Incredibles

Year: 2004

Grade: C

Country: USA

Director: Bird

Review

let’s just sweep aside all the hype and all the films that pixar has done in the past and deal strictly with this one. the incredibles does a decent job of making a family friendly amalgam of various comic books and adventure films. that said, i think the film’s major success is its ability to bring life to lifeless characters through the technique of computer animation. pixar really does have this down by now – they can add so much inflection to the characters’ faces and the body movements are so natural that it really is better than a typically animated film. the traditionalist in me thinks the whole computer animated film thing is trash, but they do a job with it so i really can’t bash it from that perspective. though i enjoyed the direction and skill that went into creating the film’s look, i can’t say that i was really blown away by the story. it really is just a second tier amalgam of lots of different sources (from watchmen to batman) which you’ll probably notice throughout the film. honestly though, maybe i’m being too harsh. pulp fiction is largely an amalgam of genre films and yet i love that…i think what it comes down to is that i’m just not part of the target audience for a film like this. it caters to people who say “cute” more than i do, and that’s the best way i can put it. sure i laughed and was moderately entertained while i was watching the film, but it never really grabbed me and, for me, it took too long to really get going.

Watched in theater