The Incredibles

Indeed. Samuel L. Jackson gives any movie an extra Star just by being in it.

Hell, this movie should be a 6-Star movie!

And I'm sure in Episode III we'll finally get to see the engraving on Mace Windu's lightsabre: "Bad Motha ******"

Frozone is awesome, Mace is Awesome. Samuel L. Jackson is AWESOME. You cannot dilute greatness!

Oh, my god. That movie was FREAKING AWESOME! Sure, it wasn't quite as deep as Finding Nemo, but Nemo was nowhere as freak-tastically cool as this movie.

Ah! Where to begin? I'll start with the technical stuff. So far, this is the best-looking and best-working Pixar film (even more than Finding Nemo, which I'll explain why). The environments were so enveloping, I could go back and see it again just to look at it some more. For example, Edna's studio. It was so well-designed that I could just sit there and stare at everything like it were a painting. And that also goes for the rest of the entire movie. This is because the environment achieved a perfect balance between fantasty and believability. (I'm sure you'd know what I mean if you saw the movie.)

Like all Pixar movies, the technology progressivly gets better and better each time. This one was astounding! Most notable were the people themselves. The texturing of the skin, the hair, and most of all, the physics were incredible. Computer graphics rarely, of ever, capture every single nuance of the human body and how it works and looks. This movie came very close to all that, especially for an entirely computer-generated film.

The other half of what makes this movie so great is its pure coolness. It was like a rollercoaster ride that I never wanted to end. No other studio could produce something so entertaining, and now that Pixar will no longer being riding th coat tails of Disney anymore, I can't imagine what sort of productions they have in store for us.

Basically, this movie was so mind-blowing, it hurts. I swear, if I don't see it again, I'm going to explode!

Okay, I finally got to see this last night.

First of all, you have to understand that I don't like kids very much. But.. I found myself very concerned about the safety of Violet and Dash. I wouldn't mind having younger siblings like them. Violet in particular reminded me of myself, and Dash reminded me of a little boy I used to babysit.

Visually, this is the most gorgeous Pixar movie yet. There were times I found myself just starting at the character's hair because it was very real looking-- almost more than real. As Mistress-Samwise said, the sets were so engrossing that I could have stared at them for hours without getting bored. It's obvious that a lot of love went into the planning of this movie.

It's funny.. I saw something on T.V. about how The Polar Express was using motion capture for their characters, the same way Gollum was animated in The Lord of the Rings.. yet, the characters from The Incredibles, as exaggerated as they are, somehow managed to look MORE realistic than the characters from The Polar Express! There was such subtlety in the way their faces moved sometimes that I almost didn't believe it. I remember than when word about this movie first came out, a lot of people were worried because the people in some of Pixar's previous movies weren't all that great looking-- I mean, look at the kid from Toy Story. Even Boo from Monsters, Inc. is odd-looking (but adorable). Needless to say, I was pleasantly surprised with how wonderful all the characters looked.

Story-wise, I was also surprised. I stupidly went into this movie thinking it would be hilarious, just like any other Pixar movie-- and it did have its funny parts. However, it was also a VERY adult story. I mean, there's guns, people die (both on and off screen), and the villain has no qualms with trying to kill children. At first, I was almost disappointed that there weren't as many laughs as I was expecting, but as the movie went on, I became more and more engrossed with what was happening and forgot all about it. It was like watching any other regular movie.

If anything, this movie should prove to non-believers that animation CAN be for adults too. I went to a 7:15pm showing, and the theatre was full-- but I promise you that at least 80% of the audience were childless teenagers and adults. I'd been afraid that the place would be full of loud children, but the kids that were there became as mesmerized as the adults, and didn't make a sound.

Saw it,and I thought it was a geat movie.
The idea was geat and made you wonder what super heroes were really like on their days off.
Also it makes you really stop and think about the usefulness of capes.

You know, speaking of capes, you'd think they'd have some sort of break-away thing built into their costume, so that when things get downright ugly, they can simply detach the cape and just be short one cape and not one hero.

The mind boggles...

Of course, I prefer sailor collars myself. ~.^

Or tan colored dusters...

"No keps!!" (god I love that line....)

Yes, the animation, I feel, is better than Nemo, cripes, the whole thing is....

Here's an article about director Brad Bird. Turns out he is from Corvallis!

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