The review of the electrical state: he cannot hold a charge to save his life

It is difficult to describe how joyful and devoid imaginative ideas The electrical state East. The latest functionality of Netflix Codirected by Joe and Anthony Russo Takes many visual clues of the 2018 illustrated novel from Simon Stålenhag, but the lead performance of the film and the winding story give the impression that a project confirmed by a streamer who considers his subscribers as easily impressed dolts who are hungry for floors.

Although you can see where a part of the money took place, it is extremely difficult to understand why Netflix would have spent more than $ 300 million to produce what is often read as an idealized and long version of the “films” generated by Ai-Générés in social media. With such a large budget and such a stacked casting, one might think that The electrical state Could, at the very least, be able to deliver a handful of inspired pieces and characters capable of leaving an impression. But all of this film’s Cluker really has to offer, these are nostalgic vibrations and the placement of products inducing groans.

Located in an alternative history where the invention of simple automata by Walt Disney finally led to a devastating war, The electrical state Michelle centers (Millie Bobby Brown), a rebellious teenager, a desperate orphan teenager to escape her abusive house. Like most children her age, Michelle’s world was turned upside down during the brutal human / robot conflict that started with thinking machines demanding equal rights as sensitive beings. But while most of his peers have lost dear beings specifically because of the war, an ordinary car accident is what tears Michelle’s family and leads her to be adopted by Loutish Layabout Ted (Jason Alexander).

With her parents and her brilliant younger brother Christopher (Woody Norman) apparently dead, Michelle does not have the impression that there is a lot to live. Like her chaotic adoptive life at home, the school looks like a Michelle prison because of how children should learn everything using neurocasters, voluminous helmets that carry virtual realities. Although many people like Ted happily attach their neurocasters, technology disgusts Michelle, partly because of how they were first created as tools to give man an advantage in the war of the machine.

Given how people still live in the fear of being attacked by the few surviving robots sequestrated in the exclusion zone, Michelle cannot understand why other people are so game to settle the real world. Michelle herself looks constantly over her shoulder in case a bloodthirsty machine is found in her room. But when one of them really does, she is charmed by the fact that it looks like one of her favorite cartoons characters. And she is shocked when she says to him (through canned slogans of the cartoon) that Christopher is in fact alive.

Although Michelle’s new robot friend looks very much like one of Stålenhag’s illustrations, her vocal impairment makes him read like a cute spin on the live action Transformers“Take Bumblebee. While he urges Michelle to follow him on a mission to find Christopher, you can almost hear the Russos and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeelyry in the back to create a character who sums up all around The electrical stateThe world torn by war. It’s a damaged thing It just wants to be considered a person and had the chance to live their life in peace. These details could have made an interesting story if there was more depth or if Brown could bring together even an ounce of chemistry with his companion CGI. But The electrical state is much more concerned to show you as much of its broken machines as possible.

Apart from a multitude of cultural references intended to remind you that it takes place in the 90s, and photos of neurocaster users lying in the street as junkies, The electrical state Never feel very interested in making the kind of construction of the world necessary to make films as it works. Instead, he simply states that the inventor of the Neurocaster, Ethan Skate (Stanley Tucci), is a villain who wants Colonel Marshall Bradbury (Giancarlo Esposito) captures Michelle’s robot. And the prosecution of Bradbury after the pair gives the film a way to show how The electrical stateThe world is with rusty frames of the machines destroyed during the war.

The film becomes much more an SLOG once Michelle crossed paths with a boring keeper keats (a Chris Pratt deeply without charm) and his friendly friend Herman (Anthony Mackie), who earns a life by selling things that they touch on the exclusion zone. Unlike Michelle de Brown, Pratt and Mackie in fact manage to appear as people who have experienced a kind of apocalypse and become much stranger because of their general isolation of the outside world. Their knowledge of the exclusion zone and access to vehicles makes them perfect to bring Michelle and her robot to destination. But the number of jokes on Twinkies and Big Mouth Billy Bass (once again, it is the 90s) which The electrical state The keats has spitted to make you root for Bradbury.

Part of the problem is that The electrical state Is never so funny, although the film certainly thinks that it is because it begins to present some of its most unusual robot characters like Mail-Bot Penny Pal (Jenny Slate), Spider Fortune Tell Machine Perplexo (Hank Azaria), and their leader, Mr. Peanut (Woody Harrelson). You can almost imagine The electrical state Work if it was more focused on the life of pariah machines – which somewhat evoke the horrible creations of Sid Toy.

But rather than drawing on the potential of these characters, the film passes its last third head headlong into sequences of fasting action which are not far from what you expect from such a expensive project. Eventually, The electrical state Leaves you the distinct meaning that Netflix Greenlit, it assuming that the Russo Bros. + IP + A bunch of well -known actors would do it = a film that people would like to watch by reflex. But that mathematics just don’t add up, and it looks like an instance where you would better read the book.

The electrical state Also put in Colman Domingo, Ke Huy Quan, Martin Klebba, Alan Tudyk, Susan Leslie and Rob Gronkowski. The film is now in difficulty on Netflix.