Good, but not Pixar's best.

Rating: Null/10 (14 November 2004)

It was funny, it was clever, it was exciting, the animation was truly Incredible, but I still don't think this stacks up well to Pixar's other offerings. While all their films are impressive, I think Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. set the bar (mainly because they can hold their own next to any live action film, which you can't say for a lot of animated stuff). I was expecting "The Incredibles" to match the perfection of those two, but it fell short. It is pretty predictable and unoriginal. Plus, although it has a fun, light-weight atmosphere to it, it wasn't quite as funny as I expected. In fact, it had some rather dry moments (the mother's long speech to her daughter reminded me of the smarmy life lesson at the end of every "Full House" episode).
I'm not really complaining, however. I had a blast watching it. The animation is their best yet (during the island sequences, if you took out the cartoon characters and just focused on the backgrounds, you would think you were looking at a real setting). The cast is great, too--both the characters themselves, and the voices behind them (Craig T. Nelson happens to be one of my favorite actors, and it's good to finally see him in a high-budget big screen flick again). All in all, it is another impressive movie from a VERY impressive company... but it still hasn't matched their own standard.
8/10 stars.