THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES - NETFLIX

It’s dazzling and fully-loaded, and carves out its own style, building on the animation techniques developed on SPIDER-VERSE, adding hand-drawn illustrations (provided by daughter Katie) to embellish frames and feelings.

THE MITCHELLS VS THE MACHINES.

It’s funny and moving, and if I have one quibble it’s that too often backstory is revealed by people watching things on screens which just happen to be lined up at the right back-story-revealing moment. But this is minor. The film is a riot of humour and character that takes swipes at the very thing that makes its existence possible (technology).

The film-makers - Mike Rianda and Jeff Rowe, raised on writing the magnificent GRAVITY FALLS - embrace the dark side of the internet as well as its myriad possibilities for loveliness and communication, and dramatise the two directions through the struggles of its Mitchell family - mom, dad, daughter, son, dog - as they survive and overcome an AI uprising.

It’s a super-treat for the eyes, heart, brain and soul.

Magnificent. On Netflix.