Mike Mitchell

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Sky High (2005); Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011); Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015); Trolls (2016); Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo; Shrek Forever After; Surviving Christmas; The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie / sequel (second SpongeBob film). Count them as craft (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Adventure Time (TV series): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Trolls (2016), which they directed: Adventure Time (TV series) ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Trolls' look is the end of a chain from webcomics and Adult Swim through Adventure Time to mainstream kids animation.
    “So you end up getting things like adventure time that feel more like what adult swim used to feel like than what a children's show used to feel like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:01:36 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Shrek (2001): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Trolls (2016), which they directed: Shrek ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Trolls has Shrek-distilled humor: self-referential asides for the parents.
    “this weird, annoying Shrek, you know, as you say, Shrek, distilled or whatever, like type of humor”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:02:37 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Toy Story 2 (1999): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Trolls (2016), which they directed: Toy Story 2 ⇒ Trolls (the host's read). Branch's grandmother backstory is likened to Jessie's flashback in Toy Story 2.
    “they like try to do the like Jesse Toy Story 2.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 1:44:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (10) everyone in directing

Craft (1) everyone in craft

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

  1. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo. Trolls co-director Mike Mitchell made his feature debut with Deuce Bigalow rather than a family film.
    “Trolls is directed by the same man who directed Deuce Bigelow, Male Gigolo.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:50:11 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Surviving Christmas. His follow-up was Surviving Christmas, released in October so it would be on DVD by Christmas.
    “Yes. He falls up with surviving Christmas.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:50:26 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Shrek Forever After. He came back to DreamWorks as a story artist on the Shrek sequels and then directed the fourth film.
    “comes back into the fold at DreamWorks, uh, doing story artist shit for the Shrek sequels”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:51:03 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Sky High. Sky High is called the sweet spot: live action that feels like a cartoon.
    “It's like live action that feels like a cartoon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:52:29 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Mike Mitchell → The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie / sequel (second SpongeBob film). Mitchell directed the live-action Antonio Banderas scenes in the second SpongeBob movie.
    “directs the Antonio Bendera stuff in the SpongeBob sequel.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:52:38 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. After Shrek 4 he made Chipwrecked, back in hybrid live-action/animation mode, then Trolls.
    “He's back in hybrid mode, and then does trolls.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:52:57 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Mike Mitchell → Kung Fu Panda. The Trolls screenwriters had written Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, Chipwrecked, two SpongeBob movies, Monster Trucks and Trolls 2: franchise-fixers.
    “the screeners of this film wrote Kung Fu Panda, Monsters versus Aliens.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:56:19 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Mike Mitchell: Surviving Christmas was a known bomb released in the first week of October to be on DVD by Christmas.
    “They knew it was such a bomb that they released it the 1st week of October”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Trolls: The Experience with Richard Lawson · 0:50:35 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)