One of the last Disney/Pixar collaborations, so see it while you can.

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2004)

Computer Generated animation doesn't thrill people as much as it used to. Any local podunk advertising agency can make them, and has. Innovators such as Pixar have helped keep Disney afloat since the 1990's, but the recent rift between the two companies has put movies like "The Incredibles" at risk of never seeing the light of day. Fortunately, there's still the chance of seeing it in the theaters as of this writing. For me, this wasn't the only reason to see it though. Two other reasons were that the trailers simply looked hilarious, and that one member of the sound crew(Dan Wallin) also did work on one of my favorite movies of the 1960's -- UP THE DOWN STAIRCASE(1967)! That was it, I was sold.
Bob Parr(Craig T. Nelson) is Mr. Incredible, a former superhero who like many others faced an onslaught of public hostility for unintended consequences of trying to save people's lives, and has to be put under government protection. Luckily he has someone to fall back on, like Elasti-girl(Holly Hunter), who he marries and makes into Helen Parr. Fifteen years later, Bob has three kids, a job as an insurance adjuster, the urge to do good, and the knowledge that he has to keep his powers under wraps. Two of his kids know they have powers as well. Violet(Sarah Vowell) who looks like Winona Ryder in the late-1980's, only uses her invisibility to dodge a boy she has a crush on, but otherwise could do without them. Dash(Spencer Fox) who can't wait to join the track team, because he knows that with his super-speed he'll kick butt. Little baby-boy Jack-Jack doesn't have any powers, or at least the Parr family doesn't think he does.
At night the former Mr. Incredible spends his time with his old buddy Lucius Best, a.k.a. Frozone(Samuel L. Jackson) where they listen to a police scanner in one of their cars and secretly perform heroic deeds in town. After witnessing a mugging he's not allowed to prevent while being lectured by his boss for actually helping customers, he decides enough is enough. And it's at that moment that he's hired on a secret mission to stop a killer robot. What he doesn't know is that the person who hired him on that mission, Syndrome(Jersey Trilogy veteran Jason Lee), created that robot and is a villain who used to idolize him when he was a boy until he was rejected as his boy wonder. From that point on, Elasti-girl and other heroes are called up again to save their father/husband and stop Syndrome from a fiendish plot, which does NOT involve taking over the world. I won't spoil that plot for you, or the ending, but I will say I would've like it better if Syndrome had suffered a different fate at the end, one which has to do with the hazards of capes for superhero costumes, something which the costume designer of the superheroes, and part-time normal fashion designer, Edith Head look-alike Edna Mode(voiced by writer/director Brad Bird) tries to warn Bob about when he seeks his new costume. Oh, that and it'll go down in animation history for both it's humor and it place in the Disney/Pixar chain.