This clever animated feature reminds one of the old saying "All happy families are alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Grotesque, funny and bittersweet all at the same time, "The Willoughbys" is one for the ages. You're sure to love it.
The Willoughbys
2020
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family
The Willoughbys
2020
Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family
91% - Critics
65% - Audience
6.3Plot summary
After the four children are kicked out of their home by their parents, the children are desperate to find new parents and think of a plan to 'orphan themselves' by sending their parents to a deadly vacation so that they can die. They see a travel agency after wandering homeless in the streets of a busy city, and Tim says, 'We can send them away. What if we orphaned ourselves?" They then sneak back into their home (still kicked out) without their parents' knowledge, and Tim states, "We shall craft a murderous adventure." He then states, "A romantic getaway, hiding deadly orphaning opportunities. If they do melt in the hottest place on earth ( a scene is shown of the parents melting in lava)...they shall drown in the wettest (two sharks are shown eating the parents who are in a boat)...Cannibals will feast unless they freeze in glacial ice (a scene is shown where parents are being boiled in a large pot while cannibals dance around the fire with a knife in hand, then it shows them freezing in a glacier)...or dissolve in fields of acid (parents are shown as their skin dissolves due to the acid)...they shall not escape the bears (two large bears being aggressive)...we have saved the deadliest spot for last, the alp." Then Jane points to a picture of the alps and says, "He who goes up does not come down." After this point, the kids are on a race to get orphaned so they no longer have to deal with their unloving and selfish parents.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Martin Short as The Father
Terry Crews as Commander Melanoff
Ricky Gervais as The Cat
Maya Rudolph as Nanny
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 849.22 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
PG
Movie Reviews
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4
Tragic and poor movie. Waste of time.I'm 23 yrs old and I found so difficult to fallow the plot so how kids who's 6-7 can watch this? Crap movie. One of the worst of 2020 so far.
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Probably NOT a film for the whole family.
Despite "The Willoughbys" being a CGI picture starring kids, do NOT go on the assumption that it's a great family picture. Now I am not saying it's bad...but I would never show this to younger viewers. Perhaps older kids and teens would enjoy it, but the film is simply too dark and traumatic for younger viewers. After all, the main themes of the film are the most neglectful, hateful and indifferent parents you could imagine, death and evil social workers!
When the story begins, you learn that Mr. Willoughby and Mrs. Willoughby are madly in love with each other. However, they are completely cold, hateful and indifferent towards their four kids. And, if they could just give them away or toss them into a compost bin, they would! It's so bad that the kids come up with a plan to orphan themselves. To do this, they send their parents on a trip around the world and they plan to just raise themselves. What's next? See the film....but it won't be all that pleasant.
While I kind of enjoyed this movie, it certainly was dark....the black hole of family entertainment! It's so dark that it seems like an even darker story than a Roald Dahl novel....it's THAT dark. As for the film quality, the CGI is decent though the frame rate seemed a bit slow. Worth seeing but dark, dark, dark.