Best Pixar yet!

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2004)

Exciting, witty, and beautiful CGI film about a family of superheroes trying wthout success to live a normal life in a governmental relocation program, after litigation has forced all caped crusaders underground. The father's altruistic impulses are frustrated at work, where he is forced to deny benefits to insurance policy holders; and the rest of the family suffers in ways nicely appropriate to their superpowers (the lightning-fast son is disruptive at school, the daughter with the power of invisibility is a timid wallflower, and the wife, formerly known as Elastigirl, feels stretched trying to hold the family together). The subversively conservative moral of the tale is that society loses when it suppresses excellence through a misguided egalitarianism. In an Aristotelian spin on self-esteem doctrine, it is only when the Incredibles brave the envy of others and accept themselves as gifted that they find contentment. Cool early 1960s decor!