{"id":2511,"date":"2004-12-19T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T22:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/12\/19\/2511.html"},"modified":"2004-12-19T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T22:39:46","slug":"review-the-incredibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/12\/19\/review-the-incredibles\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Incredibles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kam and I went to see The Incredibles<\/a><\/cite> last night. It was thoroughly enjoyable.<\/p>\n

It was written and directed by Brad Bird<\/a>, who directed and wrote the story for The Iron Giant<\/a>.<\/cite> Unlike almost every other sf fan who saw Iron Giant,<\/cite> I wasn't thrilled by it; I thought it wasn't bad, and was worth seeing, but I wasn't all that enthusiastic about it.<\/p>\n

I'm definitely enthusiastic about Incredibles,<\/cite> though. It has a few brief weak moments, but most of it is entertaining and fast-paced and charming and all-around delightful. The visuals are excellent throughout and occasionally astonishing. The action sequences are mostly great. There are sappy emotional bits and Important Family Messages, but they're handled well; a couple of moments brought tears to my eyes. And the movie is very funny almost all the way through. My favorite bits were a couple of extremely funny sequences featuring a costume designer named Edna, whose voice is done by the writer\/director. (According to the IMDB, Edna's based on Edith Head<\/a>, renowned movie costume designer, but I don't know what aspects of the character are based on Head.)<\/p>\n

The music is good, too, though I don't think I consciously noticed that 'til the very nicely made closing credits sequence.<\/p>\n

Anyway. Short version: Excellent movie. Go see it.<\/p>\n

I gather there's a Fantastic Four<\/a><\/cite> movie in production; I suspect Incredibles<\/cite> steals a lot of that movie's thunder, since several aspects of Incredibles<\/cite> are clearly derived from the FF. I wouldn't be too surprised to hear kids come out of the FF movie saying, \"Not bad, but they sure stole a lot from The Incredibles.<\/cite>\"<\/p>\n

Also worth noting: the unrelated short that they show before the movie, \"Boundin'<\/a>,\" isn't bad. I thought the music (by writer\/director Bud Luckey<\/a>) was catchy and fun, and the lyrics were nicely done; it's hard to write sentences that sound like normal English but that happen to rhyme in all the right places. And I enjoyed the animation, and it probably helped put me in the right mood for the main feature. On the other hand, it was kinda heavy-handed in its overt Message. Still, it did make me laugh several times, and it was really charming. You can see a snippet<\/a> on the Pixar site. Overall I'd say it's better than several of Pixar's other shorts<\/a>, but not quite as good as \"For the Birds.\"<\/p>\n

Oh—in case you haven't seen 'em, the Pixar site also provides \"outtakes<\/a>\" from a few of the feature movies.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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