Blown away - maybe the best superhero movie ever!

Rating: 10/10 (6 November 2004)

I can't believe how inventive, fun, referential, cool, well acted and above all well-written the Incredibles was. The movie pieces together plot lines and ideas from stories as diverse as Robert Mayer's SUPERFOLKS and Alan Moore's WATCHMEN to make a very human story about a very Fantastic-Four-like family that we believe in and are amazed by. I've read comics all my life, and I'm also a graphic artist - so the mental images of 'superheroes in motion' has been part of my imagination since I was a child, but Pixar and Brad Bird reinvented the wheel with so much of what these characters do on screen, in clever and emotionally realistic ways. The action scenes were better than any I've seen in even live-action films for years.... The comedy and voice acting were impeccable. Craig T Nelson and Jason Lee were amazing... Syndrome was really fun, and it's about time someone found a way to bring the character look of 'Heat Mizer' back from those old Rankin Christmas cartoons... :) If you enjoy that feeling of 'Wow, that movie was so good I wanna see it again', then go check out the Incredibles asap. You really won't be disappointed!