Well, whatever else you want to say about this week, there’s at least one bright spot at the end of the tunnel – the release of Pixar and Brad Bird’s soon-to-be-a-classic animated movie, The Incredibles! Share your thoughts, reviews, raves, comments, and whatnot in this thread.
I haven’t seen the movie yet (currently making plans for a Saturday morning viewing), but I’ll toss out a few URLs for folks to enjoy:
Rotten Tomatoes currently has a 93% freshness rating for the movie:
Luxo, the all-Pixar blog, has been jammed with Incredibles-related news and tidbits for the last few weeks: http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/
The only thing I’m slightly concerned about is the violence level. I’m planning to take my four-year-old to see the movie, but a few reviewers have noted that the movie might be “too intense” for young’ums. And it is rated PG.
On the other hand, my kid watches Batman fight it out with thugs without any problems, and has no qualms about seeing giant Transformers destroy everything in sight, so I think he should be okay…?
I can’t believe how amazing the hair on the daughter looks in the commercials/trailers.
Kudos to Pixar. They seem to only be getting better with time. This is their first movie centering on people, isn’t it? One thing I’ve always liked about them was that they tended to focus on the “unknown” world. We never saw the toys act like that, we had no idea fish could organize, it’s unfathomable that there was a secret society of monsters. It’s something that wasn’t a beyond the grasp of a child, but alien to an adult. I suppose a superhero family could fit in that logic, as well, though.
Minor question, but it’s been bugging me for a while now…
What is the daughter’s ‘superpower’?
From the commercials, it’s obvious that:
The mother can stretch.
The father is strong.
The son is fast.
The daughter is, uh, skinny.
That can’t be all there is to it tho! I wonder if this is some major plot point for the movie (ie: discovering her power) or if it’s just so lame they don’t wanna waste time in the ads (ie: she turns into an something-or-other-shaped piece of ice or water. You know who I’m talking about.)
The superpowers are not just random they are, for lack of a better word “allegorical”. The son is fast, like a typical boy with too much energy, ADD possibly. The daughter, like teen-age girls feels awkward and outcst and wishes nothing more than to be…invisible. the mother is stretched in all sorts of different directions. And the father has super strength, the bedrock anchor of the family.
I had the same question as I was thinking of bringing my 4yo. I then realized she loves The Iron Giant and The Nightmare before Christmas (both PG), so we’re going!
They are also Fantastic Four knockoffs! (Even with the technologically powered villain!)
As for the violence, rjung, the PG Rating was warranted.
Until today, I never understood the difference between G and PG.
But overall, the film’s violence was no worse than the original Star Wars triology.
A few objectionable phrases and content, but manageable.
It does have one problem. Because these aren’t toys, bugs or shiney fish, when there is general dialogue, lil’ ones will see it as two adults having a conversation. Interesting to the plot, but boring by kiddie standards.
I may not be able to see this until it’s released for home viewing, so I’m going to ask for a spoiler. And I’m going to use a spoiler box to ask it.
[spoiler]I understand from reading my daughter’s Disney Adventures magazine, that the Incredible family has a little baby boy, whose superpower (if any) has not been determined. Please spoil for me:
Does he have a super power?
Is it found out what the superpower is?
What is it?[/spoiler]
P.S. Nested spoiler boxes don’t work, in case anybody was wondering.
Eh, I think the superpowers are fairly archtypical. Plastic Man was doing stretches long before Mr. Fantastic, and you can’t get a more basic superpower than super-strength.
Okay, thanks. I don’t have a problem, then – my son’s never seen the Star Wars movies before, but I have no doubt he could handle them without batting an eye.
Just returned from seeing it, and there’s only one way I can summarize it: Watchmen for the kiddies and their parents, with some Fantastic Four, James Bond, and even a little Rising Stars tossed in for seasoning. Somehow, surprisingly, it works more than it doesn’t.
I had hoped to come back saying Pixar completely batted this one out of the park. I can’t quite go that far, but the parts that worked were fantastic, and the ones that didn’t weren’t bad. I thought last 15 - 20 minutes did a lot to improve my enjoyment of the experience. Well worth the price of admission.
