This quirky and utterly endearing family movie from Sony starts off with the emotional beats of a Pixar movie as a likeable and relatable slightly-dysfunctional family prepares to see their film-making-obsessed daughter go to college and the parents decide to turn it into one last family road trip...and then this charming family animation turns into a frantic and delightfully bonkers robot-apocalypse survival movie - and it works! It is bright, breezy, colourful and energetic, with terrific humour ranging from pure slapstick to on-the-money meta references and snarky one-liners, and it plays consistently strongly right to the very end. The Mitchells vs The Machines is a smart, fun-filled adventure that is hugely entertaining.
