Funny / The Mitchells vs. the Machines

It's a Phil Lord & Chris Miller project made by some of the people who made Gravity Falls so of course the movie is going to be a laugh riot.

The Movie

• In the opening minutes of the movie, Rick tells Katie to attack the robots following their car. She tries to throw her shoe at them, which fails since the windows are up, and it bounces and hits her in the face.
• Katie compares Rick's bellowing screams to a video of a screaming gibbon monkey, and we are treated to both clips flashing simultaneously. When PAL meets her demise in a glass of water, she does the same.
• Linda is, for some reason, stuffing her face with chips when the family is seen crashing through the ball pit.
• Aaron's Establishing Character Moment, where he's seen calling every number in the phone book just to find someone he can talk to about dinosaurs. A close-up of the phone book shows that he's gone through almost the entire K section.
• Linda mentioning that they haven’t taken a good family picture in years because Rick and Katie are always arguing in them.
  Rick: What about that one?
  Linda: That came with the frame!
  [cut to a live action stock photo of a happy family on one of the frames]
• Linda notes how perfect the Mitchell's neighbors the Poseys are in comparison their own dysfunctional family, and that even the Poseys' dog is in better shape. She pulls up a video on her phone of an extremely muscular dog doing push-ups, much to Monchi's dismay. Funnier as it's the only time in the film (until the end battle) that his eyes actually focus.
  Linda: What are they feeding that thing? Other dogs?
  Monchi: (whimpers)
  • Achieves Brick Joke status in a Freeze-Frame Bonus showing him captured with the other Poseys.
• On the road trip, the Mitchells stop at a restaurant that Katie discovers has abysmal reviews. Rick says it's fine. Cut to Katie recording her family puking on the side of the road and seconds later, drops her phone and joins them.
  Rick: This is totally unrelated!
• Rick signs the family up for a seven hour mule tour up a steep hill. Cut to them having to go up the hill during a dreadful storm, and one mule named Prancer being swept away by the current. Then an animation from Katie confirms that Prancer was airlifted to safety.
  Rick: GET TO THE BRIDGE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!
  Aaron: What about Prancer?
  Rick: PRANCER BELONGS TO THE CANYON NOW!
  • Then there's the disclaimer at the bottom of said animation, which can only be read by pausing the movie and zooming in enough:
    Katie Mitchell swears in perpetuity that no MULE or MULE(S) specifically the mule in question ("PRANCER") was injured in the making of this film. Katie Mitchell accepts the terms of "MULE TOURS, INC." and admits that the perpetrators in question ("MY INSANE FAMILY") did break the following rule (or rules). Rule 1. RICK MITCHELL (Whose qualities include, but are not limited to: Aggressiveness, Excessive sweating, and is shaped like a wine glass. Srsly tho- look at that guy- IS THAT MY FUTURE?) did exceed the posted weight limit (230 lbs./104.3 Kg) and is thus responsible for Prancer's agitated state. (Re: Braying, biting Rick's leg- which the undersigned hereby found funny) 2. LINDA MITCHELL (Whose qualities include, but are not limited to: Being a ray of sunshine that illuminates even the darkest day) is responsible for trying to feed the mule in question thirteen(!) packs of dinosaur shaped fruit snacks in a misguided attempt to calm him - and potentially incited the lethargy that led to "PRANCER'S" untimely fall. however, LINDA'S heroic call to animal services that saved the MULE ("PRANCER") and question's life. 3. Aaron Mitchell (whose qualities include but are not limited to: Dinosaur knowledge, Being my A.D. 4 Life, and having the cutest rosiest cheeks YOU'VE EVER SEEN IN YOUR LIFE) and the undersigned- Katie Mitchell now hereby claims the distinguished right to mock RICK MITCHELL for his cold blooded cowardice by asking him questions like: "Now that Mom stubbed her toe, are you going to leave her behind like Prancer?" It makes him furious and brings us unending joy. Prancer may be relegated to the barn now- but he will forever live in the barn... of our hearts.
• The "Tricking Rick Mitchell Into Kissing the Dog" montage, in which Katie has Monchi lick Rick at inopportune moments. Special mention goes to Rick doing a Thousand-Yard Stare at the base of a waterfall, Monchi licking him over and over.
  • And then at the end of the movie, she tricks Rick into thinking she's dead... and then proceeds to have Monchi lick him again.
• When watching the Pal Labs announcement, Katie asks Aaron if he has a credit card. His response is fitting:
  Aaron: I'm a child.
• As Rick and Katie have another argument at the Dino Stop, Linda looks over the photos she took and tries to adjust one of them that also has them arguing to have them smile... only for said photo to actually end up looking even worse. To describe exactly how much worse does it no justice.◊
• Aaron being embarrassed by his crush on his neighbor Abby Posey. She’s aware of it but he still runs off yelling something crazy to deny it.
  Aaron: I hate dinosaurs and I hate you! BYE FOREVEEEER!!! [runs away, misses the door and smacks into the wall hard enough to break the wood, gets up and keeps running]
• As the robot apocalypse starts, Rick yells out some words that are apparently some sort of contingency plan. If you go through them, they spell out YAFTBTAAA in the NATO alphabet.
• The Guy Who Likes Fun:
  PAL Max Robot: Who here likes fun!
  Guy: Hey, I like fun!
  Rick: Trust me, buddy, you do not. Like. Fun!
  Guy: No, I really do, everyone says that about me!
  PAL Max Robot: You lucky human! (pulls guy into containment pods) Yay! I wish I was in there!
  Guy: I don’t like fun anymooooore!
• Before gloating about her evil plan, PAL decides to treat Mark exactly like how people treat their phones.
  PAL: [As a PAL Max robot pokes and prods Mark's face] Poke, poke, swipe, poke, poke, pinch, zoom, shrink, zoom. Bring me pizza. [A guitar is thrown into Mark's hands] Play me Taylor Swift. No I hate that song! [Robot smears melted nacho cheese on Mark's face] Give me some nachos, no I don't have any time to wash my hands. Really work it into the crevices. Now drop him in the toilet. [Robot throws Mark into a toilet, breaking it.]
• PAL asks Mark to give her a reason humans should be saved. He thinks for a moment and says "Because humans have the power of love." There's a Beat, then she nods at one of her robots and it immediately kicks Mark in the crotch.
• PAL turns off the WiFi. Within seconds Toronto falls into Mad Max-style chaos, declaring a sacrifice to the router, while people in Rome willingly get captured by the robots, being promised free WiFi.
  "Does anyone want to take pictures of my food?"
  "Hey lady, will you unbox this in front of me?!”
  "The old world is DEAD! To restore the WiFi, we must make a sacrifice to the router!"
• The Mitchells' pathetic attempt to recreate the Poseys' method of getting past the robots. To elaborate, the Poseys first huddle and say "I love you all so much" before Hailey jumps out with "Butterfly formation!" They make their way back to the car as Jim kicks off a robot's head while declaring "Family first!" The Mitchells then try to do the same thing, by half-heartedly saying they love each other, followed by Rick practically crushing Linda with his own butterfly formation, and then Aaron headbutting Rick in the butt while saying "Family first!"
• The entire video that plays for the trapped humans, done in the style of an airline safety video.
  "These rockets will be outfitted with ZERO EXITS. Your flight will last FOREVER. And your final destination IS THE BLACK VOID OF DISTANT SPACE. But we also have free WiFi!"
  
  • And that last part is what seems to calm the trapped humans down a bit.
  • Just the fact that the robots took the time to translate the entire video in Spanish.
• Rick tells Aaron to prepare himself for the possibility of having to eat Monchi, to which Katie and Linda reply by pelting him with junk and booing him.
• Rick has his whole family use their #3 Robertson non-slip screwdrivers to barricade themselves from the robots at DinoStop. He's apparently given them those screwdrivers as various gifts, which neither Linda or Katie are thrilled about.
  Linda: [annoyed] How can I forget my anniversary present?
  Katie: [equally annoyed] Or my sweet sixteen gift?
  Aaron: [cheerful] Or what the Tooth Fairy left under my pillow!
• The Malfunctioning robot's pathetic attempts at passing off as humans, including mechanically crushing an orange against their face to prove they "consume food in the traditional human manner".
• When Katie orders Eric and Deborahbot 5000 to tell them how to stop the robot apocalypse, Eric dramatically explains the plan as a perilous journey, one that the Mitchells would never survive, complete with an impressive hologram... at least until Deborahbot interrupts and offers a much simpler and safer plan, much to the frustration of Eric.
  Deborahbot 5000: Actually, you could stop us quite easily. You could also enter the kill code remotely at any PAL Labs retail store. There's one at the Mall of the Globe, a nearby shopping center.
  Eric: ...But it's super far away. You'll never ma—
  Deborahbot 5000: It's 80 miles away.
  Eric: What are you doing to me right now?
• During the car chase, Aaron complains about needing to go to the bathroom:
  Rick: Aaron, here’s an empty bottle! You know what to do, my man!
• The mall battle is full of this from beginning to end.
  • When the Mitchells try to upload the kill code, PAL orders every single appliance with a PAL chip to kill them, even funnier with the laptops barking like dogs.
  • Linda's reaction when she briefly gets comfortable with a massage chair that captures her while the Mitchells are being chased, and shooing Katie away when she tries to get her to run again.
  • During the mall battle, a group of killer Roombas approach the Mitchells, with Aaron being scared by their appearance. The head Roomba gives a dramatic speech, urging the others into "the field of battle"...and then they fall down an escalator, ending their "threat" instantly much to Aaron's amusement.
  • While in the mall, the Mitchells find themselves face-to-face with a pack of murderous Furbies.
    Furby: [subtitled] Behold! The twilight of man.
  • After Rick shoots one of the Furbies with an arrow, the others exact vengeance by singing a creepy song to summon "the elder": a giant Furby (labelled "the world's largest Furby" and kept in a display case) that can inexplicably fire laser beams.
    Giant Furby: [subtitled] LET THE DARK HARVEST BEGIN!!!!
  • Katie's reaction to it is very understandable.
    Katie: Why would someone build that?!
  • Rick thinking to use a wild game snare on the Giant Furby, followed by him saying “This is exactly the kind of disaster I’ve been waiting for.” The other three Mitchells call him out on how bad that sounds.
  • After the router is destroyed:
    Giant Furby: [subtitled] TO THE GREAT DARKNESS...I RETURN.
  • After defeating the Giant Furby, Katie wants to leave the mall dramatically in slow motion with the building in flames behind them. Rick points out that doing so would be incredibly dangerous and a waste of time. Smash Cut to the Mitchells leaving the mall dramatically in slow motion with the building in flames behind them and "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" blaring in the background. Counts as a brief awesome moment too.
• Upon learning that her forces failed to capture the Mitchells at the mall, PAL orders a robot to place her on the table, so that she can "flop around in a blind rage." Which she then proceeds to do, vibrating herself around the table and screaming while the robots just watch.

• Among the many Freeze Frame Bonuses when the robots discover the Mitchells, and PAL has the computer identify all of their flaws:
  • "LONG CREEPY FINGER-LIKE TOES"
  • "WEAKER THAN A SMALL BIRD"
  • "KICKED OUT OF AN OLIVE GARDEN FOR STUFFING BREADSTICKS IN PURSE”
  • “SHOWERS WITH SHOCKING RARITY”
  • “ONLY PRETENDS TO LIKE FELLINI”
  • "ONCE BROUGHT UP HIS FAVORITE RIB JOINT DURING A EULOGY"
  • "WALKS TO KITCHEN AND FORGETS WHY"
  • “DOCTOR-DIAGNOSED CHOCOHOLIC”
  • "SAYS MARRY-O INSTEAD OF MARIO"
  • "MORE INTERESTED IN QUAIL MIGRATION THAN CHILDREN’S INTERIOR LIVES"
  • "LOOKS AT EX-BOYFRIEND CARLOS MELONI D.D.S. ON FACEBOOK MORE THAN IS COMFORTABLE"
• After going over the plan to infiltrate PAL's base, Rick concludes, complete with Imagine Spot, by declaring that they will celebrate their victory with burritos at a taco place. Linda interrupts to suggest that a saving-the-world celebration warrents a fancy buffet, so Rick adjusts his wording and the Imagine Spot accordingly. Then Aaron asks if, in this scenario, Monchi can be wearing a tuxedo, "like a little gentleman," and Rick exasperatedly adjusts the Imagine Spot again.
  Rick: Okay, fine, and Monchi's wearing a little tuxedo, but that is it.
  Aaron: Like a little gentleman?
  Rick: [sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose] Yes, like a little gentleman.
• The random transition shot of Rick's still face zooming in and out, like something out of Batman (1966).
• After seeing that the robots malfunction whenever they identify Monchi since they can't tell if he's a dog, a pig, or a loaf of bread, Katie ends up using him as a "dog shield" in the climax, with robots short circuiting just seeing Monchi taped to the front of the car.
• Upon witnessing Silicon Valley, Rick worriedly points out that it'll be harder than initially thought. Katie gives him a note and says he should say that instead, which Rick agrees sounds much better.
  Rick: [dramatically] The endgame has begun.
• What is the epic ballad that father and daughter ride into battle over the fate of humanity to? "Live Your Life" by T.I. and Rihanna—a song that borrows music from another song that was used to create Numa Numa, one of the most famous memes in the history of the internet.
• Linda's Mama Bear moment is incredibly over-the-top and would be ludicrously violent if enacted against humans: she starts by ripping out a PAL MAX Prime's heart and, throughout her rampage, gets more and more oil-splattered thanks to numerous decapitations and dismemberments. Aaron says it best during the final fight: "Mom's scary now."
  Linda: I am Linda Mitchell, mother of two! Look upon me and FEAR!
  • Also the PAL Max Prime’s remark during this scene as Linda slaughters the Prime bots:
    PAL Max Prime: The reckoning is at hand!
  • When Linda shows up just as the remaining Prime bots go for Katie and Rick:
    PAL Max Prime: Brothers, run! [gets sliced in two by Linda]
    Linda: [now wearing discarded PAL Max robot parts as armor while flying on a Prime bot she reprogrammed] I have made the metal ones pay for their crimes...
    —
    PAL Max Prime 2: The Lavender One has found us! We must retreat!
    Linda: Too late, SCUMBAGS!! [to Aaron, sweetly] Hold on tight, sweetie, Mommy's gotcha. [pecks him on the cheek] RRRAAAAAAAGHHHH!!!
  • When Rick sees Linda, he says "I could get into this." Behind him, Katie is briefly disgusted.
• PAL’s demise, going from her smug “Hahaha, you idiot!” taunt to Monchi after she bounces off his face to her sudden Villainous Breakdown when she lands in a glass of water with a light "plop".
• After the Mitchells save the world, their neighbor Hailey tells Linda that she has inspired her...to follow her on Instagram. Linda is just a little offended that Hailey wasn’t already following her back.
  Jim: That was an A-plus compliment, hon!
• When Katie is finally being dropped off at college and is saying goodbye to Aaron, he shows her his new shirt, which depicts his face badly Photoshopped onto a dinosaur body with the caption "Aaronosaurus: likesium fruitsnacksium".
• Rick and Linda freaking out while trying to figure out how to send Katie a friend request on YouTube, and Rick accidentally ordering 12 Swiffers from Amazon in the process.
• When Linda shows Katie how now Aaron and Abby are friends and she comes over to his house, Aaron proceeds to freak out again, saying it's not true and jumps through a closed window. He then returns and says "Sorry, force of habit".

Katie's Extended Cinematic Bonanza Cut

• During the original final battle with Katie, Rick and Linda against PAL’s Mega Furby form, and after Aaron is captured in a pod, his worst fears were realized when he finds his crush Abby in the pod next to him.
  Aaron: How could this get any worse?
  Abby: [to Aaron] Hey. [Aaron turns to see Abby, shocked] We’re neighbors, right?
  Aaron: [shouting to his family, panicking] AAAH! HURRY!
• On that note, the final battle against PAL was intended to have Katie and Rick fight in sync to "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)", which was also the song they bonded over in the original drafts instead of "Live Your Life." Katie pops the CD into a nearby car stereo, quips "I wanna dance with somebody"...and then the film's director suddenly chimes in (while speaking in Aaron's voice no less) to disclaim that the song was deemed "legally impermissible" and to just use your imagination. What follows is a storyboarded action sequence where every instance of the characters singing is replaced by the director stating "LEGALLY IMPERMISSIBLE" in the most monotone voice imaginable, with even the mention of Whitney Houston's name being subject to this.

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