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The Incredibles
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Directed by	Brad Bird
Written by	Brad Bird
Produced by	John Walker
Starring	Craig T. Nelson Holly Hunter Sarah Vowell Spencer Fox Jason Lee Samuel L. Jackson Elizabeth Peña
Cinematography	Andrew Jimenez Patrick Lin Janet Lucroy
Edited by	Stephen Schaffer
Music by	Michael Giacchino
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures[1] Pixar Animation Studios[1]
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution[1]
Release dates	October 24, 2004 (El Capitan Theatre) November 5, 2004 (United States)
Running time	115 minutes[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$92–145 million[3][4]
Box office	$631.6 million[3]

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated superhero film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Brad Bird, it stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, and Elizabeth Peña. Set in a retro-futuristic version of the 1960s,^[5][6][7] the film follows Bob and Helen Parr, a couple of superheroes, known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, who hide their powers in accordance with a government mandate, and attempt to live a quiet suburban life with their three children. However, Bob’s desire to help people draws the entire family into a confrontation with a vengeful fan-turned-foe.

Bird, who was Pixar’s first outside director, developed the film as an extension of the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after Warner Bros.’ box office disappointment of his first feature, The Iron Giant (1999), and carried over much of its staff to develop The Incredibles. The animation team was tasked with animating an all-human cast, which required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing, and realistic skin and hair. Michael Giacchino composed the film’s orchestral score.

The Incredibles debuted at the El Capitan Theatre on October 24, 2004, and was released in theaters in the United States on November 5. It earned $632 million worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004. The Incredibles received widespread acclaim from critics and audiences, with praise for its animation, screenplay, action sequences, humor, voice acting, themes, music, and appeal to different age groups, and is frequently considered to be one of the greatest superhero movies of all time. It won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Sound Editing with two additional nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Sound Mixing, as well as winning the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the first entirely animated film to win the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. A sequel, Incredibles 2, was released in June 2018.

Plot[edit]

On the day of his wedding with Helen Truax (alias Elastigirl), superhero Bob Parr (alias Mr. Incredible) thwarts a civilian’s attempted suicide by tackling him through a skyscraper window. Bob then discovers supervillain Bomb Voyage robbing the building, but is interrupted by his devoted fanboy Buddy Pine, who wants to be his sidekick. Bob rejects Buddy, and Voyage clips a bomb onto Buddy’s clothes; Bob manages to get the bomb off, but it destroys part of an el-train track, forcing Bob to abruptly stop an oncoming train. After his wedding, Bob is sued for collateral damage by the suicidal civilian and the injured train passengers. Similar lawsuits increase negative public feeling towards superheroes, so the government initiates the Superhero Relocation Program. All «supers» are banned from publicly using their powers, and go into hiding.

Fifteen years later, Bob and Helen live with their children, Violet, Dash, and baby Jack-Jack, in Metroville. Although he loves his family, Bob resents the mundanity of his job as a claims adjuster, and moonlights as a vigilante with his best friend Lucius Best (alias Frozone). Bob is fired when he assaults his supervisor, who prevented him from stopping a mugging; later, a woman named Mirage secretly offers him a mission to subdue a giant «Omnidroid» robot loose on Nomanisan island. Bob tricks the machine into ripping out its own power source; rejuvenated by the action and higher pay, Bob improves his relationship with his family, and trains to get back into shape. He visits superhero costume designer Edna Mode when he discovers a tear in his old suit. Incorrectly assuming Helen knows of Bob’s new job, Edna makes new suits for all the Parrs.

Summoned back to Nomanisan, Bob discovers Mirage is working for Buddy. Now calling himself Syndrome, he has invented many weapons, selling them to gain wealth. Embittered by Bob’s rejection, Syndrome has been perfecting the Omnidroid by hiring many superheroes to fight it, killing them in the process. Syndrome intends to send an Omnidroid to attack Metroville, where he will secretly manipulate its controls to defeat it publicly and gain «hero» status. He then plans to sell his superpower-mimicking inventions to the world to make the term «super» irrelevant.

Helen visits Edna and learns what Bob has been up to. She activates a beacon Edna built into the suits to find Bob, inadvertently causing Bob to be captured while infiltrating Syndrome’s base. Helen borrows a private plane to fly to Nomanisan. Violet and Dash stow away, leaving Jack-Jack with a babysitter. Despite knowing that the children are on the plane, Syndrome shoots it down with missiles, but Helen and the kids survive and make it to the island. Disillusioned by Syndrome’s callousness, Mirage releases Bob and informs him of his family’s survival. Syndrome’s guards pursue Dash and Violet, who fight them off with their powers and reunite with their parents. Syndrome imprisons the family, and follows the Omnidroid to Metroville.

The Parrs escape to Metroville with Mirage’s help. Due to its artificial intelligence, the Omnidroid shoots Syndrome’s remote control off his wrist and knocks him unconscious. The Parrs and Lucius fight the Omnidroid; Helen and the kids retrieve the remote control, allowing Bob to destroy the robot’s power source. Returning home, the Parrs find Syndrome retaliating by abducting Jack-Jack to raise as a sidekick. As Syndrome flies away, Jack-Jack’s own superpowers manifest and he escapes Syndrome’s hold. Helen rescues the falling baby, and Bob knocks Syndrome into his plane’s engine, causing it to explode.

Three months later, the Parrs witness the arrival of supervillain the Underminer. They don their masks and suits, ready to face the new threat.

Voice cast[edit]

• Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible, Helen’s husband who possesses superhuman strength and endurance.
• Holly Hunter as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (Mrs Incredible), Bob’s wife who has the ability to shapeshift her body.
• Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr, the Parrs’ eldest child who can become invisible and generate force fields.
• Spencer Fox as Dashiell «Dash» Parr, the Parrs’ second child who possesses superhuman speed.
• Eli Fucile and Maeve Andrews as Jack-Jack Parr, the Parrs’ infant son who demonstrates a wide range of superhuman abilities.
• Jason Lee as Buddy Pine / IncrediBoy / Syndrome, Mr. Incredible’s obsessed fan-turned-supervillain who uses his scientific prowess to give himself enhanced abilities.
• Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best / Frozone, Bob’s best friend who can form ice from humidity.
• Elizabeth Peña as Mirage, Syndrome’s right-hand woman.
• Brad Bird as Edna «E» Mode, a fashion designer for superheroes.
• Teddy Newton as Newsreel Narrator, heard narrating the changing public opinion of the Supers.
• Jean Sincere as Mrs. Hogenson, an elderly lady to whom Bob pretends to deny an insurance claim.
• Bud Luckey as Rick Dicker, a government agent responsible for keeping the Parrs undercover.
• Wallace Shawn as Gilbert Huph, Bob’s demeaning boss.
• Lou Romano as Bernie Kropp, Dash’s teacher.
• Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger, Violet’s crush.
• Dominique Louis as Bomb Voyage, a French supervillain who uses explosives.
• Bret Parker as Kari, Jack-Jack’s babysitter.
• Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey, Frozone’s wife.
• John Ratzenberger as The Underminer, a mole-like supervillain.

Production[edit]

Development and writing[edit]

The Incredibles as a concept dates back to 1993 when Bird sketched the family during an uncertain point in his film career.^[8][9] Personal issues had percolated into the story as they weighed on him in life.^[10] During this time, Bird had signed a production deal with Warner Bros. Feature Animation and was in the process of directing his first feature, The Iron Giant.^[11] Approaching middle age and having high aspirations for his filmmaking, Bird pondered whether his career goals were attainable only at the price of his family life.^[10] He stated, «Consciously, this was just a funny movie about superheroes. But I think that what was going on in my life definitely filtered into the movie.»^[12] After the box office failure of The Iron Giant, Bird gravitated toward his superhero story.^[10][11]

He imagined it as a homage to the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and he initially tried to develop it as a 2D cel animation.^[10] When The Iron Giant became a box office bomb, he reconnected with old friend John Lasseter at Pixar in March 2000 and pitched his story idea to him.^[9] Bird and Lasseter knew each other from their college years at CalArts in the 1970s.^[13] Lasseter was sold on the idea and convinced Bird to come to Pixar, where the film would be done in computer animation. The studio announced a multi-film contract with Bird on May 4, 2000.^[10] The Incredibles was written and directed solely by Brad Bird, a departure from previous Pixar productions which typically had two or three directors and as many screenwriters with a history of working for the company.^[14] In addition, it would be the company’s first film in which all characters are human.^[13]

Bird came to Pixar with the lineup of the story’s family members worked out: a mom and dad, both suffering through the dad’s midlife crisis; a shy teenage girl; a cocky ten-year-old boy; and a baby. Bird had based their powers on family archetypes.^[10][16][17] During production, Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli visited Pixar and saw the film’s story reels. When Bird asked if the reels made any sense or if they were just «American nonsense,» Miyazaki replied, through an interpreter, «I think it’s a very adventurous thing you are trying to do in an American film.»^[18]

Syndrome was originally written as a minor character who assaults Bob and Helen at the beginning of the movie, only to die in an explosion that destroys the Parrs’ house (in this version, the Smiths), but he was made the main antagonist because the filmmakers liked him more than the character of Xerek, who was intended to fulfill that role. The Snug character that Helen talks to at the phone in the final film was intended to fly Helen to Nomanisan Island and to die, but he was removed from that position when Lasseter suggested having Helen pilot the plane herself. Syndrome was based on Brad Bird himself.^[20]

Casting[edit]

Holly Hunter, cast as Helen Parr/Elastigirl,^[21] never voiced an animated character before and saw the role as an exciting opportunity to expand her repertoire. She was also drawn to the film by its unique and «unconventional story about family and human dynamics».^[21] Bird considered Hunter «one of the finest actresses in the world», capable of playing a «sensitive» character who also has «a very sturdy center».^[21][22] Spencer Fox was cast as Dash Parr, which was also his feature film debut.^[23] Brad Bird wanted to give Dash a realistic out-of-breath voice in certain scenes such as the jungle scene so he made Fox run four laps around the Pixar studio until he got tired.^[24] Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Lucius Best/Frozone, Bird cast him because he stated that he wanted the character to have the coolest voice.^[25] Lily Tomlin was originally considered for the role of Edna Mode, but later turned it down.^[26] After several failed attempts to cast Edna Mode, Bird took on her voice role himself. It was an extension of the Pixar custom of tapping in-house staff whose voices came across particularly well on scratch dialogue tracks.^[17] Sarah Vowell was offered the role of Violet unexpectedly;^[27] Bird wanted to cast Vowell as Violet after hearing her voice on the National Public Radio program, This American Life.^[28][29][30] Bird stated that she was «perfect» for the part and immediately called her to offer her the role.^[28]

Animation[edit]

Upon Pixar’s acceptance of the project, Brad Bird was asked to bring in his own team for the production. He brought up a core group of people he worked with on The Iron Giant. Because of this, many 2D artists had to make the shift to 3D, including Bird himself. Bird found working with CGI «wonderfully malleable» in a way that traditional animation is not, calling the camera’s ability to easily switch angles in a given scene «marvelously adaptable.» He found working in computer animation «difficult» in a different way than working traditionally, finding the software «sophisticated and not particularly friendly.»^[31] Bird wrote the script without knowing the limitations or concerns that went hand-in-hand with the medium of computer animation. As a result, this was to be the most complex film yet for Pixar.^[8] The film’s characters were designed by Tony Fucile and Teddy Newton, whom Bird had brought with him from Warner Bros.^[32] Like most computer-animated films, The Incredibles had a year-long period of building the film from the inside out: modeling the exterior and understanding controls that would work the face and the body—the articulation of the character—before animation could even begin.^[31] Bird and Fucile tried to emphasize the graphic quality of good 2D animation to the Pixar team, who had only worked primarily in CGI. Bird attempted to incorporate teaching from Disney’s Nine Old Men that the crew at Pixar had «never really emphasized.»^[31]

For the technical crew members, the film’s human characters posed a difficult set of challenges.^[14] Bird’s story was filled with elements that were difficult to animate with CGI back then. Humans are widely considered to be the most difficult things to execute in animation. Pixar’s animators filmed themselves walking to better grasp proper human motion.^[9] Creating an all-human cast required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing, and realistic skin and hair. Although the technical team had some experience with hair and cloth in Monsters, Inc. (2001), the amount of hair and cloth required for The Incredibles had never been done by Pixar up until this point. Moreover, Bird would tolerate no compromises for the sake of technical simplicity. Where the technical team on Monsters, Inc. had persuaded director Pete Docter to accept pigtails on Boo to make her hair easier to animate, the character Violet had to have long hair that obscured her face; in fact, this was integral to her character.^[14] Violet’s long hair, which was extremely difficult to animate, was only successfully animated toward the end of production. In addition, animators had to adapt to having hair both underwater and blowing through the wind.^[31] Disney was initially reluctant to make the film because of these issues, thinking that a live-action film would be preferable, but Lasseter denied this.^[33]

Not only did The Incredibles cope with the difficulty of animating CGI humans, but also many other complications. The story was bigger than any prior story at the studio, was longer in running time, and had four times the number of locations.^[31][35] Supervising technical director Rick Sayre noted that the hardest thing about the film was that there was «no hardest thing,» alluding to the amount of new technical challenges: fire, water, air, smoke, steam, and explosions were all additional to the new difficulty of working with humans.^[31] The film’s organizational structure could not be mapped out like previous Pixar features, and it became a running joke to the team.^[31] Sayre said the team adopted “Alpha Omega,» where one team was concerned with building modeling, shading, and layout, while another dealt with final camera, lighting, and effects. Another team, dubbed the «character team,» digitally sculpted, rigged, and shaded all of the characters, and a simulation team was responsible for developing simulation technology for hair and clothing.^[31] There were at least 781 visual effects shots in the film, and they were quite often visual gags, such as the window shattering when Bob angrily shuts the car door. Additionally, the effects team improved their modeling of clouds, using volumetric rendering for the first time.^[31]

The skin of the characters gained a new level of realism from a technology to mimic «subsurface scattering.»^[32] The challenges did not stop with modeling humans. Bird decided that in a shot near the film’s end, baby Jack-Jack would have to undergo a series of transformations, and in one of the five planned he would turn himself into a kind of goo. Technical directors, who anticipated spending two months or even longer to work out the goo effect, stealing precious hours from production that had already entered its final and most critical stages, petitioned the film’s producer, John Walker, for help. Bird, who had himself brought Walker over from Warner Bros. to work on the project, was at first immovable, but after arguing with Walker in several invective-laced meetings over the course of two months, Bird finally conceded.^[36] Bird also insisted that the storyboards define the blocking of characters’ motions, lighting, and camera movements, which had previously been left to other departments rather than storyboarded.^[14]

Bird admitted that he «had the knees of [the studio] trembling under the weight» of The Incredibles, but called the film a «testament to the talent of the animators at Pixar,» who were admiring the challenges the film provoked.^[31] He recalled, «Basically, I came into a wonderful studio, frightened a lot of people with how many presents I wanted for Christmas, and then got almost everything I asked for.»^[33]

Music[edit]

The Incredibles is the first Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino. Brad Bird was looking for a specific sound as inspired by the film’s retrofuturistic design – the future as seen from the 1960s. John Barry was the first choice to do the film’s score, with a trailer of the film given a rerecording of Barry’s theme to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. However, Barry did not wish to duplicate the sound of some of his earlier soundtracks;^[37] the assignment was instead given to Giacchino.^[38] Giacchino noted that recording in the 1960s was largely different from modern day recording and Dan Wallin, the recording engineer, said that Bird wanted an old feel, and as such the score was recorded on analog tapes. Wallin noted that brass instruments, which are at the forefront of the film’s score, sound better on analog equipment rather than digital. Wallin came from an era in which music was recorded, according to Giacchino, «the right way,» which consists of everyone in the same room, «playing against each other and feeding off each other’s energy.» Many of Giacchino’s future soundtracks followed suit with this style of mixing. Tim Simonec was the conductor/orchestrator for the score’s recording.^[39]

The film’s orchestral score was released on November 2, 2004, by Walt Disney Records, three days before the film opened in theaters. It won numerous awards for best score including Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, BMI Film & TV Award, ASCAP Film and Television Music Award, Annie Award, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award and Online Film Critics Society Award and was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Satellite Award and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award.^[40]

Themes[edit]

Several film reviewers drew precise parallels between the film and certain superhero comic books, like Powers, Watchmen, Fantastic Four, Justice League and The Avengers. The producers of the 2005 adaptation of Fantastic Four were forced to make significant script changes and add more special effects because of similarities to The Incredibles.^[41] Bird was not surprised that comparisons arose due to superheroes being «the most well-trod turf on the planet,» but noted that he had not been inspired by any comic books specifically, only having heard of Watchmen. He did comment that it was nice to be compared to it, since «if you’re going to be compared to something, it’s nice if it’s something good».^[16]

Some commentators took Bob’s frustration with celebrating mediocrity and Syndrome’s comment that «when everyone’s super, no one will be» as a reflection of views shared by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche or an extension of Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand’s Objectivism philosophy, which Bird felt was «ridiculous.»^[9][16] He stated that a large portion of the audience understood the message as he intended whereas «two percent thought I was doing The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.» Some purported that The Incredibles exhibited a right-wing bias, which Bird also scoffed at. «I think that’s as silly of an analysis as saying The Iron Giant was left-wing. I’m definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.»^[9]

The film also explored Bird’s dislike for the tendency of the children’s comics and Saturday morning cartoons of his youth to portray villains as unrealistic, ineffectual, and non-threatening.^[42] In the film, Dash and Violet have to deal with villains who are perfectly willing to use deadly force against children.^[43] On another level, both Dash and Violet display no emotion or regret at the deaths of those who are trying to kill them, such as when Dash outruns pursuers who crash their vehicles while chasing him, or when both of them witness their parents destroy several attacking vehicles with people inside, in such a manner that the deaths of those piloting them is undeniable. Despite disagreeing with some analysis, Bird felt it gratifying for his work to be considered on many different levels, which was his intention: «The fact that it was written about in the op/ed section of The New York Times several times was really gratifying to me. Look, it’s a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking?»^[9]

Release[edit]

Marketing[edit]

A teaser trailer of The Incredibles premiered on May 30, 2003, and was attached to the screenings of Finding Nemo.^[44] Several companies released promotional products related to the film. In the weeks before the film’s opening, there were also promotional tie-ins with SBC Communications (using Dash to promote the «blazing-fast speed» of its SBC Yahoo! DSL service) Tide, Downy, Bounce and McDonald’s.^[45] Dark Horse Comics released a limited series of comic books based on the film.^[46] Toy maker Hasbro produced a series of action figures and toys based on the film.^[47] Kellogg’s released an Incredibles-themed cereal, as well as promotional Pop-Tarts and fruit snacks, all proclaiming an «Incrediberry Blast» of flavor.^[48] Pringles included potato chips featuring the superheroes and quotes from the film.^[49][50] In July 2008, it was announced that a series of comic books based on the film would be published by BOOM! Studios in collaboration with Disney Publishing by the end of the year.^[51] The first miniseries by BOOM! was The Incredibles: Family Matters by Mark Waid and Marcio Takara, which was published from March to June 2009^{[citation needed]} and collected into a trade paperback published in July of that year.^[52]

Theatrical[edit]

The Incredibles was released theatrically in the United States on November 5, 2004.^[53] In theaters, The Incredibles was accompanied by a short film, Boundin’ (2003).^[54] The theatrical release also included a sneak peek for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.^[55] While Pixar celebrated another triumph with The Incredibles, Steve Jobs was embroiled in a public feud with the head of its distribution partner, The Walt Disney Company.^[56] This would eventually lead to the ousting of Michael Eisner and Disney’s acquisition of Pixar the following year. In March 2014, Disney CEO and chairman Bob Iger announced that the film would be reformatted and re-released in 3D.^[57] The Incredibles was re-released and digitally re-mastered for IMAX theaters (alongside its sequel, Incredibles 2) using their DMR Technology in a double feature on June 14, 2018.^[58]

Home media[edit]

The film was first released on both VHS and a two-disc collector’s edition DVD set on March 15, 2005.^[59][60] The DVD set was THX certified, consisted of widescreen and a pan and scan full-screen versions and included two newly commissioned Pixar short films, Jack-Jack Attack and Mr. Incredible and Pals, which were made specifically for this home-video release, and Boundin’, a Pixar short film that premiered alongside the feature film in its original theatrical release.^[61][62] The VHS release only featured the short, Boundin’. It was the highest-selling DVD of 2005, with 17.38 million copies sold.^[63] The film was also released on UMD for the Sony PSP.^[64] Disney released the film on Blu-ray in North America on April 12, 2011,^[65] and on 4K UHD Blu-ray on June 5, 2018; this marks Disney’s first 4K Blu-ray reissue on the format.^[66]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

The Incredibles earned $261.4 million in the United States and Canada and $370.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $631.6 million.^[3] It was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004, behind Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Spider-Man 2.^[67]

The Incredibles was released with Alfie on November 5, 2004. It debuted earning $70.7 million from 3,933 theaters.^[4][68] This made it the second-highest opening weekend for an animated film, trailing only behind Shrek 2. The film opened in the number #1 spot at the box office, dominating Saw, The Grudge, Shark Tale, Ray, Ladder 49 and other films. Despite its opening, the overall Hollywood revenues fell, continuing a box office slump that had lingered for most of the fall season. The top 12 movies took in $136.1 million down to 5% from the same weekend the previous year, just after the openings of The Matrix Revolutions and Elf.^[69] For 15 years, The Incredibles had the biggest November opening weekend for an animated film until it was dethroned by Frozen II in 2019.^[70] It continued to rule the box office while staying ahead of The Polar Express. Its second weekend earnings dropped by 28% to $51 million,^[71][72] and followed by another $26 million the third weekend.^[73] The Incredibles completed its theatrical run in the United States and Canada on April 14, 2005.^[74]

Critical response[edit]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Incredibles holds an approval rating of 97% based on 248 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, «Bringing loads of wit and tons of fun to the animated superhero genre, The Incredibles easily lives up to its name.»^[75] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score to reviews from mainstream critics, gave The Incredibles an average score of 90 out of 100 based on 41 critics, indicating «universal acclaim».^[76] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare average grade of «A+» on an A+ to F scale, making it Pixar’s fourth film to receive this grade (after Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo).^[77]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half out of four, writing that the film «alternates breakneck action with satire of suburban sitcom life» and is «another example of Pixar’s mastery of popular animation.»^[78] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film three-and-a-half, calling it «one of the year’s best» and saying that it «doesn’t ring cartoonish, it rings true.»^[79] Giving the film three-and-a-half as well, People magazine found that The Incredibles «boasts a strong, entertaining story and a truckload of savvy comic touches.»^[80]

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was bored by the film’s «recurring pastiches of earlier action films», concluding that «the Pixar whizzes do what they do excellently; you just wish they were doing something else.»^[81] Jessica Winter of The Village Voice criticized the film for «playing as a standard summer action film», despite being released in early November. Her review, titled as «Full Metal Racket,» noted that The Incredibles «announces the studio’s arrival in the vast yet overcrowded Hollywood lot of eardrum-bashing, metal-crunching action sludge.»^[82]

The Incredibles was included on a number of best-of lists. It appeared on professional rankings from The Guardian based on retrospective appraisal, as one of the greatest films of the twenty-first century.^[83] Travers also named it as number 6 on his list of the decade’s best films.^[84] Several publications have listed it as one of the best animated films, including: Entertainment Weekly (2009),^[85] IGN (2010),^[86] Insider, USA Today, Elle (all 2018),^[87][88][89] Rolling Stone (2019),^[90] Parade, Complex, Time Out New York, and Empire (all 2021).^[a] The Incredibles appeared on several lists of the best superhero films, by outlets including: Time (2011),^[95] Paste, Vulture, Marie Claire (all 2019),^[96][97][98] IGN (2020),^[99] Esquire, The Indian Express, and Parade (all 2021).^{[100][101][102]} In December 2021, the film’s screenplay was listed number 48 on the Writers Guild of America’s «101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (So Far)».^[103] Others have named it one of the best conservative films,^[104] best action films,^[105][106] and best political films.^[107]

Accolades[edit]

The Incredibles led the 77th Academy Awards season with four nominations (including Best Original Screenplay and Sound Mixing). It received two Oscars: Best Animated Feature and Sound Editing.^[108] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal called The Incredibles the year’s best picture.^[16] Premiere magazine released a cross-section of all the top critics in America and The Incredibles placed at number three, whereas review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes cross-referenced reviews that suggested it was its year’s highest-rated film.^[16]

The film also received the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, and it was nominated for the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It also won the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. The American Film Institute included it as one of the top 10 films of 2004.^[109]

It was included on Empire’s 500 Greatest Films of All Time at number 400.^[110]

Video games[edit]

It has received several game adaptations: The Incredibles (2004), The Incredibles: When Danger Calls (2004),^[111] and The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (2005).^[112] Kinect Rush: A Disney–Pixar Adventure (2012) features characters and worlds from five Pixar films, including The Incredibles.^[113][114] Disney Infinity (2013) includes The Incredibles playset featuring the film’s playable characters.^[115] Lego The Incredibles was released in June 2018.^[116]

Sequel[edit]

A sequel, titled Incredibles 2, was released on June 15, 2018^[117] and was once again a critical and commercial success.

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

Works cited[edit]

• Price, David (2008). The Pixar Touch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26575-3.
• Paik, Karen (November 1, 2007). To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811850124.

External links[edit]

• Official website
• The Incredibles at IMDb
• The Incredibles at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Incredibles at the TCM Movie Database
• The Incredibles at AllMovie
• The Incredibles production notes

The Incredibles
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Brad Bird
Written by	Brad Bird
Produced by	John Walker
Starring	Craig T. Nelson Holly Hunter Sarah Vowell Spencer Fox Jason Lee Samuel L. Jackson Elizabeth Peña
Cinematography	Andrew Jimenez Patrick Lin Janet Lucroy
Edited by	Stephen Schaffer
Music by	Michael Giacchino
Production companies	Walt Disney Pictures[1] Pixar Animation Studios[1]
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures Distribution[1]
Release dates	October 24, 2004 (El Capitan Theatre) November 5, 2004 (United States)
Running time	115 minutes[2]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$92–145 million[3][4]
Box office	$631.6 million[3]

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated superhero film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Brad Bird, it stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, and Elizabeth Peña. Set in a retro-futuristic version of the 1960s,^[5][6][7] the film follows Bob and Helen Parr, a couple of superheroes, known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, who hide their powers in accordance with a government mandate, and attempt to live a quiet suburban life with their three children. However, Bob’s desire to help people draws the entire family into a confrontation with a vengeful fan-turned-foe.

Bird, who was Pixar’s first outside director, developed the film as an extension of the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after Warner Bros.’ box office disappointment of his first feature, The Iron Giant (1999), and carried over much of its staff to develop The Incredibles. The animation team was tasked with animating an all-human cast, which required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing, and realistic skin and hair. Michael Giacchino composed the film’s orchestral score.

The Incredibles debuted at the El Capitan Theatre on October 24, 2004, and was released in theaters in the United States on November 5. It earned $632 million worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004. The Incredibles received widespread acclaim from critics and audiences, with praise for its animation, screenplay, action sequences, humor, voice acting, themes, music, and appeal to different age groups, and is frequently considered to be one of the greatest superhero movies of all time. It won two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Sound Editing with two additional nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Sound Mixing, as well as winning the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the first entirely animated film to win the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. A sequel, Incredibles 2, was released in June 2018.

Plot[edit]

On the day of his wedding with Helen Truax (alias Elastigirl), superhero Bob Parr (alias Mr. Incredible) thwarts a civilian’s attempted suicide by tackling him through a skyscraper window. Bob then discovers supervillain Bomb Voyage robbing the building, but is interrupted by his devoted fanboy Buddy Pine, who wants to be his sidekick. Bob rejects Buddy, and Voyage clips a bomb onto Buddy’s clothes; Bob manages to get the bomb off, but it destroys part of an el-train track, forcing Bob to abruptly stop an oncoming train. After his wedding, Bob is sued for collateral damage by the suicidal civilian and the injured train passengers. Similar lawsuits increase negative public feeling towards superheroes, so the government initiates the Superhero Relocation Program. All «supers» are banned from publicly using their powers, and go into hiding.

Fifteen years later, Bob and Helen live with their children, Violet, Dash, and baby Jack-Jack, in Metroville. Although he loves his family, Bob resents the mundanity of his job as a claims adjuster, and moonlights as a vigilante with his best friend Lucius Best (alias Frozone). Bob is fired when he assaults his supervisor, who prevented him from stopping a mugging; later, a woman named Mirage secretly offers him a mission to subdue a giant «Omnidroid» robot loose on Nomanisan island. Bob tricks the machine into ripping out its own power source; rejuvenated by the action and higher pay, Bob improves his relationship with his family, and trains to get back into shape. He visits superhero costume designer Edna Mode when he discovers a tear in his old suit. Incorrectly assuming Helen knows of Bob’s new job, Edna makes new suits for all the Parrs.

Summoned back to Nomanisan, Bob discovers Mirage is working for Buddy. Now calling himself Syndrome, he has invented many weapons, selling them to gain wealth. Embittered by Bob’s rejection, Syndrome has been perfecting the Omnidroid by hiring many superheroes to fight it, killing them in the process. Syndrome intends to send an Omnidroid to attack Metroville, where he will secretly manipulate its controls to defeat it publicly and gain «hero» status. He then plans to sell his superpower-mimicking inventions to the world to make the term «super» irrelevant.

Helen visits Edna and learns what Bob has been up to. She activates a beacon Edna built into the suits to find Bob, inadvertently causing Bob to be captured while infiltrating Syndrome’s base. Helen borrows a private plane to fly to Nomanisan. Violet and Dash stow away, leaving Jack-Jack with a babysitter. Despite knowing that the children are on the plane, Syndrome shoots it down with missiles, but Helen and the kids survive and make it to the island. Disillusioned by Syndrome’s callousness, Mirage releases Bob and informs him of his family’s survival. Syndrome’s guards pursue Dash and Violet, who fight them off with their powers and reunite with their parents. Syndrome imprisons the family, and follows the Omnidroid to Metroville.

The Parrs escape to Metroville with Mirage’s help. Due to its artificial intelligence, the Omnidroid shoots Syndrome’s remote control off his wrist and knocks him unconscious. The Parrs and Lucius fight the Omnidroid; Helen and the kids retrieve the remote control, allowing Bob to destroy the robot’s power source. Returning home, the Parrs find Syndrome retaliating by abducting Jack-Jack to raise as a sidekick. As Syndrome flies away, Jack-Jack’s own superpowers manifest and he escapes Syndrome’s hold. Helen rescues the falling baby, and Bob knocks Syndrome into his plane’s engine, causing it to explode.

Three months later, the Parrs witness the arrival of supervillain the Underminer. They don their masks and suits, ready to face the new threat.

Voice cast[edit]

• Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible, Helen’s husband who possesses superhuman strength and endurance.
• Holly Hunter as Helen Parr / Elastigirl (Mrs Incredible), Bob’s wife who has the ability to shapeshift her body.
• Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr, the Parrs’ eldest child who can become invisible and generate force fields.
• Spencer Fox as Dashiell «Dash» Parr, the Parrs’ second child who possesses superhuman speed.
• Eli Fucile and Maeve Andrews as Jack-Jack Parr, the Parrs’ infant son who demonstrates a wide range of superhuman abilities.
• Jason Lee as Buddy Pine / IncrediBoy / Syndrome, Mr. Incredible’s obsessed fan-turned-supervillain who uses his scientific prowess to give himself enhanced abilities.
• Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best / Frozone, Bob’s best friend who can form ice from humidity.
• Elizabeth Peña as Mirage, Syndrome’s right-hand woman.
• Brad Bird as Edna «E» Mode, a fashion designer for superheroes.
• Teddy Newton as Newsreel Narrator, heard narrating the changing public opinion of the Supers.
• Jean Sincere as Mrs. Hogenson, an elderly lady to whom Bob pretends to deny an insurance claim.
• Bud Luckey as Rick Dicker, a government agent responsible for keeping the Parrs undercover.
• Wallace Shawn as Gilbert Huph, Bob’s demeaning boss.
• Lou Romano as Bernie Kropp, Dash’s teacher.
• Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger, Violet’s crush.
• Dominique Louis as Bomb Voyage, a French supervillain who uses explosives.
• Bret Parker as Kari, Jack-Jack’s babysitter.
• Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey, Frozone’s wife.
• John Ratzenberger as The Underminer, a mole-like supervillain.

Production[edit]

Development and writing[edit]

The Incredibles as a concept dates back to 1993 when Bird sketched the family during an uncertain point in his film career.^[8][9] Personal issues had percolated into the story as they weighed on him in life.^[10] During this time, Bird had signed a production deal with Warner Bros. Feature Animation and was in the process of directing his first feature, The Iron Giant.^[11] Approaching middle age and having high aspirations for his filmmaking, Bird pondered whether his career goals were attainable only at the price of his family life.^[10] He stated, «Consciously, this was just a funny movie about superheroes. But I think that what was going on in my life definitely filtered into the movie.»^[12] After the box office failure of The Iron Giant, Bird gravitated toward his superhero story.^[10][11]

He imagined it as a homage to the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and he initially tried to develop it as a 2D cel animation.^[10] When The Iron Giant became a box office bomb, he reconnected with old friend John Lasseter at Pixar in March 2000 and pitched his story idea to him.^[9] Bird and Lasseter knew each other from their college years at CalArts in the 1970s.^[13] Lasseter was sold on the idea and convinced Bird to come to Pixar, where the film would be done in computer animation. The studio announced a multi-film contract with Bird on May 4, 2000.^[10] The Incredibles was written and directed solely by Brad Bird, a departure from previous Pixar productions which typically had two or three directors and as many screenwriters with a history of working for the company.^[14] In addition, it would be the company’s first film in which all characters are human.^[13]

Bird came to Pixar with the lineup of the story’s family members worked out: a mom and dad, both suffering through the dad’s midlife crisis; a shy teenage girl; a cocky ten-year-old boy; and a baby. Bird had based their powers on family archetypes.^[10][16][17] During production, Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli visited Pixar and saw the film’s story reels. When Bird asked if the reels made any sense or if they were just «American nonsense,» Miyazaki replied, through an interpreter, «I think it’s a very adventurous thing you are trying to do in an American film.»^[18]

Syndrome was originally written as a minor character who assaults Bob and Helen at the beginning of the movie, only to die in an explosion that destroys the Parrs’ house (in this version, the Smiths), but he was made the main antagonist because the filmmakers liked him more than the character of Xerek, who was intended to fulfill that role. The Snug character that Helen talks to at the phone in the final film was intended to fly Helen to Nomanisan Island and to die, but he was removed from that position when Lasseter suggested having Helen pilot the plane herself. Syndrome was based on Brad Bird himself.^[20]

Casting[edit]

Holly Hunter, cast as Helen Parr/Elastigirl,^[21] never voiced an animated character before and saw the role as an exciting opportunity to expand her repertoire. She was also drawn to the film by its unique and «unconventional story about family and human dynamics».^[21] Bird considered Hunter «one of the finest actresses in the world», capable of playing a «sensitive» character who also has «a very sturdy center».^[21][22] Spencer Fox was cast as Dash Parr, which was also his feature film debut.^[23] Brad Bird wanted to give Dash a realistic out-of-breath voice in certain scenes such as the jungle scene so he made Fox run four laps around the Pixar studio until he got tired.^[24] Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Lucius Best/Frozone, Bird cast him because he stated that he wanted the character to have the coolest voice.^[25] Lily Tomlin was originally considered for the role of Edna Mode, but later turned it down.^[26] After several failed attempts to cast Edna Mode, Bird took on her voice role himself. It was an extension of the Pixar custom of tapping in-house staff whose voices came across particularly well on scratch dialogue tracks.^[17] Sarah Vowell was offered the role of Violet unexpectedly;^[27] Bird wanted to cast Vowell as Violet after hearing her voice on the National Public Radio program, This American Life.^[28][29][30] Bird stated that she was «perfect» for the part and immediately called her to offer her the role.^[28]

Animation[edit]

Upon Pixar’s acceptance of the project, Brad Bird was asked to bring in his own team for the production. He brought up a core group of people he worked with on The Iron Giant. Because of this, many 2D artists had to make the shift to 3D, including Bird himself. Bird found working with CGI «wonderfully malleable» in a way that traditional animation is not, calling the camera’s ability to easily switch angles in a given scene «marvelously adaptable.» He found working in computer animation «difficult» in a different way than working traditionally, finding the software «sophisticated and not particularly friendly.»^[31] Bird wrote the script without knowing the limitations or concerns that went hand-in-hand with the medium of computer animation. As a result, this was to be the most complex film yet for Pixar.^[8] The film’s characters were designed by Tony Fucile and Teddy Newton, whom Bird had brought with him from Warner Bros.^[32] Like most computer-animated films, The Incredibles had a year-long period of building the film from the inside out: modeling the exterior and understanding controls that would work the face and the body—the articulation of the character—before animation could even begin.^[31] Bird and Fucile tried to emphasize the graphic quality of good 2D animation to the Pixar team, who had only worked primarily in CGI. Bird attempted to incorporate teaching from Disney’s Nine Old Men that the crew at Pixar had «never really emphasized.»^[31]

For the technical crew members, the film’s human characters posed a difficult set of challenges.^[14] Bird’s story was filled with elements that were difficult to animate with CGI back then. Humans are widely considered to be the most difficult things to execute in animation. Pixar’s animators filmed themselves walking to better grasp proper human motion.^[9] Creating an all-human cast required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing, and realistic skin and hair. Although the technical team had some experience with hair and cloth in Monsters, Inc. (2001), the amount of hair and cloth required for The Incredibles had never been done by Pixar up until this point. Moreover, Bird would tolerate no compromises for the sake of technical simplicity. Where the technical team on Monsters, Inc. had persuaded director Pete Docter to accept pigtails on Boo to make her hair easier to animate, the character Violet had to have long hair that obscured her face; in fact, this was integral to her character.^[14] Violet’s long hair, which was extremely difficult to animate, was only successfully animated toward the end of production. In addition, animators had to adapt to having hair both underwater and blowing through the wind.^[31] Disney was initially reluctant to make the film because of these issues, thinking that a live-action film would be preferable, but Lasseter denied this.^[33]

Not only did The Incredibles cope with the difficulty of animating CGI humans, but also many other complications. The story was bigger than any prior story at the studio, was longer in running time, and had four times the number of locations.^[31][35] Supervising technical director Rick Sayre noted that the hardest thing about the film was that there was «no hardest thing,» alluding to the amount of new technical challenges: fire, water, air, smoke, steam, and explosions were all additional to the new difficulty of working with humans.^[31] The film’s organizational structure could not be mapped out like previous Pixar features, and it became a running joke to the team.^[31] Sayre said the team adopted “Alpha Omega,» where one team was concerned with building modeling, shading, and layout, while another dealt with final camera, lighting, and effects. Another team, dubbed the «character team,» digitally sculpted, rigged, and shaded all of the characters, and a simulation team was responsible for developing simulation technology for hair and clothing.^[31] There were at least 781 visual effects shots in the film, and they were quite often visual gags, such as the window shattering when Bob angrily shuts the car door. Additionally, the effects team improved their modeling of clouds, using volumetric rendering for the first time.^[31]

The skin of the characters gained a new level of realism from a technology to mimic «subsurface scattering.»^[32] The challenges did not stop with modeling humans. Bird decided that in a shot near the film’s end, baby Jack-Jack would have to undergo a series of transformations, and in one of the five planned he would turn himself into a kind of goo. Technical directors, who anticipated spending two months or even longer to work out the goo effect, stealing precious hours from production that had already entered its final and most critical stages, petitioned the film’s producer, John Walker, for help. Bird, who had himself brought Walker over from Warner Bros. to work on the project, was at first immovable, but after arguing with Walker in several invective-laced meetings over the course of two months, Bird finally conceded.^[36] Bird also insisted that the storyboards define the blocking of characters’ motions, lighting, and camera movements, which had previously been left to other departments rather than storyboarded.^[14]

Bird admitted that he «had the knees of [the studio] trembling under the weight» of The Incredibles, but called the film a «testament to the talent of the animators at Pixar,» who were admiring the challenges the film provoked.^[31] He recalled, «Basically, I came into a wonderful studio, frightened a lot of people with how many presents I wanted for Christmas, and then got almost everything I asked for.»^[33]

Music[edit]

The Incredibles is the first Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino. Brad Bird was looking for a specific sound as inspired by the film’s retrofuturistic design – the future as seen from the 1960s. John Barry was the first choice to do the film’s score, with a trailer of the film given a rerecording of Barry’s theme to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. However, Barry did not wish to duplicate the sound of some of his earlier soundtracks;^[37] the assignment was instead given to Giacchino.^[38] Giacchino noted that recording in the 1960s was largely different from modern day recording and Dan Wallin, the recording engineer, said that Bird wanted an old feel, and as such the score was recorded on analog tapes. Wallin noted that brass instruments, which are at the forefront of the film’s score, sound better on analog equipment rather than digital. Wallin came from an era in which music was recorded, according to Giacchino, «the right way,» which consists of everyone in the same room, «playing against each other and feeding off each other’s energy.» Many of Giacchino’s future soundtracks followed suit with this style of mixing. Tim Simonec was the conductor/orchestrator for the score’s recording.^[39]

The film’s orchestral score was released on November 2, 2004, by Walt Disney Records, three days before the film opened in theaters. It won numerous awards for best score including Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, BMI Film & TV Award, ASCAP Film and Television Music Award, Annie Award, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award and Online Film Critics Society Award and was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Satellite Award and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award.^[40]

Themes[edit]

Several film reviewers drew precise parallels between the film and certain superhero comic books, like Powers, Watchmen, Fantastic Four, Justice League and The Avengers. The producers of the 2005 adaptation of Fantastic Four were forced to make significant script changes and add more special effects because of similarities to The Incredibles.^[41] Bird was not surprised that comparisons arose due to superheroes being «the most well-trod turf on the planet,» but noted that he had not been inspired by any comic books specifically, only having heard of Watchmen. He did comment that it was nice to be compared to it, since «if you’re going to be compared to something, it’s nice if it’s something good».^[16]

Some commentators took Bob’s frustration with celebrating mediocrity and Syndrome’s comment that «when everyone’s super, no one will be» as a reflection of views shared by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche or an extension of Russian-American novelist Ayn Rand’s Objectivism philosophy, which Bird felt was «ridiculous.»^[9][16] He stated that a large portion of the audience understood the message as he intended whereas «two percent thought I was doing The Fountainhead or Atlas Shrugged.» Some purported that The Incredibles exhibited a right-wing bias, which Bird also scoffed at. «I think that’s as silly of an analysis as saying The Iron Giant was left-wing. I’m definitely a centrist and feel like both parties can be absurd.»^[9]

The film also explored Bird’s dislike for the tendency of the children’s comics and Saturday morning cartoons of his youth to portray villains as unrealistic, ineffectual, and non-threatening.^[42] In the film, Dash and Violet have to deal with villains who are perfectly willing to use deadly force against children.^[43] On another level, both Dash and Violet display no emotion or regret at the deaths of those who are trying to kill them, such as when Dash outruns pursuers who crash their vehicles while chasing him, or when both of them witness their parents destroy several attacking vehicles with people inside, in such a manner that the deaths of those piloting them is undeniable. Despite disagreeing with some analysis, Bird felt it gratifying for his work to be considered on many different levels, which was his intention: «The fact that it was written about in the op/ed section of The New York Times several times was really gratifying to me. Look, it’s a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking?»^[9]

Release[edit]

Marketing[edit]

A teaser trailer of The Incredibles premiered on May 30, 2003, and was attached to the screenings of Finding Nemo.^[44] Several companies released promotional products related to the film. In the weeks before the film’s opening, there were also promotional tie-ins with SBC Communications (using Dash to promote the «blazing-fast speed» of its SBC Yahoo! DSL service) Tide, Downy, Bounce and McDonald’s.^[45] Dark Horse Comics released a limited series of comic books based on the film.^[46] Toy maker Hasbro produced a series of action figures and toys based on the film.^[47] Kellogg’s released an Incredibles-themed cereal, as well as promotional Pop-Tarts and fruit snacks, all proclaiming an «Incrediberry Blast» of flavor.^[48] Pringles included potato chips featuring the superheroes and quotes from the film.^[49][50] In July 2008, it was announced that a series of comic books based on the film would be published by BOOM! Studios in collaboration with Disney Publishing by the end of the year.^[51] The first miniseries by BOOM! was The Incredibles: Family Matters by Mark Waid and Marcio Takara, which was published from March to June 2009^{[citation needed]} and collected into a trade paperback published in July of that year.^[52]

Theatrical[edit]

The Incredibles was released theatrically in the United States on November 5, 2004.^[53] In theaters, The Incredibles was accompanied by a short film, Boundin’ (2003).^[54] The theatrical release also included a sneak peek for Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.^[55] While Pixar celebrated another triumph with The Incredibles, Steve Jobs was embroiled in a public feud with the head of its distribution partner, The Walt Disney Company.^[56] This would eventually lead to the ousting of Michael Eisner and Disney’s acquisition of Pixar the following year. In March 2014, Disney CEO and chairman Bob Iger announced that the film would be reformatted and re-released in 3D.^[57] The Incredibles was re-released and digitally re-mastered for IMAX theaters (alongside its sequel, Incredibles 2) using their DMR Technology in a double feature on June 14, 2018.^[58]

Home media[edit]

The film was first released on both VHS and a two-disc collector’s edition DVD set on March 15, 2005.^[59][60] The DVD set was THX certified, consisted of widescreen and a pan and scan full-screen versions and included two newly commissioned Pixar short films, Jack-Jack Attack and Mr. Incredible and Pals, which were made specifically for this home-video release, and Boundin’, a Pixar short film that premiered alongside the feature film in its original theatrical release.^[61][62] The VHS release only featured the short, Boundin’. It was the highest-selling DVD of 2005, with 17.38 million copies sold.^[63] The film was also released on UMD for the Sony PSP.^[64] Disney released the film on Blu-ray in North America on April 12, 2011,^[65] and on 4K UHD Blu-ray on June 5, 2018; this marks Disney’s first 4K Blu-ray reissue on the format.^[66]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

The Incredibles earned $261.4 million in the United States and Canada and $370.1 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $631.6 million.^[3] It was the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004, behind Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Spider-Man 2.^[67]

The Incredibles was released with Alfie on November 5, 2004. It debuted earning $70.7 million from 3,933 theaters.^[4][68] This made it the second-highest opening weekend for an animated film, trailing only behind Shrek 2. The film opened in the number #1 spot at the box office, dominating Saw, The Grudge, Shark Tale, Ray, Ladder 49 and other films. Despite its opening, the overall Hollywood revenues fell, continuing a box office slump that had lingered for most of the fall season. The top 12 movies took in $136.1 million down to 5% from the same weekend the previous year, just after the openings of The Matrix Revolutions and Elf.^[69] For 15 years, The Incredibles had the biggest November opening weekend for an animated film until it was dethroned by Frozen II in 2019.^[70] It continued to rule the box office while staying ahead of The Polar Express. Its second weekend earnings dropped by 28% to $51 million,^[71][72] and followed by another $26 million the third weekend.^[73] The Incredibles completed its theatrical run in the United States and Canada on April 14, 2005.^[74]

Critical response[edit]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, The Incredibles holds an approval rating of 97% based on 248 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, «Bringing loads of wit and tons of fun to the animated superhero genre, The Incredibles easily lives up to its name.»^[75] Another review aggregator, Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score to reviews from mainstream critics, gave The Incredibles an average score of 90 out of 100 based on 41 critics, indicating «universal acclaim».^[76] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare average grade of «A+» on an A+ to F scale, making it Pixar’s fourth film to receive this grade (after Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo).^[77]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three-and-a-half out of four, writing that the film «alternates breakneck action with satire of suburban sitcom life» and is «another example of Pixar’s mastery of popular animation.»^[78] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film three-and-a-half, calling it «one of the year’s best» and saying that it «doesn’t ring cartoonish, it rings true.»^[79] Giving the film three-and-a-half as well, People magazine found that The Incredibles «boasts a strong, entertaining story and a truckload of savvy comic touches.»^[80]

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was bored by the film’s «recurring pastiches of earlier action films», concluding that «the Pixar whizzes do what they do excellently; you just wish they were doing something else.»^[81] Jessica Winter of The Village Voice criticized the film for «playing as a standard summer action film», despite being released in early November. Her review, titled as «Full Metal Racket,» noted that The Incredibles «announces the studio’s arrival in the vast yet overcrowded Hollywood lot of eardrum-bashing, metal-crunching action sludge.»^[82]

The Incredibles was included on a number of best-of lists. It appeared on professional rankings from The Guardian based on retrospective appraisal, as one of the greatest films of the twenty-first century.^[83] Travers also named it as number 6 on his list of the decade’s best films.^[84] Several publications have listed it as one of the best animated films, including: Entertainment Weekly (2009),^[85] IGN (2010),^[86] Insider, USA Today, Elle (all 2018),^[87][88][89] Rolling Stone (2019),^[90] Parade, Complex, Time Out New York, and Empire (all 2021).^[a] The Incredibles appeared on several lists of the best superhero films, by outlets including: Time (2011),^[95] Paste, Vulture, Marie Claire (all 2019),^[96][97][98] IGN (2020),^[99] Esquire, The Indian Express, and Parade (all 2021).^{[100][101][102]} In December 2021, the film’s screenplay was listed number 48 on the Writers Guild of America’s «101 Greatest Screenplays of the 21st Century (So Far)».^[103] Others have named it one of the best conservative films,^[104] best action films,^[105][106] and best political films.^[107]

Accolades[edit]

The Incredibles led the 77th Academy Awards season with four nominations (including Best Original Screenplay and Sound Mixing). It received two Oscars: Best Animated Feature and Sound Editing.^[108] Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal called The Incredibles the year’s best picture.^[16] Premiere magazine released a cross-section of all the top critics in America and The Incredibles placed at number three, whereas review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes cross-referenced reviews that suggested it was its year’s highest-rated film.^[16]

The film also received the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, and it was nominated for the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It also won the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film. The American Film Institute included it as one of the top 10 films of 2004.^[109]

It was included on Empire’s 500 Greatest Films of All Time at number 400.^[110]

Video games[edit]

It has received several game adaptations: The Incredibles (2004), The Incredibles: When Danger Calls (2004),^[111] and The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (2005).^[112] Kinect Rush: A Disney–Pixar Adventure (2012) features characters and worlds from five Pixar films, including The Incredibles.^[113][114] Disney Infinity (2013) includes The Incredibles playset featuring the film’s playable characters.^[115] Lego The Incredibles was released in June 2018.^[116]

Sequel[edit]

A sequel, titled Incredibles 2, was released on June 15, 2018^[117] and was once again a critical and commercial success.

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

Citations[edit]

Works cited[edit]

• Price, David (2008). The Pixar Touch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26575-3.
• Paik, Karen (November 1, 2007). To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. ISBN 9780811850124.

External links[edit]

• Official website
• The Incredibles at IMDb
• The Incredibles at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Incredibles at the TCM Movie Database
• The Incredibles at AllMovie
• The Incredibles production notes

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Прежде всего, чтобы написать письмо, нужно знать правила орфографии и пунтуации английского языка и стараться им следовать – тому, кому вы адресовали письмо, будет приятно читать грамотно составленное письмо.

Одним из заданий по английскому языку как в ЕГЭ, так и в ОГЭ является написание личного письма в ответ на письмо “англоговорящего друга по переписке”. Оно входит в часть C, как и написание сочинения по английскому языку. При этом, если в ЕГЭ объем письма – 100-140 слов, то в ОГЭ установлен лимит в 100-120 слов, т.к. в ЕГЭ дается задание задать 3 вопроса, а в ОГЭ – просто ответить на письмо, хотя, в любом случае, если вы напишете вопросы, то это будет плюсом.

Написание письма на иностранном языке является несложным заданием, которое необходимо выполнить максимально быстро, чтобы оставить время на выполнение других заданий. Итак, рассмотрим единые правила написания личного письма. Чтобы было легче всё понять, посмотрите специально отобранное 5-ege.ru видео:

В правом верхнем углу укажите адрес в следующем порядке (порядок обратный российскому):

• квартира
• номер дома, название улицы
• город
• страна

Допускается указывать адрес в кратком виде, например:
Moscow
Russia

Под адресом, пропустив строку, необходимо написать дату письма:
June 4th, 2012
4 June 2012
или менее формально:
04/06/12

Письмо начинается с неофициального обращения. Если в задании имя вашего собеседника не указано, его следует придумать:
Dear Tim,
Dear Rebecca,
После обращения нужно поставить запятую!

Разделите текст письма на несколько логических абзацев, каждый из которых начните с красной строки.

1. В первом абзаце вам следует поблагодарить своего друга за его письмо:
Thanks (a lot) for your (last) letter.
Your last letter was a real surprise.
I was glad to get your letter.
It was great to hear from you! / It was great to hear that… / I was happy to hear…
Вы можете также извиниться за то, что не писали раньше:
Sorry I haven’t written for so long but …/ Sorry I haven’t been in touch for so long.
I’m sorry I haven’t answered earlier but I was really busy with my school.
и/или упомянуть какой-либо факт из полученного письма:
I’m glad you passed your History test!
Sounds like you had a great time in London!
Great news about your…!

2. Основная часть письма (2–3 абзаца). В ней вы должны раскрыть все аспекты, указанные в задании. Не забудьте задать необходимые вопросы.

https://5-ege.ru/napisanie-pisma-na-anglijskom-yazyke/

Предполагается, что письмо должно быть написано в неформальном стиле, поэтому вы можете использовать неформальные слова-связки, такие как well, by the way, anyway, so, разговорные выражения типа Guess what? Или Wish me luck!, а также восклицательные знаки.

3. В последнем параграфе объясните, почему вы заканчиваете письмо:
Well, I’d better go now as I have to do my homework.
Anyway, I have to go now because my Mum asked me to help her with the washing up.
I’ve got to go now! It’s time for my favourite TV show.

и упомяните о дальнейших контактах:
Write (back) soon!
Take care and keep in touch!
Drop me a letter when you can.
Hope to hear from you soon.
I can’t wait to hear from you!

В конце письма на отдельной строке указывается завершающая фраза-клише, которая зависит от того, насколько близки автор и адресат. После нее всегда ставится запятая! Ниже приводятся возможные варианты от наименее формального (1) к более формальному (8):

1. Love,
2. Lots of love,
3. All my love,
4. All the best,
5. Best wishes,
6. With best wishes,
7. Yours,
8. Warm regards,
   

На следующей строке под завершающей фразой указывается имя автора (без фамилии!). Например:
Andy или Kate

Таким образом, письмо к другу имеет следующий вид:

Адрес пишущего (указывается в правом верхнем углу)
Дата письма (под адресом)

Обращение,
В начале письма автор обычно а) благодарит адресата за ранее полученную корреспонденцию; б) извиняется, что не писал раньше.
Основная часть письма (2—3 абзаца). В ней должны быть раскрыты
все аспекты, указанные в задании.
Не забудьте задать все необходимые вопросы.
В конце письма автор обычно упоминает о причине окончания письма, а также о дальнейших контактах (используются фразы-клише).
Завершающая фраза,
Подпись автора (имя)

Шаблон для написания письма на английском языке

13 Ostozhenka street

Moscow

Russia

04/06/12

Dear…,

I was so happy to get your letter! I can’t wait to meet you in July! I’m sorry I haven’t answered earlier but I was really busy with my school.

You asked me to tell you about… Well, …

By the way, …? …? …?

Unfortunately, I’d better go now as I’ve got loads of homework to do (as always). Take care and keep in touch!

All the best,

Alex

Пример личного письма

You have received a letter from your English- speaking pen-friend who writes

…All in all, my birthday party was great! However, one of my friends came to the party in casual clothes. Just jeans and a T-shirt! Of course I didn’t say anything but she felt a bit left out. I was really sorry for her! And what do you usually wear when you go to a birthday party? Is it important in Russia to wear smart clothes at parties? What would you do if you were me?

I’ve got to go now as I have loads of homework to do. Drop me a line when you can.

Lots of  love,

Patricia

Write a letter to Patricia.

In your letter

13 Gagarina Street

Kazan

Russia

20/09/11

Dear Patricia,

Thanks for your letter. I’m glad your birthday party was a great success!

Well, in Russia we don’t pay much attention to clothes but of course everybody wants to look great! Actually, any clothes will do if a person feels comfortable. As for me, I usually wear a skirt and a smart blouse. You were quite right not to take any notice of your friend’s clothes. If I were you, I would have done the same. It’s not the clothes that count, after all.

By the way, what birthday presents did you get? Did your parents give you what you wanted? What presents did you like most of all? As for me, I prefer books.

I’d better go now. Mum wants me to help with the housework. Take care and stay in touch!

Lots of love,

Ilona

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Рассказ о моей семье часто задают написать на английском языке в школе. Зачастую ребенку трудно написать большой текст, сохранив правильную структуру и грамматические нормы английского языка. Составить рассказ о семье поможет данная статья.

Структура рассказа

Рассказ о моей семье должен начинаться правильно. У него должна быть вводная часть (очень краткая), основная часть, которая содержит всю информацию, а также заключение, тоже довольно краткое.

Первый абзац – это вводная часть. Ее можно начать со следующей фразы:

– I would like to give a talk about my family. (Я бы хотел рассказать о своей семье.)

На этом первый абзац можно закончить.

Второй абзац – это вся основная часть сочинения. Рассказ про семью на английском языке зависит от этого абзаца. Ведь здесь нужно подробно рассказать о своей семье. Пункты, которые следует осветить в основной части:

• Сказать, маленькая семья или большая.
• Назвать всех членов семьи и рассказать про каждого по отдельности.
• Сказать, что ваша семья очень дружная.
• Рассказать про общие хобби и времяпрепровождение.

Для того чтобы написать основную часть, необходимо использовать следующие вводные фразы:

– I think/suppose/presume/believe/guess… (Я думаю/предполагаю/верю/полагаю)

– In my opinion,… (По моему мнению,…)

– However,… (Как бы то ни было…)

– Fortunately,… (К счастью,…)

Третий абзац – это заключение. В этом абзаце нужно оповестить о том, что ваше повествование закончено. Это можно сделать очень грамотной фразой:

– That’s all I wanted to say. (Это все, о чем я хотел вам рассказать).

Написание основной части рассказа

Рассказ про семью на английском языке стоит начать с описания размера вашей семьи. К примеру, если у вас семья большая, нужно сказать:

– I have got a big family или My family is very big. (У меня есть большая семья. Моя семья очень большая.)

Если же ваша семья состоит из 4-х и менее персон, то она считается маленькой. Тогда нужно сказать:

– I have a small family или My family is not very big. (У меня маленькая семья. Моя семья небольшая.)

Рассказ о моей семье нужно дополнить, перечислив всех родственников:

– My family consists of a mother, a father, a brother, a sister, a grandmother, a grandfather, an aunt, an uncle… (Моя семья состоит из мамы, папы, брата, сестры, бабушки, дедушки, дяди, тети и т. д.)

Далее, нужно описать каждого члена вашей семьи. Рассказ о семье на английском языке невозможен без описания ваших ближайших родственников. Например, для мамы подойдет следующее описание:

— My mother’s name is… (имя мамы). I suppose that she is very beautiful and kind. She is 30 years old. She is a doctor. My mother is fond of reading classical books and watching interesting movies. (Мою маму зовут… Я думаю, что она очень красивая и добрая. Ей 30 лет. Она работает доктором. Моя мама любит читать классику и смотреть интересные фильмы.)

Отца семьи можно описать так:

— My father’s name is… (имя папы). I think that he is very tall man with beautiful grey-eyes. He is very hard-working man. He is 40 years old. He is an engineer. I think that he likes his interesting job so much. My father likes to go to the cinema with me. (Моего папу зовут… Я думаю, что он очень высокий мужчина с красивыми серыми глазами. Он очень трудолюбивый. Ему 40 лет. Он работает инженером. Я думаю, что он очень любит его интересную работу. Мой папа любит ходить со мной в кино.)

Рассказ о семье на английском языке может получиться довольно объемным, если описывать подробно каждого родственника (это в том случае, если ваша семья очень большая). Если же она состоит из трех родственников, то вы можете рассказать про каждого члена семьи довольно подробно и ваш рассказ не получится слишком длинным и неинтересным.

После описания ваших родственников не забудьте сказать, что вы очень дружны:

– My family is very friendly. (Моя семья очень дружная.)

– Our family is very united and happy. (Наша семья очень дружная и счастливая.)

Рассказ о моей семье необходимо дополнить информацией о том, что вы делаете вместе с вашими родственниками. Например:

– I like to go fishing with my father. (Я люблю ходить на рыбалку с моим папой.)

– When we have a free time, we always spend it together. (Когда у нас есть свободное время, мы всегда проводим его вместе.)

– I like to go to the park or to the cinema with me lovely sister. (Я люблю ходить в парк или в кино со своей любимой сестрой.)

– My mother and I like to watch interesting movies. (Мы с мамой любим смотреть интересные фильмы.)

Пример рассказа о семье

Рассказ о семье на английском с переводом может выглядеть так:

I would like to give a talk about my lovely family.

My family is not very big. It consists of a mother, father and me. My mother’s name is Kate. She is 35 years old. As for me, she is very beautiful. My mother has very beautiful blue eyes and brown hair. She is a blogger. She likes her profession so much because she can write something interesting about her life and earn money. In fact, she is very popular in our town. What about my father, his name is Bob. He is 40 years old. He is very tall, at about 180 cm. He is a cook. He works in a big restaurant, specialized on French cuisine. As for me, his job is very interesting. Our family is very united and happy. I like to do various things with my parents. For example, we often go to the shopping together. In summer we go to the sea. I love my family so much!

That’s all I wanted to say.

(Я бы хотел рассказать о своей семье.

Моя семья совсем небольшая. Она состоит из моих мамы, папы и меня. Мою маму зовут Кейт. Ей 35 лет. Как по мне, так она очень красивая. У моей мамы красивые голубые глаза и коричневые волосы. Она работает блоггером. Она очень любит свою профессию, потому что она может писать что-то интересное о своей жизни и зарабатывать деньги. На самом деле она очень популярна в нашем городе. Что касается моего отца, его зовут Боб. Ему 40 лет. Он очень высокий, около 180 см. Он повар. Он работает в большом ресторане, специализирующемся на французской кухне. Как по мне, так его работа очень интересная. Наша семья очень дружная и счастливая. Мне нравится делать разные вещи вместе с моими родителями. Например, мы часто ходим в магазин вместе. Летом мы отправляемся на море. Я люблю свою семью очень сильно!

Это все, что я хотел сказать.)

Фразы и словосочетания, которые помогут описать характер и внешность родственников

Каждого родственника в рассказе нужно описать. Зачастую для того, чтобы описать человека, не хватает лексического запаса. Многие полезные выражения и слова, для описания человека и его характера:

— beautiful (красивый);

— kind (добрый);

— friendly (дружелюбный);

— clever (умный);

— green/brown/blue/grey eyes (зеленые/карие/голубые/серые глаза);

— blond hair (светлые волосы);

— brown hair (коричневые волосы);

— tall (высокий);

— fat (толстый);

— low (низкий);

— thin (худой).

Фразы и словосочетания, которые помогут описать род занятий родственников

Старшие члены семьи обычно имеют профессию. Некоторые профессии представлены ниже, их необходимо использовать для описания старших родственников:

— an engineer (инженер);

— a builder (строитель);

— a cook (повар);

— a doctor (доктор);

— a dentist (стоматолог);

— a manager (менеджер);

— a direcor (режиссер);

— a teacher (учитель)

— a writer (писатель);

— a blogger (блоггер).

Интересы родственников помогут описать следующие словосочетания:

— to read books (читать книги);

— to watch movies (смотреть фильмы);

— to walk in the park (гулять в парке);

— to swim in the swimming pool (плавать в бассейне);

— to play piano/gitar (играть на пианино/гитаре);

— to surf the Internet (сидеть в Интернете);

— to cook something tasty (готовить что-нибудь вкусное);

— to learn homework (учить домашнее задание);

— to play games (играть в игры);

— to go to the cinema (ходить в кино);

— to go to the theatre (ходить в театр);

— to go fishing (ходить на рыбалку);

— to play football/volleyball/basketball (играть в футбол/воллейбол/баскетбол);

— to travel around the world (путешествовать вокруг света);

— to listen to the music (слушать музыку).

Данные словосочетания помогут лексически наполнить текст, а также донести до слушателя подробную информацию о своей семье.

Как быстро выучить рассказ о своей семье?

Рассказ о моей семье проще всего выучить, если вы писали его сами. Конечно, можно пользоваться некоторыми источниками, которые дают советы по написанию рассказа, а также приводят в пример некоторые фразы, которые можно использовать для написания рассказа. Главное при составлении рассказа – это писать действительно про свою семью. Если вы будете писать именно про своих родственников, то вы сможете скорее выучить то, что написали.

Когда будете придумывать рассказ, обязательно записывайте его на бумаге, а также вдумывайтесь в то, что написали. Это поможет не только скорее выучить рассказ, но и избежать грамматических ошибок при написании.

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy superhero adventure film, directed, written by Brad Bird, released by Walt Disney Pictures, and the 6th film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was released on November 5, 2004. The story follows a family of superheroes living a quiet suburban life, forced to hide their powers due to public concern about the damage Supers cause. Bird, who was Pixar’s first outside director, developed the film as an extension of 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after the box office disappointment of his first feature, The Iron Giant (1999), and carried over much of its staff to develop The Incredibles. The animation team was tasked with animating an all-human cast, which required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing, and realistic skin and hair. Michael Giacchino composed the film’s orchestral score.

Plot

Set in a world where «Supers», people gifted with superpowers and abilities, are commonplace, the film opens up with three superheroes, Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone, being interviewed. They talked about the subject of what being a superhero means to them, such as the importance of a secret identity, the burden of always being vigilant to protect the world from one threat after another, and the importance of superhero individuality.

Bob Parr is seen driving in his Incredibile when he intercepts the police transmission and switches his car to battle mode, and himself to Mr. Incredible, a superhero with unparalleled super strength and durability. While racing to merge with the police pursuit, he pulls over to help an old lady get her cat out of the tree, using the same tree to stop the bandits just in time. Another police report from his car sends him on his way to hunt down a tour bus robbery, and in his car’s shotgun seat waiting for him is Buddy Pine, a boy who wants to join Mr. Incredible in his crime-fighting efforts, to which he uses the seat’s booster function to get Buddy out of the car, and drives off.

Upon confronting the robber on a rooftop, Elastigirl, a superhero with super-stretching abilities, shows up and knocks him out before he can. After romantic, playful banter, Elastigirl leaves to prepare for a previous engagement. Mr. Incredible proceeds to handle the robber, when Frozone, his closest friend who can create ice from the moisture in the air, reminds him to get ready for his wedding with Elastigirl, a.k.a. Helen Truax.

Mr. Incredible then sees a man jump from the top of a skyscraper in a suicide attempt, and catches him, with both crashing through a window into the building. Mr. Incredible then hears ominous beeping coming from the hallway and when he gets closer to investigate, the wall explodes. And from the smoke emerges Bomb Voyage, a French supervillain who specializes in explosives, walking out with two duffel bags of money. Buddy shows up in the shattered window where Mr. Incredible entered the building. Mr. Incredible orders him to go home, but Buddy insists that he should be his sidekick. Mr. Incredible refuses, to which Buddy claims it is due to his lack of powers. To prove his worth, he rushes to get the police, unaware that Bomb Voyage stuck a bomb to his cape and set the timer. Mr. Incredible has no choice but to release Bomb Voyage and go after Buddy. He removes the bomb from buddy’s cape, which lands on the Metroville Monorail. The timer then runs out and destroys a portion of the track as a train approaches. Mr. Incredible succeeds in stopping the train just in time before it crashes and hands Buddy to the police for compromising his mission and ensuring Bomb Voyage’s escape. The cops ask for his help in going after him, but Mr. Incredible looks at his watch and realizes he is running late for his wedding. After he arrives, they formally get married. It was revealed that Mr. Incredible was sued by both by the victims of the train accident and by the man that attempted suicide, despite Mr. Incredible saving their lives in both instances. That day changed the lives of superheroes altogether. People were starting to think that superheroes were doing more harm than good. After dozens of lawsuits all over the world against Supers, the federal government passed the Super Relocation Act, rendering them illegal. The government also quietly initiated the Superhero Relocation Program, forcing Supers to blend in with normal civilians and not use their powers.

Fifteen years later, Bob and Helen Parr (formerly known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl) are a suburban family and have three children with superpowers. Violet, the eldest, is able to manifest near-impenetrable force fields and turn completely invisible; Dash, the middle child, is a breakneck speedster; and Jack-Jack, the infant, oddly shows no sign of powers. Bob dislikes the mundanity of suburbia and his white-collar job at a corrupt insurance company called Insuricare. His mean boss, Gilbert Huph, berates him for helping customers get access to their insurance money. However, Dash has been shown to feel the same when he gets sent to the Principle’s office for secretly using his powers to pull pranks on his teacher, but gets off scot-free. At dinner, Dash teases Violet about her middle school crush, Tony Rydinger, which starts a fight between them, but is broken up by the arrival of Lucius Best, Frozone’s civilian identity. Bob leaves with Lucius, as they do every Wednesday night. Helen tried to reprimand Dash for pulling pranks on this teacher, but is cut off by Violet, who says Jack-Jack is the only ‘normal’ family member.

Bob and Lucius secretly relive the ‘glory days’ by moonlighting as vigilantes as they do every Wednesday, but tell their wives they are out bowling. Lucius expresses his reluctance to continue their moonlighting on account of the risks that come with it. While listening to the police scanner, they intercept a report of a fire nearby and proceed to the rescue. They narrowly escape with all the people still alive before it collapses, but wind up in a jewelry store next door and are cornered by an officer due to their disguises making them look like bandits. Lucius gets a drink from a water cooler which gives him just enough water to petrify the cop so that they can slip away undetected. The only person who sees them flee is a mysterious woman, Mirage, who was spying on them before they departed, and reports that Frozone, who she was spying on, was with Mr. Incredible, who her boss wants. When Bob gets home, he finds Helen waiting for him and questions exactly where he was. When she finds rubble on him, Bob tried to cover the thing up by saying it was a «workout», which Helen hates because of how risky that is to their civilian cover. However, Bob accidentally reveals that a burning building collapsed, which he heard about because he was listening to a police scanner ‘again’. A full-blown argument erupts, which the kids secretly listen to. Bob and Helen find them and assure them that everything is fine, telling them to head off to bed.

The next day, Bob is at work when he is called into Mr. Huph’s office, who is angry about Bob helping customers find loopholes in their insurance contracts so they get their payments, thereby reducing profits for Insuricare. Bob tries to rationalize his actions by saying the whole point of their company is to help people, but Mr. Huph says the only people they need to concern themselves with are their stockholders. During their conversation, Bob notices a mugging going on outside, but is in no position to go help due to Mr. Huph threatening to fire him. Bob angrily watches the mugger getting away scot-free and Mr. Huff’s smug remark causes Bob to lose his temper, grabs Mr. Huph by the neck, and throws him through several walls, injuring him, exposing his super strength and costing him his job.

As Mr. Huph recovers at the hospital, Bob meets with an old friend, the laid-back yet gruff NSA Agent Rick Dicker, who operates the Super Relocation Program. Dicker is frustrated because this is not the first incident including poorly using his powers, which have blown his cover multiple times. Every time, Dicker has had to come to his rescue by relocating his family, erase everybody’s memory of the incident, and repair whatever damage has been done, which is very expensive. He tells Bob he cannot keep doing this, but before he leaves, he offers to relocate Bob and his family again for old time’s sake, but Bob declines since he can’t do this to his family again after just getting settled into their current home, and bids Rick farewell.

After returning home, Bob empties his briefcase and finds a message from the mysterious woman spying on him and Lucius last night, revealing her name to be Mirage and her knowledge of his superhero identity. She explains herself to be a representative of a top-secret organization that specializes in the research and development of experimental technology and recently, their latest creation has broken out of their control and is now rampaging through the island of Nomanisan where the organization is based. Bob’s mission, should he choose to accept, is to hunt it down and neutralize it before it causes incalculable damage to itself and millions of dollars worth of equipment. After reminiscing about the glory days and covering it up with Helen as a business trip, he calls Mirage and accepts.

Bob travels to the island of Nomanisan in a jet with Mirage. She explains to him that the robot is called an Omnidroid, a top-secret prototype battle robot, able to solve any problem it is confronted with. The only unfortunate problem was its intelligence reached a point where it wondered why it was taking orders, and now it is wreaking havoc in the dense jungle. His mission is to hunt down the Omnidroid v.8 and neutralize it without completely destroying it. Before he departs, Mirage warns him that the Omnidroid’s artificial intelligence makes it exceptionally dangerous in combat because every moment it remains active only increases its knowledge on how to achieve victory.

Upon landing on the island, Mr. Incredible begins his search for the robot through the jungle. He notices trees with slash marks in them and a giant X on the ground. The Omnidroid emerges through the trees right behind him and the fight ensues. He assumes victory, hurting his back in the process, when he tricks it into falling into a lava pit, but it rises from the lava unscathed. Seeing no other way to fight it, he tries to escape on a floating rock, but the Omnidroid catches him and tries to tear him in half. But all it does is realign his back and he tears off one of its claws. Mr. Incredible finally gains the upper hand when he hides in its blind spot directly beneath it, and finally sees a way to defeat it. He tears out one of its optical clusters and climbs inside of it. In trying to attack Mr. Incredible, it repeatedly skewers itself Mr. Incredible pops right out the top and tricks it into ripping out its own power source, destroying it for good. After the battle, a surveillance drone disguised as an island parrot reveals that Mirage and her boss have been watching, and Mr. Incredible rejoins with Mirage for dinner.

Upon returning home, Bob finds the action and higher pay rejuvenating. He improves his relationship with his family and begins rigorous training to lose weight while awaiting more work from Mirage for the next two months. Discovering a tear in his supersuit, he visits his old friend, superhero costume designer Edna Mode. However, instead of fixing the suit, Edna agrees to make him a brand-new suit before his next assignment and send him on his way while begrudgingly agreeing to fix the old suit for sentimental reasons. Back home, Helen spots a silver hair on Bob’s business suit and eavesdrops on a secret call for him when Mirage summons him for a new assignment. Suspecting there may be someone else eyeing for her husband, Helen confronts Bob about who the call was from and nervously wishes him love and luck on his «business trip». After donning his new supersuit and getting settled into his new hotel room on Nomanisan, Mirage instructs him to meet in the conference room by 2 pm. Back home, while vacuuming in Bob’s private office, she notices the sewn-up tear where Edna fixed the old suit and calls her, and Edna tells her to visit.

Back on the island, Mr. Incredible makes his way into the conference room, only to discover it was a trap and is ambushed by the upgraded Omnidroid v.9. While trapped by the robot, he meets its creator, the technology-savvy supervillain Syndrome. Bob recognizes him as Buddy Pine, an enthusiastic and eccentric young inventor who wanted to be Mr. Incredible’s sidekick 15 years prior, but Mr. Incredible rejected him. Syndrome vowed revenge for this shunning, and as he brags about how he has won, Mr. Incredible throws a log at him. However, Syndrome dodges it just in time and traps Mr. Incredible using his zero-point energy. After throwing using the zero-point energy ray to throw Mr. Incredible around in order to show his power over the superhero, Syndrome accidentally throws him over a waterfall and into a river. Syndrome sends a bomb to kill Mr. Incredible and sends a probe to ensure that Mr. Incredible has been killed.

Mr. Incredible manages to avoid the explosion and, discovering the bones of former Super and friend Gazerbeam, fake his death by hiding from the probe behind them. In the process, he discovers that Gazerbeam used his powers to inscribe a dying message into the cave wall: «KRONOS». Determined to discover Syndrome’s plans, Mr. Incredible breaks back into his facilities, avoids being seen by anyone, finds a computer, and, using «KRONOS» as the password, discovers a plan to systematically eliminate Supers. Each Super thus far was pitted against increasingly advanced models of the Omnidroid, and if not terminated by one model, they would be terminated by the next or by Syndrome himself. He also discovers that, although Lucius’ location is known, Helen’s is not. As he browses the database further, he discovers that Operation Kronos’ final stage is to unleash an Omnidroid on Metroville via rocket deployment.

Meanwhile, Helen has become suspicious of Bob having an affair. After discovering Bob’s repaired suit, she talks to Edna and learns she created suits for the entire Parr family, each outfitted with a tracking device. However, when she questions whatever reason she could have for making them, Edna makes her question whether or not she really knows what Bob has been up to. Helen calls Insuricare and they reveal he has been unemployed for 2 months. Edna, knowing that Helen does not know where Bob is, offers her a chance to find his exact location. Helen activates the tracking device built into her husband’s suit so she can find him. Just as he was about to leave the computer room and set about stopping Operation Kronos, Mr. Incredible hears his suit make a beeping noise, leading to his capture by being surrounded by big blobs of black goo trapping him.

Helen borrows a private plane to head for Nomanisan island, but Violet and Dash have stowed away wearing their own suits, leaving Jack-Jack with a babysitter, Kari McKeen. Syndrome interrogates Mr. Incredible about the transmission from a plane requesting permission to land, but to no avail, since he had no idea about his suit’s homing device. When the transmission reveals it to be Helen’s plane, Syndrome sends missiles toward their way. Helen uses her exceptional piloting skills to evade the missiles for a while, but due to Violet not being able to produce a force field large enough to shield the plane, the plane is shot down, with Elastigirl grabbing her kids so they can safely land on the water. Mirage reports that the target was destroyed and its passengers presumed dead. Enraged by the presumed death of his family, Mr. Incredible tries to force Syndrome into releasing him by threatening to kill Mirage. However, Syndrome smugly calls his bluff and leaves him crestfallen at the apparent loss of his family.

Helen and Dash use their powers to help themselves and Violet get to the island. They take refuge in a nearby cave and Elastigirl prepares to head out to look for her husband. Before she departs, she tells Dash and Violet to use their powers to escape the bad guys and she apologizes to Violet for what happened on the plane. Meanwhile, Mirage tells Syndrome that valuing life is not weakness, and angrily tells him to gamble his own life next time, before storming off, leaving him mystified. Elastigirl sneaks in and after prowling around, finding a rocket on her way to finding Mr. Incredible. Back in the cave, Violet practices with her force bubbles while Dash walks through the cave. Dash discovers that the inside of the cave ends with a huge metal tunnel. Syndrome initiates the launch command and the rocket blasts off, with the Omnidroid v.10 onboard. The cave Dash and Violet are in is revealed to be an exhaust vent for the rocket’s lift-off. Dash uses his super speed to get himself and Violet out just in time and witness the rocket launching from the volcano in the center of the island. Back inside the fortress, Elastigirl locates the control center for the containment unit’s cellblock matrix and finds out exactly where Mr. Incredible is. All the while, the rocket reaches optimum position, and the glider carrying the Omnidroid is released and sent toward the city.

The next morning, Dash and Violet are in the jungle, waking up to a talking parrot, only to reveal itself as the same security drone from Mr. Incredible’s previous battle with the first omnidroid prototype, and it signals a security alert. Meanwhile, Mirage arrives after having her change of heart, releases Mr. Incredible, and informs him of his family’s survival. At the same time, Elastigirl arrives and races off with him to find their children. Dash and Violet are spotted and chased by a number of Syndrome’s guards, but fend them off with their powers. While Violet uses her invisibility to hold her ground, Dash races the Velocipods through the jungle, while in the process discovering his super speed comes with the benefit of being able to run on water. Violet hides in a pond to escape capture, but is found by a guard by throwing dirt in the water. Dash stops the guard from shooting Violet, then she returns the favor with a large force field. Dash runs inside the force field, mowing down any guard in their way.

After reuniting with their parents, the entire family engages in a showdown with the guards. However, Syndrome captures them, and imprisons them. He reveals his overall plan for the Incredibles. He intends to save Metroville from his own Omnidroid and thereby become a hero. He intends to sell his gadgets to the world once his career is finished, making everyone ‘super’ and the possession of superpowers no longer unique, meaning that ‘no one will be super’. He departs for Metroville, leaving the Incredibles imprisoned on Nomanisan Island. After his departure, Mr. Incredible vents his grief about being the cause of all of this, claiming that he’s been so afraid of being undervalued, he undervalued his own family. Violet meanwhile uses her force field to sever her magnetic bonds and frees the rest of the family, and with Mirage’s help, they board a second rocket bound for the city.

In Metroville, the Omnidroid has started a path of destruction, and Syndrome enacts his plan, first saving a woman and her baby from a petrol tanker tossed by the Omnidroid, then faking a punch whilst pressing a button to detach one of the robot’s arms, much to the public’s delight. However the Omnidroid, being a learning robot, identifies Syndrome’s remote as being its control source, and fires it off his arm, then shoots at his in-built rocket boosters, sending the villain flying into a building and knocking him unconscious while the robot continues to wreck the city.

Back in Metroville, Lucius searches for his suit that was hidden by his wife, Honey, while the Omnidroid continues its rampage. The Incredibles arrive in Metroville, but Mr. Incredible orders everyone to stay behind while he handles the monster. After a brief argument, Mr. Incredible reveals that he doesn’t want anybody getting hurt, or worse during the fight, considering he already thought he lost his family once. However, danger finds them anyway when the Omnidroid sees them and tries to flatten them. Violet’s shield protects them until the Omnidroid sits on the shield, rendering her unconscious. Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl get them out of the way and team up with Lucius, now in his Frozone suit, to fight the Omnidroid.

The battle is indecisive until Mr. Incredible comes across the remote that was supposedly destroyed in the battle. Bob recovers the remove and throws it to Dash, who races to get it with the Omnidroid firing at him and trapping him amongst burning cars. Elastigirl slingshots a manhole cover and destroys the laser, whilst Frozone rescues Dash. The robot then vaults itself into the air and nearly crushes Frozone and Dash, but he manages to freeze the air around them and cushions their fall. Violet obtains the remote while invisible and everyone tries to figure out how to operate it. Remembering his battle with the Omnidroid v.8 back on the island, Mr. Incredible concludes that the only thing that could penetrate it is itself. The claw launched at him before is exactly what they need to bring the robot down for good. He directs Elastigirl to use the right controls and releases the powered-up claw, which pierces the Omnidroid and its power source. It falls mundanely into the river and explodes, and the city lauds the Incredibles and Frozone as heroes. Syndrome awakens, only to discover his plan foiled, and is very angry that the five Supers are being celebrated.

In a limousine on their way home, Dicker is proud of the Incredibles for defeating Syndrome. Syndrome’s assets are frozen and a warrant is issued for his arrest, while everything regarding collateral damage will be handled personally. During the ride home, Elastigirl is listening to messages left by Kari, Jack Jack’s babysitter, who appears to be very stressed. Things go from bad to worse when she mentions a replacement, which Elastigirl did not call. Upon returning home, the Incredibles find Syndrome with Jack Jack, who he plans to kidnap and raise as his own sidekick to exact revenge on the family. As Syndrome is flown to his manta jet, Jack Jack’s superpowers manifest and he escapes from Syndrome mid-air. Jack-Jack falls but is saved by Elastigirl. When Syndrome announces that he will be back, Mr. Incredible decides to throw his sports car at the manta jet and Syndrome is pushed backward by the resulting explosion. Syndrome is killed when his cape gets him sucked into the jet turbine and the manta jet explodes as a result. The Parrs’ house is destroyed by the jet when it plummets to the ground but, they are happy that they survived it, courtesy of Violet’s force field.

Three months later, the Parrs are watching Dash racing at a track meet. Violet arranges a movie date with Tony and Dash finishes second to avoid detection as a Super. They witness the arrival of a new villain named the Underminer. The Incredibles put on their superhero masks, ready to face a new threat.

Cast

Major Characters

• Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible
• Holly Hunter as Helen Parr/Elastigirl
• Spencer Fox as Dash Parr
• Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr
• Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best/Frozone

Minor Characters

• Eli Fucile and Maeve Andrews as Jack-Jack Parr
• Jason Lee as Buddy Pine/Incrediboy/Syndrome
• Elizabeth Peña as Mirage
• Brad Bird as Edna Mode
• Bud Luckey as Rick Dicker
• Wallace Shawn as Gilbert Huph
• Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger
• Lou Romano as Bernie Kropp
• Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey Best
• Jean Sincere as Mrs. Hogenson
• Bret Parker as Kari McKeen
• Dominique Louis as Bomb Voyage
• John Ratzenberger as The Underminer
• Patrick Pinney as Oliver Sansweet
• Bill Farmer as Oliver Sansweet’s Lawyer

Release

The film premiered on October 27, 2004, at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, where most Disney/Pixar films premiere. The film was also shown on October 27, 2004, at the BFI London Film Festival and had its general release in the United States on November 5, 2004. The film performed highly at the box office, grossing $631 million worldwide during its original theatrical run. The Incredibles was met with high critical acclaim, garnering high marks from professional critics and audiences, and provoking commentary on its themes. Many critics called it the best film of 2004, receiving the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, along with two Academy Awards. It became the first entirely animated film to win the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. It was released on DVD on March 15, 2005, and Blu-Ray on April 12, 2011.

Reception

The film received universal acclaim, with a 97% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 8.3/10, based on 233 reviews. The site’s consensus reads: «Even though The Incredibles is more violent than previous Pixar offerings, it still a witty and fun-filled adventure that almost lives up to its name.» Rotten Tomatoes rates the film as the fifteenth highest-rated animated film of all time. Metacritic, another review aggregator, indicates the film received «universal acclaim», with a 90 out of 100 rating.

Trivia

• The Incredibles was the first Pixar movie where the music was not composed by a member of the Newman family, instead of being the first Pixar film composed by Michael Giacchino.
• Syndrome’s design is based on Purge from Space Channel 5: Part 2, released 4 years before The Incredibles.
• Near the end of the film, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the final of the legendary group of Disney animators called the «Nine Old Men», make an appearance after the Omnidroid v.10 is destroyed. On September 8, 2004, the day that Brad Bird and producer John Walker recorded the commentary for the DVD, Thomas passed away at the age of 92 from a cerebral haemorrhage. 4 years later on April 14, 2008, Johnston passed away at the age of 95 from natural causes.
• The Incredibles have a few similarities to the Fantastic four, being Mr. Incredible to The Thing, Elastigirl to Mr. Fantastic, Violet to the Invisible Woman, Dash to the Human Torch with his movement power and the same youthful recklessness, and Jack-Jack has a wide variety of shapeshifting powers like the young son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman: Franklin Richards.
• This film marks the first Pixar film to be rated PG by the MPAA, unlike the company’s previous films which were rated G.
• The sequence where Frozone is kept at gunpoint by a nervous rookie cop is a direct homage/parody of a similar sequence in Die Hard with a Vengeance. In both films, the threatened character is played by Samuel L. Jackson. Even the police officer’s facial design is recognizably similar.
• This film marks the first Pixar film to center on mostly all-human characters. This may have been the result of Pixar eventually developing technology to get around the infamous «uncanny valley» when it comes to animating humans, compared to the humans seen in the Toy Story films.
• This film marks the only major Pixar film where the Pizza Planet delivery truck from Toy Story does not make an appearance. However, it appears in The Incredibles game in the Late To School level multiple times as the player runs past 4-way intersections, and in the final level.
• The deleted scenes reveal what Bob meant by «workouts» and why Helen was so against them: Secretly wrecking sites scheduled for demolition with brute strength, and they’re such a risk because they’re out in the open and someone could see him.

Transcript

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The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy superhero adventure film, directed, written by Brad Bird, released by Walt Disney Pictures, and the 6th film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was released on November 5, 2004. The story follows a family of superheroes living a quiet suburban life, forced to hide their powers due to public concern about the damage Supers cause. Bird, who was Pixar’s first outside director, developed the film as an extension of 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after the box office disappointment of his first feature, The Iron Giant (1999), and carried over much of its staff to develop The Incredibles. The animation team was tasked with animating an all-human cast, which required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing, and realistic skin and hair. Michael Giacchino composed the film’s orchestral score.

Plot

Set in a world where «Supers», people gifted with superpowers and abilities, are commonplace, the film opens up with three superheroes, Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone, being interviewed. They talked about the subject of what being a superhero means to them, such as the importance of a secret identity, the burden of always being vigilant to protect the world from one threat after another, and the importance of superhero individuality.

Bob Parr is seen driving in his Incredibile when he intercepts the police transmission and switches his car to battle mode, and himself to Mr. Incredible, a superhero with unparalleled super strength and durability. While racing to merge with the police pursuit, he pulls over to help an old lady get her cat out of the tree, using the same tree to stop the bandits just in time. Another police report from his car sends him on his way to hunt down a tour bus robbery, and in his car’s shotgun seat waiting for him is Buddy Pine, a boy who wants to join Mr. Incredible in his crime-fighting efforts, to which he uses the seat’s booster function to get Buddy out of the car, and drives off.

Upon confronting the robber on a rooftop, Elastigirl, a superhero with super-stretching abilities, shows up and knocks him out before he can. After romantic, playful banter, Elastigirl leaves to prepare for a previous engagement. Mr. Incredible proceeds to handle the robber, when Frozone, his closest friend who can create ice from the moisture in the air, reminds him to get ready for his wedding with Elastigirl, a.k.a. Helen Truax.

Mr. Incredible then sees a man jump from the top of a skyscraper in a suicide attempt, and catches him, with both crashing through a window into the building. Mr. Incredible then hears ominous beeping coming from the hallway and when he gets closer to investigate, the wall explodes. And from the smoke emerges Bomb Voyage, a French supervillain who specializes in explosives, walking out with two duffel bags of money. Buddy shows up in the shattered window where Mr. Incredible entered the building. Mr. Incredible orders him to go home, but Buddy insists that he should be his sidekick. Mr. Incredible refuses, to which Buddy claims it is due to his lack of powers. To prove his worth, he rushes to get the police, unaware that Bomb Voyage stuck a bomb to his cape and set the timer. Mr. Incredible has no choice but to release Bomb Voyage and go after Buddy. He removes the bomb from buddy’s cape, which lands on the Metroville Monorail. The timer then runs out and destroys a portion of the track as a train approaches. Mr. Incredible succeeds in stopping the train just in time before it crashes and hands Buddy to the police for compromising his mission and ensuring Bomb Voyage’s escape. The cops ask for his help in going after him, but Mr. Incredible looks at his watch and realizes he is running late for his wedding. After he arrives, they formally get married. It was revealed that Mr. Incredible was sued by both by the victims of the train accident and by the man that attempted suicide, despite Mr. Incredible saving their lives in both instances. That day changed the lives of superheroes altogether. People were starting to think that superheroes were doing more harm than good. After dozens of lawsuits all over the world against Supers, the federal government passed the Super Relocation Act, rendering them illegal. The government also quietly initiated the Superhero Relocation Program, forcing Supers to blend in with normal civilians and not use their powers.

Fifteen years later, Bob and Helen Parr (formerly known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl) are a suburban family and have three children with superpowers. Violet, the eldest, is able to manifest near-impenetrable force fields and turn completely invisible; Dash, the middle child, is a breakneck speedster; and Jack-Jack, the infant, oddly shows no sign of powers. Bob dislikes the mundanity of suburbia and his white-collar job at a corrupt insurance company called Insuricare. His mean boss, Gilbert Huph, berates him for helping customers get access to their insurance money. However, Dash has been shown to feel the same when he gets sent to the Principle’s office for secretly using his powers to pull pranks on his teacher, but gets off scot-free. At dinner, Dash teases Violet about her middle school crush, Tony Rydinger, which starts a fight between them, but is broken up by the arrival of Lucius Best, Frozone’s civilian identity. Bob leaves with Lucius, as they do every Wednesday night. Helen tried to reprimand Dash for pulling pranks on this teacher, but is cut off by Violet, who says Jack-Jack is the only ‘normal’ family member.

Bob and Lucius secretly relive the ‘glory days’ by moonlighting as vigilantes as they do every Wednesday, but tell their wives they are out bowling. Lucius expresses his reluctance to continue their moonlighting on account of the risks that come with it. While listening to the police scanner, they intercept a report of a fire nearby and proceed to the rescue. They narrowly escape with all the people still alive before it collapses, but wind up in a jewelry store next door and are cornered by an officer due to their disguises making them look like bandits. Lucius gets a drink from a water cooler which gives him just enough water to petrify the cop so that they can slip away undetected. The only person who sees them flee is a mysterious woman, Mirage, who was spying on them before they departed, and reports that Frozone, who she was spying on, was with Mr. Incredible, who her boss wants. When Bob gets home, he finds Helen waiting for him and questions exactly where he was. When she finds rubble on him, Bob tried to cover the thing up by saying it was a «workout», which Helen hates because of how risky that is to their civilian cover. However, Bob accidentally reveals that a burning building collapsed, which he heard about because he was listening to a police scanner ‘again’. A full-blown argument erupts, which the kids secretly listen to. Bob and Helen find them and assure them that everything is fine, telling them to head off to bed.

The next day, Bob is at work when he is called into Mr. Huph’s office, who is angry about Bob helping customers find loopholes in their insurance contracts so they get their payments, thereby reducing profits for Insuricare. Bob tries to rationalize his actions by saying the whole point of their company is to help people, but Mr. Huph says the only people they need to concern themselves with are their stockholders. During their conversation, Bob notices a mugging going on outside, but is in no position to go help due to Mr. Huph threatening to fire him. Bob angrily watches the mugger getting away scot-free and Mr. Huff’s smug remark causes Bob to lose his temper, grabs Mr. Huph by the neck, and throws him through several walls, injuring him, exposing his super strength and costing him his job.

As Mr. Huph recovers at the hospital, Bob meets with an old friend, the laid-back yet gruff NSA Agent Rick Dicker, who operates the Super Relocation Program. Dicker is frustrated because this is not the first incident including poorly using his powers, which have blown his cover multiple times. Every time, Dicker has had to come to his rescue by relocating his family, erase everybody’s memory of the incident, and repair whatever damage has been done, which is very expensive. He tells Bob he cannot keep doing this, but before he leaves, he offers to relocate Bob and his family again for old time’s sake, but Bob declines since he can’t do this to his family again after just getting settled into their current home, and bids Rick farewell.

After returning home, Bob empties his briefcase and finds a message from the mysterious woman spying on him and Lucius last night, revealing her name to be Mirage and her knowledge of his superhero identity. She explains herself to be a representative of a top-secret organization that specializes in the research and development of experimental technology and recently, their latest creation has broken out of their control and is now rampaging through the island of Nomanisan where the organization is based. Bob’s mission, should he choose to accept, is to hunt it down and neutralize it before it causes incalculable damage to itself and millions of dollars worth of equipment. After reminiscing about the glory days and covering it up with Helen as a business trip, he calls Mirage and accepts.

Bob travels to the island of Nomanisan in a jet with Mirage. She explains to him that the robot is called an Omnidroid, a top-secret prototype battle robot, able to solve any problem it is confronted with. The only unfortunate problem was its intelligence reached a point where it wondered why it was taking orders, and now it is wreaking havoc in the dense jungle. His mission is to hunt down the Omnidroid v.8 and neutralize it without completely destroying it. Before he departs, Mirage warns him that the Omnidroid’s artificial intelligence makes it exceptionally dangerous in combat because every moment it remains active only increases its knowledge on how to achieve victory.

Upon landing on the island, Mr. Incredible begins his search for the robot through the jungle. He notices trees with slash marks in them and a giant X on the ground. The Omnidroid emerges through the trees right behind him and the fight ensues. He assumes victory, hurting his back in the process, when he tricks it into falling into a lava pit, but it rises from the lava unscathed. Seeing no other way to fight it, he tries to escape on a floating rock, but the Omnidroid catches him and tries to tear him in half. But all it does is realign his back and he tears off one of its claws. Mr. Incredible finally gains the upper hand when he hides in its blind spot directly beneath it, and finally sees a way to defeat it. He tears out one of its optical clusters and climbs inside of it. In trying to attack Mr. Incredible, it repeatedly skewers itself Mr. Incredible pops right out the top and tricks it into ripping out its own power source, destroying it for good. After the battle, a surveillance drone disguised as an island parrot reveals that Mirage and her boss have been watching, and Mr. Incredible rejoins with Mirage for dinner.

Upon returning home, Bob finds the action and higher pay rejuvenating. He improves his relationship with his family and begins rigorous training to lose weight while awaiting more work from Mirage for the next two months. Discovering a tear in his supersuit, he visits his old friend, superhero costume designer Edna Mode. However, instead of fixing the suit, Edna agrees to make him a brand-new suit before his next assignment and send him on his way while begrudgingly agreeing to fix the old suit for sentimental reasons. Back home, Helen spots a silver hair on Bob’s business suit and eavesdrops on a secret call for him when Mirage summons him for a new assignment. Suspecting there may be someone else eyeing for her husband, Helen confronts Bob about who the call was from and nervously wishes him love and luck on his «business trip». After donning his new supersuit and getting settled into his new hotel room on Nomanisan, Mirage instructs him to meet in the conference room by 2 pm. Back home, while vacuuming in Bob’s private office, she notices the sewn-up tear where Edna fixed the old suit and calls her, and Edna tells her to visit.

Back on the island, Mr. Incredible makes his way into the conference room, only to discover it was a trap and is ambushed by the upgraded Omnidroid v.9. While trapped by the robot, he meets its creator, the technology-savvy supervillain Syndrome. Bob recognizes him as Buddy Pine, an enthusiastic and eccentric young inventor who wanted to be Mr. Incredible’s sidekick 15 years prior, but Mr. Incredible rejected him. Syndrome vowed revenge for this shunning, and as he brags about how he has won, Mr. Incredible throws a log at him. However, Syndrome dodges it just in time and traps Mr. Incredible using his zero-point energy. After throwing using the zero-point energy ray to throw Mr. Incredible around in order to show his power over the superhero, Syndrome accidentally throws him over a waterfall and into a river. Syndrome sends a bomb to kill Mr. Incredible and sends a probe to ensure that Mr. Incredible has been killed.

Mr. Incredible manages to avoid the explosion and, discovering the bones of former Super and friend Gazerbeam, fake his death by hiding from the probe behind them. In the process, he discovers that Gazerbeam used his powers to inscribe a dying message into the cave wall: «KRONOS». Determined to discover Syndrome’s plans, Mr. Incredible breaks back into his facilities, avoids being seen by anyone, finds a computer, and, using «KRONOS» as the password, discovers a plan to systematically eliminate Supers. Each Super thus far was pitted against increasingly advanced models of the Omnidroid, and if not terminated by one model, they would be terminated by the next or by Syndrome himself. He also discovers that, although Lucius’ location is known, Helen’s is not. As he browses the database further, he discovers that Operation Kronos’ final stage is to unleash an Omnidroid on Metroville via rocket deployment.

Meanwhile, Helen has become suspicious of Bob having an affair. After discovering Bob’s repaired suit, she talks to Edna and learns she created suits for the entire Parr family, each outfitted with a tracking device. However, when she questions whatever reason she could have for making them, Edna makes her question whether or not she really knows what Bob has been up to. Helen calls Insuricare and they reveal he has been unemployed for 2 months. Edna, knowing that Helen does not know where Bob is, offers her a chance to find his exact location. Helen activates the tracking device built into her husband’s suit so she can find him. Just as he was about to leave the computer room and set about stopping Operation Kronos, Mr. Incredible hears his suit make a beeping noise, leading to his capture by being surrounded by big blobs of black goo trapping him.

Helen borrows a private plane to head for Nomanisan island, but Violet and Dash have stowed away wearing their own suits, leaving Jack-Jack with a babysitter, Kari McKeen. Syndrome interrogates Mr. Incredible about the transmission from a plane requesting permission to land, but to no avail, since he had no idea about his suit’s homing device. When the transmission reveals it to be Helen’s plane, Syndrome sends missiles toward their way. Helen uses her exceptional piloting skills to evade the missiles for a while, but due to Violet not being able to produce a force field large enough to shield the plane, the plane is shot down, with Elastigirl grabbing her kids so they can safely land on the water. Mirage reports that the target was destroyed and its passengers presumed dead. Enraged by the presumed death of his family, Mr. Incredible tries to force Syndrome into releasing him by threatening to kill Mirage. However, Syndrome smugly calls his bluff and leaves him crestfallen at the apparent loss of his family.

Helen and Dash use their powers to help themselves and Violet get to the island. They take refuge in a nearby cave and Elastigirl prepares to head out to look for her husband. Before she departs, she tells Dash and Violet to use their powers to escape the bad guys and she apologizes to Violet for what happened on the plane. Meanwhile, Mirage tells Syndrome that valuing life is not weakness, and angrily tells him to gamble his own life next time, before storming off, leaving him mystified. Elastigirl sneaks in and after prowling around, finding a rocket on her way to finding Mr. Incredible. Back in the cave, Violet practices with her force bubbles while Dash walks through the cave. Dash discovers that the inside of the cave ends with a huge metal tunnel. Syndrome initiates the launch command and the rocket blasts off, with the Omnidroid v.10 onboard. The cave Dash and Violet are in is revealed to be an exhaust vent for the rocket’s lift-off. Dash uses his super speed to get himself and Violet out just in time and witness the rocket launching from the volcano in the center of the island. Back inside the fortress, Elastigirl locates the control center for the containment unit’s cellblock matrix and finds out exactly where Mr. Incredible is. All the while, the rocket reaches optimum position, and the glider carrying the Omnidroid is released and sent toward the city.

The next morning, Dash and Violet are in the jungle, waking up to a talking parrot, only to reveal itself as the same security drone from Mr. Incredible’s previous battle with the first omnidroid prototype, and it signals a security alert. Meanwhile, Mirage arrives after having her change of heart, releases Mr. Incredible, and informs him of his family’s survival. At the same time, Elastigirl arrives and races off with him to find their children. Dash and Violet are spotted and chased by a number of Syndrome’s guards, but fend them off with their powers. While Violet uses her invisibility to hold her ground, Dash races the Velocipods through the jungle, while in the process discovering his super speed comes with the benefit of being able to run on water. Violet hides in a pond to escape capture, but is found by a guard by throwing dirt in the water. Dash stops the guard from shooting Violet, then she returns the favor with a large force field. Dash runs inside the force field, mowing down any guard in their way.

After reuniting with their parents, the entire family engages in a showdown with the guards. However, Syndrome captures them, and imprisons them. He reveals his overall plan for the Incredibles. He intends to save Metroville from his own Omnidroid and thereby become a hero. He intends to sell his gadgets to the world once his career is finished, making everyone ‘super’ and the possession of superpowers no longer unique, meaning that ‘no one will be super’. He departs for Metroville, leaving the Incredibles imprisoned on Nomanisan Island. After his departure, Mr. Incredible vents his grief about being the cause of all of this, claiming that he’s been so afraid of being undervalued, he undervalued his own family. Violet meanwhile uses her force field to sever her magnetic bonds and frees the rest of the family, and with Mirage’s help, they board a second rocket bound for the city.

In Metroville, the Omnidroid has started a path of destruction, and Syndrome enacts his plan, first saving a woman and her baby from a petrol tanker tossed by the Omnidroid, then faking a punch whilst pressing a button to detach one of the robot’s arms, much to the public’s delight. However the Omnidroid, being a learning robot, identifies Syndrome’s remote as being its control source, and fires it off his arm, then shoots at his in-built rocket boosters, sending the villain flying into a building and knocking him unconscious while the robot continues to wreck the city.

Back in Metroville, Lucius searches for his suit that was hidden by his wife, Honey, while the Omnidroid continues its rampage. The Incredibles arrive in Metroville, but Mr. Incredible orders everyone to stay behind while he handles the monster. After a brief argument, Mr. Incredible reveals that he doesn’t want anybody getting hurt, or worse during the fight, considering he already thought he lost his family once. However, danger finds them anyway when the Omnidroid sees them and tries to flatten them. Violet’s shield protects them until the Omnidroid sits on the shield, rendering her unconscious. Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl get them out of the way and team up with Lucius, now in his Frozone suit, to fight the Omnidroid.

The battle is indecisive until Mr. Incredible comes across the remote that was supposedly destroyed in the battle. Bob recovers the remove and throws it to Dash, who races to get it with the Omnidroid firing at him and trapping him amongst burning cars. Elastigirl slingshots a manhole cover and destroys the laser, whilst Frozone rescues Dash. The robot then vaults itself into the air and nearly crushes Frozone and Dash, but he manages to freeze the air around them and cushions their fall. Violet obtains the remote while invisible and everyone tries to figure out how to operate it. Remembering his battle with the Omnidroid v.8 back on the island, Mr. Incredible concludes that the only thing that could penetrate it is itself. The claw launched at him before is exactly what they need to bring the robot down for good. He directs Elastigirl to use the right controls and releases the powered-up claw, which pierces the Omnidroid and its power source. It falls mundanely into the river and explodes, and the city lauds the Incredibles and Frozone as heroes. Syndrome awakens, only to discover his plan foiled, and is very angry that the five Supers are being celebrated.

In a limousine on their way home, Dicker is proud of the Incredibles for defeating Syndrome. Syndrome’s assets are frozen and a warrant is issued for his arrest, while everything regarding collateral damage will be handled personally. During the ride home, Elastigirl is listening to messages left by Kari, Jack Jack’s babysitter, who appears to be very stressed. Things go from bad to worse when she mentions a replacement, which Elastigirl did not call. Upon returning home, the Incredibles find Syndrome with Jack Jack, who he plans to kidnap and raise as his own sidekick to exact revenge on the family. As Syndrome is flown to his manta jet, Jack Jack’s superpowers manifest and he escapes from Syndrome mid-air. Jack-Jack falls but is saved by Elastigirl. When Syndrome announces that he will be back, Mr. Incredible decides to throw his sports car at the manta jet and Syndrome is pushed backward by the resulting explosion. Syndrome is killed when his cape gets him sucked into the jet turbine and the manta jet explodes as a result. The Parrs’ house is destroyed by the jet when it plummets to the ground but, they are happy that they survived it, courtesy of Violet’s force field.

Three months later, the Parrs are watching Dash racing at a track meet. Violet arranges a movie date with Tony and Dash finishes second to avoid detection as a Super. They witness the arrival of a new villain named the Underminer. The Incredibles put on their superhero masks, ready to face a new threat.

Cast

Major Characters

• Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible
• Holly Hunter as Helen Parr/Elastigirl
• Spencer Fox as Dash Parr
• Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr
• Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best/Frozone

Minor Characters

• Eli Fucile and Maeve Andrews as Jack-Jack Parr
• Jason Lee as Buddy Pine/Incrediboy/Syndrome
• Elizabeth Peña as Mirage
• Brad Bird as Edna Mode
• Bud Luckey as Rick Dicker
• Wallace Shawn as Gilbert Huph
• Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger
• Lou Romano as Bernie Kropp
• Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey Best
• Jean Sincere as Mrs. Hogenson
• Bret Parker as Kari McKeen
• Dominique Louis as Bomb Voyage
• John Ratzenberger as The Underminer
• Patrick Pinney as Oliver Sansweet
• Bill Farmer as Oliver Sansweet’s Lawyer

Release

The film premiered on October 27, 2004, at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, where most Disney/Pixar films premiere. The film was also shown on October 27, 2004, at the BFI London Film Festival and had its general release in the United States on November 5, 2004. The film performed highly at the box office, grossing $631 million worldwide during its original theatrical run. The Incredibles was met with high critical acclaim, garnering high marks from professional critics and audiences, and provoking commentary on its themes. Many critics called it the best film of 2004, receiving the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, along with two Academy Awards. It became the first entirely animated film to win the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. It was released on DVD on March 15, 2005, and Blu-Ray on April 12, 2011.

Reception

The film received universal acclaim, with a 97% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 8.3/10, based on 233 reviews. The site’s consensus reads: «Even though The Incredibles is more violent than previous Pixar offerings, it still a witty and fun-filled adventure that almost lives up to its name.» Rotten Tomatoes rates the film as the fifteenth highest-rated animated film of all time. Metacritic, another review aggregator, indicates the film received «universal acclaim», with a 90 out of 100 rating.

Trivia

• The Incredibles was the first Pixar movie where the music was not composed by a member of the Newman family, instead of being the first Pixar film composed by Michael Giacchino.
• Syndrome’s design is based on Purge from Space Channel 5: Part 2, released 4 years before The Incredibles.
• Near the end of the film, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the final of the legendary group of Disney animators called the «Nine Old Men», make an appearance after the Omnidroid v.10 is destroyed. On September 8, 2004, the day that Brad Bird and producer John Walker recorded the commentary for the DVD, Thomas passed away at the age of 92 from a cerebral haemorrhage. 4 years later on April 14, 2008, Johnston passed away at the age of 95 from natural causes.
• The Incredibles have a few similarities to the Fantastic four, being Mr. Incredible to The Thing, Elastigirl to Mr. Fantastic, Violet to the Invisible Woman, Dash to the Human Torch with his movement power and the same youthful recklessness, and Jack-Jack has a wide variety of shapeshifting powers like the young son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman: Franklin Richards.
• This film marks the first Pixar film to be rated PG by the MPAA, unlike the company’s previous films which were rated G.
• The sequence where Frozone is kept at gunpoint by a nervous rookie cop is a direct homage/parody of a similar sequence in Die Hard with a Vengeance. In both films, the threatened character is played by Samuel L. Jackson. Even the police officer’s facial design is recognizably similar.
• This film marks the first Pixar film to center on mostly all-human characters. This may have been the result of Pixar eventually developing technology to get around the infamous «uncanny valley» when it comes to animating humans, compared to the humans seen in the Toy Story films.
• This film marks the only major Pixar film where the Pizza Planet delivery truck from Toy Story does not make an appearance. However, it appears in The Incredibles game in the Late To School level multiple times as the player runs past 4-way intersections, and in the final level.
• The deleted scenes reveal what Bob meant by «workouts» and why Helen was so against them: Secretly wrecking sites scheduled for demolition with brute strength, and they’re such a risk because they’re out in the open and someone could see him.

Transcript

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