Their latest film, this time as producers, is
The Mitchells vs. The Machines, an animated film that takes our increasing reliance on smart technology to apocalyptic extremes. The Mitchells – dad Rick (Danny McBride), mom Linda (Maya Rudolph), daughter Katie (Abbi Jacobson), and son Aaron (co-writer/co-director Michael Rianda) – are kind of a disaster as a family unit, as they’re rarely on the same page and can’t seem to find time to spend together, especially with Katie about to head off to college.
Rick aims to fix this with a family road trip to take Katie to campus, a journey that just so happens to coincide with a complete technology takeover by Pal (Olivia Colman), everyone’s favorite virtual assistant. As Pal and her robot army proceed with a plan to imprison the entire human race and ship them off to space, the Mitchells are somehow the only ones to evade capture. It’s up to them and their dysfunction to find a way to defeat the robots and bring order back to Earth.