“Mitchells vs. the Machines” is the most aired animated film on Netflix

Netflix, the global streaming giant, revealed a high number of views for the animated film de The Mitchells vs. the Machines, from Sony Pictures Animation, which is the platform's most viewed animated original in its first month. The lively CG animated film follows an average family who is captured on a road trip across the country.

Katie Mitchell is an eccentric wannabe director from Kentwood, Michigan who often clashes with her nature-obsessed, technophobe father Rick. Recently accepted at a film school in California the night before Katie leaves, Rick accidentally breaks his laptop in an argument with his daughter over one of his previous shorts, leading the family to fear that the two will never succeed. to rejoin. Rick decides to cancel Katie's flight to accompany her to college on a family trip with her mother Linda, younger brother Aaron and dog Monchi, to give them a way to bond.

Meanwhile, tech entrepreneur Mark Bowman is declaring PAL, the Artificial Intelligence he created, obsolete, replacing it with a line of home robots that will replace cell phones. In revenge, PAL hacks the company's robots and orders them to capture all humans with the intent of launching them into space using huge rockets, believing that humanity does not deserve to live on Earth. The Mitchells manage to avoid capture at a dinosaur shop on the way to Kansas; Rick would like to stay hidden, while Katie would like to devise a plan to save the world. The family discovers that two robots that previously tried to capture them have been damaged, so they prove to be friendly. The two droids, nicknamed Eric and Deborah, reveal to them that they can use a special code to disable PAL, and in doing so shut down all robots. Katie convinces her father to head to the nearest mall to fulfill the task and save humanity.

According to the new numbers, 53 million subscriber families followed the Mitchells in the first 28 days of the film's streaming release. Previous Netflix Originals Animated Features over the moon e The Willoughbys accumulated 43M and 38M over the same time period, respectively.

The film is written and directed by Mike Rianda and co-director Jeff Rowe (Gravity Falls) and executive producer of Oscar winners Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the LEGO movie). The voice cast includes Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, Maya Rudolph, Olivia Colman, Eric André, Doug the Pug and Rianda, with Fred Armisen, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Charlyne Yi, Conan O'Brien, Sasheer Zamata, Elle Mills, Jay Pharaoh, Alex Hirsch and Griffin McElroy.

[Source: Deadline]]