DCU trailer coming in hot! No no no, it's not Supergirl, or Clayface, or Lanterns, because we're not talking about that DCU. We are in fact actually talking about The Twits of course, Ralph Breaks The Internet director Phil Johnston's upcoming animated entry into the Dahl Cinematic Universe — Netflix's ongoing multimedia mission to turn the beloved works of Roald Dahl into freshly reimagined streaming sensations. Having already delivered Wes Anderson's Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar and Matthew Warchus' Matilda The Musical, the streamer's latest casts Margo Martindale and Johnny Vegas as Credenza and Jim Twit, the terrible twosome at the heart of Dahl's classic twisted tale, in a wild-looking animated extravaganza. Check out the trailer below;
"What kind of story is this?" asks a sentient bug of some sort in this wackadoodle first trailer for The Twits, a film which looks to be stretching the definition of adaptation to its outer limits. "Emotionally complex, with high-brow themes and low-brow comedy," replies its buggy mother. The jury is very much out on the first two-thirds of that description for now, but there's plenty of the last here — from diarrhoea jokes to worm spaghetti to newly invented magical monsters the Muggle Wumps. The sheer amount of talent involved — from Hayley Williams and David Byrne on music duties to a cast including the vocal stylings of Emilia Clarke, Natalie Portman, Jason Mantzoukas, and Alan Tudyk — also suggests we're in for something pretty memorable, and almost certainly earwormy as well as real-wormy.
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The synopsis for this one helps illuminate Johnston's visually striking Twit take: "Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most disgusting, most dangerous, most idiotic amusement park in the world, Twitlandia. But when the Twits rise to power in their town, two brave orphans and a family of magical animals are forced to become as tricky as the Twits in order to save the city. A hysterically funny, wild ride of a film (chock-full of the Twits’ beloved tricks — from the Wormy Spaghetti to the Dreaded Shrinks), The Twits is also a story for our times about the never-ending battle between cruelty and empathy."
We'll find out if The Twits is horridly perfect — or just perfectly horrid — when Johnston's animated movie hits Netflix on 17 October. Yes, that's 17 October, as in less than two weeks away!