The Twits (2025)
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Synopsis
A pair of parentless youth team up with a clan of wondrous creatures to defend their town from danger. Together, they must stand against the formidable Mr. and Mrs. Twit, an incredibly malicious and unpleasant couple who threaten their home.
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Woke Score Breakdown
🎭 Race-swapped character
1No established characters from Roald Dahl's book are portrayed by actors of a different race or ethnicity than originally depicted.
🔃 Gender-swapped character
1All established characters retain their original genders from the source material.
👥 Diverse casting
1While the film features a diverse voice cast—including Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as the newly introduced Indian-American protagonist, Beesha—the casting is appropriate for the film's contemporary, Americanized fictional setting of Triperot.
✊ Racial messaging
1There is no messaging about systemic racism or racial grievances; the protagonist's ethnicity is not a point of thematic conflict.
🛂 Immigrant themes
1Immigration-related themes and arguments are entirely absent.
🪶 Indigenous peoples
1The plot involving the rescue of the Muggle-Wumps from Loompaland is framed as a standard animal rescue rather than a message regarding colonization or indigenous struggles.
🏳️🌈 LGBT characters
1There are no LGBT characters or themes depicted in the film.
♀️ Feminist themes
1Although the film features a capable young female protagonist in Beesha, she is not used to critique traditional gender roles or masculinity systemically.
🏢 Anti-capitalist themes
1While the Twits are greedy, exploitative business owners who run an unsafe theme park, they are framed as cartoonish individual villains rather than a systemic critique of capitalism or the profit motive.
🌱 Environmental issues
2Minor environmental themes are present: the decline of the town Triperot is linked to industrial pollution and climate change drying up its lake, and the Twits commit ecological sabotage by contaminating the town's water supply with liquid hot dog meat.
Content Rating Breakdown
💋 Sex & Nudity
MildThere is no sexual content or romantic dialogue. Mrs. Twit is animated with a small amount of cleavage, and the head of the orphanage, Mr. Napkin, is stripped down to his white underwear briefs and a single sock during a comedic slapstick sequence.
🩸 Violence & Gore
ModerateThe film features frequent cartoon slapstick and gross-out elements. The Twits regularly hit each other, play cruel pranks (such as spitting live worms into each other's mouths), capture birds using sticky glue (a bird skeleton is briefly visible), and attack a children's orphanage with fireworks. The villains also threaten to eat characters and lock magical monkeys in cages to harvest their tears. In a crude sequence, a character's buttocks comically expand and explode after eating a laxative-laced cake, and another character sustains a minor cut that is subsequently healed.
🤬 Profanity
MildLanguage is limited to mild potty humor, mild exclamations, and name-calling, including 'crap' (used as a play on words to mock a character named Napkin as 'Crapkin'), 'butt,' 'bum,' 'jeez,' 'shut up,' 'idiot,' and 'brat.'
🍺 Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
MildNo real-world alcohol, tobacco, or drugs are depicted. However, characters lick the secretions of a magical 'Sweet-Toed Toad' to make themselves behave in opposite ways, which temporarily causes them to act comically intoxicated.
👻 Frightening & Intense Scenes
ModerateSeveral sequences may be tense or frightening for younger viewers, including the grotesque visual designs of the villains, the captivity and distress of the magical monkeys, and an explosive attack where the orphanage is towed away. Creepy imagery is also present, including a room full of taxidermized animals, dark shadow sequences, and a nightmarish lullaby describing monsters tearing out guts and eating faces.