Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Up are all straight bangers 🔥💯. Pixar did not miss in the 2000s. What a time to be a kid.
You know what's even worse about Bob's situation? In the special edition DVD set, there's files on all the superheroes and their powers and for Mr. Incredible it lists that he had a "sixth sense" that lets him sense when and where there's immediate danger (which may or may not be enhanced hearing). It's actually subtly alluded to if you look closely: - Just before Bomb Voyage appeared, Bob sensed something before the explosion went off. - Bob sensing someone in the living room with him in the dark after he returned from his night of vigilante work before realizing it was his wife. - Bob sensing a man being mugged when he's in his boss's office. Now imagine living 15 years knowing when and where people were in danger or there were criminals around hurting people and not being allowed to do anything about it. It's no wonder Bob was so depressed.
The jet scene with elastigirl and the kids is so raw. It feels very realistic to a parent going "protect the kids" mode when a dangerous situation comes up. The facial animations and voice acting really sells how genuinely worried hellen was for her kids lives.
Especially since it's implied Helen is ex-military. And not the same thing but having relatives or parents who have dangerous jobs credited for protecting people (cops, fire fighters etc) I can relate to seeing your mum go into work mode. My mother is a fire officer, now on desk due to her age and ability. But during storms, or having a car accident occur near by, I can recall just seeing my mother switch to business mode. One time out stove almost blew up lol. Resulted in a lecture to me and my brother, not that we did anything wrong, but on what to do and safety procedure.
@@AGD_27Yeah they told actress not to worry about it but she went out of her way to research the actual terminology and practice flight protocol so when she says it she knows exactly what she's talking about.
"she has the perfect power to be a mom" when you look at all their powers, it makes a lot of sense. The strong father, the flexible mother, the hyperactive son, and the invisible daughter. All reflections of your average nuclear family.
They're the Fantastic Four, with some added powers. Bob is The Thing, a good-hearted, strongman that's not the brightest. Helen is Mr. Fantastic, she's the smart one with a variety of useful skills and knowledge. Violet is Invisible Girl right down to the force field projections. Jack-Jack is Human Torch, Beast, Cyclops, Colossus and Nightcrawler. Dash has Human Torch's personality and Quicksilver's power.
It takes an active concerted to not start crying every single time the "There are children aboard, say again. THERE ARE CHILDREN ABOARD THIS PLANE." scene crosses my screen. Helen Hunter did an outstanding job at making me feel Mrs. Incredibles lines, even the quick "Throw me, Bob. THROW ME!" when Jack-Jack is falling towards the ground can make my throat close up on me.
"You got me MONOLOGUEING!!" - one of my favorite meta-lines ever! Though the OTHER great line, "When EVERYONE is Super. . . .NO ONE will be!", has great social commentary in it. It really does do great with pulling at the emotions.
Apparently Brad called a voice actress and did the voice as like "this is what were going for" and the voice actress just said "why do you need me, you already got it!"
She's widely, but nowhere near exclusively believed to be based of Edith Head. There is no actual confirmation or even hint from the designer of the character that she is. I'm betting she's probably an inspirational mix between Edith Head, Linda Hunt and Iris Apfel. Linda for the obvious physical parameters and spice she brings to roles and the other two for being eccentric fashion icons.
@@AlexanderNash that voice actress was none other than Lily Tomlin, known for voicing Ms. Frizzle on "The Magic School Bus" in addition to her many live-action roles.
Holly Hunter, who plays Helen, insisted to have every word she is supposed to say on a radio explained to her. She understood exactly what she was saying - which is, by the way, real pilots' slang. It totally paid off; the scene is intense as hell.
I love the no capes scene because it does so much for edna's characterization in such a small amount of time. She LOVES supers. She loves her art. And the fact that the latter caused so much death on her hands is so nuanced.
But if she is the only source of super suits, that means she designed the costume of Syndrome too... She knew immediately that she is dealing with a villain.
@@0Defensor0 She wasn't the only suit designer. In Incredibles 2 Elastigirl went with another suit designer and Edna was upset. In the first movie, Incrediboy bragged about how he invented his own suit and his own gadgets. Edna had no part of Syndrome's cape.
I came into the comments section to make this very request. Not for her reaction (although that would be funny) but just as an answer to the little bit of questioning in her head. Hint: you didn't see all of his powers in the full length film.
On the DVD release there’s also a ‘60s era cartoon featuring Incredible and Frozone that’s as cheesy as the cartoons of that era. But it’s when you watch the same cartoon featuring commentary by Sam Jackson and Craig Nelson in character that you’ll laugh yourself stupid!
My favorite part was when Dash was running from the bad guys and suddenly realized that he was running on water. His laugh of pure pleasure was just fantastic!
This movie gets a little dark when we think about how many super heroes died, the guy trying to 💀 in the beginning, Bob thinking his family was gone... Lots of things I didnt exactly think about when I was a kid.
The scene that adds to that - and that I kind of skimmed over when I saw this as a kid - was exactly that scene where Bob is checking through the computer and seeing the heroes that were killed fighting the robots.
Love the playing with tropes: The super strong dad The mom stretched for everything The emo/goth daughter that wants to disappear The younger brother that is just energetic And the baby, as babies are bundles of endless potential
My absolute favorite scene is when Dash realizes he can run on the water. He gives that laugh and the music kicks in, I'm feeling pumped up. But that whole sequence from Violet and Dash using their powers with the guards, all the way through that too short family team-up is some of the best of all of Pixar.
I think it's incredibly poetic that Syndrome gets killed by his cape and in the same exact way as Stratogale, who was only 17 at the time of death, and just like with all the others that died because of their capes Edna felt extreme guilt over it, it's like the thing she hated the most saved the people she loved the most. Plus the fact that all those heroes as well as some that were directly killed by Syndrome, like Gazerbeam, were Bob and Helen's friends (you even see them at their wedding) makes that moment very cathartic in my opinion.
It's emblematic of how Syndrome is all flash and no substance; he likes the idea of being a hero but doesn't respect the reality of it. Edna adores the style and mythology, but truly understands the practical responsibility she must bear for her darlings. Syndrome should've just stuck to being an inventor
9:31 - basically that robot was trying to corner him in a volcano because it was made to fight Frozone, until the change of plans basically in the last second
One great memory with this movie. The school I was in was granted a whole field trip to go see this in the Cinema before it was publicly released. Everyone was enjoying themselves and the part I remember most fondly was when Jack-Jack's Babysitter said "but your Baby has Special Needs!". Everyone who went to that screening was in/from the Special Needs section of the school. In some twisted way, I just found that hilarious and I guess it's also a little boost. Maybe it means I have Special Powers waiting to blossom.
I honestly love the intensity of the jet scene, you’d expect for a kids film for Elastigirl to do the whole “you can do this, I believe in you” speech, but instead as a mother she’s just screaming and shouting and the plane still goes down. No way they’d do that these days
There was "no way they'd do that" back then either. Yet they did. Not because its a sign of the times. But because it's just good, solid story telling. With class. It's not as easy to do. We see that played out over decades of cinema. But there are examples over the decades when the right talents bounce off each other and it clicks. Pixar, of course, had a knack of doing that more often than not.
That scene was going to be darker originally. The friend she called to get the plane was going to be the one piloting and when they get shot down he was going to get killed. It was to up the stakes originally but was decided it was too heavy, having someone die because Vi couldn’t save them and Elastigirl saved her kids and left her friend would have changed the tone of the whole movie.
I love the scene with the car door. I think everybody knows that feeling when its a crappy day in a crappy week, and something annoying happens, and you first try to breathe through it, but then it happens again and you can feel the tension rise but you keep it inside and try to rise above it, then for it to happen a third time and you just loose it and you break a chair in half or rip off a door handle.
The scene at 19:50 where Helen looks in the mirror is an interesting case study of how beauty standards develop. The intent of the scene is that she's upset about her big butt, because in the 2000's the "in" look was to be extremely skinny. But Natalie (and anyone watching this movie today) sees her big butt and thinks that's attractive (which it is).
Yeah in the 2000’s it was to show her as being dumpy and overweight and all. But today? We be down for it. The sequel had her designed to be even thicker and people were down for it when I saw it at the theaters
This is one of my favorite Pixar movies! I love when families have adventures together, because it's so rare! Also that scene when the missiles are coming for the plane and Helene screams that there's children aboard, it hits me so hard!
When the movie came out big booty was not as "in" as it is now. It was just showing how she also felt aged and out of shape. Blessing in disguise I guess.
@@quoththekraven5911yeah I remember watching the sequel in 2018 and she was definitely designed to be bigger and thicker, and I heard people going “MMF”
One detail I love is how Syndrome view his interaction with Mr. Incredible as a kid. From Syndrome's perspective, Mr. Incredible just waves his hand, dismisses him and walks away. But in reality, Mr. Incredible was holding Bomb Voyage and saying fly home because he was busy and dealing with something. It's all about his warped perspective and ego.
It's a mixture, in reality. Of course, Syndrome is so fixated in his personal ambitions he doesn't "read the room" nor remembers all the elements that produced that reaction in Mr. Incredible. But here is the catch: Mr. Incredible partially is exactly like that; his biggest fan not only copied the costume, but also some of Bob's vices in that time of his life. While a good person, Bob insists he can do everything on his own, doesn't pay much attention to other people's needs (if he is fixed on something he wants), doesn't read the room (if he thinks he is right)... The demons that come back to haunt him are not only a pissed person he disregarded lightly; but the natural unchecked evolution of some of the traits that once Bob held as core parts of his personality: I am outstanding, things have to be done my way (Syndrome is a genius inventor); I am only worthy, if I make extraordinary feats (he consider superheroics only consist of big and awesome displays of power); I don't need help, I work alone (calls off Bob's gamble by teasing him to kill Mirage). Back in the day, Bob failed to noticed he not only pissed the wrong person; he didn't notice he had attracted a potentially dangerous fan for all the wrong reasons.
@@DocuzanQuitomos Good point, if Bob was a little nicer and sat down with the kid and explained the dangers of being a superhero at a young age then Bob could have avoided a future villain, saved the lives of other heroes, and potentially could have gained a super genius sidekick (a guy in a chair type), imagine the guilt he felt after the aftermath (then again I can't blame Bob for snapping at him since he only appeared while he was preoccupied and wasn't in the best mood, as you mentioned). Now I want a prequel movie of Syndrome's life through his perspective after each attempt to impress Mr. Incredible failed (what were his parents like, how did they cope with a super genius son, how did ''Buddy'' cope with failure in trying to impress his hero, what was his teenage life was like since he started hating Mr. Incredible when he was a kid, what sort of punishment did he get when he was arrested.
Of my list of Pixar moments that wrecked me as a child and still do, two of them were in this movie: 1. "I can't lose you again! Not again. I'm not strong enough." 2. The whole jet scene, specifically Bob's perspective. The "no" after "there are children aboard" gets me every time 😭
When Helen turns into a boat, Violet has a look on her face that screams "I'm going to one day be describing all of this to a therapist one day, I just know it.". 😂
I mean, I get her: a couple of hours before she didn't want her powers; she expected her family to side with her with her moody ideal that "I want to be normal"... and now, in less than an hour, she almost dies twice, it's in the middle of nowhere, has no idea if she will survive... and it's riding a boat made out of her mom and powered by her brother XD. So much for "I just want to be normal and forget everything about these damned skills" :P.
I love that Wallace Shown - who played Vizzini in The Princess Bride - voiced Gilbert Huph, Bob Parr's boss at the insurance company. It's like Vizzini berating Fezzik all over again!
The lore is that Brad Bird had recorded some Edna lines as a test and when he was casting the part, he offered it to Lily Tomlin. She asked to hear his test track and told him that he should voice the part because no one could do it better. So, he did.
Imagine. She could’ve been paid for that voice-work, instead she turned it down because she wanted what was best for the character. Massive props to her.
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703 I mean, it makes sense that the VA for Ms Frizzle (actually Professor Valerie Felicity Frizzle, PhD btw) would want the best for a character.
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703when you have people like this around you on the creative process you CANNOT fail, she denied herself a nice paycheck because she knew this would be perfect for the character and thus for the project, knowing Brad he probly cut a nice lil cheque and called it a consultancy fee anyways 😂
I always remember that when I first saw this movie I didn’t know what the guy that sues Mr Incredible was trying to do and my mum told me he was a stuntman filming a movie and I believed that for probably a decade
@@TeamGreenish of course not... He had Holy ghost-writers... Badum tsh Really? Put him in charge of writing the dictionary? Could barely handle the Greek alphabet. The guy said he was Alpha and Omega, until he was reminded there were 22 other letters. Everyone knows the word derives from the story when God saw a troubled woman named Susanne standing on a ledge outside her 20th floor apartment window, ready to jump, when he said "Sue, Inside!" And she was so touched by his Love, she fell head over heels.
Watch the animated short "Jack-Jack Attack"; it covers Jack-Jack's experience with the babysitter while the family was away. Apparently Bird ended up voicing Edna Mode because none of the voice actors auditioning for the role were abe to hit the tone he was seeking for her. Bird would keep providing examples himself with what he wanted from a performance for Edna to the point that the casting director eventually said something along the lines of "you know, you should probably do it yourself."
Syndrome is such a good villain because like you said, his motives are very clear and straightforward and they make perfect sense for his character. This is before the Disney/Pixar twist villain craze and I feel like those stories sometimes relied too heavily on making the villain a twist instead of making a really good well-written villain who happens to be a twist. With this, he's not really a twist villain since it's "revealed" basically immediately but he's so well written that the twist is moreso how his plan plays out and how it's directly connected to how Mr. Incredible treated him back in the glory days.
I don't understand how she died given her bio says she has Super strength. You can have Super Strength without a level of invulnerability else you'd tear your body apart the moment you used it. plus she can fly which also require a level of Invulnerability to wind and cold. My theory is that she survived without a Scratch cause she's this universe's equal to a Kryptonian and the Government has her doing Black-ops stuff whilst studying her.
@@Macapta Correct. There are levels of invulnerability. Even Captain America's "indestructible" shield got damaged by Thanos. Just because you can bounce bullets off your chest doesn't mean you can survive an atomic bomb. Of course there are levels in between.
I’m so glad you included so much of “Where is my super suit?!” and the beautiful scene between Mr. and Mrs. Incredible where he says he’s not strong enough to lose his family “again,” both of which are some of my most favorite scenes ❤❤ your edits are superb! Only request would have been MORE EDNA! We Stan the Queen!!
Fun fact, the big ball that Mr Incredible fights was actually meant for Frozone. There's a few clues that show the lead up. The girl tailing them at the beginning, plus the fight inside the volcano.
The reason the battle took place in a volcano. Frozon wouldn't have been able to use his ice, similar to the fire earlier in the movie. Makes you wonder if Mirage/Syndrome didn't have a hand in starting that fire.
The video message addresses Mr. Incredible by name. But you do have a point. How could Mirage have identified Mr. Incredible when it was Frozone who froze the officer?
You were correct at 5:38 there Nat, each member of the Incredibles family was given a power based on their familial role. The mom is seen as super flexible and able to shift to do whatever needs to be done at any time, The dad is seen as the strong macho man, the teenage daughter throws up barriers and goes invisible to hide herself from the world, and the younger brother whos always full of energy is super fast, and of course Jack Jack is the Jack of all trades
“Look at those…glutes!” Yeah, there’s a theory that whoever designs Pixar’s women has a thing for, well, glutes. Violet has the exact powers of Sue Storm in Marvel’s Fantastic Four - invisibility and invisible force fields.
Regarding the powers, it's interesting how much the powers reflect the family dynamic: Bob is super strong / thinks he needs to have the strength to support his whole family and carry everything on his shoulders; Helen is flexible and can stretch / moms have to be super flexible and are often stretched way too thin caring for their families; Violet can turn invisible and create shields / she's a shy, awkward tween who doesn't want the world to see her and wants to shield herself; Dash has super speed / he's a hyperactive little kid who's always going 100 MPH.
Helen also has exactly the same creativity in her powers as Plastic Man - boats, parachutes, whatever she can shape herself into as the situation demands.
Expanding on the other commenters: Jack-Jack has something like 15 separate powers (most of which aren't revealed until the next film) - reflecting the "unlimited potential" of a newborn baby, who can 'go in any direction.' (Mirroring in some ways, Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue Richards.) And of course, let's not forget The Underminer, who has a lot in common with the Mole Man, the very first villain faced by that earlier family of Superheroes, in Fantastic Four #1.
I always felt that this movie was the perfect combination of the Fantastic Four and James Bond. Syndrome is pretty much Doctor Doom living in a James Bond villain volcano.
"Behold! The Underminer! I'm always beneath you but nothing is beneath me!" is one of the greatest villain lines ever, this film is terrific and so are your reactions, thanks for sharing \m/,
I saw this when it came out in theaters. Crazy that there are people that haven't seen it lol! Dash running in the water is a scene that's been imprinted in my brain ever since.
This is my favourite Pixar Movie of all time! I always loved super heroes and when i watched this as a kid i was super excited! I waited forever for a sequel and when I gave up hoping for it, suddenly there was a second movie announced! And even though I was already an adult, I was totally thrilled again and went to the movies to watch it
I liked the explanation by the creature of why each member of the family got the powers they got. Mr. Incredible is the strong man who is the head of the family, which is why he has super strength. I Elsta-Girl is a mom that is emotionally and physically pulled in so many directions, so she can stretch. Flash is a young boy with seemly endless amount of energy, so he can run fast. Violent at teenager who girls of that age put themselves in their personal bubble and socially feel like they are invisible, so she has those powers. Jack Jack who's a baby and babies are looked with having unlimited potential, so he has so many different powers.
I don't know if you're into trivia, but the kid on the tricycle outside the Parr home was voiced by one of director Brad Bird's sons. The minister marrying Bob and Helen was voiced by producer John Walker. Kari, the baby sitter, was voiced by one of the Pixar artists, Brit Parker (not sure if I got her name right).
It's always fun to see stuff you didn't notice on a rewatch. Like when he told Buddy to fly home, he's holding Bomb Voyage. But the way Buddy remembered it, he's not even in the room
The Incredibles was the first movie I ever watched. As a kid and even now as an adult Violet's character was so relatable and influential on my personality. It's crazy how much movies like this inspire young kids.
We kept trying to tell Natalie that these animated movies aren't like the older Disney ones, they have TONS of things in them for the adults, and good GOD can they pull on the heartstrings and have you fighting them onion ninjas with a quickness. Love that you are reviewing them now, reminds me of how many of these I got to see when raising my daughter!!!
A lot of post-2000 animated movies are made for kids but have just enough elements to keep adults entertained. I firmly believe The Incredibles was made for adults with just enough elements to keep kids entertained.
Walt Disneys main aim as a creative was to make things for families, so everything they did was intended for parents to enjoy with their kids. The Pixar folks had a love for pushing technological bounderies and quality story telling in general. Unfortunately Disney as a corporation stopped making stories for the audience a few years before they bought out Pixar.
@@stackels97 Disney now makes movies to stroke the egos of the people making them and not at all for regular audience members. They're basically Syndrome, doing it for their own egos.
@@Sensum-Auxilium Look up the term "self-insert". I have seen people do it before but it's so common now, thanks mostly to Disney, that they gave it a name.
you need to watch Jack Jack Attack, is a short film that shows what happened while he was with the babysitter Incredibles 2 also have a short film (Auntie Edna) and also features Jack Jack there's also a extra from the dvd that tells more about the other heroes fun fact: Frozone was supposed to fight the first robot and he would've died in the volcano
15:55 I love the fact that Edna's just got a toilet paper roll instead of tissues. I get the impression that Edna doesn't *do* tissues, darling. Crying distracts from the now.
To this day, this is still my favorite Pixar film. To me, it's perfect and Bob's line toward the end of the film encapsulates everything: "I can't lose you. Not again. I'm not strong enough." His family meant the world to him and to think he's lost them because of something he did (becoming a superhero behind their backs) would be devastating and heartbreaking. It truly is a great thesis for this movie. That being said, if you've seen The Incredibles (which, obviously you have), you've basically seen Incredibles 2... It's unfortunate, but they really didn't branch out far from the original on that sequel.
Totally with you!! The Incredibles and Wall.E are my absolute favs for very different reasons and they're both spectacular. The sequal was so unnecessary and dissapointingly messy.
@@danielhenderson3753 Unfortunately, just because they went places doesn't mean they were good. The main plot rehashes Bob's and places Helen in there instead... literally days after the first movie happened.
Natalie, thanks for a great review! I just took a quick read of the comments, and I did not notice any significant comments suggesting The Incredibles 2. It is *even better* of a movie than the first Incredibles film. It focuses on Helen doing work as a superhero, while Bob is out of work, and being a stay-at-home parent. I highly recommend it!
29:37 This hurts so much as this film achieved what 20th Century Fox failed to pull off with their Fantastic Four films. This film is the perfect F4 movie, a family drama above anything else and that's how the Fantastic Four are depicted in the comics, Marvel's First Family. It has the same feel and mood of those original 1960s comics and it's just perfect. Cannot wait for Fantastic Four (2025) more so now that the film will have a timeless 1960s retro futuristic art direction. It's about time the F4 get done justice in live action.
@@crimsonghoul8983 At his core, Ben Grimm thinks he not strong enough and because of his deformation thinks he is a monster. Its a much smaller scale but Mr. Incredible doesn't think he is strong enough to protect his family and Violets shyness comes from a form of low self esteem.
Frankly, I think its quite fitting, since the past section of the movie before Bob and Helen's wedding was set in the 1950s or 60s, and the later parts were set in the 1970s or 80s.
This movie is definitely one of Brad Bird’s classics. It has great satire on the Superhero genre, it has a lovable superhero family, and most importantly it’s the closest thing we’ll get to an actually good Fantastic Four movie.
@@BatmanFan76 still not a satire, not even a parody. the movie doesn't make fun of superheros as a whole, just a few jokes at the most tired tropes at best. X-Men movies made the jokes about spandex, that didn't make those movies satire
@@martophreniaWell, actually for the X-Men movies, that wasn’t really much of a joke. That was actually more of just references we all saw coming. This movie is about superheroes made up on the spot and not based on anything. So if it’s not based on anything and it constantly makes fun of superhero cliches, it’s satire. Don’t be a boomer.
@@BatmanFan76 that's just not what satire is. the fact that it's original work doesn't make it a satire. here's a definition of satire: "a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way". The Incredibles do NOT criticise superhero genre or the idea of a superhero as a whole, it's literally a love letter to it. and yes, that's was definitely a joke in the first X-men movie. movies based on marvel and dc comics joke about tired superhero tropes and cliches all the time. also calling someone a boomer in 2924 is such a boomer move btw lmao
I watched this one so much as a kid. The emotional transitions between comedy and drama are so seamless, I love the characters and the whole concept of the story (mind you, this came out in 2004, 4 years before the MCU). It's easily one of the greatest superhero movies of all time.
I'm so glad you posted this reaction. The visceral moments in the story that bypass the analytical process and bring all the human responses to the surface resonate. They are often and genuine. To me, THIS is Disney's/PIXAR's finest film.
BTW The actress who voices Mirage is Elizabeth Peña, who appeared in several notable movies (including Jacob's Ladder, one of my favorite movies ever) before her untimely death. And the actor who voices the Insuricare boss is Wallace Shawn, who is most famous for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (INCONTHIEVABLE!) and is hilarious in everything he's in. Finally Edna is actually voiced by the director himself, Brad Bird. (Oh and Edna's appearance is actually heavily based off of Linda Hunt, who has acted in many different things (including Year of Living Dangerously which she won an Oscar for, and NCIS LA) and used to (not sure if she still does) have a segment on NPR, City Arts and Lectures).
_"2004, when I was 10. I feel really old now."_ Ah, don't worry. That was the year I graduated from high school so you definitely don't feel QUITE as old as some of us did hearing that statement. xD
Such a fun reaction, Natalie! 😀 You should also check out the short, "Jack Jack Attack" - it's short, and it shows what happened during the babysitting, when the sitter was leaving all those phone messages. It's really funny! 👍
Natalie! I enjoyed this reaction you should finish off Brad Bird’s whole movie trajectory with Iron Giant one of my all time favorite movies besides this movie and the studio ghiblis:) !
Everyone get up ! The queen has blessed us! 👑❤️👏 the way I gasped when I saw this! This has to be the best Pixar movie! It’s one of my favorites, it’s so good!😊 it’s hilarious and heartwarming and surprisingly handles serious topics like suicide and genocide of heroes. I was waiting for your reaction and it was worth it! Thank you so much for watching this masterpiece ❤
Gawd i love this channel. You remind me my cousin Nora. I miss her so much. We'd watch movies all the time together, and talk, talk about everything. I miss you Nora.
I have some movie suggestions: - The Iron Claw - Legends of the Fall - Apollo 13 - Balto - Young Woman and the Sea - Braveheart - 1917 - Bottoms - Booksmart
The old guys who talks about The Old School are caricatures of and voiced by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Disney's Nine Old Men, The Legendary Animators who animated Disney's classic movies from Snow White to The Fox and the Hound. Director Brad Bird got to know them after visiting Disney Animation Studio after winning an animation contest when he was eleven (where he got to animate with Milt Kahl, another of the Nine Old Men, who became a mentor to him). Throughout his early career, Bird showed them storyreels of his projects like Iron Giant and even The Incredibles, and they gave their tips on how to improve the scenes. Thomas and Johnston also got caricatured and voiced as train engineers on The Iron Giant. Unfortunatley, Frank Thomas passed away a few weeks from the premiere, so he didn't see the finished film in life. Ollie Johnston passed away in 2008.
Man, first time viewer. You're probably one of the sharpest and most well-spoken reactor I've come across! Great commentary, will be tuning in for more! ^^
Thank you, Nat, for bringing this back to me. I'd watched and enjoyed as a young man and later with my daughter... but knew your energy would be like my seeing new again. Why we love reactors that invest in the work the put out. edit**** Also cartoonist Bud Luckey voiced the agent working for the NSA.. and also did the jackelope in the short Pixar film Boundin' (great short) and others. He has a great voice and love when artists get "hidden" cameos like this. ☮☮
There's just so much more Pixar could do with this franchise like a prequel cartoon series focusing on the other heros mentioned and seen in flash backs. Or Videogames focusing on Stratogale, Gazerbeam, Dynaguy, but not neither Parr couple...Bob or Helen.
Can't believe this movie is 20 years old. You can tell the animation is old, but it still holds up. It doesn't look ugly, I think the character design is mostly the reason for this.
Natalie, there's a short called "Jack-Jack Attacks" that directly ties in to this movie. I'm sure you'll love it. There's another short for the sequel I suggest watching as well AFTER you watch Incredibles 2, if you do watch that one. I can't remember the name of the second short.
This movie holds such fond childhood memories. You ca't believe how agonizing the wait for Incredibles 2 was, with that cliffhanger at the end. As a child and teen, I always wondered when we'll get the continuation.
when I was a kid I was hospitalized for a fair bit, and during my stay the artists of the Incredibles came by and drew the characters of the movie for us and signed the pictures. Was pretty awesome of them
Pixars 2000’s run was insane, fed our childhood non stop bangers
No lies told
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Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Wall-E, and Up are all straight bangers 🔥💯. Pixar did not miss in the 2000s. What a time to be a kid.
@@данЫчреакции Most of the bangers were before Disney acquired Pixar.
Fed me too! I became someone’s mother that year 😂
You know what's even worse about Bob's situation? In the special edition DVD set, there's files on all the superheroes and their powers and for Mr. Incredible it lists that he had a "sixth sense" that lets him sense when and where there's immediate danger (which may or may not be enhanced hearing). It's actually subtly alluded to if you look closely:
- Just before Bomb Voyage appeared, Bob sensed something before the explosion went off.
- Bob sensing someone in the living room with him in the dark after he returned from his night of vigilante work before realizing it was his wife.
- Bob sensing a man being mugged when he's in his boss's office.
Now imagine living 15 years knowing when and where people were in danger or there were criminals around hurting people and not being allowed to do anything about it. It's no wonder Bob was so depressed.
Big Ooof. :/
Interesting...They kinda gave a similar power to Bruce Willis' character in Unbreakable.
Him and Spider-Man would stalemate.
That's dark.
@@protorhinocerator142 All the best Children's films are.
I NEVER get tired of the *"Where's my super suit?"* scene!! 🤣🤣🤣
I. Am. Your. WIFE!! I am the greatest GOOD you are EVER gonna get!
Pretty sure that was just Samuel's daily conversation with his wife and it just somehow made it into the movie😂
Yes, that is good, but "That was totally wicked!" has to be one of the top ten funniest lines in cinema history.
@@RedPandaGirl002 The city's in danger, woman!
My evening is in danger!
@@elite_rock_god2292 Lol for sure! 😆👍
The jet scene with elastigirl and the kids is so raw. It feels very realistic to a parent going "protect the kids" mode when a dangerous situation comes up. The facial animations and voice acting really sells how genuinely worried hellen was for her kids lives.
Especially since it's implied Helen is ex-military. And not the same thing but having relatives or parents who have dangerous jobs credited for protecting people (cops, fire fighters etc) I can relate to seeing your mum go into work mode.
My mother is a fire officer, now on desk due to her age and ability. But during storms, or having a car accident occur near by, I can recall just seeing my mother switch to business mode. One time out stove almost blew up lol. Resulted in a lecture to me and my brother, not that we did anything wrong, but on what to do and safety procedure.
On top of all that all the things she says are the correct things to say as a pilot
@@AGD_27Yeah they told actress not to worry about it but she went out of her way to research the actual terminology and practice flight protocol so when she says it she knows exactly what she's talking about.
Best scene of the film. Actual stakes, actual characters; no time for ego or filler, just pure adrenaline and protection instinct.
It was jarring how accurate the dialogue was too, when I first saw it I was like "damn, someone actually did some research".
"she has the perfect power to be a mom" when you look at all their powers, it makes a lot of sense. The strong father, the flexible mother, the hyperactive son, and the invisible daughter. All reflections of your average nuclear family.
And then there's the baby which is a total wildcard, also very fitting
@@pe8268 Jack-Jack of all trades!
@@pe8268Jack Jack is a play in “A Jack of all trades”!! And the whole potential any baby has since he’s just starting! :D
They're the Fantastic Four, with some added powers. Bob is The Thing, a good-hearted, strongman that's not the brightest. Helen is Mr. Fantastic, she's the smart one with a variety of useful skills and knowledge. Violet is Invisible Girl right down to the force field projections. Jack-Jack is Human Torch, Beast, Cyclops, Colossus and Nightcrawler. Dash has Human Torch's personality and Quicksilver's power.
@@Falcun21 Because, after all, if Dash had fire powers they'd likely have gotten sued by Marvel.
It takes an active concerted to not start crying every single time the "There are children aboard, say again. THERE ARE CHILDREN ABOARD THIS PLANE." scene crosses my screen. Helen Hunter did an outstanding job at making me feel Mrs. Incredibles lines, even the quick "Throw me, Bob. THROW ME!" when Jack-Jack is falling towards the ground can make my throat close up on me.
Jack-Jack's "Mommy!" kills me every time.
Dash running on water was a core moment in my childhood.
Pure Pixar magic.
That laugh is imprinted into my soul
Saaame, in the theater it was so bad ass and nothing like i'd seen in a Pixar before!
Yeah and she completely left it out of the reaction
i don't get how reactors don't know what scenes to put in :')
Frickin' editor lol
"You got me MONOLOGUEING!!" - one of my favorite meta-lines ever!
Though the OTHER great line, "When EVERYONE is Super. . . .NO ONE will be!", has great social commentary in it.
It really does do great with pulling at the emotions.
The character design of Edna Mode is based on 8-time Oscar winning costume designer Edith Head and voiced by the director Brad Bird.
Apparently Brad called a voice actress and did the voice as like "this is what were going for" and the voice actress just said "why do you need me, you already got it!"
She's widely, but nowhere near exclusively believed to be based of Edith Head.
There is no actual confirmation or even hint from the designer of the character that she is.
I'm betting she's probably an inspirational mix between Edith Head, Linda Hunt and Iris Apfel.
Linda for the obvious physical parameters and spice she brings to roles and the other two for being eccentric fashion icons.
@@AlexanderNash that voice actress was none other than Lily Tomlin, known for voicing Ms. Frizzle on "The Magic School Bus" in addition to her many live-action roles.
She was also inspired by Bette Midler, being short but had the biggest personality in the room.
Edna is my favorite........."NO CAPES!" :)
18:24 I don’t know why but LOVE the detail of Helen noticing the reflection of the incoming wreckage off the water.
I never noticed that before! Now I absolutely love that detail too!
first time I noticed that. thank you
Holly Hunter, who plays Helen, insisted to have every word she is supposed to say on a radio explained to her. She understood exactly what she was saying - which is, by the way, real pilots' slang. It totally paid off; the scene is intense as hell.
Hey man, fancy meeting you here! 😉
Holly Hunter and Jodie Foster sound so much alike… some people thought that it was actually Jodie Foster doing the voice of the mom
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The difference is Holly's "Southern Twang" is real - born in Georgia.
iirc the only mistake she made was not repeating Mayday 3 times on some line reads, which is what real pilots are expected to say
@@thedragonryder But, also IIRC, it's a mistake which real pilots aren't unlikely to make under stress.
I love the no capes scene because it does so much for edna's characterization in such a small amount of time. She LOVES supers. She loves her art. And the fact that the latter caused so much death on her hands is so nuanced.
And she was rock solid adamant that there was no way Bob was getting a cape.
Just not gonna happen.
But if she is the only source of super suits, that means she designed the costume of Syndrome too...
She knew immediately that she is dealing with a villain.
@@0Defensor0 She wasn't the only suit designer. In Incredibles 2 Elastigirl went with another suit designer and Edna was upset.
In the first movie, Incrediboy bragged about how he invented his own suit and his own gadgets.
Edna had no part of Syndrome's cape.
You should 100% check the short-film "Jack-Jack Attack", it shows Jack-Jack developing his powers by the babysitter's POV, it's HILARIOUS
Yeeessss! Natalie definitely wanted to know about how the babysitter went... This short is that story!
I came into the comments section to make this very request. Not for her reaction (although that would be funny) but just as an answer to the little bit of questioning in her head.
Hint: you didn't see all of his powers in the full length film.
On the DVD release there’s also a ‘60s era cartoon featuring Incredible and Frozone that’s as cheesy as the cartoons of that era. But it’s when you watch the same cartoon featuring commentary by Sam Jackson and Craig Nelson in character that you’ll laugh yourself stupid!
Especially gives reason why Syndrome has the letter “S” on his suit 😂
Yes. This.
My favorite part was when Dash was running from the bad guys and suddenly realized that he was running on water. His laugh of pure pleasure was just fantastic!
This movie gets a little dark when we think about how many super heroes died, the guy trying to 💀 in the beginning, Bob thinking his family was gone... Lots of things I didnt exactly think about when I was a kid.
The scene that adds to that - and that I kind of skimmed over when I saw this as a kid - was exactly that scene where Bob is checking through the computer and seeing the heroes that were killed fighting the robots.
Including Bomb-Voyage sticking a bomb onto a child and that said child was always destined to die because of his cape.
@@liamnehren1054 Wow. Completely missed that until you mentioned it.
Also, this movie has more sexual innuendo than most live action MCU movies, which is crazy to think about.
Stratogale, the girl that died being sucked in the air motor, was just a teenager
Love the playing with tropes:
The super strong dad
The mom stretched for everything
The emo/goth daughter that wants to disappear
The younger brother that is just energetic
And the baby, as babies are bundles of endless potential
My absolute favorite scene is when Dash realizes he can run on the water. He gives that laugh and the music kicks in, I'm feeling pumped up. But that whole sequence from Violet and Dash using their powers with the guards, all the way through that too short family team-up is some of the best of all of Pixar.
I think it's incredibly poetic that Syndrome gets killed by his cape and in the same exact way as Stratogale, who was only 17 at the time of death, and just like with all the others that died because of their capes Edna felt extreme guilt over it, it's like the thing she hated the most saved the people she loved the most. Plus the fact that all those heroes as well as some that were directly killed by Syndrome, like Gazerbeam, were Bob and Helen's friends (you even see them at their wedding) makes that moment very cathartic in my opinion.
It's emblematic of how Syndrome is all flash and no substance; he likes the idea of being a hero but doesn't respect the reality of it.
Edna adores the style and mythology, but truly understands the practical responsibility she must bear for her darlings.
Syndrome should've just stuck to being an inventor
9:31 - basically that robot was trying to corner him in a volcano because it was made to fight Frozone, until the change of plans basically in the last second
One great memory with this movie.
The school I was in was granted a whole field trip to go see this in the Cinema before it was publicly released.
Everyone was enjoying themselves and the part I remember most fondly was when Jack-Jack's Babysitter said "but your Baby has Special Needs!".
Everyone who went to that screening was in/from the Special Needs section of the school.
In some twisted way, I just found that hilarious and I guess it's also a little boost. Maybe it means I have Special Powers waiting to blossom.
I honestly love the intensity of the jet scene, you’d expect for a kids film for Elastigirl to do the whole “you can do this, I believe in you” speech, but instead as a mother she’s just screaming and shouting and the plane still goes down. No way they’d do that these days
There was "no way they'd do that" back then either. Yet they did. Not because its a sign of the times. But because it's just good, solid story telling. With class. It's not as easy to do. We see that played out over decades of cinema. But there are examples over the decades when the right talents bounce off each other and it clicks. Pixar, of course, had a knack of doing that more often than not.
Exactly
That scene, as I grew older, became one of my favorites, I tear up every time at Helen's desperation screaming about the kids being on the plane.
bob literally murders syndrome in the end
That scene was going to be darker originally. The friend she called to get the plane was going to be the one piloting and when they get shot down he was going to get killed.
It was to up the stakes originally but was decided it was too heavy, having someone die because Vi couldn’t save them and Elastigirl saved her kids and left her friend would have changed the tone of the whole movie.
I love the scene with the car door. I think everybody knows that feeling when its a crappy day in a crappy week, and something annoying happens, and you first try to breathe through it, but then it happens again and you can feel the tension rise but you keep it inside and try to rise above it, then for it to happen a third time and you just loose it and you break a chair in half or rip off a door handle.
The scene at 19:50 where Helen looks in the mirror is an interesting case study of how beauty standards develop. The intent of the scene is that she's upset about her big butt, because in the 2000's the "in" look was to be extremely skinny. But Natalie (and anyone watching this movie today) sees her big butt and thinks that's attractive (which it is).
Move is set in the late 60's early 70 though
@@HeathsHarleyQuinn but for a 2000’s audience
@@HeathsHarleyQuinn I'm pretty sure that all through the 60s to the early 2000, having a fat butt would have been seen as negative.
Yeah in the 2000’s it was to show her as being dumpy and overweight and all. But today? We be down for it. The sequel had her designed to be even thicker and people were down for it when I saw it at the theaters
@@iapetusmccool "Oh, mah gawd! Becky!......
This is one of my favorite Pixar movies! I love when families have adventures together, because it's so rare!
Also that scene when the missiles are coming for the plane and Helene screams that there's children aboard, it hits me so hard!
I love Pixar's logic, mom character, DUMP TRUCK ASS.
Bless the designers and artists lmfao
When the movie came out big booty was not as "in" as it is now. It was just showing how she also felt aged and out of shape. Blessing in disguise I guess.
They can't stop getting away with huge assed moms, and I don't want them to.
@@quoththekraven5911yeah I remember watching the sequel in 2018 and she was definitely designed to be bigger and thicker, and I heard people going “MMF”
There's nothing wrong with someone drawing the ideal woman 🤷♂️
@@Hession0Drasha Ey now, I never said it was a bad thing, I for one hope they never stop 🙏🍑
Saw this in college with some friends with little to no expectations. It blew us all away! We had to tell everyone to go and see it!
One detail I love is how Syndrome view his interaction with Mr. Incredible as a kid. From Syndrome's perspective, Mr. Incredible just waves his hand, dismisses him and walks away. But in reality, Mr. Incredible was holding Bomb Voyage and saying fly home because he was busy and dealing with something.
It's all about his warped perspective and ego.
It's a mixture, in reality. Of course, Syndrome is so fixated in his personal ambitions he doesn't "read the room" nor remembers all the elements that produced that reaction in Mr. Incredible.
But here is the catch: Mr. Incredible partially is exactly like that; his biggest fan not only copied the costume, but also some of Bob's vices in that time of his life. While a good person, Bob insists he can do everything on his own, doesn't pay much attention to other people's needs (if he is fixed on something he wants), doesn't read the room (if he thinks he is right)...
The demons that come back to haunt him are not only a pissed person he disregarded lightly; but the natural unchecked evolution of some of the traits that once Bob held as core parts of his personality: I am outstanding, things have to be done my way (Syndrome is a genius inventor); I am only worthy, if I make extraordinary feats (he consider superheroics only consist of big and awesome displays of power); I don't need help, I work alone (calls off Bob's gamble by teasing him to kill Mirage).
Back in the day, Bob failed to noticed he not only pissed the wrong person; he didn't notice he had attracted a potentially dangerous fan for all the wrong reasons.
@@DocuzanQuitomos Good point, if Bob was a little nicer and sat down with the kid and explained the dangers of being a superhero at a young age then Bob could have avoided a future villain, saved the lives of other heroes, and potentially could have gained a super genius sidekick (a guy in a chair type), imagine the guilt he felt after the aftermath (then again I can't blame Bob for snapping at him since he only appeared while he was preoccupied and wasn't in the best mood, as you mentioned). Now I want a prequel movie of Syndrome's life through his perspective after each attempt to impress Mr. Incredible failed (what were his parents like, how did they cope with a super genius son, how did ''Buddy'' cope with failure in trying to impress his hero, what was his teenage life was like since he started hating Mr. Incredible when he was a kid, what sort of punishment did he get when he was arrested.
Of my list of Pixar moments that wrecked me as a child and still do, two of them were in this movie:
1. "I can't lose you again! Not again. I'm not strong enough."
2. The whole jet scene, specifically Bob's perspective. The "no" after "there are children aboard" gets me every time 😭
When Helen turns into a boat, Violet has a look on her face that screams "I'm going to one day be describing all of this to a therapist one day, I just know it.". 😂
Yeah, I wouldn't want to be the one to explain how you witnessed your little brother motor boating your Mom.
@@donaldseale2700😭
@@donaldseale2700 Alright that's enough internet for today...
😂😂😂
I mean, I get her: a couple of hours before she didn't want her powers; she expected her family to side with her with her moody ideal that "I want to be normal"... and now, in less than an hour, she almost dies twice, it's in the middle of nowhere, has no idea if she will survive... and it's riding a boat made out of her mom and powered by her brother XD.
So much for "I just want to be normal and forget everything about these damned skills" :P.
I love that Wallace Shown - who played Vizzini in The Princess Bride - voiced Gilbert Huph, Bob Parr's boss at the insurance company. It's like Vizzini berating Fezzik all over again!
The lore is that Brad Bird had recorded some Edna lines as a test and when he was casting the part, he offered it to Lily Tomlin. She asked to hear his test track and told him that he should voice the part because no one could do it better. So, he did.
Imagine. She could’ve been paid for that voice-work, instead she turned it down because she wanted what was best for the character. Massive props to her.
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703 she still has her Ms. Frizzle 🪄🏫🚍 residuals 🙂
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703 I mean, it makes sense that the VA for Ms Frizzle (actually Professor Valerie Felicity Frizzle, PhD btw) would want the best for a character.
@@dearthofdoohickeys4703when you have people like this around you on the creative process you CANNOT fail, she denied herself a nice paycheck because she knew this would be perfect for the character and thus for the project, knowing Brad he probly cut a nice lil cheque and called it a consultancy fee anyways 😂
I always remember that when I first saw this movie I didn’t know what the guy that sues Mr Incredible was trying to do and my mum told me he was a stuntman filming a movie and I believed that for probably a decade
It feels weird, almost nostalgic even, to hear the word as God intended it and not as "unalived".
@@Aughtelyou’re suggesting god wrote the dictionary?
@@TeamGreenish of course not...
He had Holy ghost-writers... Badum tsh
Really? Put him in charge of writing the dictionary? Could barely handle the Greek alphabet. The guy said he was Alpha and Omega, until he was reminded there were 22 other letters.
Everyone knows the word derives from the story when God saw a troubled woman named Susanne standing on a ledge outside her 20th floor apartment window, ready to jump, when he said "Sue, Inside!" And she was so touched by his Love, she fell head over heels.
Watch the animated short "Jack-Jack Attack"; it covers Jack-Jack's experience with the babysitter while the family was away.
Apparently Bird ended up voicing Edna Mode because none of the voice actors auditioning for the role were abe to hit the tone he was seeking for her. Bird would keep providing examples himself with what he wanted from a performance for Edna to the point that the casting director eventually said something along the lines of "you know, you should probably do it yourself."
Syndrome is such a good villain because like you said, his motives are very clear and straightforward and they make perfect sense for his character. This is before the Disney/Pixar twist villain craze and I feel like those stories sometimes relied too heavily on making the villain a twist instead of making a really good well-written villain who happens to be a twist. With this, he's not really a twist villain since it's "revealed" basically immediately but he's so well written that the twist is moreso how his plan plays out and how it's directly connected to how Mr. Incredible treated him back in the glory days.
Love how immediately Natalie noticed Ms. Incredible's "assets"
I wondered if there would be attention paid to the… thicc.
impossible to miss 😂
They didn’t name the company Thicc-xar for nothing.
I absolutely love that about this movie. It's such a realistic family ❤️
@@NatalieGoldReactspeople were going “MMF” watching her in the sequel when her animation model was designed to be thicker
A lesser known, underrated, and really fun CGI animated movie is, "Over The Hedge". A really unique voice cast too.
Pixar knew exactly what they were doing when they designed Elastigirl, goddamn lol
Natalie couldn't resist 😂
20:56 Helen wasn't aiming JUST for Mirage... Notice Mr. Incredible dodging her fist too 😂
For a shockingly dark bit of trivia, Stratogale (The hero who got sucked into a jet engine) was canonically only 17 at the time.
I don't understand how she died given her bio says she has Super strength. You can have Super Strength without a level of invulnerability else you'd tear your body apart the moment you used it. plus she can fly which also require a level of Invulnerability to wind and cold. My theory is that she survived without a Scratch cause she's this universe's equal to a Kryptonian and the Government has her doing Black-ops stuff whilst studying her.
@@Fenris30 Possibly you don't understand jet turbines. They're basically air blenders.
@@Fenris30 Mr Incredible has super strength but he still got cut by the robot.
@@Macapta Correct. There are levels of invulnerability.
Even Captain America's "indestructible" shield got damaged by Thanos.
Just because you can bounce bullets off your chest doesn't mean you can survive an atomic bomb. Of course there are levels in between.
I’m so glad you included so much of “Where is my super suit?!” and the beautiful scene between Mr. and Mrs. Incredible where he says he’s not strong enough to lose his family “again,” both of which are some of my most favorite scenes ❤❤ your edits are superb! Only request would have been MORE EDNA! We Stan the Queen!!
Fun fact, the big ball that Mr Incredible fights was actually meant for Frozone. There's a few clues that show the lead up. The girl tailing them at the beginning, plus the fight inside the volcano.
The reason the battle took place in a volcano. Frozon wouldn't have been able to use his ice, similar to the fire earlier in the movie. Makes you wonder if Mirage/Syndrome didn't have a hand in starting that fire.
Yeah... except that they ended up inside a volcano pretty much by chance. I don't think it could be planned beforehand.
The video message addresses Mr. Incredible by name. But you do have a point. How could Mirage have identified Mr. Incredible when it was Frozone who froze the officer?
@@suicunesolsan She saw him break through the wall when they were getting away
@@migmitbut the fight was in proximity to a volcano to begin with.
You were correct at 5:38 there Nat, each member of the Incredibles family was given a power based on their familial role. The mom is seen as super flexible and able to shift to do whatever needs to be done at any time, The dad is seen as the strong macho man, the teenage daughter throws up barriers and goes invisible to hide herself from the world, and the younger brother whos always full of energy is super fast, and of course Jack Jack is the Jack of all trades
“Look at those…glutes!” Yeah, there’s a theory that whoever designs Pixar’s women has a thing for, well, glutes.
Violet has the exact powers of Sue Storm in Marvel’s Fantastic Four - invisibility and invisible force fields.
Regarding the powers, it's interesting how much the powers reflect the family dynamic: Bob is super strong / thinks he needs to have the strength to support his whole family and carry everything on his shoulders; Helen is flexible and can stretch / moms have to be super flexible and are often stretched way too thin caring for their families; Violet can turn invisible and create shields / she's a shy, awkward tween who doesn't want the world to see her and wants to shield herself; Dash has super speed / he's a hyperactive little kid who's always going 100 MPH.
Helen also has exactly the same creativity in her powers as Plastic Man - boats, parachutes, whatever she can shape herself into as the situation demands.
Kind of a stupid theory since she's literally the only one in the entire pixar catalogue with that body type.
Expanding on the other commenters: Jack-Jack has something like 15 separate powers (most of which aren't revealed until the next film) - reflecting the "unlimited potential" of a newborn baby, who can 'go in any direction.' (Mirroring in some ways, Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue Richards.) And of course, let's not forget The Underminer, who has a lot in common with the Mole Man, the very first villain faced by that earlier family of Superheroes, in Fantastic Four #1.
I always felt that this movie was the perfect combination of the Fantastic Four and James Bond.
Syndrome is pretty much Doctor Doom living in a James Bond villain volcano.
"Behold! The Underminer! I'm always beneath you but nothing is beneath me!" is one of the greatest villain lines ever, this film is terrific and so are your reactions, thanks for sharing \m/,
I laugh at that line every time
And it's such a clever twist on the Fantastic Four's Mole Man!
Fun fact: The voice actor for Bomb Voyage was one of the lead animators on The Iron Giant.
I saw this when it came out in theaters. Crazy that there are people that haven't seen it lol! Dash running in the water is a scene that's been imprinted in my brain ever since.
This is my favourite Pixar Movie of all time! I always loved super heroes and when i watched this as a kid i was super excited!
I waited forever for a sequel and when I gave up hoping for it, suddenly there was a second movie announced!
And even though I was already an adult, I was totally thrilled again and went to the movies to watch it
I liked the explanation by the creature of why each member of the family got the powers they got. Mr. Incredible is the strong man who is the head of the family, which is why he has super strength. I Elsta-Girl is a mom that is emotionally and physically pulled in so many directions, so she can stretch. Flash is a young boy with seemly endless amount of energy, so he can run fast. Violent at teenager who girls of that age put themselves in their personal bubble and socially feel like they are invisible, so she has those powers. Jack Jack who's a baby and babies are looked with having unlimited potential, so he has so many different powers.
I don't know if you're into trivia, but the kid on the tricycle outside the Parr home was voiced by one of director Brad Bird's sons.
The minister marrying Bob and Helen was voiced by producer John Walker.
Kari, the baby sitter, was voiced by one of the Pixar artists, Brit Parker (not sure if I got her name right).
It's always fun to see stuff you didn't notice on a rewatch. Like when he told Buddy to fly home, he's holding Bomb Voyage. But the way Buddy remembered it, he's not even in the room
The Incredibles was the first movie I ever watched. As a kid and even now as an adult Violet's character was so relatable and influential on my personality. It's crazy how much movies like this inspire young kids.
We kept trying to tell Natalie that these animated movies aren't like the older Disney ones, they have TONS of things in them for the adults, and good GOD can they pull on the heartstrings and have you fighting them onion ninjas with a quickness. Love that you are reviewing them now, reminds me of how many of these I got to see when raising my daughter!!!
A lot of post-2000 animated movies are made for kids but have just enough elements to keep adults entertained. I firmly believe The Incredibles was made for adults with just enough elements to keep kids entertained.
Walt Disneys main aim as a creative was to make things for families, so everything they did was intended for parents to enjoy with their kids.
The Pixar folks had a love for pushing technological bounderies and quality story telling in general.
Unfortunately Disney as a corporation stopped making stories for the audience a few years before they bought out Pixar.
@@stackels97 Disney now makes movies to stroke the egos of the people making them and not at all for regular audience members.
They're basically Syndrome, doing it for their own egos.
@@protorhinocerator142Can you be a bit more specific and tell us what you mean by that?
@fusiliers
personally, i just think you're an idiot for thinking that animated movies are automatically kids movies.....
@@Sensum-Auxilium Look up the term "self-insert". I have seen people do it before but it's so common now, thanks mostly to Disney, that they gave it a name.
"Haha, get it? Training? Okay."
Natalie, that was a great pun, always be proud of those. Actually made me literally lol.
you need to watch Jack Jack Attack, is a short film that shows what happened while he was with the babysitter
Incredibles 2 also have a short film (Auntie Edna) and also features Jack Jack
there's also a extra from the dvd that tells more about the other heroes
fun fact: Frozone was supposed to fight the first robot and he would've died in the volcano
15:55 I love the fact that Edna's just got a toilet paper roll instead of tissues. I get the impression that Edna doesn't *do* tissues, darling. Crying distracts from the now.
To this day, this is still my favorite Pixar film. To me, it's perfect and Bob's line toward the end of the film encapsulates everything: "I can't lose you. Not again. I'm not strong enough."
His family meant the world to him and to think he's lost them because of something he did (becoming a superhero behind their backs) would be devastating and heartbreaking. It truly is a great thesis for this movie.
That being said, if you've seen The Incredibles (which, obviously you have), you've basically seen Incredibles 2... It's unfortunate, but they really didn't branch out far from the original on that sequel.
Well, there are still some awesome scenes between Edna Mode and Jack Jack in the sequel. Plus Dash running through the portals...chef's kiss.
I think the second one went to a lot of different places.
Totally with you!! The Incredibles and Wall.E are my absolute favs for very different reasons and they're both spectacular. The sequal was so unnecessary and dissapointingly messy.
@@danielhenderson3753 Unfortunately, just because they went places doesn't mean they were good.
The main plot rehashes Bob's and places Helen in there instead... literally days after the first movie happened.
@@arbee89 that's a different discussion, isn't it?
Natalie, thanks for a great review! I just took a quick read of the comments, and I did not notice any significant comments suggesting The Incredibles 2. It is *even better* of a movie than the first Incredibles film. It focuses on Helen doing work as a superhero, while Bob is out of work, and being a stay-at-home parent. I highly recommend it!
29:37 This hurts so much as this film achieved what 20th Century Fox failed to pull off with their Fantastic Four films. This film is the perfect F4 movie, a family drama above anything else and that's how the Fantastic Four are depicted in the comics, Marvel's First Family. It has the same feel and mood of those original 1960s comics and it's just perfect. Cannot wait for Fantastic Four (2025) more so now that the film will have a timeless 1960s retro futuristic art direction. It's about time the F4 get done justice in live action.
Wonder how The Thing fits into the family dynamic. Because I can understand the other 3 characters.
@@crimsonghoul8983 At his core, Ben Grimm thinks he not strong enough and because of his deformation thinks he is a monster. Its a much smaller scale but Mr. Incredible doesn't think he is strong enough to protect his family and Violets shyness comes from a form of low self esteem.
Frankly, I think its quite fitting, since the past section of the movie before Bob and Helen's wedding was set in the 1950s or 60s, and the later parts were set in the 1970s or 80s.
11:15 Fun fact about Edna Mode.... she's voiced by Brad Bird, the director of the movie. 😁😁
This movie is definitely one of Brad Bird’s classics. It has great satire on the Superhero genre, it has a lovable superhero family, and most importantly it’s the closest thing we’ll get to an actually good Fantastic Four movie.
Is it even a satire tho?
@@martophreniaWell, this movie isn’t based on a comic, and they literally make fun of superheroes wearing capes and villains monologuing.
@@BatmanFan76 still not a satire, not even a parody. the movie doesn't make fun of superheros as a whole, just a few jokes at the most tired tropes at best. X-Men movies made the jokes about spandex, that didn't make those movies satire
@@martophreniaWell, actually for the X-Men movies, that wasn’t really much of a joke. That was actually more of just references we all saw coming. This movie is about superheroes made up on the spot and not based on anything. So if it’s not based on anything and it constantly makes fun of superhero cliches, it’s satire. Don’t be a boomer.
@@BatmanFan76 that's just not what satire is. the fact that it's original work doesn't make it a satire. here's a definition of satire: "a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way". The Incredibles do NOT criticise superhero genre or the idea of a superhero as a whole, it's literally a love letter to it.
and yes, that's was definitely a joke in the first X-men movie. movies based on marvel and dc comics joke about tired superhero tropes and cliches all the time.
also calling someone a boomer in 2924 is such a boomer move btw lmao
absolutely need part 2 are u kidding. yes please !
I watched this one so much as a kid. The emotional transitions between comedy and drama are so seamless, I love the characters and the whole concept of the story (mind you, this came out in 2004, 4 years before the MCU).
It's easily one of the greatest superhero movies of all time.
I'm so glad you posted this reaction.
The visceral moments in the story that bypass the analytical process and bring all the human responses to the surface resonate. They are often and genuine.
To me, THIS is Disney's/PIXAR's finest film.
I had a crush on violet as a kid....😂 This movie is honestly awesome
And i had a crush on Elasticgirl as a kid... destined since childhood to love big butts
@ulisesmontoya9366 wait that means I love insecure emos?😂
@@elite_rock_god2292 That is exactly what it means
Great reaction, and I also really enjoyed the editing by Cameron Marek, it's so fun and adds more humor XD
So glad you're watching more Pixar films, and coincidentally, my favorite.
BTW The actress who voices Mirage is Elizabeth Peña, who appeared in several notable movies (including Jacob's Ladder, one of my favorite movies ever) before her untimely death. And the actor who voices the Insuricare boss is Wallace Shawn, who is most famous for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (INCONTHIEVABLE!) and is hilarious in everything he's in. Finally Edna is actually voiced by the director himself, Brad Bird. (Oh and Edna's appearance is actually heavily based off of Linda Hunt, who has acted in many different things (including Year of Living Dangerously which she won an Oscar for, and NCIS LA) and used to (not sure if she still does) have a segment on NPR, City Arts and Lectures).
Two Natalie videos in a week?!? What a treat!
I enjoyed your take on what is easily my favorite animated film.
_"2004, when I was 10. I feel really old now."_ Ah, don't worry. That was the year I graduated from high school so you definitely don't feel QUITE as old as some of us did hearing that statement. xD
I started freshman year in 2004, so I'm right in between y'all 😂
@@beetlebob4675 I had already been in prison for 3 years... so, I guess I'm in there somewhere...
To Natalie and anyone in the comment section, I probably have you all beat, as I was already in my forties. I hope I made you feel a little younger.
I also was 3 yrs into my prison sentence of 25 yrs, got out 2019 June, still need to get to Oct. 2026 for completion of parole
🎉❤🎉
@@joealvarez8733 I discharged a 12.
Congrats, man.
Your hair looks great, Nat!
Nice, watched your Wreck it ralph video yesterday, and today we get the Incredibles, life is good
Your hair always looks pretty, but it’s especially gorgeous in this video.
The Incredibles will always be of the greatest Pixar movies. Keep up the good work Nat. So glad to continue the Pixar journey with you.
I just watched it today on DVD to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release! 😊❤️
Such a fun reaction, Natalie! 😀 You should also check out the short, "Jack Jack Attack" - it's short, and it shows what happened during the babysitting, when the sitter was leaving all those phone messages. It's really funny! 👍
Natalie! I enjoyed this reaction you should finish off Brad Bird’s whole movie trajectory with Iron Giant one of my all time favorite movies besides this movie and the studio ghiblis:) !
Everyone get up ! The queen has blessed us! 👑❤️👏 the way I gasped when I saw this! This has to be the best Pixar movie! It’s one of my favorites, it’s so good!😊 it’s hilarious and heartwarming and surprisingly handles serious topics like suicide and genocide of heroes. I was waiting for your reaction and it was worth it! Thank you so much for watching this masterpiece ❤
Gawd i love this channel. You remind me my cousin Nora. I miss her so much. We'd watch movies all the time together, and talk, talk about everything. I miss you Nora.
It helps to be directed by Brad Bird. Also, I got to see this in IMAX with INCREDIBLES 2 in a double feature.
He voiced Edna Mode too.
One of my favorites movies of all time! Hyped you enjoyed it
I have some movie suggestions:
- The Iron Claw
- Legends of the Fall
- Apollo 13
- Balto
- Young Woman and the Sea
- Braveheart
- 1917
- Bottoms
- Booksmart
She's done Lord of the Rings
@@moniquenelson7567
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The old guys who talks about The Old School are caricatures of and voiced by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Disney's Nine Old Men, The Legendary Animators who animated Disney's classic movies from Snow White to The Fox and the Hound. Director Brad Bird got to know them after visiting Disney Animation Studio after winning an animation contest when he was eleven (where he got to animate with Milt Kahl, another of the Nine Old Men, who became a mentor to him). Throughout his early career, Bird showed them storyreels of his projects like Iron Giant and even The Incredibles, and they gave their tips on how to improve the scenes. Thomas and Johnston also got caricatured and voiced as train engineers on The Iron Giant. Unfortunatley, Frank Thomas passed away a few weeks from the premiere, so he didn't see the finished film in life. Ollie Johnston passed away in 2008.
I swear this week has been a resurgence of The Incredibles
Man, first time viewer. You're probably one of the sharpest and most well-spoken reactor I've come across! Great commentary, will be tuning in for more! ^^
Nat's Pixar movie reactions are just the best 😊
Thank you, Nat, for bringing this back to me. I'd watched and enjoyed as a young man and later with my daughter... but knew your energy would be like my seeing new again. Why we love reactors that invest in the work the put out.
edit**** Also cartoonist Bud Luckey voiced the agent working for the NSA.. and also did the jackelope in the short Pixar film Boundin' (great short) and others. He has a great voice and love when artists get "hidden" cameos like this. ☮☮
There's just so much more Pixar could do with this franchise like a prequel cartoon series focusing on the other heros mentioned and seen in flash backs. Or Videogames focusing on Stratogale, Gazerbeam, Dynaguy, but not neither Parr couple...Bob or Helen.
Can't believe this movie is 20 years old. You can tell the animation is old, but it still holds up. It doesn't look ugly, I think the character design is mostly the reason for this.
Your hair looks so good Natalie 🤩
Pixar is an *expert* at getting me to cry, it perfected the formula and never relented. "I can't lose you again!" gets me every single damn time
This is the best fantastic four movie by far lol.
Whenever I show somebody a movie I really like I hope they react to it with the same fun and energy you do - great vibes, great channel.
Natalie, there's a short called "Jack-Jack Attacks" that directly ties in to this movie. I'm sure you'll love it. There's another short for the sequel I suggest watching as well AFTER you watch Incredibles 2, if you do watch that one. I can't remember the name of the second short.
The second short is called "Auntie Edna"
This movie holds such fond childhood memories. You ca't believe how agonizing the wait for Incredibles 2 was, with that cliffhanger at the end. As a child and teen, I always wondered when we'll get the continuation.
love the incredibles!
when I was a kid I was hospitalized for a fair bit, and during my stay the artists of the Incredibles came by and drew the characters of the movie for us and signed the pictures. Was pretty awesome of them
Where's my super suit?
The Four are just Fantastic.