The Incredibles is Incredibly Good

Published on November 9, 2004 By VooDooStevie In Movie Reviews

This past friday I was able to sit and watch the newest addition to the PIXAR family of movies called, The Incredibles.

The synopsis of the movie is as such. Mr. Incredible is a superhero who's power is super strength and seemingly indestructability. He does the typical superhero thing. Saving cats out of trees, foiling bad guys plans of crime. However he has one problem, while saving a man jumping off a building to commit suicide he crashed into a bank and he hears a ticking noise coming from the wall. Bomb Voyage was attempting to steal from the bank's vault and gets away because his biggest fan gets in the way. The man that Mr. I tried to save turns and begins a lawsuit against our hero and thus began the superhero relocation program for those who deemed super powers. This basically tosses the hero into retirement and he settles down with a female superhero called Elastic Girl (who has the power to stretch like rubber). They hide their secret identities and powers from the world and become known as Bob and Helen Parr.They have 3 children. Dash (who has super speed), Violet (who has the power of invisibility) and Jack Jack (who seemingly has no powers until they are revealed at the end of the film). The family reminded me of the Fantastic 4 in many ways which obviously was a BIG influence for the director in this. Anyway, I digress.

They seem to hit on a lot of our favorite superheroes in the film. FROZONE = ICEMAN, there was also a reference to Cyclops as well in this film as well. Anyway, the movie plot and story were great. Rating on a scale of 1 -5 (one being lowest) it gets a 4.5

Now to go with the style of characters and scenery in this film. It seems they went for a retro-modern look. To be more specfic, some areas it looked like the 60's or 50's in the style of the homes and vehicles. Other areas were very tech-looking like it was from today and even somewhat like a reminiscence to the old sci-fi films. They made a reference to a LucasArt creation called OmniBot (or something like that). There also were a lot of scenes that take you back to the Star Wars films. Think Endor. All in all the texturing and lighting on this was fantastic, I give it a rating of 4.5

Casting on this was good too. I kind of see resmlences to the actors in the characters a lot (howvere I do not know what the children actors look like) Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter do resemble the characters they play a bit. And Samuel L. Jackson, well obviously who he plays.

Casting on this gets a 4.0

So on th eaverage, this film rates 4.3 which is pretty darn high. To explain my ratings, maybe another time... But here is a few media blurbs regarding the film this past weekend.

Incredible Opening for 'The Incredibles' (Link)

Analysts were somewhat incredulous over the estimated $70.7-million bow of The Incredibles over the weekend. Most had forecast a take of about $60 million. If estimates pan out, it will mark the biggest opening for a film under the Disney banner in history, besting by about $400,000 last year's Finding Nemo (also a Pixar animated feature). "The thought that we could somehow compete with and beat Nemo is a true testament to how strong this movie is," Disney's distribution chief Chuck Viane told today's (Monday) Los Angeles Daily News. The record for the best November debut is held by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which opened in 2001 with $90.3 million. The record for the best debut of an animated film is held by Shrek 2, which opened with $108 million. Universal's Ray Charles biopic Ray performed strongly in second place, dipping only 31 percent in its second week with $13.8 million. Sony's The Grudge was close behind with $13.5 million, down 38 percent in its third week. But Paramount saw yet another new release flop as Alfie premiered in fifth place with just $6.5 million. Paramount distribution chief Wayne Llewellyn blamed the poor showing on the political climate as reflected in last week's elections. "Maybe they didn't want to see a guy that slept around," he said. The super performance of The Incredibles was not strong enough to lift the overall box office out of its recent inertia. Total ticket sales were estimated at $145 million, down 6 percent from the comparable week a year ago.

Trivia for Incredibles, The (2004)

In the teaser trailer, a small headline at the top of the framed TV Guide on Mr. Incredible's wall reads, "Kevin O'Brien: First Artist on the Moon." Kevin O'Brien is a storyboard artist for the movie.
The theme from the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is used in the previews for this film. The version used is the remix by David Arnold featuring Propellerheads as it appears on the 1997 album 'Decksanddrumsnadrockandroll'.
The superheroine Elastigirl isn't the first one to use that name. Elasti-Girl is a member of the Doom Patrol, a DC Comics team whose adventures were published from 1963 to 1968, as well as in a new series that started in June 2004. The comic Elasti-Girl cannot stretch her body; she possesses the ability to alter her size.
Edna, the costume lady, is based on Edith Head, who worked as a studio costume designer on hundreds of movies over more than fifty years.
First movie by Pixar to receive a rating higher than G in the USA, this one being PG.
At 115 minutes, the longest CG animated film to date.
'Brad Bird' originally conceived this as a conventional cel-animated film when he pitched it.

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