3 h. ago Netflix's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan explains why The Twits isn't a 'typical' kids movie

EXCLUSIVE: The Twits star Maitreyi Ramakrishnan has broken down Netflix’s feature-length adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic story.

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8 h. ago Emilia Clarke says Netflix’s Twits adaptation ‘speaks to the world we live in’

Clarke’s character, a bed bug who lives in Mr Twit’s beard, is the film’s narrator.

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3 d. ago The Twits review – Americanised Roald Dahl is gruesome in all the wrong ways

Netflix’s animation mangles and sentimentalises Dahl’s black comedy about a gross and detestable married couple – relocating the action to Texas and introducing a plucky orphan heroineThis animated Netflix adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits is only fractionally less gruelling than eating wormy spaghetti or finding a toad stuffed in the bottom of your bed. Dahl’s story about one of the most dysfunctional marriages in fiction is not exactly burdened with plot: the 95-page original is essentially a series of mean pranks, all monstrously mangled here and tortuously added to.There has been some outrage that Netflix have Americanised the story, but that is the least of this film’s problems. In the fictional city of Triperot, Mrs Twit (voiced by Margo Martindale) is a Texan in blue denim cowboy boots, unhappily married to Mr Twit (Johnny Vegas, keeping his Lancashire accent). The couple have built a rickety amusement park called Twitlandia, with rides made out of toilets and old mattress...

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3 d. ago M Night Shyamalan and Nicholas Sparks: ‘We’re two lone wolves. How do two lone wolves work together?’

Hollywood’s master of twists has teamed up with literature’s maestro of romance for a new project that comprises a book and a film adaptation. Louis Chilton speaks to both men about the unexpected making of their supernatural love story

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1 week ago The Twits Netflix release date, cast and everything we know about Roald Dahl movie

The animated film is produced and directed by Phil Johnston and follows the Twits, who are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world

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1 week ago The Twits Netflix release date and cast for film based on Roald Dahl best

The animated musical comedy boasts a star-studded voice cast.

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