The Incredibles

The Lycra fetish family.

I've been waited long enough and finally the new Pixar animation film, The Incredibles, has arrived in Australia on Boxing day. I was in Tasmania for Christmas at that time and Pete and I been making fun of Taz as they might still showing the Lord of The Rings part 1 down there. Fortunately, the local scene wasn't as bad as we thought, and the movie releases are pretty much the same. So we've decided to gatecrash the Tasmania scene and checked the movie out in the small little Launceston town.

Well, Pixar animation is a must for me even though to some people, animation is always "childish" and not up to their coolest standard of movie taste, and some other people like my workmate despites Pixar production just because one of his ex now a director a Pixar! haha. One or another, Pixar probably is one of the best animation production studio in the industry, Dreamworks still chasing behind with its flop "Shark Tale".

The incredibles, just incredible! Alot of you might have seen the trailer about 1 year ago, as the director Brad Bird (Mr Incredible facial expressions are followed closely of Brad himself), did it mainly for promotion purposes and had nothing to do with the movie. I suppose we all know what the movie is all about. Good vs Evil, the good wins at the end, but of course Pixar always has its way to basically makes a plea against mediocrity, breaking with the politically correct idea that "everybody is special" (and thus nobody really is), and encouraging people to use the talents they have been given.

The movie itself is funny but it doesn't make you laughing out loud with their stupid toilet jokes. But the spoof and homage references to James Bond films like the gadgets, the evil secret island lair is classic. The characters in the movie are pretty much based on the characters in Fantastic Four. Strangely alot of people don't think much of Mr Incredibles the character itself, but instead of the others like Dash, the kid who can run very fast apparently is one of the favorite for many fans out there. My favorite probably Edna "E" Mode, the superhero costume designer who just won't take no for an answer, apparently is based on a famous designer who works in Hollywood for many years. I was quite surprise that the voice actually is done by Brad Bird himself, at first I thought it was by Mindy Sterling, who played Frau Farbissina, the german lady in Austin Powers. However, in the movie, I think Elastigirl is the one who stole the show.

The Incredible is an another awesome animation by Pixar after Finding Nemo. I think when Finding Nemo came out, it really gave Pixar a new hope, cuz it was just brilliant and no other animation can really beat it, just look at the Nemo merchandise as an example, there are still around!!! And Nemo the name will never be forgotten. Not that I am saying The Incredible is bad, but since the previous was brilliant, which makes the incredible excellent but more room to move. I probably will go and see it again when I get a chance!


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TOTAL : 8.0/10

Some trivia I found interesting at IMDB about The Incredibles.(The Incredibles is called "Hum Hai Laajawab" in Indian title). And some high res images I found online which you might like to save as your desktop wallpaper.