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Brazil (1985)
7.8/10on IMDb
Released
Bureaucracy. Try Terry Gilliam’s satire for an apartment repair that needs the right paperwork before anybody can touch the ducts. When a freelance engineer can fix what the official service cannot, being helpful becomes its own offense. The escalating trouble is far darker than the initial service call suggests.
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WALL·E (2008)
8.4/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Choose this for what happens when a chair, a screen, and food service can follow the same passenger everywhere. A small interruption gets people on the Axiom to look outside their personal displays. The jokes are quiet and visual before the story becomes a chase.
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Idiocracy (2006)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Bureaucracy. Pick this for a future where a simple question about watering crops turns into an argument about a sports drink. People can repeat the brand’s claim without explaining what it means. The joke lands quickly, and the brand names keep the satire broad and crude.
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The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Try this if you want a family road trip interrupted by appliances taking sides. The giant Furby scene treats the sounds of a familiar old toy as a warning, then makes a whole store of ordinary devices part of the chase.
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Robots (2005)
6.4/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Choose this for a city where finding a spare part can determine whether somebody gets to keep going. Rodney’s gift for repairs puts him at odds with a company that wants robots to buy upgrades. The animation makes a world full of practical workarounds look bright and busy.
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Ron's Gone Wrong (2021)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Pick this for a device sold as a shortcut to making friends. Barney’s defective B-bot doesn’t have the social rules that other children’s bots follow. The joke works because the defective hardware sometimes makes him a better friend than the standardized version.
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Short Circuit (1986)
6.6/10on IMDb
Released
A lightning strike gives a military robot fresh priorities. Number Five's attempts to learn about the world keep getting misread by the people who built him and want him back. Pick it for a softer comedy about an invention refusing to do its assigned job.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Try this for a town that discovers the problem with ordering dinner from the sky. Flint’s invention turns water into food, and every new request gives him a reason to keep it running. The increasingly awkward scale of the servings does much of the comic work.
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Flubber (1997)
5.3/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Choose the Robin Williams version for the collision between a professor’s enthusiastic experiments and his own appointments. The bouncing material turns the simplest demonstration into slapstick, while a flying assistant turns domestic reminders into a relationship of its own.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Try this when you want a backyard that works like an obstacle course. A shrinking machine sends the children into a world where they have to deal with grass and breakfast scraps at a completely different scale. Ordinary objects get the largest laughs.
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
6.3/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Choose this for a future invention that makes the worst versions of two familiar people. The evil robot Bill and Ted can pass for the real pair, at least until you hear how they talk about playing music and being in relationships. The performances make the impersonation much funnier than the machinery.
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The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
A professor's flying rubber gives things a lift, from basketball shoes to an old car. Much of the fun comes from trying to use the same invention in places where you would rather keep both feet on the ground. Try it for the black-and-white original behind Flubber.
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Downsizing (2017)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Try this for a procedure marketed as a way to make your savings go further. Moving into a five-inch-scale community still means dealing with a home, a job, and the expectations on both. The comedy is dry, and the film becomes a more serious social story as it goes.
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The Stepford Wives (2004)
5.4/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Pick the 2004 version for a bright, deliberately fake-looking suburb where domestic perfection comes with an automation pitch. Joanna’s new neighbors all seem comfortable with exactly the same priorities. The harder they try to sell this as ordinary hospitality, the sharper the joke gets.
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Robot & Frank (2012)
7.0/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Choose this for a care robot diligent enough to learn a different routine from the one its owner’s family intended. A retired burglar discovers that helping him stay active can mean helping him practice his old trade. The laughs are gentle and depend on how literally the robot takes its instructions.
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Brian and Charles (2022)
6.7/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Try this for a handmade robot whose appetite and curiosity keep disrupting the quiet life of an inventor. Charles is built with a washing-machine body and takes an interest in cabbage. The shabby materials make this a much gentler comedy than most robot-revolt stories.
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A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Choose this for a visiting alien who turns a small English farm into a very large lost-property problem. Her technology and abilities get folded into Shaun’s efforts to keep her out of trouble, while the Farmer makes the idea of visitors into a roadside attraction. You can follow the jokes without dialogue.
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Meet the Robinsons (2007)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Try this for a family dinner where a boy inventor is well within his rights to assume that a conversation might be interrupted by a device. The memory scanner and a time machine are useful only to the extent that the people around them know what they’re doing. The home scenes are as energetic as the chase.
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Save Yourselves! (2020)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Pick this if you like a technological comedy built around doing without a device. A couple turns off their phones just when an alien invasion makes information unusually valuable. Their insistence on carrying on with the quiet getaway makes the first signs of trouble funnier.
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Y2K (2024)
4.7/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Try this when you want familiar turn-of-the-century electronics to turn a teenage party into a survival problem. A planned midnight celebration gets interrupted by devices people have taken for granted. The tone is closer to a gross-out horror comedy than a nostalgic hangout.
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Jexi (2019)
6.0/10on IMDb
Released
Home life. Choose this for an assistant eager to take over a user's plans. The voice inside Phil’s new phone has opinions about his meals, his work, and whom he sees. The jokes are raunchy, and the familiar layout of a smartphone makes the interference easy to recognize.
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