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MAY is upon us and, with it, the reopening of cinemas inches ever closer. Hoorah! In the meantime, what have we to keep us sane? Well, a rather brilliant new animation on Netflix and one more, ultimately unsatisfying, adaptation of a popular video game series. From the producing team behind mega hits The Lego Movie and Into the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs the Machines is road trip and cautionary romp combined. Splendidly animated and written with wit, verve and bundles of energy, it’s a future movie night favourite that the whole family can enjoy. The film is the brain child of fea...

Print Ever since the slapstick “Vacation” franchise of the ‘80s, the dysfunctional family road trip has earned its place as a reliable Hollywood construct. At its best, it offers simple truths through easy laughs by pointing a mirror to our family’s familiar flaws. At its worst, in the case of flops like “RV” and “Johnson Family Vacation,” it relies on low-hanging humor — usually a hapless father thrown into ill-fated stunts — instead of locating real sincerity. The unwaveringly sweet, animated example “The Mitchells vs the Machines,” largely avoids the genre’s worst...

Like a mash-up of an ‘80s family road comedy like “Vacation” and the visions of a tech apocalypse foretold in films like “The Terminator,” Netflix’s “The Mitchells vs. the Machines” is a lot of nostalgic fun but told in a modern style. It sometimes succumbs to that animated problem of choosing hyperactivity over all other storytelling options, but it’s also a whip-smart action film, a movie with nearly “Fury Road”-esque momentum in its asking of the question, “What if the only family that could save the world was as dysfunctional as yours?” Threaded with clever comme...