The Twits is a 2025 British animated adventure-comedy directed by Phil Johnston, loosely based on Roald Dahl's beloved children's book. It follows two thoroughly horrible people, two brave orphans, and a remarkably clever family of magical animals in a wild caper that gleefully celebrates outsmarting the cruel and the greedy.
What is The Twits about?
Mr. and Mrs. Twit are a grotesque, mean-spirited couple whose entire existence revolves around tormenting each other and anyone unlucky enough to cross their path. When the pair pull a trick to take over their whole town, two orphaned children discover that the Twits are also holding a family of magical monkey-like creatures, the Muggle-Wumps, captive on their ramshackle property. Together the kids and the creatures hatch an audacious plan to turn the tables on the Twits once and for all. What follows is a spirited series of pranks, near-disasters, and small acts of bravery, as their scheme grows more elaborate with every obstacle the Twits throw in their way. The story leans into Dahl's original spirit: anarchic, funny, and quietly subversive.
About the cast
Director Phil Johnston, known for his animation writing work, helms this adaptation with a sharp comic sensibility. The vocal cast is a strong ensemble: Margo Martindale and Johnny Vegas bring thunderous grotesquerie to the Twits themselves, while Natalie Portman voices Mary Muggle-Wump, Emilia Clarke narrates the story as Pippa, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Ryan Anderson Lopez lend warmth and wit to Beesha and Bubsy, the two orphans leading the fight back.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking diaspora families, The Twits offers exactly the kind of rowdy, irreverent comedy that translates beautifully across cultures — cruelty punished, cleverness rewarded, underdogs triumphant. Roald Dahl's stories have long circulated in Iran through translated editions, making this animated version genuinely familiar territory. The film is available on K-Time with Persian DUB, so younger viewers in the household can follow every joke in their mother tongue, and the humor lands just as sharply in Farsi as in English. A solid pick for a family evening, Nowruz break, or school holiday.
Watching The Twits on Ktime
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