Incredible

Rating: 9/10 (5 December 2004)

I am in awe of the Pixar animation studio. As a hobbyist animator I can really appreciate the amazing effort that's gone into this movie, and it shows in every frame and every scene. This is the best Pixar movie to date, and undoubtedly their most adult too, featuring no cutesy talking animals and a fair bit of menace and mania from the main villain.
Top prizes must go to the designers for coming up with all the Dr Evil style Bond gear used on the Volcanic island and elsewhere, it's a delight just to watch the stuff working so well on screen. The waterfall scene and the underwater landing were particular favourites, worthy of live action movies.
The cinematography too, the best in a mainstream animation yet, really adds to the mature feel of the movie and just looks gorgeous. Final element has to be the music, which in many scenes just make you think you're watching Our Man Flint or a Bond film. I don't know if you can tell but I loved every second of those sequences.
Cinema fans will spot a ton of in-jokes, references and blatant rip-offs that just add to the fun. The voice acting throughout is great, with Samuel L Jackson once again being Samuel L Jackson in a movie, which is just fine by me. Frankly I'd like to have seen more of him, but what there was made me grin like an idiot. Craig Nelson suits the part to a tee, hell he even looks a bit like his character, and of course Elastigirl gets Holly Hunters sexy southern belle drawl. Mmm.
There you have it, it looks great, sounds great and gives real entertainment for 120 minutes of anybodys time. It gets a nine out of ten from me at least, and ten out of ten for the guys who designed the meshes for the sets and vehicles. How I wish I'd though of some of that stuff...