Film review: The Mitchells vs. The Machine

First scheduled for release by Sony Pictures in 2020 under the title Connected, this impressive animation about the perils of technology became another victim of the Covid crisis. The film was eventually sold to Netflix who renamed it The Mitchells vs. The Machines.

Produced by Phil Lord and Chris Miller — the people behind The Lego Movie and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse — the film is voiced by Maya Rudolph, Danny McBride and Abbi Jacobson, to name but a few.

The story revolves around a dysfunctional family who find themselves the sole survivors of a robot apocalypse.

Aspiring filmmaker Katie Mitchell (Jacobson) often clashes with her technophobe father Rick (McBride) who believes the family has become too reliant on technology and have lost the ability to communicate. When Katie is accepted into film school in California, Rick hopes to repair the rift between them by organising an impromptu road trip across the country.