Review: The Incredible
Caught this movie Friday, with two lovely ladies, I might add. Another complete success by Pixar. Hopefully, we're all aware that they aren't renewing their contract with Disney, so next years release "Cars" will be the last flick under the Pixar/Disney tag team, unless what's his face steps down as CEO/Pres/whatever of Disney and whomever replaces him breaches the gap between the two.
Back to the movie.
What Pixar did here is make it believable. Sure the characters are superheroes, sure they're trying to fit into the world around them and hide their powers. You can believe it, though. You can see how someone would sue Mr. Incredible for stopping his suicide, followed by a string of lawsuits from "victims" of a prevented train wreck. You can picture our present government hiding the "supers" and forbidding them from saving people... Well, with our present administration, I think they'd just deny any culpability in the problem of superheroes entirely. Possibly produce some fake evidence of ties between the heroes and Al Qaeda, lump them into the Axis of Evil, call them Weapons of Mass Destruction, and then fail utterly to do anything about them, but I digress.
Once again, the guys at Pixar showed us what they're good at. Observation. You could probably say the initial parts of the film are a slight statement about the transformation of American society from what it once was to what it now is. You could, but I'd rather just be entertained by a movie, not psycho-analyze it to the point that the heroless society the nation becomes mid-film represents the womb and the Incredibles are actually man trying to return to his pre-birth state by being accepted for who they/he really is.
Regardless, good film, many laughs, a few points I actually choked up over (come on, we've all been there, when we thought we'd failed someone we looked up to), and another score wherin Pixar looks at something we deal with everyday by taking it entirely out of its box. Me recommends.
Back to the movie.
What Pixar did here is make it believable. Sure the characters are superheroes, sure they're trying to fit into the world around them and hide their powers. You can believe it, though. You can see how someone would sue Mr. Incredible for stopping his suicide, followed by a string of lawsuits from "victims" of a prevented train wreck. You can picture our present government hiding the "supers" and forbidding them from saving people... Well, with our present administration, I think they'd just deny any culpability in the problem of superheroes entirely. Possibly produce some fake evidence of ties between the heroes and Al Qaeda, lump them into the Axis of Evil, call them Weapons of Mass Destruction, and then fail utterly to do anything about them, but I digress.
Once again, the guys at Pixar showed us what they're good at. Observation. You could probably say the initial parts of the film are a slight statement about the transformation of American society from what it once was to what it now is. You could, but I'd rather just be entertained by a movie, not psycho-analyze it to the point that the heroless society the nation becomes mid-film represents the womb and the Incredibles are actually man trying to return to his pre-birth state by being accepted for who they/he really is.
Regardless, good film, many laughs, a few points I actually choked up over (come on, we've all been there, when we thought we'd failed someone we looked up to), and another score wherin Pixar looks at something we deal with everyday by taking it entirely out of its box. Me recommends.
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