‘The Mitchells vs. The Machines’ is a winning match | movie review
A quirky less-than-perfect family finds themselves as humanity’s last hope as robots take over the world in Netflix’s new animated film The Mitchells vs. The Machines
No one is doing animation quite like Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. From the pure audacious laugh-a-minute humor of The Lego Movie or the inventiveness — and reinventive-ness — of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse, the pair constantly challenges and subverts what an animated movie can be while still being completely reverent and masterful. Basically, they punch you in the face with graphics and color and then put you in a chokehold with profound explorations of real issues we find in our relationships. However, unlike some other studios *cough* Pixar *cough* The Mitchells vs. the Machines is unapologetically for kids and it’s all the better for it.
The Mitchells are your run-of-mill dysfunctional family that aspiring filmmaker Katie (Abbi Jacobson) is eager to get away from as she goes to film school across the country …