The Mitchell's vs The Machines (2021)

The Mitchell's vs The Machines (2021)

 

6/10

 Starring

Danny McBride

Abbi Jacobson

Maya Rudolph

Eric Andre

Olivia Colman

 

Directed by Mike Rianda

 

The animation does its best to throw you off with its quirkiness, keeping itself edgy and leaving a mark on the danger of over-relying on technology. It starts off with a family on the run, then drops us into a family about to self-destruct. The fun in this animation is for the whole family, and the movie takes its time building up to the world’s destruction. When it does, the movie takes you on a fast-paced ride as this quirky family is tasked with saving the world.

The animation might strike you as one of those where you can guess how things will turn out—there's practically nothing new under the sun. But I like the way it leaves some things just up in the air. Like, are their neighbors truly a happy family on Instagram? I thought we'd see that bubble burst.

Anyways, the Mitchells are your average family with your average problems. The father, Rick, is weird and loves to fix things with his hands and knows nothing about technology. The mother, Linda, is more into both and has developed a liking for technology and doing things with her hands. Their daughter, the first-born Katie, is a lover of all things tech and wants to be a movie producer one day. She has her own channel on YouTube where she uploads her short movies, which, based on viewership, are quite good. Their son, Aaron, is a lover of dinosaurs and knows everything there is to know about them.

Katie and Rick used to be inseparable, but the teenage years have come, and the two are always fighting. Add to that, Katie is all set to go to film school, and Rick was not ready to let her go. With a push from Linda, he decided to give his relationship with his daughter one more try and attempt to fix it. He canceled her plane trip to college and set up a road trip to drop Katie off at school instead.

While on their road trip, the world was turned upside down by robots, and it wasn’t long before the carnage happening around the world caught up with them. The Mitchells' constant bickering and irregular behavior made it hard to keep up with them, and before long, the world was in their hands to save.

You can catch this animation on Netflix, and it's a fun watch for you and the family.