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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Shirley Li

The Atlantic

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.

Mar 20, 2025

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Sam Adams

Slate

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.

Mar 17, 2025

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

It looks phenomenal -- the quality of the special effects is exceptional. But this is soulless, emotionally inert storytelling.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 17, 2025

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Scott Mendelson

The Outside Scoop (Substack)

It’s a generic Mad Libs approximation of what a big-budget film intended to start a franchise—although, to its credit, it’s pretty closed-ended—tentpole should look like while lacking individuality, specificity or even the scale that might set it apart.

Rated: 3/10

Mar 28, 2025

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Stephen Silver

Splice Today

An uninteresting visual style, a waste of a talented cast, banter that’s never funny, and a plot that engages with some philosophical questions and has nothing to say about any of them.

Mar 28, 2025

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Matt Neal

ABC Radio (Australia)

The Electric State is akin to a robot that performs its set task, but you know it could have done it so much more efficiently and effectively.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 28, 2025

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Braxstan P

Electric state is based off of visual novel which did it as severe disservice although the storyline seems pretty clear-cut they got to stop throwing high ranking actors into everything new movie or new TV series I'm kind of sick of seeing the same actor over and over again I want to see somebody new. I am no critic and I hope no one takes this to heart and this is how I feel and it's been on my mind for a couple of days now since the movie came out. Ps everyone can enjoy a good movie ever now and again and not a lot of people like it one people post about it saying it's bad just know it's a stranger online posting their opinion. so if you enjoy the movie enjoy it 😀.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Audience Member

This movie is great, my boyfriend and i love it and thought it was funny 💅💜❤️💚

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Bryan H

Hahhahhahha it’s so amazing what they think Billie Poppi Brown means to the world but she doesn’t mean anything. Trash.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Adam G

Unwatchable. Plot and character development is non-existent. 30 minutes into “Data Dump” of facts and history of the world and characters and I had to turn it off.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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B S

All the good reviews here just more proof of the cognitive decline of the USA, like you needed more proof.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/29/25

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Vanessa A

Excellent movie! Has the touch, the action and was very well constructed.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/28/25

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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.

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

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