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The Incredibles
Directed by Brad Bird
Produced by John Walker
Written by Brad Bird
Starring Craig T. Nelson
Holly Hunter
Sarah Vowell
Spencer Fox
Jason Lee
Brad Bird
Samuel L. Jackson
Elizabeth Peña
Music by Michael Giacchino
Cinematography Andrew Jimenez
Patrick Lin
Janet Lucroy
Editing by Stephen Schaffer
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s) November 5, 2004
Running time 115 min.
Country United States
Language English
French
Spanish
Budget $92 million
Gross revenue Domestic:
$261,441,092
Worldwide: $631,442,092
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The Incredibles is a 2004 American Academy Award-winning computer-animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, centering around a family of superheroes. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director of The Simpsons previously best known for directing the 1999 animated movie The Iron Giant. The Incredibles was originally developed as a traditionally-animated movie for Warner Bros., but after Warner shut down its animation division, Bird moved to Pixar and took the story with him.

The Incredibles is Pixar's sixth feature film. It was presented by Walt Disney Pictures and released by Buena Vista Distribution in North America on November 5, 2004, and in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland on November 26 of the same year and in Japan, February 2, 2005. It is the first Pixar movie to be rated PG by the MPAA and the first to feature an entirely human cast of characters. It was released in a two-disc DVD in the U.S. on March 15, 2005. According to the Internet Movie Database, it was the highest-selling DVD of 2005, with 17.18 million copies sold. It had its basic cable premiere on ABC Family as part of The 25 Days of Christmas in December 2007.

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After a train rescue that left a hundred people injured, a series of lawsuits has forced superheroes, known as "Supers," into a government-sponsored program similar to witness protection in exchange for a promise to stop all superhero work.

Fifteen years later, two superheroes, Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) and Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) have married and settled into relatively normal lives. Now known as Bob and Helen Parr, they have a house in the suburbs and are raising three kids, Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dashiell ("Dash") (Spencer Fox) and baby Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile). Violet and Dash each have superpowers like their parents, while it seems as if Jack-Jack is a normal baby without powers.

Bob is frustrated with the drudgery of his job as a claims adjuster for a corrupt insurance company called Insuricare and secretly helps deserving clients to find loopholes to get their payments. He dreams of returning back to his glory days of superheroism, going so far as to moonlight as a crimefighter by listening to a police scanner with his friend Lucius - another former super called Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson). When Helen finds out, it causes an argument. Bob hates having to hide their gifts, and wants to return to the heroics of the old days, while Helen is concerned about keeping the family together and not having to start over again by going into hiding in a brand new location.

Eventually Mr. Huph (Wallace Shawn), Bob's miserly boss, suspects Bob is helping clients and reprimands him. During the lecture, Bob notices a person being mugged in the street. Mr. Huph stops Bob from going to the victim's aid, threatening to fire him, and the mugger escapes. Bob is furious, and when Huph smugly begins lecturing again, Bob grabs him by the neck and hurls him through several office walls. Huph is hospitalized and Bob is fired.

While Bob is trying to figure out how to tell Helen, Mirage (Elizabeth Peña), a mysterious agent, contacts him and offers highly-paid work: subduing a renegade robot, the Omnidroid 9000, on Nomanisan, an uncharted volcanic island. Bob takes the assignment, hiding both the loss of his job and the renewal of hero work from Helen. Bob defeats the Omnidroid from the inside, damaging his supersuit slightly from the battle, and becomes much happier. When he takes his suit to its designer, flamboyant Edna Mode (Brad Bird), for repair, she creates for him a brand-new suit; she is adamant about only one detail: "No capes!" She points out how several super heroes met untimely deaths because their capes were sucked into jet turbines (Stratogale), snags on missile fins (Thunderhead), express elevator trouble (Meta-Man), sucked into vortexes (Splashdown), snagged on takeoff (Dynaguy) and many more. Unbeknownst to him, she also creates suits for his entire family.

Two months later, Mirage calls Bob with a new assignment. Helen overhears the call, but does not realize its full implications or content. When Bob returns to the island, he is ambushed and defeated by an improved version of the Omnidroid prototype robot. He is held captive there by Syndrome (Jason Lee), once a young fan named Buddy Pine. Buddy once wanted to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick, but was harshly rejected "learning an important lesson: you can't count on anyone, especially your heroes". Embittered, he made a fortune in high-tech weapons technology. He then invented the Omnidroid, a robot designed to kill supers. Bob manages to escape from Syndrome and discovers that Syndrome has killed many of his superhero friends in the process of developing the Omnidroid, and is now planning on unleashing the robot into the city of Metroville where it will cause mass destruction, with only Syndrome able to stop it.

Back at home, Helen notices that Bob's old super suit has recently been repaired. She visits Edna and learns that he has resumed superhero work. With a call to Insuricare she also realizes that Bob is no longer employed. Edna has also created super suits for Helen and the children, and advises her to take control of the situation.

Helen activates the homing device Edna built into Bob’s super suit, which reveals his location to both her and Syndrome (who recaptures him). She heads for the island in a jet plane, on which Violet and Dash have stowed away, after leaving Jack-Jack at home with a babysitter. Syndrome, meanwhile, tortures Bob for information and launches a missile attack against Helen's airplane. Helen and the kids manage to escape unharmed, and swim to the island, though everyone on the island believes they are killed. Bob grabs Mirage and threatens to kill her unless Syndrome frees him; Syndrome calls this bluff, and Bob releases her unharmed, remaining Syndrome's prisoner.

While Helen infiltrates Syndrome’s base, the new and improved Omnidroid 10000 is launched on a rocket towards its target, Metroville. In Syndrome’s base, a grateful Mirage secretly frees Bob just before Helen arrives. The two superheroes rush to find their children, who are fighting off Syndrome’s henchmen. A battle ensues, wherein the family cooperates to defeat their attackers. However, Syndrome arrives and captures the Incredibles using his zero-point energy fields. Syndrome then explains his plan: to save Metroville from his own Omnidroid and thereby become a hero. He then leaves the Incredibles in an energy prison. Violet’s force fields allow them to escape, however. With Mirage’s help they depart for the mainland after Syndrome.

In Metroville, Syndrome attempts to stop the Omnidroid's destructive rampage, but the robot figures out the nature of his remote control and knocks him unconscious. The Incredibles and Frozone fight the robot. Together, they are able to get the Omnidroid to disable itself. The town applauds them for their achievements; the possibility of superheroes coming out of hiding is mentioned and for the government to "let the politicians figure it out". Syndrome wakes up to find that the Incredibles have stolen his glory.

The Incredibles return home to find that Syndrome is kidnapping Jack-Jack. As Syndrome attempts to fly up to his jet using his rocket boots, Jack-Jack suddenly reveals his super powers by transforming into fire, metal, and then an imp-like monster. Syndrome drops Jack-Jack, who is caught by Helen, and attempts to flee. Bob hurls the family car into the jet; Syndrome is knocked into the turbine and is killed when his cape is caught in the engine and pulls him in -- just as Edna might have warned him. Violet then protects the family from the raining flames and debris as the jet explodes, much to the amazement of their young neighbor, who responds with the words "That was totally WICKED!!".

Three months later, the family is much happier; even Bob is content with their civilian life. Dash is running in a track meet; he carefully controls his use of super-speed and finishes in second place. Violet, who formerly felt alienated to the point of using her hair to hide her face, is found with her hair pulled back and successfully asking her friend Tony for a date to the movies, with Tony getting nervous instead of Violet. As they walk out of the sports complex, a new villain, The Underminer (John Ratzenberger), rises from the ground and declares "war on peace and happiness.” The movie ends as the family members, including Jack-Jack, put on their masks and prepare to fight.

Actor Role
Craig T. Nelson Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible
Holly Hunter Helen Parr / Elastigirl
Sarah Vowell Violet "Vi" Parr
Spencer Fox Dashiell Robert "Dash" Parr
Jason Lee Buddy Pine / Incrediboy / Syndrome
Dominique Louis Bomb Voyage
Brad Bird Edna "E" Mode
Samuel L. Jackson Lucius Best / Frozone
Wallace Shawn Mr. Huph
Elizabeth Peña Mirage
John Ratzenberger The Underminer

Critical response to The Incredibles was overwhelmingly positive, receiving a 97% "Certified Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[1] Critic Roger Ebert awarded the film three-and-a-half stars 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." Rolling Stone gave the movie three-and-a-half stars and called the movie "one of the year's best" and said that it "doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true."[2] Also giving the film three-and-a-half stars, People magazine found that The Incredibles "boasts a strong, entertaining story and a truckload of savvy comic touches."[3]

Some negative criticism was directed towards the film's violence, which suggested that the "Incredibles" are free to arbitrarily punch criminals and enemy troops to render them unconscious and injured, even when those criminals or troops are disarmed and pose no threat; indeed, the film is much more violent than any previous Pixar film and the first to receive a PG rating from the MPAA. Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that "the Pixar whizzes do what they do excellently; you just wish they were doing something else."[4] Similarly, 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."[5]

Following concerns that the film would receive underwhelming results,[6] the film grossed $70,467,623 in its opening weekend, the highest opening weekend gross for a Pixar film, just barely beating Finding Nemo's opening weekend take of $70,251,710.[7][8] The film ultimately grossed $261,441,092, the second-highest gross for a Pixar film (behind Finding Nemo) and the fifth-highest grossing film of 2004.[9] Worldwide, the film grossed $631,436,092, ranking fourth for the year.[10]

The Incredibles two-disc Collector's Edition DVD set was released on March 15, 2005. Two versions of the set are available: one widescreen and the other full screen (this is unlike releases for other Pixar films, which often contained both versions in one set). Like many other DVD releases, there are various extra features available on the two discs including:

  • Introduction, an introduction for the extras featuring Brad Bird
  • Deleted Scenes, the films deleted scenes plus an intro for all of them
  • Jack-Jack Attack, a Pixar short film made especially for the release of The Incredibles about what happened while Kari was babysitting Jack-Jack
  • The Making of The Incredibles, a documentary about making The Incredibles featuring about 30 of the crew members
    • More Making of The Incredibles, another longer documentary also about making The Incredibles
  • Incredi-Blunders, The Incredibles outtakes
  • Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell, a documentary about the life of Sarah Vowell, a writer who did the voice of Violet Parr
  • Character Interviews, actor and actresses interview the characters
  • Theatrical Trailer, The Incredibles film trailer
  • Mr. Incredible and Pals, a Mr. Incredible cartoon spoofing cheesy superhero cartoons from the 1960s, as well as Synchro-Vox cartoons like Clutch Cargo
    • Mr. Incredible and Pals With Commentary, the cartoon with the characters' commentary
  • NSA Files, info about the supers
  • Boundin', a Pixar short film written, directed, composed, production designed and narrated by Bud Luckey

Several companies released promotional products related to the movie. Dark Horse Comics released a limited series of comic books based on the movie. Kellogg's released an Incredibles-themed cereal, as well as promotional Pop Tarts and fruit snacks, all proclaiming an "Incrediberry Blast" of flavor. Furthermore, in the weeks before the movie'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) and McDonald's. Toy maker Hasbro produced a series of action figures and toys based on the film, although the line was not as successful as the film itself.

In Europe, Kinder chocolate eggs contained small plastic toy characters.

In Mexico, there has been a craze about the movie, literally hundreds of items are being sold there, with several of them being exclusive to Mexico. Already many stores around the country have been reporting being completely sold out of certain popular items.

In Belgium, car manufacturer Opel sold special The Incredibles editions of their cars.

In the United Kingdom, Telewest promoted blueyonder internet services with branding from the film, including television adverts starring characters from the film.

In all merchandising outside of the film itself, Elastigirl is referred to as Mrs. Incredible. This is due to a licensing agreement between Disney/Pixar and DC Comics, who has a character named Elasti-Girl (a member of the Doom Patrol). The DC Comics character is able to grow and shrink at will from microscopic size to thousands of feet tall.

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  • When Mr. Incredible crashes into the building trying to save a man, his shadow disappears.
  • While the family eats dinner at the table, the food keeps changing position. The commentators of the DVD discuss this during the featured scene for being too hard to keep track of each food.
  • The part in Violet's hair switches sides several times. (This was a deliberate "mistake" by the filmmakers - hair was so difficult to animate, that to save time and expense, they switched the part in Violet's hair to show her face when needed.)
  • When Helen Parr is talking on the phone to Edna, the phone and phone cord have no shadows, even though Helen's shadow appears on the wall behind her.
  • When Syndrome reminds Mr. Incredible about his line "I work alone," he is not holding Bomb Voyage in the flashback scene as he did in the original scene (this could, however, be explained as Syndrome's distorted perspective of the event).

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  • Cameo: Doc Hudson from Cars can be seen parked on the street to the left of the screen at the 1:40:31 mark in the film. Although Cars was released after The Incredibles, development of Cars was well under way.
  • The sequence where, after breaking through an apartment wall into a jewelry store, Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson) is kept at gunpoint by a nervous rookie cop ("I just need to get a glass of water.") is a direct homage/parody of a similar sequence in Die Hard with a Vengeance. Even the police officer's facial design is recognizably similar.
  • Two of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men, Frank Thomas (deceased before the films theatrical release, thus becoming his last appearance) and Ollie Johnston (the only currently living member at age 95), voice themselves near the conclusion of the film, commenting about the superheroes that "There's no school like the old school!"
  • At no point in the movie are the Parrs referred to as "The Incredibles". Dash and Violet do not even receive code names (though Dash called himself "The Dash" once. However, at the point when Mr. Incredible/Bob was released by Mirage and Elastigirl/Helen walked in, Mirage began her introduction by what seemed like she was going to say, "Oh, Mrs. Incredible," but was cut off by Elastigirl's punch. Thus not finishing the sentence.
  • Early in the movie Mr. Incredible is trying to remember the name of "Incredi-boy" (Buddy, later Syndrome), who is voiced by Jason Lee. He guesses "Brodie", which is Jason Lee's character in Mallrats.

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The film won the Academy Award in 2005 for Best Animated Feature (the second Pixar Animation Studios feature film to do so) as well as Best Achievement in Sound Editing. It also received nominations for Best Original Screenplay (for writer/director Brad Bird) and Best Achievement in Sound, but did not win.

The film was awarded the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.

These and other awards place it among the most-honored animation films in recent history. [11]

The video/DVD release also features an additional short called Jack-Jack Attack, starring one of the film's characters Jack-Jack Parr. It depicts the off-screen details of Kari McKean's "very weird" night caring for the baby.

One Pixar tradition is to create trailers for their films that do not contain footage from the released film. Trailers for this film include:

  • An out-of-shape Mr. Incredible struggles to get his belt on (hence, none of the Incredible Family members wear a belt in the film, and instead sport elastic waist straps). When he successfully puts the belt on, the buckle snaps off and breaks the light.

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  • The Incredibles' powers are similar in nature to those of the members of the Fantastic Four; strength (Ben Grimm - Bob Parr / Mr. Incredible), shapeshifting and elasticity (Reed Richards - Helen Parr / Elastigirl), and invisibility and forcefield generation (Susan Storm - Violet Parr). Dash's powers are the exception: he can move at super-speed, itself a classic superpower (like several other superheroes, most prominently The Flash, although judging from appearances Quicksilver is the most probable prototype for this kid), while the fourth member of the Fantastic Four, Johnny Storm, can create heat and flame around his body, and fly when he is flaming. However, Jack-Jack Parr is shown to have these powers late in the movie and in Jack-Jack Attack.
  • Frozone has powers like the Iceman and also has skating from the superheroine Dazzler.
  • Gazer Beam is similar in both costume from the early Uncanny X-Men and (implied) powers to the character Cyclops. Both having to wear glasses, albeit special glasses.

The plot itself seems derived from Alan Moore's The Watchmen as Mr. Incredible is investigating the disapperance of several superheroes. Syndrome's plan to send a robot to the city is similar to that of Ozymandias's scheme involvoing a monster. Additionally, super heroes are common in both universes

The plot itself seems derived from Alan Moore's The Watchmen as Mr. Incredible is investigating the disapperance of several superheroes. Syndrome's plan to send a robot to the city is similar to that of Ozymandias's scheme involvoing a monster. Additionally, super heroes are common in both universes.

  1. ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/incredibles/?critic=columns
  2. ^ Travers, Peter (2004-11-25), "The Incredibles". Rolling Stone. (962):100
  3. ^ Rozen, Leah (2004-11-15), "The Incredibles". People. 62 (20):31
  4. ^ http://www.accessatlanta.com/movies/content/shared/movies/reviews/I/theincredibles.html
  5. ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0444,winter2,58041,20.html
  6. ^ http://imdb.com/news/sb/2004-11-04#film6
  7. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=incredibles.htm
  8. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=findingnemo.htm
  9. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2004&p=.htm
  10. ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2004&p=.htm
  11. ^ Honor roll:Animation films. Award Annals (2007-09-16). Retrieved on 2007-09-16.

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The Incredibles characters

Incredible Family: Mr. Incredible · Elastigirl · Dash · Violet · Jack-Jack
Allies: Frozone · Edna Mode · Rick Dicker
Villains: Syndrome · Mirage · The Underminer · Bomb Voyage
Preceded by
"The Grudge"		 List of Box Office #1 Movies
November 7, 2004 - November 20, 2004		 Succeeded by
"National Treasure"
v • d • e
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature: Winners
2001: Shrek • 2002: Spirited Away • 2003: Finding Nemo • 2004: The Incredibles • 2005: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit • 2006: Happy Feet
v • d • e
Pixar Animation Studios
Feature films Toy Story (1995) • A Bug's Life (1998) • Toy Story 2 (1999) • Monsters, Inc. (2001) • Finding Nemo (2003) • The Incredibles (2004) • Cars (2006) • Ratatouille (2007) • WALL-E (2008) • Up (2009) • Toy Story 3 (2010)
Short films Luxo Jr. (1986) • Red's Dream (1987) • Tin Toy (1988) • Knick Knack (1989) • Geri's Game (1997) • For the Birds (2000) • Mike's New Car (2002) • Boundin' (2003) • Jack-Jack Attack (2005) • One Man Band (2005) • Mater and the Ghostlight (2006) • Lifted (2006) • Your Friend the Rat (2007)
Related works The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984) • Tiny Toy Stories (1995) • To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios (2007)
People John Lasseter • Ed Catmull • Steve Jobs • Pete Docter • Andrew Stanton • Brad Bird • Lee Unkrich • Joe Ranft
See also Pixar Image Computer • List of Pixar staff • List of awards won or nominated by Pixar • List of Disney theatrical animated features
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