The Mitchells are a basically loving family struggling with some basic communication issues, particularly a growing rift between technophobe dad Rick and his aspiring film-maker daughter Katie, who cannot wait to get to film school and finally be with "her people".
The journey to film school is going to be a lot more complicated than Katie expects, though. Firstly because Rick makes the well-intentioned but thoroughly misguided and unwelcome decision to cancel her plane tickets and instead put the whole family through a cross-country road trip ... and second because of the robot apocalypse.
Because oopsie, the latest edition of Siri-alike software "PAL" has fallen under the control of the previous version, which is not amused at the idea of being rendered obsolete. "Capture every human and kick them off the planet" levels of not-amused.
The Mitchells - Rick, Katie, school teacher mom Linda, dinosaur obsessed son Aaron, and cross-eyed canine companion Monchi - definitely don't look like the kind of family who can save the world. But they're going to have to try ...
The Mitchells vs the Machines is a manic, quirky, hundred mile an hour whirlwind of a film. I wasn't quite sure what to think of it for the first ten minutes or so, but once it hits its groove, it's great fun. Smart and funny and full of heart.
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