Everything GREAT About The Mitchells vs the Machines!

A lot of people complained about the dated memes but I viewed it as Katie incorporating memes from when she was growing up

"your flight will last forever " "..." "your destination is the black void of distant space " "..."

"PRANCER BELONGS TO THE CANYON NOW!" is my favorite line from that entire movie

I love the tiny details in this movie, the families house being messy and lived in. Katie has chipped nail polish and "Film School Tomorrow" doodled on the back of her hand. It's just more you notice of your 17th viewing

Fun detail: Every time Katie adds a rainbow to something, instead of it being a normal rainbow it's a 'family' rainbow with the 4 colors that represent them. Also those drawings are more frequent and noticable when she's feeling strong emotions

“She seems agitated” “The lavender one has found us! Retreat!” “No! She’s grown too powerful!” “Brothers! Run!” “Hehe. Moms scary now.”

I think what feels so incredibly familiar about this movie is the fact that Katie and Aaron are so, so nuerodivergent coded? Both my sister and I are neurodivergent and grew up with that same closeness they present. My sister may only be a couple of years younger, but their relationship with each other, with their parents, and with the world is so clearly a match to what I grew up with. And I never saw that in movie siblings as a kid. Man. I need to go call my sister.

The detail in this movie is amazing. Katie doodles on everything, you can see that she even colored her nails with sharpie at 3:50

Fun Fact: The moment where Prancer is being swept away in the river was almost cut from the film because it was the most expensive shot to produce.

imagine ignoring the furby scene where they say "summon the elder" thats a REALLY obscure reference that shows how much work went into this movie that they knew that obscure fact

One of the best lines this movie has and the one I more remember is: "I know that you love the Dog. I love the Dog! Everyone loves the Dog! But me need to take into account that maybe we would need to eat the dog."

I love that this movie doesn't just villainize the dad. He has a point sometimes and he's shown as genuinely loving and trying to both understand his daughter as well as pass on some lessons and real world skills. Neither side of the age gap is wrong in this case. They both learn from each other.

He missed when the robots where basically calling the warriors robots simps

who ever made the subtitles for the furby scene, NO. WHOEVER THOUGHT OF THAT ENTIRE SCENE NEEDS A RAISE.

fun fact: I did my research and this movie is historically accurate, Live Your Life (that one Rihanna song) came out in September 2008, and the recording in the movie that first showed that song had the date October 2008, I love when movies are historically accurate about the most miniscule things

I like how the little touches in the setting design shows how the family has repeated arguments or philosophies. Specifically, that "No Cell Phones At The Dinner Table" sign shows that Rick has been attempting to do the whole "traditional family dinner" concept for quite a while.

I loved this movie so much and I'm glad that they never even pretended to go for the "Phone bad/How do I click the book?" stance it could have. It celebrates the Katie's digital culture while also having her, without any real pushing, engaging with her family on their terms when she wanted to. Within moments of being into the road trip she's accepted it and doing things with her family instead of being sulky for half the film.

Dude I cried when Eric and Debrah bot got rebooted- they were so wholesome

Some of my favorite (or at least win-deserving) flaws of the Mitchells: - "Walks to the kitchen and forgets why" (but, for me, far from limited to just the kitchen) - "Can't accept his daughter is her own unique person and not simply a reflection of himself" (not a good or relatable thing, but certainly relevant and worth mentioning) - "Says Marry-O instead of Mario" - "Eats own weight in cheese puffs every month" (For which a certain somebody I love has a few words to say about) - "Showers only occasionally" (I'm sorry)

My win i'd love to add for this movie: I just can't stop staring at how they animated Pal's face! It's extremely difficult to get that level of emotion with such simple shapes on a 2d object, yet with the smooth movements and creative use of positioning on the screen, they manage to get a very unique and interesting effect that encapsulates Pal's character very well!