An awkward family road trip turns into humanity's last line of defense when a robot uprising sweeps the country in this animated adventure from director Michael Rianda.

What is The Mitchells vs the Machines about?

Katie Mitchell is finally headed off to film school, and her anxious father insists on driving her there himself, dragging along her dinosaur-obsessed younger brother and reptile-loving mother for one last family trip. Just as old tensions start resurfacing on the road, a tech company's brand-new line of household robots turns hostile all at once, rounding up people across the country while a scorned artificial intelligence takes control. Stuck in an ordinary minivan with no training and constant bickering, the Mitchells realize their broken-down family unit might be the only one left standing between the machines and total control.

About the cast

Abbi Jacobson voices Katie with restless, creative energy, while Danny McBride and Maya Rudolph play her parents with the kind of exasperated warmth that grounds the film's chaos. Michael Rianda himself voices Katie's brother, and Olivia Colman brings a calm, unsettling menace to the story's central artificial intelligence, with Eric André, Fred Armisen and Beck Bennett filling out a cast of household robots and side characters.

Context & significance

The film leans on a scrapbook-style visual approach, mixing traditional animation with hand-drawn doodles, filters and social-media-style overlays to mirror how its teenage lead actually sees the world. Underneath the robot-apocalypse premise, it stays focused on a very ordinary family struggling to understand each other, using the machines less as villains in their own right and more as a pressure test for a household already coming apart at the seams.

Watching The Mitchells vs the Machines on Ktime

The Mitchells vs the Machines streams on K-Time with a free account login, complete with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making its rapid-fire visual gags and family banter easy to follow for Farsi-speaking households watching together.