{"id":232232,"date":"2021-04-21T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/another-netflix-winner-film\/"},"modified":"2021-04-21T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T14:00:55","slug":"another-netflix-winner-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/another-netflix-winner-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Another Netflix Winner \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Another Netflix Winner \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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One of the great modern animated comedies is <\/span>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs<\/span><\/i>, a loopy adaptation of the famous children\u2019s story. The 2009 adaptation took the picture book\u2019s basic concept of food falling from the sky instead of rain and snow, and warped it in delightful fashion as a disaster-movie parody with a surprisingly effective emotional undercurrent. That film\u2019s directors, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, have shown themselves to be adept animation filmmakers, also serving as major guiding forces on <\/span>The Lego Movie<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse<\/span><\/i>, so their presence behind the scenes of the new Netflix release <\/span>The Mitchells vs. the Machines<\/i><\/strong> is a sign of hopefully high quality. And mercifully, that\u2019s very much the case with this enormously funny, big-hearted comedy that manages to take what could be an exhausting but timely technological argument and twist it into gleeful pretzels.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mitchells are a singularly awkward and weird family well before they have to fend off a technological apocalypse all on their own. There\u2019s oldest daughter Katie (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), who\u2019s set to go to film school in California where she assumes she\u2019ll find her people, those who app<\/a>reciate her oddball and anarchic creative spirit. It\u2019s nothing against her parents Rick and Linda (Danny McBride and Maya Rudolph) \u2013 they love her but don\u2019t really seem to get her. Katie\u2019s younger brother Aaron (co-writer and director Mike Rianda) is as odd as her, with an obsession with dinosaurs so fierce that he calls random people in the phone book to see if they want to talk with him about the extinct creatures. After Rick decides to turn Katie\u2019s flight to film school into a family-bonding road trip<\/a>, they wind up being at the center of an AI-driven uprising, as a Google\/Apple-like company\u2019s personal assistant Pal (Olivia Colman) engineers a revolt to rid Earth of all humanity.<\/span>
\nThat <\/span>The Mitchells vs. the Machines<\/span><\/i> is utterly ridiculous is part of its charm. Katie narrates the story, first giving us a glimpse into her homemade films, in which her odd-looking dog Monchi stars as a canine cop. Once the story expands to incorporate the larger world-saving adventure, the filmmakers add visual flourishes that evoke Katie\u2019s deliberately slapdash, lovingly created stories. Rianda and co-writer Jeff Rowe (both of whom cut their teeth on the Disney XD show <\/span>Gravity Falls<\/span><\/i>) deftly balance a sense of the personal \u2013 the end credits feature photos of many of the filmmakers and actors as children with their own families \u2013 and a sense of the outrageous. Before the uprising begins, they effectively create a dysfunctional family in the Mitchells while carefully seeding ways in which the family will be stronger and closer to each other by the end.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once the robots rise up against their human masters, <\/span>The Mitchells vs. the Machines<\/span><\/i> goes into high gear. It\u2019s only through a case of dumb luck that the Mitchells end up fighting a cadre of devious robots. Their first encounter at a roadside rest stop includes them watching their perfect neighbors (voiced by Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, and Charlyne Yi) attempting to fight the bad guys before being captured, and then stumbling their way into battle. Each of the big action setpieces offers an incredibly smart blend of tension and comedy; none is funnier than a midpoint scene at a mall where various appliances and toys, including a line of revived Furbys, come to life to try and stop the Mitchells from saving the day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The deftest element of the script is that <\/span>The Mitchells vs. the Machines <\/span><\/i>never turns into a hectoring lecture about the evils of technology<\/a>, or about its dehumanizing qualities. Rick is the Luddite of the family, utterly perplexed by technology and wishing his family would ignore their phones at the dinner table to have actual conversations. But the core emotions of the film are rooted in Katie\u2019s relationship with her dad, which means that while they both change throughout the course of their adventure, he has to shift a little bit towards embracing technology \u2013 or at least learning how to play videos on YouTube<\/a> \u2013 by the end. As in <\/span>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2<\/span><\/i>, there\u2019s a celebrity-like guru spearheading cutting-edge technology, though this one (voiced by Eric Andre) is less villain and more well-meaning techbro. Though technology is the villain of <\/span>The Mitchells vs. the Machines<\/span><\/i>, that doesn\u2019t turn the film\u2019s message into a straw-man argument about how All Tech is Actually Always Bad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, considering this film\u2019s origin, that takeaway would\u2019ve been a big surprise. In a pre-pandemic world, this film was called <\/span>Connected<\/span><\/i> and it was slated to be released in theaters by Sony. Now, it\u2019s going straight to Netflix in the States, which is only a shame because some of the action would be mighty funny to watch on the big screen. Even as an acquisition, <\/span>The Mitchells vs. the Machines<\/span><\/i> represents another step forward for Netflix as the truest, most powerful competition in the animation world against the behemoth of Disney. With many of its productions and acquisitions, Netflix has proven itself to be an all-ages hub for great, intelligent, spunky animated stories. <\/span>The Mitchells vs. the Machines<\/span><\/i> is no different \u2013 it\u2019s an unbeatable combination of humor and heart.<\/span><\/p>\n

\/Film Rating: 9 out of 10<\/strong>
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