BRAVO!

Rating: Null/10 (24 November 2004)

First of all, no spoilers in this review. Well, one... watch for the kid on the tricycle. This was AWESOME, the best animation I have ever seen, except for Toy Story (which will always be my favorite Pixar film, unless something really amazing comes out). I LOVE the James Bond-style music, the sly asides to films and cartoons like Dr. No, Star Wars and The Simpsons, and everything else about this film. I have read other reviews here that chide the film for "copying" scenes from Return of the Jedi (for instance); what those reviewers somehow missed is that a large part of this film's reason for existence is HOMAGE. This IS all the childhood cartoons I watched on Saturday morning, and James Bond, and the comics, Star Wars, Johnny Quest, et cetera. It must reference those to succeed, and this it does very well. Great art takes what has gone before and presents it again, on a higher, sublime, synergistic level. That is what The Incredibles accomplishes. I think I reviewed this once already, in fact, and I've seen it twice now too! That shows my appreciation of this film as I rarely pay to see a film two times. It is a little long and not for 6-year-olds (there's some fairly serious violence). Still, five stars out of five!