The Twits (2025) Review: Great Animation But An Unfocused Take On Roald Dahl

The Twits (2025) Review: Great Animation But An Unfocused Take On Roald Dahl

Written for the screen, directed, and produced by Phil Johnston (with Katie Shanahan and Todd Demong co-directing), The Twits is the latest Roald Dahl adaptation. With remakes of Matilda (2022) and The Witches (2020) already on the books for this generation of young audiences, The Twits introduces them to an even meaner look at the world adults create. Still with animation from Jellyfish Productions, who brought the world The Bad Guys, the amoun…

Inside Netflix's "The Twits": Writer/Director Phil Johnston on Empathy, Evil, and Adapting Roald Dahl

Writer/director Phil Johnston, known for his work on Zootopia and the Wreck-It Ralph features, says. “Every character I’ve ever truly connected to has been on the outside looking in. Outcasts, dirtbags, and weirdos are my people.” It seems appropriate, then, that he brought beloved weirdo-specialist Roald Dahl’s book “The Twits” to the big screen. He took Dahl’s story of two hateful people, expanded it, and turned it into a social satire wrapped…