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  1. The Twits Review: Chaotic, Overstuffed, and Uneven

    Phil Johnston’s The Twits is an animated musical comedy that should, in theory, have been a perfect playground for anarchic imagination. Roald Dahl’s 1980 novel was a lean, nasty little morality tale about cruelty and comeuppance — a darkly funny fable that children adored precisely because it never pandered....

    #EmiliaClarke #JasonMantzoukas #NataliePortman #PhilJohnston #TheTwits

  2. I've been a Roald Dahl fan since childhood, and I narrated and juggled in a performance of The Twits one summer. So I was excited to sit down with my grandkids and watch the movie adaptation of The Twits released this year on NetFix.

    What a steaming pile of hot garbage. Was the movie script written by a Trained #MOLE? I broadly agree with the social messages and I still hated it.

    If Dahl was still alive, I doubt he would have allowed his story to be butchered like this.

    #movies #TheTwits

  3. The Twits Review: Chaotic, Overstuffed, and Uneven

    Phil Johnston’s The Twits is an animated musical comedy that should, in theory, have been a perfect playground for anarchic imagination. Roald Dahl’s 1980 novel was a lean, nasty little morality tale about cruelty and comeuppance — a darkly funny fable that children adored precisely because it never pandered....

    #EmiliaClarke #JasonMantzoukas #NataliePortman #PhilJohnston #TheTwits

  4. The Twits Review: Chaotic, Overstuffed, and Uneven

    Phil Johnston’s The Twits is an animated musical comedy that should, in theory, have been a perfect playground for anarchic imagination. Roald Dahl’s 1980 novel was a lean, nasty little morality tale about cruelty and comeuppance — a darkly funny fable that children adored precisely because it never pandered....

    #EmiliaClarke #JasonMantzoukas #NataliePortman #PhilJohnston #TheTwits

  5. There once were two hoooorrible people. And I mean pungently bad.

    It was one thing when they were horrible to each other. But now they are turning their torment onto an orphanage.
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    An adaptation of Roald Dahl characters by Jellyfish Prod. The movie is now on Netflix.

    youtube.com/watch?v=dMZI0FkYLE

    #Animation #TheTwits #Movies #3D #KidLit #RoaldDahl

  6. Next On Netflix Animation: The Preview for 2024 and Beyond

    youtube.com/watch?v=vw2eLX-eBc
    #Netflix shows off it's upcoming slate of #Animation. In-clu-dinggg..
    #Arcane
    #TombRaider
    #BigMouth
    British mecha in #Leviathan
    #Spellbound
    #TheTwits
    #TheImaginary (w/ Hailey Atwell! :blobcheer: )
    a new #WallaceAndGromit ❤️ ⭐
    #UltramanRaising
    #ExplodingKittens
    And alot more.

    #Cartoons #TV

  7. As it’s getting christmassy, here’s #TobyStephens reading Roald Dahl’s The Twits at The Print Room in December 2017. You can listen to the full audio here: soundcloud.com/martina-merlini
    Credit to tumblr.com/koryuoftheriverflow
    #TheatreThursday #RoaldDahl #TheTwits

  8. As it’s getting christmassy, here’s reading Roald Dahl’s The Twits at The Print Room in December 2017. You can listen to the full audio here: soundcloud.com/martina-merlini
    Credit to tumblr.com/koryuoftheriverflow