In the twisted children’s novel “ The Twits ,” Road Dahl describes the repulsive state of Mr. Twit’s facial hair with relish, lingering on details like the “maggoty green cheese” and “slimy tail of a tinned sardine” you’d find tangled up in that unsanitary nest growing on his face. In a wonky toon retelling of the book now streaming on Netflix, it’s bedtime for the bugs living in Mr. Twit’s beard, and the adorable little larva won’t settle for “a boring old normal story.” That calls for a little extra creativity from its mom — and the movie’s narrator (Emilia Clarke) — who wriggles her mandibles and gets to work embellishing upon what Dahl imagined.

It’s not every (Minion-less) computer-animated comedy that can milk laughs from the opening credits, but “The Twits” wastes no time in tick

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