‘Connected’ Trailer: It’s Kind Of Like ‘Maximum Overdrive’ For The Whole Family!
RememberMaximum Overdrive? The Stephen King-directed film where trucks and other machines come to life to attack us foolish humans? Well, now imagine that same plot – but applied to an animated film produced byPhil LordandChris Miller. That film exists, friends, and it’s calledConnected. This comedy follows a family who suddenly discovers cell phones, appliances, and other electronic devices are suddenly sentient – and out to take over the world. Watch theConnectedtrailer below.
Connected Trailer
Phil Lord and Chris Miller, the team who had a hand inThe LEGO Movie,Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and more, are together again to produceConnected, an animated comedy directed byMike Riandaand written by Rianda andJeff Rowe(who co-directs).
In the film, “When Katie Mitchell (voiced byAbbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet “her people” at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (voiced byDanny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond as a family one last time. Katie and Rick are joined by the rest of the family, including Katie’s wildly positive mom Linda (voiced byMaya Rudolph), her quirky little brother Aaron (voiced byMike Rianda), and the family’s delightfully chubby pug Monchi for the ultimate family road trip. Suddenly, the Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love – from phones, to appliances, to an innovative new line of personal robots – decide it’s time to take over. With the help of two friendly malfunctioning robots, the Mitchells will have to get past their problems and work together to save each other and the world!”
Like I said: It’s likeMaximum Overdrive. “It’s sort of a love letter to our imperfect human world, where it’s lovingly done but everything is kind of rumbly and a little bit wobbly,” Rianda toldEW. “We wanted to show those imperfections, and we wanted to show them lovingly.”
“The big whiz-bang of the tech uprising [and] robot apocalypse makes for a lot of exciting action and comedy, but at the end of the day, the heart of this thing is this family,” Chris Miller said, and Phil Lord added: “It’s one thing to fight the robot apocalypse, and that’s kind of a fun premise. But it’s much more interesting to have your dad trying to teach you to drive stickduringthe robot apocalypse.”
In addition to the cast above,Connectedalso features the voices ofEric AndreandOlivia Colman. Look forConnectedin theatersSeptember 18, 2020.
