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“Sincerity is not manipulation.”
The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.
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The Twits
Animation · Comedy · Family · 2025
When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.
Movie details
The Twits
“Once upon a time, there were two terrible Twits... But now, they've met their match.”
2025 Animation · Comedy · Family 1h 39m
Critical arithmetic
The consensus, allegedly.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
IMDb
4.8 / 10
1.2K votes
Rotten Tomatoes
50 %
Tomatometer
Metacritic
46 / 100
Metascore
TMDB
5.9 / 10
Community rating
External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.
When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over The Twits?
For the defence
The Sentimental Softie
“You came to feel something, and you will.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Big-Idea Head
“You watch with your brain, not your gut.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
Taste neighbourhood
Nearby on the taste map.
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Names above the title
The people responsible.
Cast & crew
Directed by
Phil Johnston
Written by
Phil Johnston · Meg Favreau · Kirk DeMicco
Margo Martindale
Credenza Twit (voice)
Johnny Vegas
Jim Twit (voice)
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Beesha Balti (voice)
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Ryan Anderson Lopez
Busby Mulch (voice)
Emilia Clarke
Pippa (voice)
Natalie Portman
Mary Muggle-Wump (voice)
Timothy Simons
Marty Muggle-Wump (voice)
Court is in session
Put The Twits on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Big-Idea Head
“The strings are showing.”
Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.