October 17, 2025
The Twits is an animated musical comedy film loosely based on Roald Dahl's 1980 children's novel. The film was produced, directed, and co-written by Phil Johnston. The voice cast includes Margo Martindale and Johnny Vegas as the title characters, alongside Natalie Portman, Emilia Clarke, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Ryan Lopez, Jason Mantzoukas, Timothy Simons, Alan Tudyk, and Nicole Byer.
The Twits was released on October 17, 2025 by Netflix. The film polarized critics and audiences.
Storyline
Told through the framing device of a firefly named Pippa telling a story to her son, Jeremy, inside Mr. Twit's beard. She presents Mr. and Mrs. Twit, a couple who hate each other. Their only joy and connection is an amusement park called Twitlandia. But on its grand opening day, it gets shut down for numerous violations. Vowing revenge, they steal a liquid hot dog meat truck and use it to fill up the water tower, causing an explosion and a flood throughout the town, called Triperot.
The story shifts to two orphans: Beesha, a 12-year-old Indian-American girl, and Bubsy, her friend, who is about to be adopted. But after the Twit's meat flood, Bubsy's potential parents fear he's contaminated and look elsewhere. After giving a pep talk to Bubsy, she realizes the cause of the scandal was the Twits and fulfills Bubsy's other wish of going to Twitlandia. When the two children arrive, they are callously greeted by the Twits, who openly admit their crime.
The children then encounter the Muggle-Wumps, a family of colorful monkey-like creatures from Loompaland, that were locked by the Twits in a double-decker bus-themed cage. The Muggle-Wumps plead to be freed as the Twits torture them to keep the park running. With their power of deep empathy, Beesha and Bubsy understand the Muggle-Wumps. The rescue fails, but Beesha secretly recorded the Twit's confession, so the police arrest the couple. The orphans come back to their house to find a key to free the Muggle-Wumps, and meet a Sweet-Toed Toad who speaks in reverse. The Twits are then bailed out by a family, who want them to help the struggling town, once a capital city for fun, and let them go. Back in the house, Beesha and Bubsy manage to find the key and free the Muggle-Wumps. The Twits chase them to their orphanage.
After taking care of the head of the orphanage, the meek Mr. Napkin, the Twits get into the main bedroom, where the children and creatures are hiding, and manage to prank the Twits to where they fall out of the building. The Twits try to negotiate with Beesha. But she says they can only enter the orphanage if they are the mayor of the town. The orphans and the Muggle-Wumps enjoy themselves until they see the Twits run for the mayoral election at the last minute. They manage to both eliminate their opponent, Mayor Wayne John John-John, by making him eat 'the Triperot Cake', not knowing it was made with laxatives that incapacitate him, and get the townsfolk on their side when Beesha crashes the election. The Twits, now having an outlet for their park, promise that once Twitlandia opens, everybody in Triperot will become billionaires. Marty Muggle-Wump, the patriarch of the Muggle-Wump family, vomits sentient furballs called Florbnorbles from anxiety.
In a heartfelt conversation with Mary Muggle-Wump, the mother, Beesha admits she wants her parents to come back. Mary reassures Beesha is a good kid and that she doesn't have to do things alone. The next morning, the Twits, now co-mayors, start to attack the orphanage with the help of the citizens. The orphans use up a storm of florbnorbles to fight back, scaring everyone away except the Twits. Mr. Napkin, having licked the Opposite-Toed Toad's feet, uncharacteristically fights off the Twits with cheese spray.
Even though Beesha already has a family in the orphanage, she still misses her real parents, who left her there to protect her. So Mr. Twit pretends to be Mr. Napkin and calls to tell her that her parents are in a bowling alley so they can trap her. They use their enraged mob to move the orphanage to Twitlandia and start using them in a dancing park-opening act. Beesha, having escaped, is motivated by the Sweet Toed Toad and decides to save her new family. Twitlandia is reopened, with the citizens ecstatic. Beesha manages to get the Twits to lick the Sweet Toed Toad's feet and uncharacteristically free the Muggle-Wumps. They then admit to lying about saving the town and apologize by blowing up their park.
The orphans and the Muggle-Wumps plan to end the Twits once and for all with a prank. They start changing their living room, while the park goes down in flames. The Twits arrive home and think they're standing on the ceiling, because the whole room was rearranged to look upside down. They stand on their hands to correct themselves, but are stuck to the floor due to the glue the orphans applied to their heads. The orphans party in victory and mock the Twits' fate, saying they will shrink to death due to gravity. Beesha realizes they can no longer understand the Muggle-Wumps anymore, so they fix their revenge and free the Twits.
In an epilogue, Mr. Napkin returns the orphanage to where it was. The Muggle-Wumps sell their tears to be industrialized and help fund the entire orphanage. The town's reputation as a place for fun is reinstated with the help of the Flobnorbles. Beesha now lives happily with her newfound family. After a balloon prank goes wrong, Pippa and her son Jeremy are freed from Mr Twit's beard while he and Ms. Twit end up flying into the mouth of a giant Loompaland Toad.
Movie Trailer
- The Twits (2025) (Trailers)
Sound Effects Used
- Censor Bleep (Heard once in a lower pitch.)
- SKYWALKER, MOVEMENT - BED SHEETS RUSTLING, VARIOUS
- SKYWALKER, PAINT - SPRAY GUN STROKES; SPRAYING
- Sound Ideas, FIREWORKS - SEQUENCE OF FIREWORKS, EXPLOSION
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