The Willoughbys Review
The Willoughbys is a Netflix original animated movie that is a coming of age story about the
Willoughby children; Tim, Jane, and twin brothers both named Barnaby who has negligent parents
that only have enough love for each other. The Willoughby children are basically orphans with the
way their parents neglect and ignore them, this becomes even more true when they decide to orphan
themselves by sending their parents on a deadly holiday that they may not return from in order to
gain the freedom they never had before. Things take an unexpected turn when the Willoughby
children meet their nanny hired by their parents who ends up being a very caring person luckily.
The nanny, Linda is not initially accepted by Tim after all the hardships he had to deal with
and had trouble trusting Linda at first until she helps them prevent their house from being sold off
by their parents. Unfortunately, Tim made a horrible mistake that separates the Willoughby children
from each other and made them lose their home. This leads into the second half of this movie where
the Willoughby children have to work together as a real family to get out their current predicament
and along the way discover the true meaning of family. This movie tackles heavy subjects like
neglected/abused children and child abandonment which definitely weren't things that I thought were
going to be so prominently featured in this movie. This really elevated the stakes of the movie and
gave more weight to the family themes projected by this movie. The majority of this movie's
character development is centered around Tim the oldest of the Willoughby children who struggled to
overcome his trauma and truly break out of his shell to be a good older brother.
Although the movie is quite focused on Tim, other characters such as Jane and Linda were able to
find times to shine despite taking a backseat to Tim for the majority of the movie. The ending of this
movie is very heartwarming and quite satisfying, despite being a bit obvious. Overall I felt the
narrative and writing of this movie was good, although the pacing was a bit uneven with the first half
being slow and the second half a lot faster pace. The animation was exquisite, with the use of
stop motion and 2D animation, it was a delight for the eyes. This goes to show how older styles of
animation can still hold its' own against newer techniques such as fully computerize animation. This
style was very similar to the one used in Klaus which was also the most underrated animated movies
of 2019. This movie overall was good writing-wise, projected a very strong theme and had excellent
animation. It might not be my favorite animated movie but I would give it 8 out of 10 in terms of
enjoyment. If the trend of excellent Netflix original animated films continue then major animation
studios like Disney, Pixar, and Dreamworks will have strong competition for the foreseeable future.
Willoughby children; Tim, Jane, and twin brothers both named Barnaby who has negligent parents
that only have enough love for each other. The Willoughby children are basically orphans with the
way their parents neglect and ignore them, this becomes even more true when they decide to orphan
themselves by sending their parents on a deadly holiday that they may not return from in order to
gain the freedom they never had before. Things take an unexpected turn when the Willoughby
children meet their nanny hired by their parents who ends up being a very caring person luckily.
The nanny, Linda is not initially accepted by Tim after all the hardships he had to deal with
and had trouble trusting Linda at first until she helps them prevent their house from being sold off
by their parents. Unfortunately, Tim made a horrible mistake that separates the Willoughby children
from each other and made them lose their home. This leads into the second half of this movie where
the Willoughby children have to work together as a real family to get out their current predicament
and along the way discover the true meaning of family. This movie tackles heavy subjects like
neglected/abused children and child abandonment which definitely weren't things that I thought were
going to be so prominently featured in this movie. This really elevated the stakes of the movie and
gave more weight to the family themes projected by this movie. The majority of this movie's
character development is centered around Tim the oldest of the Willoughby children who struggled to
overcome his trauma and truly break out of his shell to be a good older brother.
Although the movie is quite focused on Tim, other characters such as Jane and Linda were able to
find times to shine despite taking a backseat to Tim for the majority of the movie. The ending of this
movie is very heartwarming and quite satisfying, despite being a bit obvious. Overall I felt the
narrative and writing of this movie was good, although the pacing was a bit uneven with the first half
being slow and the second half a lot faster pace. The animation was exquisite, with the use of
stop motion and 2D animation, it was a delight for the eyes. This goes to show how older styles of
animation can still hold its' own against newer techniques such as fully computerize animation. This
style was very similar to the one used in Klaus which was also the most underrated animated movies
of 2019. This movie overall was good writing-wise, projected a very strong theme and had excellent
animation. It might not be my favorite animated movie but I would give it 8 out of 10 in terms of
enjoyment. If the trend of excellent Netflix original animated films continue then major animation
studios like Disney, Pixar, and Dreamworks will have strong competition for the foreseeable future.
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