"Interesting how you begin to care about the story and characters in an animated movie." (my wife, half-way through the movie)

Rating: Null/10 (23 March 2005)

An unqualified "we liked it" for the movie, "The Incredibles." It opens with pseudo-newsreel interview footage with the three main characters to show, as the writer/director tells it, the human side of these characters before we see them in wild action. This is a comic book movie, in a time when there are very many superheros, and it focuses on one of them, Mr. Incredible, also known as Bob Parr in his street identity. The animation is superb, the script is superb, the voice-acting is uniformly superb. Especially Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible, Holly Hunter as Helen Parr/Elastigirl, Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best/Frozone, and the one I think was the very best, Jason Lee as Buddy Pine/Syndrome. Saw it on DVD, second disk has many extras.
SPOILERS. In opening sequences we see Mr. Incredible in action, saving a cat, then stopping robbers with the uprooted tree, saving a man from suicide, and keeping a commuter "el" train from falling through a hole made by a bomb, all on his way to his wedding. But newspaper headlines tell us citizens begin to sue the various superheros, costing the government much money, so they are put in the superhero relocation program, where they are expected to become regular citizens.
The opening of the movie has Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl getting married, and we cut to 15 years later, Bob Parr is working as an insurance salesman, but once a week he and Lucius Best go "bowling" but in reality are in a car monitoring police radio, just itching to get back into saving people. The grown up Buddy Pine has become Syndrome, out to destroy all the old superheros so he, himself, could become the superhero everyone worships. So on a remote island Mr. Incredible ends up, fighting for his life, when his wife and two children (boy is very fast, girl can become invisible and also generate force fields), where they all team to defeat Syndrome's plan.