(RememberRed Notice,The Gray Man, andThe Adam Project?

We dont either, and we had to go to IMDb to recall each title.)

Its a bad movie, full stop.

The Electric State.  (L to R) Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie), PopFly (voiced by Brian Cox), Mr. Peanut (voiced by Woody Harrelson), Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown), Penny Pal (voiced by Jenny Slate) and Keats (Chris Pratt) in The Electric State.  ™/© 2024 Netflix. Used with permission

Millie Bobby Brown in ‘The Electric State’Netflix

Which is a pity, because the pedigree looks great on paper.

The screenwriters for that film, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, are on board here as well.

But we dont think anyone was asking for something as clumsy or cut-rate as this, either.

Machines have now been exiled to a place called the Exclusion Zone, which resembles a Palm Springs scrapyard.

Humans are content to live endless virtual realities, rarely engaging in the outside world.

Its presented as an ironic, bitter victory.

Dont just sit in front of screens or binge on endless digital content, people!

This PSA has been brought to you by [checks notes] Netflix.

Things go boom, and bang, and pow.

Vintage music cues are designed to either evoke nostalgia, meta-commentary, or some flavorless combination of both.

(I dont want to die to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch!

Action sequences are the pixelized equivalent of talkin loud and sayin nothing.

It just happened to be 115 years too late.

At worst, it feels like youre getting 10,000 volts of electricity applied directly to your groin.

The one good thing about content, however?