Comedy? This?

Rating: 6/10 (25 March 2005)

Warning! May contain a slight spoiler.
This is the worst big budget (3d) animation I've ever seen. Ice Age was not too good either but it was honestly not trying to throw you with lame jokes.
The best 3d-animation experience was Shrek in 2001. The day Shrek came out I was so amazed. I had been living in a thought it was just a kiddo movie but it included so much clever Terry Pratchett-alike mixing of old tales&stories + adult jokes (all the measurement of the king's 'size' etc..) that it all was like the parody of the concept of a fairy tale... It made me laugh constantly, actually even cry at one point.
The Incredibles again... It felt just like one of those movies where someone gets a good idea and stretches it two hours long.. That really can't last. Not with this amount of badly written fillings which they dare to call jokes.
Consider how they could have made so much better parody like they did in Shrek : the rescuing prince is really an Ogre, the Wolf is a 'gender-confused granny', the mirror as a TV-screen and frightened by breaking a little mirror etc. But instead they just put the father Incredible to break things like a plate or a car when he gets nervous. Or the kids fighting each other with their super skills. Everything is just damn too obvious! Including the bond-alike headquarters of the bad guy. And of course the final battle is incredibly predictable piece of the usual Monday movie.
I'm not saying that recycling things is bad but comparing to Austin Powers, this movie is clumsy by not adding any good parody to the agent-touch.
I study this stuff. 3d-animation etc, and I hope that all the comments which are summarized as 'truly incredible' (very original, I must say) come from people who are just blinded by the look. I don't think they would've liked this one as much if the same story was done traditionally or with real actors.
Both movies, this and Shrek are dealing about being different. But In my humble opinion, Incredibles does it without the Heart. If you are seeking for a film about the hard part of being a superhero, I'd suggest you to watch Spider-Man 2 and leave this movie to your kids for whom it was modeled & rendered to.