Netflix has released the full trailer for its upcoming animated film The Mitchells vs The Machines, a riff on The Incredibles’ super powered family. The film was originally slated to be released theatrically by Sony under its original title, Connected, on January 10, 2020. The Mitchells vs The Machines then bounced around the release schedule, getting pushed back to September and then October. Netflix purchased distribution rights to the film in January 2021 for a reported $110 million.
The Mitchells vs The Machines comes from producers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the directing duo behind both the 21 Jump Street reboot and The LEGO Movie. Lord and Miller also served as producers on the Oscar winning hit film Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse and are currently hard at work on the sequel to that film. The core cast includes Broad City alum Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, and Eric Andre, with Emmy and Oscar winner Olivia Colman as the family’s virtual assistant PAL.
Netflix has released the first official trailer for the film ahead of its April 30 release on the streamer. The Mitchells vs The Machines looks to be a mix of The Incredibles’s heartwarming family dynamic with a dash of Terminator’s robot uprising thrown in, all within the road-trip format à la National Lampoon's Vacation. Tasked with saving the world, the dysfunctional Mitchells must face off against the robot uprising when they are the only humans left after the robots kidnap every human on the planet. Check out the full clip below:
The Mitchells vs The Machines trailer is full of both humor and robot action, using a coordinated family that appears briefly fighting the robots as a foil to the Mitchells, a family that doesn’t quite have it all together. Colman’s voice is instantly recognizable as the robot overlord running the uprising behind the scenes and it adds a hilarious layer to the film after her more serious turns in Netflix’s The Crown and the Oscar winning The Favourite.
The film seems to have all the ingredients necessary to become a hit, with a cute pug as a sidekick and the older sister-younger brother dynamic between Jacobson’s Katie Mitchell and Mike Rianda as Aaron Mitchell. Rianda also served as director on the film and wrote the story with Jeff Rowe. Netflix is releasing a film every week this year and they have proven that they are invested in fleshing out their library geared towards children and it looks like The Mitchells vs The Machines may be a perfect acquisition for the streamer when it’s released on April 30.
Source: Netflix