Review of The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) by Sebastianali — 15 May 2021

The Mitchells vs The Machines is not as good as many said it is. Sure, the animation is outstanding (and that must be admitted), and in the end the movie tries to convey a very good message. And that's all the good honestly, now I will say why I have not enjoyed it so much.

The film is full of plot holes, many of them some people could justify it by saying that it is a comedy film, but being comedy does not justify that there is no internal logic. Examples: The Mitchell family dog ​​is supposed to cause robot failures by not being able to distinguish between whether it is a dog or a cow ... Are you telling me that the Mitchell family is the only family that has a dog? The invasion could not have been successful. That already leaves the plot inconsistent from the beginning!

Another may be when Linda fights with the robots at the end of the movie. Many situations like these are super forced just to complete the plot and force comedy situations into it. If comedy were the core of the film, and there was only that, AND comedy was GOOD, it would be more or less forgivable. But not! The film as I said before, tries to convey a message, and there are several serious situations to reflect this. Personally, the film does not have a good balance between comedy and story, and both elements end up falling, since both the comedy and the story itself is super cliche, forced and predictable. The best way to describe this movie would be: a festival of memes. Because it is what it is, a humor that is no longer funny (and I think it never was imo). This movie doesn't know what it wants to be in that sense! They constantly expose you to a serious situation, and then a cliche joke, and so on for most of the plot.

Don't get me wrong, not everything is bad in this movie. But is far from being a masterpiece. I think is mediocre at worst and ok at best.