‘The Electric State’ Reviews: Are Critics Shocked By $320 Million Film?

"The Electric State" partial poster featuring Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown.
The Electric State — Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt’s new film from Anthony and Joe Russo — is new on Netflix this week. Is the sci-fi adventure a shock to the system for critics?
Rated PG-13, The Electric State is directed by the Russo brothers from a screenplay by their Avengers scribes Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
The official logline for the Netflix original movie reads, “Set in the aftermath of a robot uprising in an alternate version of the ’90s, The Electric State follows an orphaned teenager who ventures across the American West with a cartoon-inspired robot, a smuggler, and his sidekick in search of her younger brother.”
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Brown (Stranger Things, Enola Holmes, Damsel) stars as the orphaned teenager, Michelle, while Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World trilogies) stars as the smuggler, Keats. Anthony Mackie (Captain America: Brave New World) voices Keats’ wisecracking robot, Herman.
Based on the hit graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State begins streaming on Netflix on Friday. The film also stars Ke Huy Quan, Jason Alexander, Giancarlo Esposito, Stanley Tucci and Woody Norman, while Woody Harrelson, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate and Alan Tudyk voice robot characters in the film.