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Mitchells v Machines (7+, 114mins) Directed by Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe ****½ Having been accepted into the California College of Film, Katie Mitchell (Abbi Jacobson) believes she’s finally going to meet “my people”. Sure her dinosaur-loving little brother Aaron (Mike Rianda) has always been supportive of her crazy Dog Cop series of movies (featuring their beloved cross-eyed pug Monchi) and mom Linda (Maya Rudolph) sympathetic to her passion, but there’s always been a reticence i...

Like so many integral aspects of Netflix’s heartfelt, hilarious animated comedy The Mitchells vs. The Machines, the title family’s pet dog Monchi was inspired by events in the life of director Michael Rianda. When Rianda was in middle school, his older sister got a pug and named her Monchichi, after the monkey-like toy from Japan that was popular in the 1980s. Since Monchichi is copyrighted, the name had to be shortened for the film. “Monchichi was sort of like Monchi in the movie,” R...

Rolling Stone Menu ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ May Already Be the Best Animated Movie of the Year This Netflix acquisition about a dysfunctional suburban family battling the robot apocalypse is loud, funny, hyperactive, silly, deadpan — and surprisingly great By Netflix It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a 21st century Homo sapien in possession of good fortune, must be in want of dependable Wi-Fi. Take that away, and chaos reigns. The result of a rogue A....

Tweet As silly as  The Mitchells vs. the Machines may be in theory — a frenzied family of loveable weirdos takes on an evil Siri and her legion of robots bent on world domination — it touches a delicate nerve. The disconnect between parents and children isn’t a new trope in storytelling. Since Jacob tricked Isaac with the bowl of Esau’s soup, kids and parents have always had tenuous relationships forged in love but complicated by misunderstanding. The digital divide only ...

Who voices Dirk in The Mitchells vs the Machines? Netflix movie cast explored   Who voices Dirk in The Mitchells vs the Machines? Let’s explore the cast of the 2021 animated Netflix movie. Who is the voice actor? Netflix has unveiled lots of exciting movies so far in 2021, treating subscribers to a fountain of genres. One of the latest to win over viewers is The Mitchells vs the Machines, an animated movie that wonderfully blends sci-fi and comedy elements for a broad family audience. It is ...

In Sonys latest animated feature — The Mitchells vs. The Machines — an average family takes on a rogue A.I. in an effort to free humanity from a global robot uprising. But if director Mike Rianda had a bit more time on the movies production, the titular Mitchells could have received some help from Marvels famous wall-crawler...sort of. During a recent conversation with Inverse, Rianda (a veteran of Disney Channels  Gravity Falls, he co-wrote/directed the project with Jeff Rowe) admitte...

As a former writer and creative director on Gravity Falls, Mike Rianda is no stranger to heartwarming content ostensibly made for kids but equally beloved by adults. That’s certainly the case with his new movie, The Mitchells Vs. The Machines, which was made with the help of Phil Lord and Chris Miller and premiered over the weekend on Netflix. Packed full of amazing actors—we’re talking Maya Rudolph, Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, et al—and quirkily hilarious techno-references, the fil...

Rick and Morty Debuts Killer New Video Game Inspired Short While this was already fun on its own, one of the biggest draws of this Season 4 marathon was a brand new animated short from artist Paul Robertson titled "Rick and Morty in the Eternal Nightmare Machine." This new short takes Rick and Mortys world into a fun blend of 8-bit animation and the kind of wacky situations youd expect from the series with a full beat-em-up inspired brawler. Check it out in the video above! How many referen...

0Shares Every once in a while, and not often enough, a movie comes along to remind adults what it’s like to sit back and get wrapped up in the pure wonder of animation. “To feel like a kid again” doesn’t really do the thought justice, as it’s more about refreshing a true excitement and energy behind movies that can inspire the next generation to reach even higher with their art. Sony Pictures Animation pulled this off not too long ago with the triumphant Spider-Man: Into the Spider-V...

NETFLIX toggle caption NETFLIX (L-R) Maya Rudolph as "Linda Mitchell", Abbi Jacobson as "Katie Mitchell", Mike Rianda as "Aaron Mitchell", Doug the Pug as "Monchi" and Danny McBride as "Rick Mitchell". NETFLIX American animated films strive to serve two masters: Kids, who are generally up for anything bright and colorful and noisy, and their harried Adult Caretakers, who just want to plop said kids in front of a piece of entertainment thats bright, colorf...