One of the best satires I have seen lately

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2005)

Helen: "Everyone's special Dash." Dash: "That's just another way of saying no-one is."
Polititcal correctness is one of the most detrimental things to cinematography. It says today that guns are bad, so the cannot be portrayed in kids movies, and that all kids movies must feature violence in a way which does not harm anyone. Thus, many kids movies make up the most creatively stupid ways of defeating ones foes. Another politically correct thing is to declare that all people are special.
The Incredibles is by no means that sort of movie. Pixar, and my hat is off to them for doing this, decided that they needed to shake things up before they went they way of Disney and started making bad cliché movies. to do this, they brought in Brad Bird, a minor director to bring in something new, thus spawning the incredibles.
The first time I saw this I didn't like it. The second time I saw it, it became one of my top five kids movies. What I have realized though is that this movie is not hilarious. This movie is satiric, and though it is funny, much of it is making points about the everybody's special philosophy. It demonstrates that America so wants everybody to be special, to the point that it disables the extraordinary. It makes this point very well, with a well written script, good characters, and good animated violence. For the first time since iron giant were guns actually used in a kids movie. It wasn't graphic, but it wasn't stupidly peaceful. It actually hinted at the fact that man is mortal, unlike spy kids.
Samuel L Jackson was hilarious. I personally would not have seen it again if not for him, but I loved his character so much, even when I thought I hated the movie. Overall it is great, although it might be a little over some kids heads. And it has great shorts on the DVD.