Review of The Willoughbys (2020) by Brunovn00 — 23 Apr 2020

It looks like the animators and artists did a great job in making this movie look very visually appealing and different from many current mainstream animated films. So, if this movie did something right, it's the presentation and the animation.

Other than that, this movie was pretty meh. The story had the potential to be great but it ended up being kinda fine, and sometimes it's just...Frustrating. The parents are literally the worst parents I've ever seen in a movie. They have absolutely no reedeming qualities and act as if they legit would kill their children. They do something in the movie that's so stupid and unrealistic that it's just baffling. I was constantly like "Why would they do that? That didn't make any sense". I guess it did a great job in wanting me to hate them but they are so ridiculously written that it gets annoying. The rest of the characters are okay. The twins had the potential to be a pair of Minions (annoying and obnoxious for the sake of cheap "humor") but they weren't annoying, thank God.

If you don't overthink the story and the actions of the characters, then this movie is actually fine. It has some good comedy here and there. I loved the cat narrator, he has a lot of charisma, and while the ending was a bit predictable I was actually satisfied because I thought it was going to end in some other way (and if it did, I would've hated the movie). It's a decent way to kill an hour and a half. It's harmless family friendly entertaining.