Good but not great!

Rating: 7/10 (24 January 2005)

I had heard that this was by far the best Pixar film. Therefore I went with my kids expecting to be enthralled for 2 hours. What I got was a movie that was good but had a lot of periods where I found myself losing concentration.
Yes the movie has its moments. There is a lot of good adult intended humor thrown in. But I am sorry that this movie is not nearly as good as either Shrek film or either Toy Story film.
With a villain who is probably more annoying than Lord Farquard from Shrek , the movie also seems to have ripped off the Fantastic Four to come up with their characters. Let's see the similarities Mr Incredible - Mr. Fantastic (similar name), Plastic Girl - Mr. Fantastic (same power) Invisible Girl (same powers), Mr. Incredible - the Thing (both super strong). And then the boy is the same as Quicksilver and the Samuel L Jackson character is the same as The Iceman.
My kids (11 and 8) preferred the Spongebob movie to this one. I gave that film 10 stars and this one 7 and a half.