THE ELECTRIC STATE film adaptation shoehorns and pillages the complex, mature, and socially critiquing story elements and art of the illustrated novel into some hackneyed and childish humans vs robot war plot that has no thematic relation... with bland MCU/Spy Kids vibes (that it's even bad at), the most atrocious of all possible blasphemies to something probably most famous for its memorably unique vibes. Read the book instead. It also only takes about 2 hours.
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