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Incredibles
(2004)
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animation / cgi
 (imdb rating: 8.2/10)
This is one of the best movies of the 2004
Plot: A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.
In The Incredibles, super-heroes live among us and do their thing saving people but lawsuits (how American) costing the government tons of money force them to go into retirement, and lead very mundane lives. Our central protagonist, Mr Incredible hasn't adjusted well to his quiet suburban life with his wife Elasti-Girl, and their 3 kids. He has a boring office job processing claims in a big insurance corporation He is given the chance to be a hero again when a mysterious woman contracts him to go fight a robot on an island... the plot thickens of course and gets pretty good though the whole shtick to get the super-heroes out of work took a lot of exposition Serious work went into the character designs, though I'm not entirely feeling some of the stuff (real tiny legs???), it's very well-done, I especially liked the small touch of all the throwaway designs of the fallen heroes (computer file and those that died because they wore capes).. the main baddy robot was pretty cool too I had read that Elasti-Girl was coolness and I agree totally, her moves and animation were so fluid, if only her ass wasn't so oddly shaped. The hyper-active Dash, the young boy who runs real fast, was pretty cool as well The eccentric fashion lady Edna E Mode had some great scenes though she looked strange. She was actually voiced by Bird himself, nice One can argue the Incredibles family is largely modeled after another prominent super-hero family, Marvel's Fantastic Four.. In particular, Elasti-Girl and Bob (Mr Incredible) having the very specific powers of Mr Fantastic and Sue Storm. At any rate, it'll be real tough for the live action movie due out in 2005 to come anywhere close to this Speaking of references, Dash's mad dash across the jungle was very reminiscent of smilar scene from Empire Strikes Back The best super-hero names were the French mime/clown criminal Bomb-Voyage and lil snot Incredi-boy. Syndrome was a bit uninspired though it could be the point which would be awesome. I give em too much credit After viewing the movie, and finding out about the voicing credits, I especially enjoyed Jason Lee and Samuel L. Jackson (my friend told me about him but I really took notice when he was looking for his costume). Holly Hunter was very good too I've been waiting on this movie for a while, following animation genius Brad Bird (Iron Giant) since he got recruited to Pixar a long time back.. it's mostly pretty good though the bar was set very high so there was a bit of a disappointment story-wise. There was some interesting stuff with super-hero mythology as far as secret identities and such. In the end, the Incredibles beats most any other cg-animation movies ever made and I'm all over the super-hero stuff Pixar is pretty much golden but I think their next endeavour Cars could be their first mis-step, time will tell - DVD Bird's (and producer Walker) commentary was actually really heavy on animation details and did not provide me with as much entertainment as those usually do Bird has a short opening intro where he talks about troubleshooting the image with a THX thing but the most startling thing is his uncanny ressemblance to Bob (Mr Incredible) - Extras 3-ish/5 All the extras are located on a 2nd disc which is full of goodies including 2 Pixar animation shorts: Jack-Jack Attack (created just for the dvd, it's a cool segment that talks about what happened to Jack-Jack and his babysitter before Syndrome showed up), Boundin (which for the longest time I thought was boudin, some kinda French sausage) about a funny dancin sheep. The 34min of Deleted Scenes sounded promising but it was mostly storyboards stuff that got cut long before the cg stuff got applied. The Behind the Scene stuff was aight I really liked the NSA (National Superhero Agency) classified files, a lo of bio info and cool animations (actually the entire disc 2 feature is done with Kronos-type computer designs, Kronos was the super badass robot/computer Syndrome was building) Oh there's a whack segment on the girl who voices Violet Last Updated 11/28/2007 10:18:15 PM 1hr 55min / Directed by Brad Bird / Starring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee / Language: English / Watched: DVD Also by Brad Bird - filmography (3 movies)
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