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Summaries. While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world. Bob Parr (A.K.A. Mr. Incredible), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world's greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville, always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But 15 ...
Nov 4, 2004 · Mr. Incredible is forced to retire, not because of age or obsolescence, but because of trial lawyers seeking damages for his unsolicited good deeds; he's in the same position as the Boy Scout who helps the little old lady across the street when she doesn't want to go. What his society needs is not superdeeds but tort reform.
Plot. 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.
- $631.6 million
- Michael Giacchino
- $92–145 million
- John Walker
Nov 5, 2004 · The Incredibles: Directed by Brad Bird. With Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee. While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world.
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Superhero Bob Parr (also known as Mr. Incredible), who is preparing for his wedding with Helen Truaxx (also known as Elastigirl), stop a civilian's attempt suicide by tackling them through skyscraper window. Bob discovers supervillain Bomb Voyage robbing the building, but is interrupted by Buddy Pine, a devoted fanboy who wants to be Bob's sidekick...
Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. IncredibleHolly Hunter as Helen Parr/ElastigirlSpencer Fox as Dash ParrSarah Vowell as Violet ParrWriting
The Incredibles as a concept dates back to 1993 when Bird sketched the family during a period in which he tried to break into film. Personal issues had percolated into the story as they weighed on him in life. During this time, Bird had inked a production deal with Warner Bros. Animation and was in the process of directing his first feature, The Iron Giant. Bird, who was then in his late thirties, began to wonder, with a measure of fear, about the conflict between career and family responsibi...
Animation
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 2-D artists had to make the shift to 3-D, including Bird himself. Bird found working with CG "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 diff...
The film opened on November 5, 2004, as Pixar's first film to be rated PG (for "action violence") with the other PG-rated Pixar films being Up, Brave, Inside Out, Turning Red, and several subsequent films. While Pixar celebrated another triumph with The Incredibles, Steve Jobs was embroiled in a public feud with the head of its distribution partner...
Critical response
The film received universal acclaim, with a 97% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 8.4/10, based on 250 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Bringing loads of wit and tons of fun to the animated superhero genre, The Incredibleseasily 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.
One Pixar tradition is to create trailers for their films that do not contain footage from the released film. Trailers for this film include: 1. 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).
The Incredibles was the first Pixar movie where the music wasn't composed by a member of the Newman family. Instead, it was the first Pixar film to be composed by Michael Giacchino, who would later...Syndrome's design is based off Purge from Space Channel 5: Part 2 which was released 4 years before The Incredibles.In Japan, the film was simply called Mr. インクレディブル (Misutā Inkurediburu, meaning "Mr. Incredible").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....While Bob argues with Mr. Huph about the Walker policy after the 15-years-ago prologue, Bob's little bucket of pencils falls on its side. Then he puts it back up placed on the left side of his righ...After being in a long traffic, Bob was about to park on the driveway. You can see there was nothing there. When he parked the car and got out, he slipped on a skateboard coming out of nowhere.When Lucius is putting aftershave on in front of the mirror in his apartment, he hears Omnidroid v.10 outside and runs to the window. He leaves the bottle of aftershave on the desk with the lid off...While the family eats dinner at the table, the food keeps changing position. The commentators of the DVD discuss this during the featured scene.The Incredibles on Pixar WikiThe Incredibles on the Incredibles WikiFeb 23, 2024 · The Incredibles, computer-animated motion picture, released in 2004, about a family of superheroes. It was a great critical and commercial success for Pixar Animation Studios. The film was directed and written by Brad Bird, whose previous credits included the television show The Simpsons and the film The Iron Giant.
Mr. Incredible refuses, of course, but not before accidentally derailing a train. He saves the passengers, but they sue him anyway—as does an attempted suicide victim who he saved during that whole ordeal. (For real.)