IMDb plot summary: A quirky, dysfunctional family's road trip is upended when they find themselves in the middle of the robot apocalypse and suddenly become humanity's unlikeliest last hope.
Directed by Michael Rianda and Jeff Rowe. Starring Abbie Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, and Michael Rianda.
This is a delightful watch, full of creativity and laughs and vivid characters that are still somehow rare in children's films outside of Disney and Pixar. The way the film uses animation is especially creative, leaning more into comic book or anime-style methods of depicting emotion, sound, and tension through visuals, and it works spectacularly. There are so many moments where this movie took me by surprise and made me laugh out loud, which I wasn't expecting, as well as having a tremendous amount of heart to it. There's so much to admire about this movie that it should have been a full-on transcendant film experience, and it wasn't quite, but I can't pinpoint anything that was actually missing. Maybe I just need to give it another rewatch someday, and in the meantime I'm happy to recommend it even if it's more with my head than my heart.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Mitchells vs. the Machines > Arctic
The Mitchells vs. the Machines > Dark Passage
The Mitchells vs. the Machines < Marriage Story
The Mitchells vs. the Machines > Knights of Badassdom
The Mitchells vs. the Machines > Purple Noon
The Mitchells vs. the Machines < Edge of Tomorrow
The Mitchells vs. the Machines > Lawrence of Arabia
The Mitchells vs. the Machines > The Reader
The Mitchells vs. the Machines > Silver Linings Playbook
The Mitchells vs. the Machines > Thor: Ragnarok
The Mitchells vs. the Machines < Ex Machina
Final spot: #476 out of 3373, or 86%.
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