what the makers of this film thought that this film really needed to have to make it good and while the best song in this film is "The Problem Is You" as that's when we get to see just manipulative the Twits can be as they try to get Beesha to be like them it's also not something that needed to be a song as all of that could have been done in dialog and nothing more then that this is despite the fact that all of this films songs are really well sung with it even being hilarious that they don't even try and to hie the fact that they had someone other then the very northern sounding Johnny Vegas sing lyrics as Mr. Twit which is something that does add a bit of unintentional humor to the films songs but even so this is a film that really didn't need songs in it in the first place as it would have worked just fine without them and it would have kind of forgivable if this film was being released in theaters and the songs where just there to sell the soundtrack album it's not as there's no soundtrack album which makes you wonder why the makers of this film chose to make this film a musical in the first place.

For some odd reason the makers of this film chose to have a forced message of the character of Beesha learning that it's OK to let others help her out alot of the time. Which granted isn't a bad thing to be teaching kids but at the same time NONE of that was set up in the rest of the film with it only coming into play during the films third act which makes it a pointless thing to add that late into the film with it feeling like that this film was the writers first ever screenplay as that is something that should have been set up right from the moment we meet her and Bubsy at the start of the film and not something that's included late into the film because the makers of this film wanted to have her bond with Mary Muggle-Wump with the character of Beesha even feeling like a character that's really underdeveloped as there's nothing to her character that makes her interesting out side of the fact that she truly believes that her parents are coming back for her and that's it and yet when she does start to act like The Twits near the end of the film we're meant to be shocked and surprised that she would pull a trick on them and that doesn't work because she's been acting like them for alot of the film with the message of it's OK to let others help you feeling like it was something that was added in at the last minuet as it had no baring on the plot of the film whatsoever and was something that was better left on the cutting room floor as all it ends up doing is making what was already a pointless character seem all the more pointless because of it this is despite the fact that on paper she could have been this really interesting character with an interesting character arc if the film had her going from someone who acted as evil as the Twits to then learning that how they are acting is not OK and that it's OK to be nice to people as that is something that is a great message for kids to learn as well.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and forty two minuets and forty six seconds. Which again to be fair to this film is kind of the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a film like this one to have in he first place but in saying that tho this is a film that really doesn't have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place as alot of the time it feels like the film is stuck on repeat mode with the Twits failing to get these magical creatures back from Beesha and her friends at the orphanage only to come back again a few minuets later with another scheme to get them back wash , wince and repeat with the film not even using it's running time all that wisely either as the film can't develop it's plot due to the fact that alot of the time it is stuck on repeat mode and the very few times that it's actually trying to advance itself it's to little to late as by then it's the audience for this film have already turned the film off with this lack of development even effecting the films characters as well as none of them get anu kind of character development whatsoever which is fine for the Twits as characters as they are people who are so stuck in their ways that it only feels right that they stay there evil selfs at the end of the film but for all of the films newer characters it's something that doesn't work as the makers of this film could have taken the time that they really did need to develop them as characters as the audience will already know if we're going to hate or love the Twits as characters thanks to the book but for characters like Beesha and Bubsy who are making their debut with this film there really needed to be that kind of character development there to make those characters likable in the first place but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. As there are a few decent jokes with the Twits in this film however alot of this films jokes are bodily humor jokes and those can only be funny for so long and yet here they seem to be the only joke that the makers of this film seem to know how to tell with none of them being funny and all of them being very childlike with those types of jokes being ones that Roald Dahl would try to avoid as much as possible as he treated his audience with respect and gave his characters funny lines and personalities that made them funny in the first place with the best joke in this whole entire film being when the Twits find themselves in jail with Mrs. Twits falling on top of Mr. Twit something which brings great delight to Mrs. Twit with that joke working because it feels true to the characters as that is something that would bring her a great deal of joy as she is something that does want to cause her husband pain and misery much like what he likes to do to her as well and it's when the film tells jokes like that that it feels more like and adaptation of The Twits as that's the closest that the films gets to actually adapting the book as that's when we get alot of the films best jokes but with the film being more focused on telling us a new story and not the one that's in the book it means that we do get alot of really bad jokes in this film as that's just how bad alot of this films jokes really are alot of the time in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if Roald Dahl really hated Willy Wonka & The Chocolate factory with that film staying true to the original book then lord only knows what he'd think of this film with this film being that's so bad that it won't please those who read the book and those that just like films in general as it's really just that plain and average of a film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for there I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images really from this very film being the really great Google Images this is really because of the fact that really all of the images that I really indeed got and really used from Google Images are all really high quality really with all of the images that really are all and of course really currently up and on the really great and the really solid Google Images really are all being really fairly high in quality and as well as them all really being fairly high in definition.