Electric State (2025)

Set in an alternate world where Disney's audio animatronic displays lead to robots becoming a work force, obtaining free will and battling humanity for their freedom, a young woman chases after her brother who has gone into the no man's land where robots still live. Meanwhile the man who made the cyber devices that allowed mankind to win the war is secretly experimenting on children to ... who the hell cares?

Loosely based on an illustrated novel, words that are always damning in connection with Hollywood project, Electric State is a disaster. Leaning into the visuals the film creates a world that doesn't really make sense, in large part because it tries  to explain everything  to the point that none of it makes a lick of sense. (And please don't ask me to recount what doesn't work logically- just know none of it does.)

While I like many of the visuals , I really dislike that almost all the robots are cartoony or are mascots. That isn't something that probably would have happened in a real world. It makes it clear that this is only a movie made by people who don't understand the world.

It doesn't help that this is geared toward being a comedy. There is no suspense, just jokes and humor. There is no tension...and no laughs as all of the jokes crash and burn.

I would ask how this got greenlit and how the budget ballooned to over 350 million dollars but the Russo Brothers made four hit Marvel films before this so of course Netflix gave them cash. Never mind that their films outside of the four films were just okay and  box office losers.(Something Marvel has noticed and are now rethinking their hlming the next Avngers film)

Watching the film on the day it released I sat staring at my TV  slack jawed and broken. This film was everything that was wrong with Hollywood. It was a film that broke me to the point that I never wanted to watch another film again and for three days afterward I caught up on my writing just so I wouldn't stumble into a soulless cash grab like this again.

While there are bits in this that work, the vast majority is just a less than mediocre cash grab turd ball. I still hate that I stayed with it to the end hoping that it would pull it out in the end. I still want to burn Hollywood and the zombie execs who thought this was a good idea. I'm glad that a lot of great crafts people got pay checks out of this but other wise this film has no reason to exist.

Unless you want to go dead inside don't waste your time.

(If you want to see truly great film that covers a similar story line then watch MARS EXPRESS which is a French animated tale released in the US by G Kids)