The Electric State

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The Electric State

PG-13

2025

2h 8m

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Comedy

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The Electric State is a spectacular adventure from the directors of Avengers: Endgame set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel) stars as Michelle, an orphaned teenager navigating life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who once served peacefully among humans, now live in exile following a failed uprising. Everything Michelle thinks she knows about the world is upended one night when she's visited by Cosmo, a sweet, mysterious robot who appears to be controlled by Christopher -- Michelle's genius younger brother whom she thought was dead. Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she had lost, Michelle sets out across the American southwest with Cosmo, and soon finds herself reluctantly joining forces with Keats (Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), a low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracking robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off corner in the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a strange, colorful group of new animatronic allies -- and begin to learn that the forces behind Christopher's disappearance are more sinister than they ever expected.

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Critics Consensus

Lumbering along like a giant automaton, The Electric State has plenty of hardware to back it up but none of the spark that'd make it come to life.

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Audience Says

The Electric State may stray from its source material and occasionally feel commercially driven, but Chris Pratt’s comedic chops are delightfully sparky.

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Peter Rainer

FilmWeek (LAist)

05/13/2025

There is a very Marvel-ish aspect to this film, but in a recycled and dull way.

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Shirley Li

The Atlantic

03/20/2025

The Electric State is so transparently eager to satisfy as many demographics of viewers as possible that it proves its own message: that a world dependent on business interests and technological optimization dulls artistic potential and human ingenuity.

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Sam Adams

Slate

03/17/2025

The beats of a Russo brothers movie are so predetermined they don’t bear lingering on, but The Electric State might be the first time they’ve opted to just skip over them altogether.

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Jose Cordova

InBetweenDrafts

Apr 14

3/10

A copy of a copy of a copy that embodies the accusations levied at the robots in the opening of the film: soulless and disposable.

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Chase Hutchinson

The Inlander (Spokane, WA)

Jan 8

A lifeless and empty husk of "content" in the worst sense of the word, it’s as if the Russos took Stålenhag’s striking illustrations, put them into a shredder and half-heartedly assembled what it spat out.

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Akhil Arora

The Long Take Podcast

Sep 29

The United Nations should probably intervene and impose sanctions on streamers for wasting over $300 million on movies like The Electric State.

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Laramie B

@RT41758653 Jul 20

I’ve never seen or heard of the source material so maybe it would be a lower score if I did but as a viewer of just this movie…. I like it

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matthias S

@RT23453910 Jul 16

Trash, nothing to do AT ALL with the original material, it's like if the Jurassic Park movie were about a megacorp that's selling dinosaurs as pets and cattle, displacing traditional animals, and then a merry band of misfits along with a comedic relief cow take down said corp, and there's no mention of the park, and island or even an escape of dinosaurs, and nobody gets eaten. The original source is a dark grim story, and is told in a way that emphasizes said environment, the movie makes next to no effort to show the negatives side of the device, while altering completely what the device is and what it is doing. This movie is just prechewed, predigested and extremely overdone TRASH

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Hannah P

@hollywoodMovieStar Jul 14

Very good movie, I really enjoyed it, and I definitely recommend it. The ending was just extremely sad and made me cry. Overall, it's a very good movie.

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Nate S

@smithn1124 Jul 11

The Electric State was a forgettable—though never outright awful—sci-fi adventure with weak acting, attempts at jokes that never hit (except maybe for "I’m not dying to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch!"), and a total misunderstanding of its source material.

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J V

@RT16873573 Jul 7

I thought it was a great movie in my own opinion i Loved IT because the cgi was great the Story was a bit bare Bones but Still great so Go watch IT

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Jaycen D

@JDtheGoat Jul 3

The Russos need to just stick to directing MCU movies.

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Synopsis

The Electric State is a spectacular adventure from the directors of Avengers: Endgame set in an alternate, retro-futuristic version of the 1990s. Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel) stars as Michelle, an orphaned teenager navigating life in a society where sentient robots resembling cartoons and mascots, who once served peacefully among humans, now live in exile following a failed uprising. Everything Michelle thinks she knows about the world is upended one night when she's visited by Cosmo, a sweet, mysterious robot who appears to be controlled by Christopher -- Michelle's genius younger brother whom she thought was dead. Determined to find the beloved sibling she thought she had lost, Michelle sets out across the American southwest with Cosmo, and soon finds herself reluctantly joining forces with Keats (Chris Pratt, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), a low-rent smuggler, and his wisecracking robot sidekick, Herman (voiced by Anthony Mackie). As they venture into the Exclusion Zone, a walled-off corner in the desert where robots now exist on their own, Keats and Michelle find a strange, colorful group of new animatronic allies -- and begin to learn that the forces behind Christopher's disappearance are more sinister than they ever expected.

Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Producer: Mike Larocca, Chris Castaldi, Patrick Newall, Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, Angela Russo-Otstot
Screenwriter: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Distributor: Netflix
Production Co: AGBO
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 14, 2025
Runtime: 2h 8m
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1