The Willoughbys

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Platonic Co-Parenting: The movie ends with the Willoughbys, Nanny, Commander Melanoff, and Ruth becoming one big, happy blended family, all living under the same roof and the two adults working together to raise the children. There is some Ship Tease between them, but nothing's ever confirmed. The Willoughbys - BRON Studios". Archived from the original on May 28, 2017 . Retrieved April 30, 2020.

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Age Lift: The book describes Jane as being the youngest of her siblings, but the movie makes her the second oldest, with the Barnabys taking the spot as the youngest children. The children consist of Tim, the oldest, twins Barnaby A and Barnaby B, usually referred to as A and B, and Jane, the youngest. The children basically raised themselves, and came to realize that they needed to get rid of their parents before their parents disposed of them. They composed a plot that sent their mother and father on a trip around the world, with the hope that they would not return. The head of the Department of Orphan Services revealing that Linda the Nanny was an unwanted orphan right in front of the woman. Maya Rudolph as Linda (AKA Nanny), the caretaker and later adoptive mother of the Willoughby siblings.Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby kissing each other. First, in their ancestral home and then before they're ( possibly) about to be eaten by a shark. When Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby aren't being emotionally Abusive Parents to their kids, they're being this. The children are forced to eat leftovers (if their parents bother to leave any for them), they couldn't even be bothered with giving the Barnabys one sweater each or even individual names, and they apparently never enrolled the kids in school. The only reason they bothered to hire Linda was to make sure that the kids didn't break anything while they were gone.

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Tim asks Jane how the kids can rid themselves of their parents. Jane seemingly points to a butcher shop, then to a man pruning a tree with a chainsaw. Tim panics before Jane redirects him to the travel agency.

It may be a parody; it supposedly has allusions to classic children's literature, whatever. It starts out horribly and I just can't keep going. The story is about four old-fashioned siblings who live in an old-fashioned house and do old-fashioned things like go to the zoo. They also love to read classic children’s books and soon realize that all the real fun happens to orphans. Where would Anne of Green Gables have been if she hadn’t started out at the orphanage? Or if Tom Sawyer had had some pesky parents? When Alessia Cara was recording a demo version of "I Choose" (Jane's recurring song throughout the movie), she suffered from a sinus infection. She apologized to the filmmakers for messing up the recordings, but was surprised to find out that they loved it, as it was used during a scene where the Willoughby children are suffering under the cold weather whilst on top of the Unclimbable Alps mountain range. The demo version subsequently ended up in the finished film. Quirky Household: Linda, the Commander, Ruth, and the Willoughby kids are all this after the latter are formally adopted. Jerk With A Heart Of Jerk: The Willoughby parents through and through. When the Willoughby children confess that they were the ones that "orphaned" themselves and admit that they just want to be a proper loving family, it looks like Mother and Father have finally decided to change their selfish ways and be better parents towards their children. But, as it turns out, they didn't, and they end up leaving the children to a certain death just to get off the mountain.