The Electric State (2025) review

In this alternative view of history, where none other than Walt Disney began to manufacture robots to "do jobs humans didn't want to do" until they got fed up and started a war with their creators, orphan Michelle Greene (Millie Bobby Brown) partners up with a robot named Cosmo (voiced by Alan Tudyk) and black marketeer Keats (Chris Pratt) to find her intellectually gifted brother Chris (Woody Norman), who's being used as a human experiment by Sentre Corporation founder Ethan Skate (Stanley Tucci).  You'd think with a budget of approximately $320m (per Deadline Hollywood), screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, working off the graphic novel by Swedish artist Simon Stålenhag, would come up with something inventive, but it doesn't get close: this is a rusty patchwork of Star Wars (Millie's Leah, Pratt is basically Han Solo, the Mall is the Cantina) and the Transformers series along with anime (Gundam, Giant Robo) and various steampunk video games.  Since a good amount of attention was paid to the design of the non-humans - Pratt's mechanized assistant Herman (Anthony Mackie) is cute (and a sneaky little bugger) - this isn't a tough watch, although its pleas for audience sympathy, with Millie becoming weepy over the fate of her sibling, are odious.  It's slightly better than the butchered Borderlands release last year (which isn't much of a compliment) ... and I suspect it should help out Netflix's accounting team if they need to fudge some numbers.