Review of The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) by Laser_Dawg — 08 Jul 2021

The movie itself is great with a few flaws. It’s like the directors of the movie were changed every 10 minutes. Sometimes the movie is absolutely amazing, and sometimes it’s just… well, too much of the good stuff. My main complaints is that they’re trying to make it look like it’s through the eyes of Katie, the photoshop girl, but 90% of the time they do it it heavily interferes with the movie because a 2D drawing looks very out of place in a 3D animated movie. Not to mention that when they try to do that heavily, it just looks more like it was made by an amateur instead of someone trying to capture the feeling of how Katie sees the world. For example, during the “screaming monkey” joke, wich happens twice, they have it on screen for WAY too long. Its like the joke was directed by the people behind Family Guy. And although there are only a few of those out-of-place lengthy jokes, it’s almost as if they were engineered to be included in the scenes where they are most out of place. They’re trying to make it look like it’s through the eyes of Katie, but they just end up looking like someone used KineMaster to put stock-free effects over it.

My other main complaint is the “family bondage in a robot apocalypse” style they’re going with. I’m not saying it was a bad choice, in fact, I think it’s amazing and a lot of times it mixes together extremely well, but a few times it’s just, well, out of place.

Although, there aren’t only negative aspects of this movie. In fact, it was a pretty good movie. It’s got a great animation style, attention to detail, and although like I’ve just ranted about, the jokes are most of the time very well pulled off. The plot is good, although it’s got a lot of “why didn’t the antagonist just do this if it can do that” and “that’s almost impossibly lucky” parts, it’s not a big deal.

Overall, I’d give this movie a 7. It’s like it was on path to become one of the best movies of all time, but then due to a shortage of time before the deadline they had to round some things up quickly.

I’d definitely recommend this movie: although it is not a masterpiece, it’s still pretty good and worth watching.