The best superhero movie ever made.

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2004)

If you are reading this and haven't seen The Incredibles yet, slap yourself in the face for being stupid and go out and see it now!
. . . OK, now that you've hopefully seen the movie, let me tell you my thoughts on it.
Superhero movies seem to be all the rage now, and no wonder. Superheroes let the producers' imaginations run wild with fantasy in the modern (or near-modern) day. Just look at Spider-Man, the X-Men, Superman, and the list goes on. These are people with whom we can relate but who can do things that, while we know them to be impossible, for just a moment in the light of the silver screen, we can believe. While the X-Men movies were good, and the Spider-Man movies (particularly the second one) were great, I say now that Pixar has just created the best superhero movie ever made, and quite possibly the best movie of the year.
Bob Parr, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible, is a man blessed with super-strength, a beautiful wife (Helen, a.k.a. Elsatigirl), and three children. Oh yeah, did I mention he's stuck in a superhero protection program, working a lousy job at an insurance company and growing more and more frustrated with being unable to use his superpowers?
You see, superheroes, while they do save the day, tend to cause a lot of collateral damage, and with damages come lawsuits. You didn't think the secret identity was just for mysteriousness, did you? In fact, in order to keep them from having their spandex sued off, superheroes are given new identities and locations by the government in the aforementioned superhero protection program. Besides lawsuits, superheroes have to deal with people who idolize them, sometimes to the point of extreme annoyance. All in all, life for Bob is less than it could be.
His only outlet for his frustration is his time with his good friend Lucius Best, a.k.a. Frozone (voiced hilariously by Samuel L. Jackson), who go out on "bowling night" to perform undercover superhero work.
This all changes when he receives a message from a mysterious and beautiful blonde, offering him a chance to get back into superhero gear again. What he does and how his family gets involved will not be covered in this review, just know that The Incredibles has scenes that will make you split your sides laughing, ones that might make you cry, action scenes that put Jerry Bruckheimer to shame, scenes so tense you will bite your nails, and ones that may even make you think about your own life a little. Not only is this the best superhero movie ever made, but it is the best movie I have seen this year.
10/10