Ok, I decided to post to this thread before reading it, because I didn’t want my ideas influenced by those of others. I’ll go back and read when I post.
I’m almost fifty, and my sister and I thought this movie was fantastic! The quality of the animation, the strong plot, the humor, the pathos, they were all great.
It was hysterical when “Bob” was hunched into that cube farm. I almost expected his boss to have pointy hair. Was he a cariacature of someone? I thought I should recognize him. And when Elastigirl used her stretching ability in daily household chores I found myself thinking “how would I deal with that”
When Bob went to the designer, and we got out first good look at her I about lost it. I leaned over to my sister and whispered “That’s gotta be a parody of Edith Head!” Well, it was, wasn’t it?
Sequels don’t usually live up to the original, but I want to see more of this family!
One more thing, when Dash and his mom are in the car, coming home from school, Dash had that really cross look on his face. You know what I flashed on? Calvin, and those cranky looks he would get. Wouldn’t this media be perfect for doing Calvin and Hobbes? The morphing from stuffed toy to “real tiger”? The fantasies?
Snow goons marching, dinosaurs rampaging?
That was “Larry The Cable Guy” doing the Truck’s voice in “Cars”.
I loved the singing/dancing sheep.
I liked the movie quite a bit. I didn’t think it was as witty as Shrek or even Nemo. It was different though. The humor was more adult and it was as much an action movie as anything.
Some great bits though. Very creative uses of the character’s powers.
The teacher was pretty short. Yes he was standing while the others were sitting but he was only as tall as the other adults and they were sitting down.
Mirage reminded physically of Donnatella Versace. (the SNL version anyway)
Of course she was basically Miss Teschmacher but I was expecting her to turn out to be a robot built by Syndrome.
And isn’t this film basically SpyKids but with Super Heros?
Don’t get me wrong, I still loved it.
Never mind the chores, I couldn’t help thinking those must have been the three easiest labor-and-deliveries on record. I know what superpower I want in my next life.
Okay, I’ve finally gotten the “kronos” bit figured out. First, the mildly-spoilerish bit:
[spoiler]The part I missed when seeing the movie is that the word “kronos” was etched on the cave wall by the dead superhero, Gazerbeam (the skeleton Mr. Incredible hides behind). So somehow Gazerbeam was an earlier visitor to the island, found the “kronos” password, and wrote it down for someone else to use before he expired. This I can accept.
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Second, the in-joke pop-culture reference bit:
“Kronos” is a reference to the schlocky sci-fi movie, “Kronos, Ravager of Planets” (link here). In the movie, a giant asteroid crashes onto Earth, then cracks open to reveal a giant robot, which goes on a city-destroying rampage – which mirrors Syndrone’s plot completely…
I hear it’s supposed to be Michael Eisner, but I keep thinking it’s Homer Simpson with a wig.
Looked like Stephen King to me. As I sat through the credits, I noticed that one of the animators (specifically, one of the guys who did the shadowing) was named “Stephen King.”
At first, I was a little put off by the Fantastic Four similarities–did Violet really need invisibility [and force fields?–but resigned myself to the fact that these resemble “real” superheroes the way the Toy Story characters resemble “real” toys. They’re satirizing an existing genre, which exempts them from breaking new ground in it.
Disney is preparing for post-Pixar computer animation, and will wreak it on some Toy Story sequels. I’ve seen ads for some new CGI cartoon featuring Mickey, Donald, et al.; be very afraid.
Did anyone else see the trailer for ChickenLittle? They played it at the screening I went to. It looks like it has lots of potential to be a good movie, and it’s made by Disney, but not by Pixar.
My wife and I caught an early evening show for our date night Wednesday, and both loved it.
A couple of comments have been made about the soundtrack, which I enjoyed too - when it was there. I have to say that I noticed the silence in the film more than the music. Many scenes have no background music at all.
It took me awhile to settle in and enjoy “Incredibles,” mostly because I kept expecting a comedy in the vein of the other Pixar movies. Once I realized that it’s supposed to be more adventure than comedy, that distraction went away.
The best compliment I know to give this movie is that it’s a really good Bond flick. All you need to do is take away the animation and make the superpowers into gadgets. You’ve even got “Q” in the form of Edna, and a villain with a ridiculous ovoid monorail system.
Anyone know what an “Omnidroid” is, and why Lucasfilm gets a credit for the name?
Just got back from seeing it. Thought it was fantastic. My favorite lines:
“Are we there yet?” “We’ll get there when we GET there!”
“OK, if somebody runs, you take a shot.”
“Edna Mode.” ::Guns pop out:: “And guest.” (Actually, all of Edna’s lines were hilarious.
Frozone’s war story about tricking the villain into giving a “monologue.”
“You married Elastigirl! And got BI-ZZAY!!!”
I loved the scene where the computer showed a superhero as “deceased” and every few superheros you’d get a “deceased” robot, then the robot was upgraded, then the superhero was “deceased.” No way kids would follow that but I loved it. And it showed Frozone’s whereabouts as “known” as they surely would be after Mirage surveilled them together - although I thought they were going to make more of that).
Loved Mirage’s business card with the holographic text that would disappear based on the angle.
Anyone else notice the “two short trumpet bursts” on the soundtrack while Mr. Incredible was creeping around, taking out that one guard with a rock? Straight out of Goldfinger.
My favorite throwaway scene: As Edna is comforting Elstigirl, she uses her newspaper to bat the tissues into the trash. When they fall in the trash, you can see a very dim glow as they are incinerated. Awesome.
According to Brad Bird, the powers are metaphors for the characters’ personalities. As a teen with heavy doses of self-doubt, Violet gets the powers that let her (a) avoid being seen and (b) keep a safe distance from other people.
I’ve heard Lucasfilm has a trademark on the word “-droid”. :rolleyes:
Did you notice it was a 877 area code? I’m tempted to dig up that number and call it…
Just saw it, thanks to the delayed release dates here and weekend previews.
Thanks to the magic of digital cinema, the picture cut out halfway in the beginning and kept doing that at certain intervals throughout the first part. I was practically foaming at the mouth.
Of course, due to the tragic technical issues, I will see it once more to make up for the minute I missed.
Why does that merit a rolleyes? Calling robots “droids” is a Star Wars thing. Sure, its derivation is from “android,” which is a common word, but the meaning and usage of “droid” is significantly different. (The Omnidroid is not manlike in any way.)
It just seems needlessly petty. I could understand if there was a Star Wars character called “Droid,” but claiming a trademark on “droid” seems as silly as TSR claiming a trademark on “dragons”.
Well, ISTR that Steve Jackson Games has the trademark to the eye-in-the-pyramid used in role-playing settings. That seems surprisingly similar (and I know of one publisher that changed a book’s design in response).
It might, if anyone called robots “droids” before Lucas did in Star Wars. “Android” has been around for something like 300 years, and has a very specific meaning, but “droids” are unique to Star Wars.
To be honest though, I think a lot of the Star Wars references in The Incredibles, including the OmniDroid, are a bit of a piss-taking at the expense of George Lucas, who set up the folks who became Pixar, poured a couple of million into them, and then short-sightedly sold the division off when it seemed like a losing proposition. Same mistake he made with DroidWorks, oddly enough.
