Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Mitchells vs The Machines
A father’s & daughter’s differences setup their ordinary family on a action-packed, hilarious, family-bonding road trip to college & to saving the planet. Kate Mitchell is an independent girl & talented artist on her way to film school but butts heads with her outdoorsy technophobic dad, Rick. Meanwhile, technology entrepreneur Mark Bowman’s upgrades to his AI PAL smart phone to the next level robots devices, results is a revolution by these new machines to eliminate all humans.This is Sony’s animated attempt to explore father/daughter differences & conflicts against the backdrop of the public’s obsession with social media on their smart devices & the popularity of the superhero genre.
Alien gives it 2½ “kill code” stars out of 4.