Brilliant; best thing to come out of Hollywood pretty much ever

Rating: 10/10 (14 December 2004)

The Incredibles is the first movie I've ever seen that is based on a non-contradictory value system. There is no Cinderella story here; instead we have an animated demonstration of what Ayn Rand illustrated in Atlas Shrugged, that it is the men of ability on which the safety and advancement of mankind depend. The characters are well defined and their actions are the logical outcomes of the values they hold. Those with correct, objective values succeed, those without them, fail. There is no sympathy for evil, only admiration for the good. It absolutely astounds me that a fantastic character like Edna (the arrogant, domineering fashion designer) has somehow emerged from Hollywood's, indeed the nation's, culture of moral relativism (I speak from personal experience, being a Californian by birth, not by volition), but it happened and I only wish it would more often.