The Mitchells Vs The Machines
Spider-Verse. Like all those movies, it’s funny as hell too. Up there with the best of Lord and Miller’s projects, the gags fly at a rate of knots on a range of registers — visual punchlines, tiny asides that hit well above their weight, bonkers sequences packed with guffaws. A standout mid-movie mall set-piece with the Mitchells taking on a giant Pal-chipped Furby overlord — who screeches the original Furby noises and phrases like “LET THE DARK HARVEST BEGIN!” — is positively riotous. Frequent bursts of meme-style humour feel like a real leap forward from ...