Pretty good, a step on their journey to greatness

Rating: 8/10 (28 June 2008)

Mister Incredible is a superhero at the top of his game, along with the likes of Frozone, Elastigirl and various others they keep people safe from various super villains. However, when Mister Incredible saves someone who does not want to be saved, it opens the floodgates for more superheroes to be sued by an ungrateful America that views them with envy, causing the government to ban superheroes and for their secret identities to become their only identities.
In this, Brad Bird's inspired take on the superhero genre, we see what happens when Superheroes have to settle down and become ordinary people, the dialogue is excellent and the situations superb. The arrival of the supervillain Syndrome (I am your number one fan) with his secret base on a volcanic island being an element that is clearly borrowed heavily from the Bond films and the music reflects that. The performances are all great, with Jason Lee excelling as Syndrome, whose idea to dispose of all the supers and then make himself out to be a new superhero but for all the cleverness of it, one of the sad things about the film is that the best animated human at this stage of computer animation was still Boo from "Monsters Inc" and some of the mixing of different size elements does not quite work as well as it should, with squash and stretch techniques also taking something away from pulling you in fully.
The other thing about the film that lets it down is the editing, with clearly some scenes that could be tightened up for the sake of a quicker film that would have made for a better film. The ending also seems to keep on going and going and going when it could have been that much slicker.
Overall a pretty good film. Not the best film Pixar have made, but a pretty god step on the road to further glory.