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All the time. Fun fact that might interest you, Brad Bird (the director) stated that he wanted to bring a sense of humanness to the supers, which is why we see Bob wince before the train hits him (just because he can stop it doesn't mean it's not gonna hurt like hell) and why we see like realistic limits to their powers through the movie. And the script is full of little notes like that, instructing tiny details that just add so much. Edna is able to recite every exact date of those cape supers deaths because she designed the suits- my girl Edna had ptsd
I watched a clip about that scene and how the creators really tried to focus on Dash's sequence/journey of discovering what he can really do (and violet too) after being held back for so long
Pretty cool that the family’s powers also mirror the classic family tropes. Dad has to be strong Mom is flexible Teen Daughter has her walls up and wants to be invisible Son is quick (ADHD) Baby has unlimited potential
Also reflects their personal strengths: Dad is resilient, strong, proactive and protective, Mom can pull anything needed into the family orbit and stretch to her limits to protect her family - while still taking the hits: Violet takes that up a notch by being able to bubble the family without damage to herself, and Dash - anything you give that kid, he'll run with it, and *fast* And Jack-Jack is.. just a baby figuring out cause and effect with his multitude of possibilities 😅 that one is pretty much the same
I don't know if you guys noticed but Syndroms flashback of the pivotal conversation 'Go home buddy' is a distorted version of what happened. Syndrom's flashback shows he remembers being face to face with Mr. Incredible and being told to go home, it's a very personal setup with no external forces or situational awareness. We as the audience know that at the time, not only was Mr. Incredible NOT facing buddy, but he was in the middle of restraining bombvoyage at the time; he was in the middle of work, trying to keep a station under control, and told a kid, who shouldn't even be in this situation (at the edge of a broken window in a skyscraper next to a villain), to go home. None of that situation, the danger, is kept in Syndroms memory, he just remembers his Hero told him to go home and he took that personally.
@@RonLarhz it's not a blame thing, it's a nuanced narrative choice that can lead to discussion on Buddy's state of mind. It's been proven time and again that a person's memory is not as reliable as we wish it were, often in court cases eyewitness accounts are the least reliable. So it leaves the audience to wonder, is buddy just a normal kid unaware of danger because he believes himself invincible (as many kids do), does he believe that because he's with his favorite hero that there is no real danger, are his fanatic tendencies finding him, or (given that buddy becomes a full fledged villain over this one moment) could buddy have a budding neuroticism that makes him believe every situation is always about him and what he wants so other "minor" details like a bomb throwing villain don't register. In my personal option Buddy has a strong sense of confidence, and had zero fear during the original scene. Personally, a child throwing themselves at his age into a crime scene unprompted makes me lean towards Buddy having neurotic tendencies that mature with time. if he can't be special no one should be is his main motivator at the end, veild under if everyone's super No one is and "hes attracted to power" both act as supporting evidence in my mind. But! That's just my take a d why I love the flashback scene so much because it starts a discussion :)
@@RonLarhzBuddy, Me Incredible was dealing with danger, there was a villain with them and the guy put a bomb on the kid. If you think that Bob was rude or something, you are being delusional
In this very moment, I just now realized that Dash's teacher plays Linguini in Ratatouille (also directed by Brad Bird), and the irony in him yelling "This little rat is guilty" in this movie.
I was at a six flags with my dad when I was a kid I screamed this on the roller coaster he couldn’t breath from laughing so hard one of our favorite movies together he still remembers 😂
The intensity of Helen when she told Bob to throw her in order to catch Jack Jack in time was so well done. The acting in that scene was top tier, I could feel her desperation.
The confidence between the couple is shown in that scene. He doesn't hesitate to throw his wife. She knows he can make sure she hits the mark. He knows she will bring back the safely.
@@fourthgirlthat's why I love this movie so much -- for all of the things that had gone sideways in their life together, they both still actually love each other and trust and respect each other's strengths so well!
Helens voice actor was actually phenomenal here, she has the perfect in all the scenes of tension and panic, and then she still had the calming mom voice when needed. amazing
One of the things to me that gets so overlooked with the computer scene where he’s seeing all the dead supers is so brutal to Bob because those people were his friends, they attended his wedding and everything and they’re just gone
This movie did a fantastic job of including more adult themes that kids didn't pick up on. I remember not really understanding what he was doing in that scene as a kid, just that he got caught snooping but as an adult it really hits you hard
Yeah. It’s super dark. All that ghoulish slaughter of good people-all those lives prematurely ended-just because a neurotic little “stan” couldn’t accept being told no by someone he was dangerously obsessed with. Syndrome’s a very, very, VERY evil man. Like, to the point where I kinda suspect a lot of villains from other franchises would be disturbed by him-even some who sport higher kill counts. Megalomania is bad enough, but this swirly-haired freak throws entitlement, extreme neuroticism, and delusions of heroism into the mix as well. What’s perhaps even more chilling is that as a person, the character of Syndrome is all too realistic: We have an ever-growing number of people similar to him stinking up our own world, just minus the crazy tech. I’m not known for actively fearing many things-and I do not fear other people in and of themselves-but that is a deeply disturbing thought.
2004 was one of the greatest movie years. Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spiderman 2, The Incredibles. What a time to be a kid/parent of kids.
2004 was definitely a great time for film, especially for the youth. Not to forget other classics that I still love to this day such as The Polar Express, Shark Tales, Scooby Doo 2, Fat Albert, The Spongebob movie, Garfield movie, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Howl's Moving Castle. I didn't realize how much of a gem 2004 was for our childhood, so many classics that still get talked about til this day.
@@roni2971 it definitely was in a golden era for sure. that same year we got The Passion of the Christ, The Polar Express, The Grudge, SAW, The Machinist, The Day After Tomorrow, The Butterfly effect, The Punisher, Troy, The Notebook, Dawn of the Dead, and the list goes on
It's crazy how syndrome was after frozone at first before mirage saw Mr.incredible. That entire first fight with Mr. Incredible and the Droid was actually made for frozone that's why it took place around a volcano
@@ThePenpachi probably right I was just thinking that because of the scene when he was surrounded by fire basically he's weakness. Then we went right to the fight by the volcano
@@jermainejohnson1657 And by sticking to his hero values and insisting on rescuing people from that fire, Bob revealed himself to be Mr Incredible and unknowingly saved his best friend's life.
@@annajuliafortunato3776came down here to say that. I think the family dynamic is probably my favorite part, it really throws a twist in with the other elements and gives them good heart throughout
The kids names tell you their powers. Violet - ultraviolet, a spectrum of light invisible to the naked eye, hence her ability to turn invisible. Dash for his speed. Jack Jack- Jack of all trades because he can essentially do it all
the same thing happened with Monsters inc. sully's hair was a nightmare (no pun intended). lol one fun fact i always loved was that every Pixar short is them testing some new "system" or technique. the magician one was testing hair/fur, Geri's Game was testing cloth and fabric animation, etc.
Pixar has always been fantastic at animating hair. I think they even created a brand new animation engine just to animate Merida's mane of hair in Brave
According to IMDB, the plane scene with Mrs. Incredible is actually legitimate piloting terminology, so for as funny as it sounds (with the whole "Niner Niner" bit), it's actually what you'd say! "Helen's use of radio protocol while flying is exceptionally accurate for a movie. In the director's commentary Brad Bird tells that Holly Hunter insisted on learning the lingo and its meaning. The terminology used hints that Elastigirl has had military flight training. "VFR on top" means she is flying in the regime of Visual Flight Rules 'on top' of a cloud cover. She requests "vectors to the initial", directions how to get to the initial landing approach. "Angels 10" is her altitude call, ten thousand feet. This is a military term. Civilian flights use the term "flight level". "Track east" is her direction of travel. "Buddy spike(d)" is a U.S. military brevity code meaning "friendly anti-aircraft radar has locked on to me, (please don't shoot)". "Transmitting in the Blind Guard" is a call on the emergency frequency where two-way communication has not been established. "Abort" is also a military brevity code, a directive meaning "stop the action/mission/attack"."
Thanks for stating this! I had a feeling it was military chatter but know the voice actress insisted on learning it is awesome really adds to the scene
Favorite lines to quote: “You didn’t save my life you ruined my death!” “NO CAPES” “Don’t Burnie me!” “You are Elastigirl! PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER” “WHERES MY SUPER SUIT” I’ll be 80 with dementia but these will still live in my head rent free😭
I thinks it’s funny how y’all compared the arms of the robot to the arms of doc oc because this movie came out the same year as Spiderman 2 where doc oc was the main villain. Both movies also include a train scene where the hero has to get in front of the train to stop it before it falls off the track
I knew I wasn't crazy about my childhood memory remembering watching both and noticing the similarities. I always thought that was cool and hoped it was inspired by
The whole aesthetic of this movie is amazing, the concept is amazing. And the fact that the family's powers match their life and roles, let's say. The dad is "the rock", mom needs to do a bunch of things at once, Dash is full of energy since he is a kid, and the teenager wants to be invisible in that awkward phase. And this movie is dark too. If we think about the fact that so many super heroes died on that island. Or that Bob thought he actually lost his family.
The scene where Bob goes through every version of the robot and sees how many superheroes it killed is shocking to the audience because we understand the conspiracy that's afoot, but from a character perspective it's even more shocking to Bob because he's finally realizing why he lost touch with all his friends. They're all dead.
@@valentinkambushev4968 Pretty funny to think that society has actually regressed in terms of respecting the audience. Everything is so dumbed-down, censored, soft, etc. now, as evidenced by how we now need to say “unalived” to ensure our comments stay up.
I love the detail of Frozone's location being known by Syndrome as he was set to be the original target to fight Omnidroid V8, that explains the line from Mirage "The fat guy is with him". Which makes you realize that Mr.Incredible was being pushed into a field of lava, something that would've been very catastrophic for Frozone.
Brad Bird's performance of Edna was just meant as a guide for the animators until they found a voice actor for her, but when Lily Tomlin auditioned for Edna she said they should just use Bird's vocals.
One of my favorite tiny details in this movie is that when he turns to the side and sees the guy being mugged at the dumpster, it brings more color into the scene LITERALLY bringing color back into his life at a chance to be super again
Rest In Peace Jean Sincere 1919-2013 she voiced the the elderly lady with the cat in the tree Elizabeth Peña 1959-2014 she voiced Mirage, Syndrome's right hand woman and Bud Luckey 1934-2018 he voiced Rick Dicker
That is crazy. My brother and I saw it in our early teens and I distinctly remember walking out saying, "That is the best Pixar movie yet." There might be a couple others since then that have come very close, but nothing beats The Incredibles!
I will never watch this movie without hearing my stoic, literal genius uncle, who generally has no humor, just cracking up over the fact that the super heroes got sued at the beginning of the movie.
My favorite thing about this movie is that normal superhero team-up scene where they learn to work together is missing. That's because while they may bicker and yell at each other they are a family, and when threatened by bad guys they are and always were a team.
The DVD had a special feature where they did bio’s and interviews with the hero’s. One of the saddest ones was Stratogirl who Edna said got sucked into a plane turbine because her undercover identity was a high schooler. So she died at a very young age.
this movie is exactly a family movie, not a kids movie. besides literally being about a family, it's so absorbing in different ways for all age groups. i remember the first time i rewatched this as an adult and it felt like a whole new movie--child me did not register the darker themes like the suicide attempt or Syndrome's serial killings, but still loved this movie for the great action and characters. there's something for everyone and i'm very glad i got to watch and rewatch this movie at multiple life stages and appreciate it anew each time.
Perfect wording. This came out when I was 9 and I still love it as much now as I did then, even more in certain aspects. Some people will argue it’s semantics but I don’t think so. There’s a huge difference between “family films” and “kids films.” Most of Pixar’s movies fall under “family” for sure because there are quite a few things that went over my head as a kid that I totally understand now nearing my 30’s. I feel like after Wall-E, Up, and Toy Story 3, they really backed off the more serious subject matter for quite a few years. Inside Out and Coco are the only two afterwards that stand out as being much closer to Pixar’s earlier stuff.
In the original script, Elastigirl's co-pilote was actually going to be a friend of hers who was the one who got them access to the jet. He stays at the controls while she goes back to shield the children and dies in the explosion. Ultimately, they decided to remove him as a character since you barely got to know him before he was killed off.
@@Heritage367 Well, she still could fly, but it helped explain how she was able to get her hands on a private jet with defense flares installed. You would need a good connection to do you a favor, especially with the government breathing down your neck because your a former super.
@@silverswordsmith5424 It's still used for that in the final movie; the actual original intent of him coming along and dying was to show how serious the mission is.
A remnant of this original version still remains in the final movie - the shot where Elastigirl pauses to watch the plane sink. In the original version, it had his hat floating upwards to signify his death.
You guys would probably have fun watching the 5-minute animated short "Jack-Jack Attack" from 2005. It shows why the babysitter left those voicemails as she was looking after Jack-Jack. I'd love to see your reactions!
This movie's graphics at the time were NEXT LEVEL. Animation is still on point. Storyline surprised a lot of folks because the trailer really sold it being about Bob having a midlife crisis and wanting to be a hero but they hid his powers and family until you watched it. Very cool.
This movie took such a dark turn when Mr Incredible realized his friends were dead and his first instinct was to make sure they didn't know where his wife and best friend were. Also, they were originally targeting Frozone when Mirage saw Mr Incredible instead and they changed gears. Great reaction and Aloha from Hawai'i! 🌺
Oh! In Buddy/Syndrome's flashback where Mr Incredible says he works alone, Buddy/Syndrome only remembers him saying he works alone without the fact that Bomb Voyage was there too. He was super obsessed.
This movie was praised by the story telling at the time, also the fact Sindrome "eliminated" a lot of heroes it's prettt dark. I like this movie, you guys are great
Incredibles blew us all away when it first came out. With all the bad Fantastic Four movies that came out, comic fans considered the Incredibles the true Fantastic Four movie that never was. It was indeed ahead of its time as it still stands the test of time. Just goes to show it doesn't take just cutting edge animation, it takes heart and passion into the project. Brad Bird's earlier film The Iron Giant is great too, you can tell when a filmmaker knows his material!
Fun fact. Edna made Syndromes suit. Fan theory about the cape. She remembers every hero who died from capes as her fault. When she made Syndromes she purposely gave him a cape knowing it would backfire someday.
Sad thing about him is that he's also super in his own right. He's super smart, a little kid making his own flying boots is Tony Stark smart. Maybe if he was nurtured by Mr. Incredible, he could've been a great hero, too.
In polish version that quote actually appears earlier in the movie and is delivered by Dash in the car, when he talks with his mom about sports. I really like what polish translators did there, because it kind of binds a whole movie together.
This is the best Pixar movie, it's like their magnum opus. The script is so good, the art deco design is timeless with that animation, the action was amazing, and the actors were all hitting. This might be a perfect movie.
Pixar always wowed everybody. Each and every of their movies pushed the envelope a bit further. Water in Nemo, hair in Brave... they've always been on the cutting edge.
I found it funny when Syndrome told Mr. Incredible "You got me monologing." How many times in superhero movies do the hereos just listen to the villian's speech instead of surprise attacking them?
As for the animation quality of this film, The Incredibles was a massive leap forward in 3d animation technology, particularly in terms of the animation of hair and water. The whole scene where Helen and the kids were in the ocean was completely groundbreaking with the animation of wet hair. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature that year.
The Incredibles was a big part of my early childhood. I watched this movie up and down and still appreciate it so much today. The storytelling, characters, the humour, the action - I love it!
9:24 The funny thing is, firefighters do get excited like that when there’s a fire because they’re pretty rare (about 95% of their calls are medical emergencies or car accidents, which are just not as interesting 😂). My dad was a firefighter for 8 years and his eyes always lit up a little when he heard a call come in for a fire… but then he’d realize how bad that looked, so he’d always add “…obviously I hope it’s an abandoned building though.” 🙈
Bro the Teacher going this little Rat 🐀 is Guilty…..that’s him it’s Linguine from Ratatouille I could hear it when he said Rat I never noticed and I love this movie
The Incredibles main theme definitely comes from some of the music of the classic Bond films. It's especially close to the music during the ski scene in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
A bit about Brad Bird and his darker writing style, compared to other Disney animated movies of the era. Brad Bird worked at Disney along side of animators like Don Bluth (whose early independent studio movies are famous for being very dark children's movies like Land Before Time and Secret of Nimh). They were with the generation of Disney animators who wanted to push the boundaries that Disney originally cared about, which was to make entertaining family movies (not brain-dead safe children movies) that walked in the shadow of darkness so that the victory was so much more rewarding (Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi). They believed that children could be treated with respect and were tough as long as there was a positive ending. Bluth was part of Disney's Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective, The Rescuers, and The Brave Little Toaster. In 1982 Don Bluth left because Disney was resting on their laurels making more safe but less entertaining movies. Brad Bird and don Bluth and several other skilled Disney animators were eager to take up the mantle of the famous 9 Old Men who worked directly under Disney as his animation right hands. due to infighting, they never got the chance. Bird didn't cross the bridge with Bluth when he burned it leaving Disney for good, but Bird kept the same ideals and he made Iron Giant with Warner Brothers in 1999.
Are you kidding us? On the big screen when this first came out! Audiences were on the edge of -- and sometimes out of -- their seats. And a shoutout to The Answer: your scowl at Syndrome at (38:58) -- then the "Wow-shock" -- showed your thorough engagement with the movie. Great reactions!
I was 9 when this came out! Loved it then as a kid, and I still love it now, at 29 as a mom. I said “EDNA MODE” all the time! It’s funny and has a lot of truth. The scene where mom apologizes and acknowledged being unfair to ask so much of Violet so suddenly resonates with me. It’s a great example of accountability and communication as a parent. Another line was when she said something like “this is now Bob” to address him not really being a present parent/husband. It can happen to any of us, whether we have kids or not, to get caught up in our daily lives that we kinda lose our spark or passion. But it doesn’t beat you over the head with heavy stuff. Can’t wait for you to see number 2!!
Edna Mode is based on legendary Hollywood costume designer Edith Head, who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making her the most decorated woman in the Academy's history. Her classic mop-top haircut, short stature, huge designer glasses and distinctive voice make for the perfect animated character. Writer/Director Brad Bird voiced her character.
Just a regular family… Dad is the strong guy, mom has to stretch herself to get the family working, violet is the teenager that feels invisible, dash is the hiperative middle kid and jack jack is the baby with no specific power…like a baby, full of possibilities in the future! Just love it!
The thing about Violet not being able to make a bigger shield ends up being more deep than it seems. Isn't just that she's was never allowed and doesn't want to break the rules but because she was always told to not use her powers and internalized only bad emotions about her power, as we see in the dinner that used to not like them. Pretty much the classic case of parents supressing their children their whole life then suddenly asking them to be indepedent and do things they never did before.
Every Pixar movie was a blockbuster and always was pushing the limits of animation. As I recall one of the big technical challenges at the time this came out was animating wet hair in the ocean scene.
around this time we also got Finding Nemo which for me, was more visually stunning with animation. but Incredibles is one of my all time faves, way ahead of its time and tons of fun to watch with older kids
I've seen this movie more times than I can count and I still get a little choked up when Bob thinks his family is killed, and again when he sees Helen and realizes they're okay.
This absolutely is the movie Fantastic Four should have been. The original superhero family. With the exception of Dash they even have the same set of powers.
The Voice of Mirage was Elizabeth Peña and Holly Hunter as Helen Parr / Elastagirl but the biggest surprise was director Brad Bird as Edna Mode his voice during story boarding was so distinctive that nobody else fit. This was a major success for Pixar and we waited through several other Disney & Pixar movies before we got the sequel and we need Incredibles lll.
The Parr family has specific and unique superpowers for a good reason. According to Brad Bird, they are metaphors for the traditional nuclear family. Bob Parr - The father: the strong foundation of the family, the indestructible, dependable defender Helen Parr - The mother: the multi-tasker, always being flexible in order to solve many things at once Violet Parr - The teenage daughter: often feels invisible, shy, insecure, won’t let people get near her Dash Parr - The young son: full of life, energy, compulsiveness, wanting to push the envelope, can’t slow him down Jack-Jack Parr - The infant: unlimited but unknown potential, can become anything he wants
Edna is voiced by the director, Brad Bird. He wanted Lily Tomlin to do it...and he explained what he wanted her to do by doing his own impression of the character. She told him that she wouldn't be able to do it as well, and suggested he just do it himself. Since he'd already done some of the voice work for the character so that they could move forward with production, he just decided to finish it out that way anyway.
So I bought this on dvd when my daughter was 3, I popped it in and 15 minutes and she got bored and I sat there watching the whole thing. This was a unexpected great movie.
Fun Fact: The scene when Helen is flying the plane implies that she was prior military at some point, more specifically Naval Aviation. The scene starts by her asking for an approach vector giving her call sign IG99. Shes basically asking to land. She tries to hail the tower twice and gets no response. When she hears the radar lock warning, she jumps on the headset and says "IG99 Transmitting in the blind, guard disengage repeat disengage. Transmitting in the blind means she is telling the tower that two-way communication has not been established. "Guard" is the international emergency frequency for all aircraft. Shes telling the tower that she can't hear them, so if they've been giving her orders to turn around, or that she was entering restricted airspace, she hasn't been receiving. Normally an air escort would be sent out at this point to guide the plane down to a safe landing spot, or to guide them out of restricted airspace. When the second volley of missiles is fired, she says "Friendlies at 2 0 miles south, southeast of your position angels 10 track east disengage" Shes letting the tower know exactly where she is, and that she is friendly. Angels 10 is referring to her altitude so 10000 feet, and track east his referring to her current track, basically the direction she intends to go. Her final call before the plane is hit is "MAYDAY MAYDAY IG99 IS BUDDY SPIKED ABORT ABORT" This is where that Naval Aviation stuff comes in. Buddy Spike is a term used exclusively by Naval pilots. Normally its used by the forces locking on to the friendly aircraft as a way of saying "Hey I'm locking on to you, it's not enemy radar lock" but in this context it means "I AM A FRIENDLY AIRCRAFT RECIEVEING RADAR LOCK FROM FRIENDLY FORCES. DO NOT FIRE."
This was my first time watching the film in probably over 10 years tbh. And it was refreshing to revisit it with you guys. I REALLY love how dynamic Elastigirl was. Not just physically but also as a real character. She has genuine concerns for her family’s safety, which combined with Bob’s depression and midlife crisis and their children not having identities of their own. It’s just a brilliant film. And ofc Syndrome is one of the best villains in cinema and Edna and Frozone are 2 of the best supporting characters ever.
One of the best Pixar mov-nay. One of the best movies period. It does not hold back on its content and says what it has to say. I mean, look at the first 10 minutes, where a dude sues the heroes for saving him! You would rarely see something on that level now
If I remember movie critics of this time period, this was one of the very first fully human casted cqi movies. This was massive leap at the time. The director did amazing choice to go with very spesific style for the movie and the art style to avoid technology's short comings but it only made the movie survive the test of time even better. Btw. It was Violet's hair that got the computer all heated up. Hairs in general were very bug sensitive at the time if I remember right from Shrek 2 commentary. So everyone at the time were hyping what the next pixar human centered movie would be with this technology... and then they released cars instead.
When I was 5, I had an incredibles themed birthday party. My family has always been everything to me, and us dressing up as superheroes will be a memory I’ll always cherish.
I was in grad school the year before The Incredibles came out and happened to read a paragraph about it in Variety. (I never read more than that to avoid spoilers.) I knew instantly this was going to be an amazing movie and went to see it on opening night, even though I had a hell of a lot to do for school. It was spectacular...as expected. This is still my favorite Pixar film. I love every moment of it!
their names all relate to their powers! dash : fast obviously violet : ultraviolet stuff jack jack : hes a jack of all trades with all his different powers!
38:27, those two old men are LEGENDARY Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. They designed many Disney characters and they animated more than half of the Jungle Book THEMSELVES!
I love how their powers symbolized their family structure and personalities... Bob - As the father thought he had to act super strong all the time to keep the family together Helen - Was always being pulled in all directions and overextending herself to keep the family together Dash - A hyperactive kid whose mind is always racing Violet - Shy and withdrawn. Feels invisible and puts up walls around her jack -jack - A baby who can still be anything he wants to be
I was in first year animation school when this came out and we all watched it opening week and YES the animation blew us away. Everyone talked about the wet hair they had when their plane blew up and were in the ocean. It was amazing! Also this is still my favourite Pixar movie of all time. One of my college professors did layout and concept art for this film!
And yes..the music that was playing when JackJack went beserk was Mozart..so they fully followed through with that..which is amazing attention to detail...and the depth of characters in this movie is extremely well done because it related to real problems people have..so this one is one of my favorites
So happy you guys are getting around to this film, it's truly one of my all-time favourites. Aside from the amazing: plot, animation, cast and music. I'd like to bring attention to the exceptional DVD. The amount of bonus feautures that expand the world is so good. There's: - Jack-Jack Attack: the short that fills in Kari's time babysitting. - The Adventures of Mr Incredible & Pals: a mockup of a 50s animated show using syncro-vox parodying Clutch Cargo. Plus commentary from Mr Incredible & Frozone hating on it. (genuine treat) - The NSA secret files: Government documents about all the Glory Days supers. With some insight into their powers and personalities. And much more. It shows how much passion was put into the film by how much bonus content they made. I wish films still did this amount of effort. Other films around the time like Shrek 2 & A series of unfortunate events also did this.
Such a fantastic movie!! It embraced many of the classic superhero tropes, but also turned many of them on their side in an extremely clever and logical way. As you gentlemen mentioned, the animation is incredible (no pun intended) for its time, and definitely holds up. Incredibles 2 is another amazing ride!!
What a film this was! What was your reaction? Do you still quote any lines from this film?
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No capes!!!!
All the time. Fun fact that might interest you, Brad Bird (the director) stated that he wanted to bring a sense of humanness to the supers, which is why we see Bob wince before the train hits him (just because he can stop it doesn't mean it's not gonna hurt like hell) and why we see like realistic limits to their powers through the movie. And the script is full of little notes like that, instructing tiny details that just add so much.
Edna is able to recite every exact date of those cape supers deaths because she designed the suits- my girl Edna had ptsd
Ghost Diamond Dave joins again! Woo! \o/ What a superpower to have, DD! :D
@@dutchdaddygamer 😂😂😂 used the wrong copy.
This movie was of partial inspiration for the finale of WandaVision.
That giggle Dash gives when he realizes he's running on water makes that scene better.
My favorite part of the movie. Basically what we all we do if we found out we could run on water, I think.
@KissablePurpleMonkey well he is fast and furious as Sonic, Flash Quicksilver!!!!!😊😊😊😊
I love Dash's initial, "WE'RE DOOMED!!!" reaction. Such a great character.
I watched a clip about that scene and how the creators really tried to focus on Dash's sequence/journey of discovering what he can really do (and violet too) after being held back for so long
"NO CAPES!"
- a movie with so many peak lines
Great nod to Watchmen, heroes with real-life concerns.
Detachable Cape.
Pretty cool that the family’s powers also mirror the classic family tropes.
Dad has to be strong
Mom is flexible
Teen Daughter has her walls up and wants to be invisible
Son is quick (ADHD)
Baby has unlimited potential
Great point!
Also reflects their personal strengths:
Dad is resilient, strong, proactive and protective, Mom can pull anything needed into the family orbit and stretch to her limits to protect her family - while still taking the hits: Violet takes that up a notch by being able to bubble the family without damage to herself, and Dash - anything you give that kid, he'll run with it, and *fast*
And Jack-Jack is.. just a baby figuring out cause and effect with his multitude of possibilities 😅 that one is pretty much the same
Oh that’s COOL- super insightful!
Great insight!
Yeah, they don't do this anymore which is sad. Even in number two the whole dynamic changed
I don't know if you guys noticed but Syndroms flashback of the pivotal conversation 'Go home buddy' is a distorted version of what happened. Syndrom's flashback shows he remembers being face to face with Mr. Incredible and being told to go home, it's a very personal setup with no external forces or situational awareness. We as the audience know that at the time, not only was Mr. Incredible NOT facing buddy, but he was in the middle of restraining bombvoyage at the time; he was in the middle of work, trying to keep a station under control, and told a kid, who shouldn't even be in this situation (at the edge of a broken window in a skyscraper next to a villain), to go home. None of that situation, the danger, is kept in Syndroms memory, he just remembers his Hero told him to go home and he took that personally.
Unreliable Narrator Syndrome.
Syndrome. Heh...
Can u blame a kid for being innocent?
He only see his hero.
If anything, it should be a lesson to the adults. How to teach and talk to kids.
@@RonLarhz it's not a blame thing, it's a nuanced narrative choice that can lead to discussion on Buddy's state of mind. It's been proven time and again that a person's memory is not as reliable as we wish it were, often in court cases eyewitness accounts are the least reliable. So it leaves the audience to wonder, is buddy just a normal kid unaware of danger because he believes himself invincible (as many kids do), does he believe that because he's with his favorite hero that there is no real danger, are his fanatic tendencies finding him, or (given that buddy becomes a full fledged villain over this one moment) could buddy have a budding neuroticism that makes him believe every situation is always about him and what he wants so other "minor" details like a bomb throwing villain don't register. In my personal option Buddy has a strong sense of confidence, and had zero fear during the original scene. Personally, a child throwing themselves at his age into a crime scene unprompted makes me lean towards Buddy having neurotic tendencies that mature with time. if he can't be special no one should be is his main motivator at the end, veild under if everyone's super No one is and "hes attracted to power" both act as supporting evidence in my mind. But! That's just my take a d why I love the flashback scene so much because it starts a discussion :)
@@RonLarhzBuddy, Me Incredible was dealing with danger, there was a villain with them and the guy put a bomb on the kid. If you think that Bob was rude or something, you are being delusional
Ooh I never noticed that! Thanks for pointing that out
Don't forget about the short "Jack-Jack Attack". It shows the adventures of Jack-Jack and the babysitter.
I hope they watch those 😅
This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A must before the second!
That babysitter had me on the floor in that bit! 😂😂😂
@@MrKDogg And the short with Edna.
In this very moment, I just now realized that Dash's teacher plays Linguini in Ratatouille (also directed by Brad Bird), and the irony in him yelling "This little rat is guilty" in this movie.
That is insane
Brad Bird did Edna E Mode's voice.
"We're dead! We survived but we're DED!" ...there's so many quotes 😂
I was at a six flags with my dad when I was a kid I screamed this on the roller coaster he couldn’t breath from laughing so hard one of our favorite movies together he still remembers 😂
HONEY? WHERE IS MY SUPER SUIT?!
-At that moment, one of the most remembered Pixar moments of all time, and an excellent meme, was born. 💜 ❄️
"I AM THE GREATEST GOOD YOU'RE EVER GONNA GET" is so iconic 🤣🤣 still cracks me up
The cities in danger woman! My evening is in danger!
Roses are Red
I am Groot
Honey, where is my super suit?
@@TatertotSheepbane I showed my family that meme, and was disappointed that not single one got it.
YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS WOMAN, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE GREATER GOOD!
The intensity of Helen when she told Bob to throw her in order to catch Jack Jack in time was so well done. The acting in that scene was top tier, I could feel her desperation.
The confidence between the couple is shown in that scene. He doesn't hesitate to throw his wife. She knows he can make sure she hits the mark. He knows she will bring back the safely.
@@fourthgirl They make such good team fr
@@fourthgirlthat's why I love this movie so much -- for all of the things that had gone sideways in their life together, they both still actually love each other and trust and respect each other's strengths so well!
Helens voice actor was actually phenomenal here, she has the perfect in all the scenes of tension and panic, and then she still had the calming mom voice when needed. amazing
@@fourthgirl You bet Bob has thrown Helen several times in the past when supers were legal.
One of the things to me that gets so overlooked with the computer scene where he’s seeing all the dead supers is so brutal to Bob because those people were his friends, they attended his wedding and everything and they’re just gone
This movie did a fantastic job of including more adult themes that kids didn't pick up on. I remember not really understanding what he was doing in that scene as a kid, just that he got caught snooping but as an adult it really hits you hard
The dvd had all of these files and stuff on the supers being dead. It wasn't focused on in the movie, but it was super thought out.
Yeah. It’s super dark. All that ghoulish slaughter of good people-all those lives prematurely ended-just because a neurotic little “stan” couldn’t accept being told no by someone he was dangerously obsessed with. Syndrome’s a very, very, VERY evil man. Like, to the point where I kinda suspect a lot of villains from other franchises would be disturbed by him-even some who sport higher kill counts. Megalomania is bad enough, but this swirly-haired freak throws entitlement, extreme neuroticism, and delusions of heroism into the mix as well. What’s perhaps even more chilling is that as a person, the character of Syndrome is all too realistic: We have an ever-growing number of people similar to him stinking up our own world, just minus the crazy tech. I’m not known for actively fearing many things-and I do not fear other people in and of themselves-but that is a deeply disturbing thought.
And how if they DID defeat the Omnidroid the first time, its upgraded successor killed them later. It’s pretty dark.
That sequence is my favorite part of the movie!The music swell in the background makes it even darker!🔥
2004 was one of the greatest movie years. Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spiderman 2, The Incredibles. What a time to be a kid/parent of kids.
Hollywood peaked back then for sure.
peakkkkk
2004 was definitely a great time for film, especially for the youth. Not to forget other classics that I still love to this day such as The Polar Express, Shark Tales, Scooby Doo 2, Fat Albert, The Spongebob movie, Garfield movie, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Howl's Moving Castle. I didn't realize how much of a gem 2004 was for our childhood, so many classics that still get talked about til this day.
@@roni2971 it definitely was in a golden era for sure. that same year we got The Passion of the Christ, The Polar Express, The Grudge, SAW, The Machinist, The Day After Tomorrow, The Butterfly effect, The Punisher, Troy, The Notebook, Dawn of the Dead, and the list goes on
@@rari2943the notebook while beautiful is trash. The rest I agree with.
It's crazy how syndrome was after frozone at first before mirage saw Mr.incredible. That entire first fight with Mr. Incredible and the Droid was actually made for frozone that's why it took place around a volcano
I have NEVER put that together.
I mean, the fight only got to the volcano eventually. That’s not where it started.
I think every super was brought to that island.
@@ThePenpachi probably right I was just thinking that because of the scene when he was surrounded by fire basically he's weakness. Then we went right to the fight by the volcano
@@jermainejohnson1657 And by sticking to his hero values and insisting on rescuing people from that fire, Bob revealed himself to be Mr Incredible and unknowingly saved his best friend's life.
I quote Dash’s line often: “WE’RE DEAD. WE’RE DEAD. WE SURVIVED BUT WE’RE DEAD.”
That scene is so funny and iconic. I quote that a lot myself too.
This movie mixed superheroes with the spy thriller genre so well, Pixar's best work, a true masterpiece of a movie.
And family dinamics too, the van scene is just 🤌
@@annajuliafortunato3776came down here to say that. I think the family dynamic is probably my favorite part, it really throws a twist in with the other elements and gives them good heart throughout
The kids names tell you their powers. Violet - ultraviolet, a spectrum of light invisible to the naked eye, hence her ability to turn invisible. Dash for his speed. Jack Jack- Jack of all trades because he can essentially do it all
Also, a "shrinking violet" can mean an extremely shy person, so it works on multiple levels.
🤔Interesting you say that because everyone assumes Vi is a combination of Blue and Red, the colors of the parents' costumes
@@LilyZerep😂🤯🤯🥰🥹
Dash giggling when he realizes he can run on water is literally one of my fav moments of any movie ever
Such a good scene. Gives me chills every time.
Yes!!! definitely mine as well.
I remember back when this came out all the videos about how revolutionary the way they animated Violet's hair was
I remember the animators saying that was the hardest part, especially when they had to make wet hair for the ocean scene.
Yep!
the same thing happened with Monsters inc. sully's hair was a nightmare (no pun intended). lol one fun fact i always loved was that every Pixar short is them testing some new "system" or technique. the magician one was testing hair/fur, Geri's Game was testing cloth and fabric animation, etc.
Pixar has always been fantastic at animating hair. I think they even created a brand new animation engine just to animate Merida's mane of hair in Brave
Yes! Violet’s hair AND the napkin slipping into the trash bin in Edna’s house lol. They said it took them forever to do them. 😂
According to IMDB, the plane scene with Mrs. Incredible is actually legitimate piloting terminology, so for as funny as it sounds (with the whole "Niner Niner" bit), it's actually what you'd say!
"Helen's use of radio protocol while flying is exceptionally accurate for a movie. In the director's commentary Brad Bird tells that Holly Hunter insisted on learning the lingo and its meaning. The terminology used hints that Elastigirl has had military flight training.
"VFR on top" means she is flying in the regime of Visual Flight Rules 'on top' of a cloud cover.
She requests "vectors to the initial", directions how to get to the initial landing approach.
"Angels 10" is her altitude call, ten thousand feet. This is a military term. Civilian flights use the term "flight level".
"Track east" is her direction of travel.
"Buddy spike(d)" is a U.S. military brevity code meaning "friendly anti-aircraft radar has locked on to me, (please don't shoot)".
"Transmitting in the Blind Guard" is a call on the emergency frequency where two-way communication has not been established.
"Abort" is also a military brevity code, a directive meaning "stop the action/mission/attack"."
Thanks for stating this! I had a feeling it was military chatter but know the voice actress insisted on learning it is awesome really adds to the scene
Favorite lines to quote:
“You didn’t save my life you ruined my death!”
“NO CAPES”
“Don’t Burnie me!”
“You are Elastigirl! PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER”
“WHERES MY SUPER SUIT”
I’ll be 80 with dementia but these will still live in my head rent free😭
I will never grow tired of watching grown men enjoying and laughing at animated movies
I thinks it’s funny how y’all compared the arms of the robot to the arms of doc oc because this movie came out the same year as Spiderman 2 where doc oc was the main villain. Both movies also include a train scene where the hero has to get in front of the train to stop it before it falls off the track
That's crazyyy 😂
I knew I wasn't crazy about my childhood memory remembering watching both and noticing the similarities. I always thought that was cool and hoped it was inspired by
I knew about these similarities but I didn't realize both movies came out in the same year, that's wild lol
The whole aesthetic of this movie is amazing, the concept is amazing. And the fact that the family's powers match their life and roles, let's say. The dad is "the rock", mom needs to do a bunch of things at once, Dash is full of energy since he is a kid, and the teenager wants to be invisible in that awkward phase.
And this movie is dark too. If we think about the fact that so many super heroes died on that island. Or that Bob thought he actually lost his family.
The scene where Bob goes through every version of the robot and sees how many superheroes it killed is shocking to the audience because we understand the conspiracy that's afoot, but from a character perspective it's even more shocking to Bob because he's finally realizing why he lost touch with all his friends. They're all dead.
and "Jack- Jack" the Jack of all trades!
Don't forget all those henchmen who got killed also.
Fun fact: The voice of Edna Mode was none other than the film's writernand director Brad Burd himself. Also...NO CAPES! 💜
No way, Edna was voiced by a dude? Would have never guessed!
@@rolfdenpinguin3009 I honestly thought Edna's gay when I first watched it.
@@judiciousjayel Because of the voice? Or where did this come from?
This movie was AHEAD of its time. The character trying to “unalive” himself which is the catalyst for mid-life crisis…. INSANE 🔥
It was exactly a product of its time. The time when Pixar could be dark and wasn't afraid of risks.
I didn't even think about that 🤯
@@valentinkambushev4968
Pretty funny to think that society has actually regressed in terms of respecting the audience. Everything is so dumbed-down, censored, soft, etc. now, as evidenced by how we now need to say “unalived” to ensure our comments stay up.
@@greasey8695 Yeah, it's really pathetic.
yeah that was wild lol
I love the detail of Frozone's location being known by Syndrome as he was set to be the original target to fight Omnidroid V8, that explains the line from Mirage "The fat guy is with him". Which makes you realize that Mr.Incredible was being pushed into a field of lava, something that would've been very catastrophic for Frozone.
The visor color of the Omnidriod is another clue to that, it's blue the first time and red the rest of the time.
This movie is such a staple of my childhood. Has some of the most quotable and memeable movie lines ever
Brad Bird's performance of Edna was just meant as a guide for the animators until they found a voice actor for her, but when Lily Tomlin auditioned for Edna she said they should just use Bird's vocals.
I did Not Know that it was a Man doing Edna's voice! LoL..... interesting! 😊
One of my favorite tiny details in this movie is that when he turns to the side and sees the guy being mugged at the dumpster, it brings more color into the scene
LITERALLY bringing color back into his life at a chance to be super again
Rest In Peace
Jean Sincere 1919-2013 she voiced the the elderly lady with the cat in the tree
Elizabeth Peña 1959-2014 she voiced Mirage, Syndrome's right hand woman
and Bud Luckey 1934-2018 he voiced Rick Dicker
Aw man, I didn't know Elizabeth Peña was dead, I liked her in Rush Hour, too. 😢
@@JakkFrost1same :( unsure of incredible 2 if in that but if so, shame won't be in more
@@mlee6050 she passed away 4 years before Incredibles 2 came out.
Wow, Had no Idea Elizabeth Pena had died that long ago.
I can’t believe that this is 20yrs old. This is my favourite Disney Pixar movie. The “I’m not strong enough” bit gets me every time
That is crazy. My brother and I saw it in our early teens and I distinctly remember walking out saying, "That is the best Pixar movie yet." There might be a couple others since then that have come very close, but nothing beats The Incredibles!
I will never watch this movie without hearing my stoic, literal genius uncle, who generally has no humor, just cracking up over the fact that the super heroes got sued at the beginning of the movie.
My favorite thing about this movie is that normal superhero team-up scene where they learn to work together is missing. That's because while they may bicker and yell at each other they are a family, and when threatened by bad guys they are and always were a team.
The DVD had a special feature where they did bio’s and interviews with the hero’s. One of the saddest ones was Stratogirl who Edna said got sucked into a plane turbine because her undercover identity was a high schooler. So she died at a very young age.
it was all adults in the theatre by the time they gave us Incredibles 2.
I was 6 when this movie came out. Then I was 20 when the 2nd came out along with every body else lol
this movie is exactly a family movie, not a kids movie. besides literally being about a family, it's so absorbing in different ways for all age groups. i remember the first time i rewatched this as an adult and it felt like a whole new movie--child me did not register the darker themes like the suicide attempt or Syndrome's serial killings, but still loved this movie for the great action and characters. there's something for everyone and i'm very glad i got to watch and rewatch this movie at multiple life stages and appreciate it anew each time.
Perfect wording. This came out when I was 9 and I still love it as much now as I did then, even more in certain aspects. Some people will argue it’s semantics but I don’t think so. There’s a huge difference between “family films” and “kids films.” Most of Pixar’s movies fall under “family” for sure because there are quite a few things that went over my head as a kid that I totally understand now nearing my 30’s.
I feel like after Wall-E, Up, and Toy Story 3, they really backed off the more serious subject matter for quite a few years. Inside Out and Coco are the only two afterwards that stand out as being much closer to Pixar’s earlier stuff.
In the original script, Elastigirl's co-pilote was actually going to be a friend of hers who was the one who got them access to the jet. He stays at the controls while she goes back to shield the children and dies in the explosion. Ultimately, they decided to remove him as a character since you barely got to know him before he was killed off.
Plus it's so much cooler that she's a pilot.
@@Heritage367 Well, she still could fly, but it helped explain how she was able to get her hands on a private jet with defense flares installed. You would need a good connection to do you a favor, especially with the government breathing down your neck because your a former super.
@@silverswordsmith5424 It's still used for that in the final movie; the actual original intent of him coming along and dying was to show how serious the mission is.
A remnant of this original version still remains in the final movie - the shot where Elastigirl pauses to watch the plane sink. In the original version, it had his hat floating upwards to signify his death.
Incredibles was way ahead of its time, it actually one the Academy Award for best animated feature
You guys would probably have fun watching the 5-minute animated short "Jack-Jack Attack" from 2005. It shows why the babysitter left those voicemails as she was looking after Jack-Jack. I'd love to see your reactions!
that short and presto are probably my favorite pixar shorts ever
This movie was so creative and ahead of its time. I love how it showed the family dynamic not being perfect but still coming together.
This movie's graphics at the time were NEXT LEVEL. Animation is still on point. Storyline surprised a lot of folks because the trailer really sold it being about Bob having a midlife crisis and wanting to be a hero but they hid his powers and family until you watched it. Very cool.
Ha! You just reminded me of the trailer when he's falling all over trying to fit into his suit and the buckle ends up flying across the room 😆
Dash's chuckle when he realizes he can run on water was always one of my favorite moments 😂
This movie took such a dark turn when Mr Incredible realized his friends were dead and his first instinct was to make sure they didn't know where his wife and best friend were. Also, they were originally targeting Frozone when Mirage saw Mr Incredible instead and they changed gears. Great reaction and Aloha from Hawai'i! 🌺
Oh! In Buddy/Syndrome's flashback where Mr Incredible says he works alone, Buddy/Syndrome only remembers him saying he works alone without the fact that Bomb Voyage was there too. He was super obsessed.
This movie was praised by the story telling at the time, also the fact Sindrome "eliminated" a lot of heroes it's prettt dark. I like this movie, you guys are great
When I was younger, I used to skip back/rewind the *"Where's my super suit?"* scene 1,000x on my DVD! 🤣🤣🤣
My brother and I still quote that at each other all the time! Never gets old 😂
@@csziel2581 You should also probably do it when you're married too! 😆😁
FUN FACT: The two old men at the end was a tribute to Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, or simply Frank and Ollie.
I always wondered who those men were. Even when I as younger, I know those men were important. I just didn’t know why.
Incredibles blew us all away when it first came out. With all the bad Fantastic Four movies that came out, comic fans considered the Incredibles the true Fantastic Four movie that never was. It was indeed ahead of its time as it still stands the test of time. Just goes to show it doesn't take just cutting edge animation, it takes heart and passion into the project. Brad Bird's earlier film The Iron Giant is great too, you can tell when a filmmaker knows his material!
Fun fact. Edna made Syndromes suit. Fan theory about the cape. She remembers every hero who died from capes as her fault. When she made Syndromes she purposely gave him a cape knowing it would backfire someday.
I love that Samuel L Jackson asks ‘where is my super suit?’ And then never gets one as Nick Fury
Syndrome's quote about when everyone's super, no one will be, always resonated with me for some reason.
Sad thing about him is that he's also super in his own right. He's super smart, a little kid making his own flying boots is Tony Stark smart. Maybe if he was nurtured by Mr. Incredible, he could've been a great hero, too.
In polish version that quote actually appears earlier in the movie and is delivered by Dash in the car, when he talks with his mom about sports. I really like what polish translators did there, because it kind of binds a whole movie together.
This is the best Pixar movie, it's like their magnum opus. The script is so good, the art deco design is timeless with that animation, the action was amazing, and the actors were all hitting. This might be a perfect movie.
The best Pixar movie is Coco.
Pixar always wowed everybody. Each and every of their movies pushed the envelope a bit further. Water in Nemo, hair in Brave... they've always been on the cutting edge.
I found it funny when Syndrome told Mr. Incredible "You got me monologing." How many times in superhero movies do the hereos just listen to the villian's speech instead of surprise attacking them?
As for the animation quality of this film, The Incredibles was a massive leap forward in 3d animation technology, particularly in terms of the animation of hair and water. The whole scene where Helen and the kids were in the ocean was completely groundbreaking with the animation of wet hair. It won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature that year.
The Incredibles was a big part of my early childhood. I watched this movie up and down and still appreciate it so much today. The storytelling, characters, the humour, the action - I love it!
9:24 The funny thing is, firefighters do get excited like that when there’s a fire because they’re pretty rare (about 95% of their calls are medical emergencies or car accidents, which are just not as interesting 😂). My dad was a firefighter for 8 years and his eyes always lit up a little when he heard a call come in for a fire… but then he’d realize how bad that looked, so he’d always add “…obviously I hope it’s an abandoned building though.” 🙈
Bro the Teacher going this little Rat 🐀 is Guilty…..that’s him it’s Linguine from Ratatouille I could hear it when he said Rat I never noticed and I love this movie
When she was saying "This is IG99'r" is a nod to Iron Giant made in 1999 made by Brad Bird who did this. Also he voiced Edna.
The Incredibles main theme definitely comes from some of the music of the classic Bond films. It's especially close to the music during the ski scene in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
This soundtrack is awesome. My fav is ‘Life’s Incredible Again.’ So smooth.
A bit about Brad Bird and his darker writing style, compared to other Disney animated movies of the era.
Brad Bird worked at Disney along side of animators like Don Bluth (whose early independent studio movies are famous for being very dark children's movies like Land Before Time and Secret of Nimh). They were with the generation of Disney animators who wanted to push the boundaries that Disney originally cared about, which was to make entertaining family movies (not brain-dead safe children movies) that walked in the shadow of darkness so that the victory was so much more rewarding (Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi). They believed that children could be treated with respect and were tough as long as there was a positive ending. Bluth was part of Disney's Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective, The Rescuers, and The Brave Little Toaster. In 1982 Don Bluth left because Disney was resting on their laurels making more safe but less entertaining movies. Brad Bird and don Bluth and several other skilled Disney animators were eager to take up the mantle of the famous 9 Old Men who worked directly under Disney as his animation right hands. due to infighting, they never got the chance. Bird didn't cross the bridge with Bluth when he burned it leaving Disney for good, but Bird kept the same ideals and he made Iron Giant with Warner Brothers in 1999.
Are you kidding us? On the big screen when this first came out! Audiences were on the edge of -- and sometimes out of -- their seats. And a shoutout to The Answer: your scowl at Syndrome at (38:58) -- then the "Wow-shock" -- showed your thorough engagement with the movie. Great reactions!
I was 9 when this came out! Loved it then as a kid, and I still love it now, at 29 as a mom. I said “EDNA MODE” all the time! It’s funny and has a lot of truth. The scene where mom apologizes and acknowledged being unfair to ask so much of Violet so suddenly resonates with me. It’s a great example of accountability and communication as a parent. Another line was when she said something like “this is now Bob” to address him not really being a present parent/husband. It can happen to any of us, whether we have kids or not, to get caught up in our daily lives that we kinda lose our spark or passion. But it doesn’t beat you over the head with heavy stuff. Can’t wait for you to see number 2!!
Edna Mode is based on legendary Hollywood costume designer Edith Head, who won a record eight Academy Awards for Best Costume Design between 1949 and 1973, making her the most decorated woman in the Academy's history. Her classic mop-top haircut, short stature, huge designer glasses and distinctive voice make for the perfect animated character. Writer/Director Brad Bird voiced her character.
Yup, Edna = variation on Edith, Mode = the French word for "fashion".
Just a regular family… Dad is the strong guy, mom has to stretch herself to get the family working, violet is the teenager that feels invisible, dash is the hiperative middle kid and jack jack is the baby with no specific power…like a baby, full of possibilities in the future! Just love it!
It’s been 20 years and this is still my favorite Disney/Pixar movie. Endlessly creative, fun and it aged so so well.
The thing about Violet not being able to make a bigger shield ends up being more deep than it seems. Isn't just that she's was never allowed and doesn't want to break the rules but because she was always told to not use her powers and internalized only bad emotions about her power, as we see in the dinner that used to not like them. Pretty much the classic case of parents supressing their children their whole life then suddenly asking them to be indepedent and do things they never did before.
It absolutely wowed everyone when it came out. This remains to be one of the (if not THE) best Pixar movies ever.
Dash's little laugh when he realizes he's running on the water is one of the best things ever.
Every Pixar movie was a blockbuster and always was pushing the limits of animation. As I recall one of the big technical challenges at the time this came out was animating wet hair in the ocean scene.
The story is so good, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. 👍👍
JackJack is the best!
Best quote “where’s my super suit…” and that whole scene!
Edna was based on a real life person, a fashion designer named Edith Head.
around this time we also got Finding Nemo which for me, was more visually stunning with animation. but Incredibles is one of my all time faves, way ahead of its time and tons of fun to watch with older kids
The Frozen & Honey scene is pretty iconic lmao. I laugh every time.🤣
I've seen this movie more times than I can count and I still get a little choked up when Bob thinks his family is killed, and again when he sees Helen and realizes they're okay.
This is truly the best Fantastic Four movie that’s ever come out yet! 😂
Don't insult this movie with such a low bar.
This absolutely is the movie Fantastic Four should have been. The original superhero family. With the exception of Dash they even have the same set of powers.
@@afrancis1582Jack Jack got ‘em covered.
Reason it looks so good is because it’s all hand drawn. Frame by frame. It’s incredible, haha
The Voice of Mirage was Elizabeth Peña and Holly Hunter as Helen Parr / Elastagirl but the biggest surprise was director Brad Bird as Edna Mode his voice during story boarding was so distinctive that nobody else fit. This was a major success for Pixar and we waited through several other Disney & Pixar movies before we got the sequel and we need Incredibles lll.
The Parr family has specific and unique superpowers for a good reason. According to Brad Bird, they are metaphors for the traditional nuclear family.
Bob Parr - The father: the strong foundation of the family, the indestructible, dependable defender
Helen Parr - The mother: the multi-tasker, always being flexible in order to solve many things at once
Violet Parr - The teenage daughter: often feels invisible, shy, insecure, won’t let people get near her
Dash Parr - The young son: full of life, energy, compulsiveness, wanting to push the envelope, can’t slow him down
Jack-Jack Parr - The infant: unlimited but unknown potential, can become anything he wants
Fun fact. The bank scene after the building fire is a call back to one of Samuel Jackson’s earliest big movies
It was the third die hard which I wouldn't call one of his earliest.
Edna is voiced by the director, Brad Bird. He wanted Lily Tomlin to do it...and he explained what he wanted her to do by doing his own impression of the character. She told him that she wouldn't be able to do it as well, and suggested he just do it himself.
Since he'd already done some of the voice work for the character so that they could move forward with production, he just decided to finish it out that way anyway.
So I bought this on dvd when my daughter was 3, I popped it in and 15 minutes and she got bored and I sat there watching the whole thing. This was a unexpected great movie.
Fun Fact: The scene when Helen is flying the plane implies that she was prior military at some point, more specifically Naval Aviation.
The scene starts by her asking for an approach vector giving her call sign IG99. Shes basically asking to land. She tries to hail the tower twice and gets no response. When she hears the radar lock warning, she jumps on the headset and says "IG99 Transmitting in the blind, guard disengage repeat disengage. Transmitting in the blind means she is telling the tower that two-way communication has not been established. "Guard" is the international emergency frequency for all aircraft. Shes telling the tower that she can't hear them, so if they've been giving her orders to turn around, or that she was entering restricted airspace, she hasn't been receiving. Normally an air escort would be sent out at this point to guide the plane down to a safe landing spot, or to guide them out of restricted airspace.
When the second volley of missiles is fired, she says "Friendlies at 2 0 miles south, southeast of your position angels 10 track east disengage" Shes letting the tower know exactly where she is, and that she is friendly. Angels 10 is referring to her altitude so 10000 feet, and track east his referring to her current track, basically the direction she intends to go.
Her final call before the plane is hit is "MAYDAY MAYDAY IG99 IS BUDDY SPIKED ABORT ABORT"
This is where that Naval Aviation stuff comes in. Buddy Spike is a term used exclusively by Naval pilots. Normally its used by the forces locking on to the friendly aircraft as a way of saying "Hey I'm locking on to you, it's not enemy radar lock" but in this context it means "I AM A FRIENDLY AIRCRAFT RECIEVEING RADAR LOCK FROM FRIENDLY FORCES. DO NOT FIRE."
What Bob does with old lady is what I do with customers when they ask me for help if I’m off the clock.
The soundtrack is nothing short of a masterpiece, the jazz sounds amazing.
This was my first time watching the film in probably over 10 years tbh. And it was refreshing to revisit it with you guys. I REALLY love how dynamic Elastigirl was. Not just physically but also as a real character. She has genuine concerns for her family’s safety, which combined with Bob’s depression and midlife crisis and their children not having identities of their own. It’s just a brilliant film. And ofc Syndrome is one of the best villains in cinema and Edna and Frozone are 2 of the best supporting characters ever.
One of the best Pixar mov-nay. One of the best movies period. It does not hold back on its content and says what it has to say. I mean, look at the first 10 minutes, where a dude sues the heroes for saving him! You would rarely see something on that level now
If I remember movie critics of this time period, this was one of the very first fully human casted cqi movies. This was massive leap at the time. The director did amazing choice to go with very spesific style for the movie and the art style to avoid technology's short comings but it only made the movie survive the test of time even better. Btw. It was Violet's hair that got the computer all heated up. Hairs in general were very bug sensitive at the time if I remember right from Shrek 2 commentary.
So everyone at the time were hyping what the next pixar human centered movie would be with this technology... and then they released cars instead.
When I was 5, I had an incredibles themed birthday party. My family has always been everything to me, and us dressing up as superheroes will be a memory I’ll always cherish.
38:26 - Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two chief animators who had worked at Walt Disney Studios.
I was in grad school the year before The Incredibles came out and happened to read a paragraph about it in Variety. (I never read more than that to avoid spoilers.) I knew instantly this was going to be an amazing movie and went to see it on opening night, even though I had a hell of a lot to do for school. It was spectacular...as expected. This is still my favorite Pixar film. I love every moment of it!
their names all relate to their powers!
dash : fast obviously
violet : ultraviolet stuff
jack jack : hes a jack of all trades with all his different powers!
38:27, those two old men are LEGENDARY Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. They designed many Disney characters and they animated more than half of the Jungle Book THEMSELVES!
Probably my favorite animated movie of all time.
I love the family theme. Complete with highs and lows.
End the end, a great message.
I love how their powers symbolized their family structure and personalities...
Bob - As the father thought he had to act super strong all the time to keep the family together
Helen - Was always being pulled in all directions and overextending herself to keep the family together
Dash - A hyperactive kid whose mind is always racing
Violet - Shy and withdrawn. Feels invisible and puts up walls around her
jack -jack - A baby who can still be anything he wants to be
I was in first year animation school when this came out and we all watched it opening week and YES the animation blew us away. Everyone talked about the wet hair they had when their plane blew up and were in the ocean. It was amazing! Also this is still my favourite Pixar movie of all time. One of my college professors did layout and concept art for this film!
And yes..the music that was playing when JackJack went beserk was Mozart..so they fully followed through with that..which is amazing attention to detail...and the depth of characters in this movie is extremely well done because it related to real problems people have..so this one is one of my favorites
So happy you guys are getting around to this film, it's truly one of my all-time favourites.
Aside from the amazing: plot, animation, cast and music. I'd like to bring attention to the exceptional DVD.
The amount of bonus feautures that expand the world is so good.
There's:
- Jack-Jack Attack: the short that fills in Kari's time babysitting.
- The Adventures of Mr Incredible & Pals: a mockup of a 50s animated show using syncro-vox parodying Clutch Cargo. Plus commentary from Mr Incredible & Frozone hating on it. (genuine treat)
- The NSA secret files: Government documents about all the Glory Days supers. With some insight into their powers and personalities.
And much more.
It shows how much passion was put into the film by how much bonus content they made.
I wish films still did this amount of effort.
Other films around the time like Shrek 2 & A series of unfortunate events also did this.
According to the internet,he’s 40 while Mrs incredible is 38 and their children are 14,10 and 0-2
Such a fantastic movie!! It embraced many of the classic superhero tropes, but also turned many of them on their side in an extremely clever and logical way. As you gentlemen mentioned, the animation is incredible (no pun intended) for its time, and definitely holds up. Incredibles 2 is another amazing ride!!