Shockingly Good

Rating: 8/10 (28 February 2007)

When I say shockingly good, I never meant that I was expecting a really bad movie. Pixar has always come up with great movies, starting with Toy Story and going on to create Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo and others. This trumps them all. Brad Bird's Iron Giant was a beautiful movie, and his Incredibles also took me aback. Its PG rating was good to note. In most family films like this, villains and the bad guys aren't actually assumed dead, just gone. Here they are. That is a subtle but important aspect. The movie's plot is great, the characters are well-developed and charismatic, and the settings and action are flawlessly done. Best animated movie I've ever seen. As yet.