Maybe I'm biased, but I think this was by far the best movie of last year. Go watch it now.

Rating: 10/10 (23 April 2005)

I wanted to see this movie right from the moment that I saw the teaser trailer on the Finding Nemo DVD. I love Pixar movies. I think they're great. I thought Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo were all top notch. That being said, The Incredibles blows all the aforementioned movies out of the water.
Back in the 60s, superheroes were everywhere. One of the most popular superheroes, if not the most popular, was Mr. Incredible. With amazing strength and a strong social conscience, everybody loved him. But then, one day/night while he's out doing his superhero thing, a few things happen. He saves a man from committing suicide, and breaks his neck in the process. The suicidal man sues Mr. Incredible. Also, when a bomb falls onto LRT tracks, Mr. Incredible has to charge in front of a train and use his body to stop it, throwing all the passengers around, sustaining various injuries. They all sue him too. As a result, the government forces all superheroes to hang up their capes and either get lost or enter civilian life.
Fifteen years later, Bob Parr, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible, is an insurance agent. He is bored, fat, middle-aged, and unhappy. He does everything he can to help his clients out, which obviously upsets his boss. What insurance company wants to be paying out fat dividends when their clients get injured? After Bob's boss has a little chat with him and Bob "accidentally" throws his boss through about five walls, Bob finds himself unemployed.
However, as he clears out his briefcase, he notices a foreign object. It looks almost like a little t.v. screen, only very thin. In true Mission Impossible style, it's a device used to contact Mr. Incredible with details on a new assignment. And then the device self-destructs, setting off the smoke alarm.
Bob is a little bit bored with his life, so it's a refreshing change to actually be needed by somebody to do something incredible (bad joke, I know). He gets flown out to a remote island to fight a robot, with the instructions to only shut it down and not destroy it. A little bit hard to do when it's trying to kill you, I think. But he does it. After all, he is Mr. Incredible.
So over the next few weeks, the Parr family thinks that their husband/father has been promoted at the insurance agency as he's having more money to throw around, driving fancier cars, dressing better, working out, spending time with his family, and just getting a general zest for life back.
Eventually he gets contacted with more assignments, all the while telling his family he's just going off for business meetings and things of the nature.
I think that's enough of a spill on the plot of the movie to hopefully work up the appetite of all of you who have not yet seen this movie. My suggestion would be to just go out and buy it. If I don't get this movie for my birthday, I think I'll have to buy it. Not because I want to, because I have to. It's just that good.
The animation is great, the action is great, the storyline is great. It has drama, action, humour, suspense, and oh so much more. In my opinion, this was the best movie of 2004.
Bottom Line: 4 out of 4 (own this movie)