The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

During a cross-country family road trip to transport quirky teenager Katie Mitchell to film school, the family encounters an obstacle in the form of a newly launched series of home robots determined to capture all humans and launch them into space. There are so many dysfunctional family road trip and technology taking over films ( The Addams Family and Ron’s Gone Wrong both from this year) that simply mashing the two together doesn’t make this film magically fresh. It doesn’t bring anything new to either of those genres. Visually, though the humans look like all other generic computer animated humans these days, the textures of the film are softer and the scenes in the robot headquarters are a highlight, brilliantly colored and designed.

Oscar Nomination: Best Animated Feature Film