Monday, November 01, 2004

The Incredibles

Yep, Pixar did it again, still with Disney though and they have still one more, 'Cars' which looks like a redneck story (I didn't like the two old cars, though the Nascar scenes were awesome).
Anyway, The Incredibles is one of the best animated movies ever, and my third favorite from Pixar after Toy Story and Monsters, Inc.

The animation and sound is excellent, you can't really comment anything about except that it looks and sound awesome, but what I totally loved about this movie, compared to their latest, Finding Nemo, is that this wasn't all for the children, this one was more adult, though not even close to the adultness of Shrek 2 which was quite a lot.

The characters make this movie, the Parr family, composed by retired Superheroes Mr. Incredible (I) and Elastigirl (Holly Hunter). They got married and a little after they, and all the rest of the Superheroes, they had to retire and go undercover after a very fun sequence of events that happened because of Mr. Incredible.
They have three kids: Violet, my favorite one, a shy young girl who can turn invisible and also create energy forms much like X-men's Jean Grey does; Dash, the little kid with that can run at immeasurable speed; and Jack Jack, the baby boy who doesn't have any powers... or does he?
There's also Frozone, Mr. Incredible's best friend who can freeze water. He's voiced by the Bad Motherfucker that is Samuel L. Jackson.
I should note though, that the kids are not Superheroes actually, because they were born after their parents retired, and they're not allowed to use their powers because they shouldn't catch anyone's attention and so they are a little frustrated by that, specially Dash who wants to play sports but can't because he's beat everybody.

The best aspects of the movie are the characters lives after retiring, specially Mr. Incredible, who has to go to work to a little cubicle in an office and he's just miserable. His car sucks, his job sucks, his boss is all over him, and he can't help the city and fight the bad guys.

And so they remain retired, until a message comes for a special mission for Mr. Incredible, who doesn't tell the family (since he would help some people and go unnoticed every now and then) and goes my himself. Bad guy Syndrome (Jason Lee) is behind it all, so of course, chaos happens and the family has to join dad, now back in Superheroes suits to save the world.

Again, an excellent movie at the top of the animated ones that will take the gold one more time for Pixar comes Award Season.