The Incredibles

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated superhero comedy film about a family of superheroes who try to live a normal life after the government forced superheroes to retire due to public damage caused during their crime-fighting. It is Pixar's sixth animated feature film. It was written and directed by Brad Bird and was produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
A sequel, Incredibles 2, was released on June 15, 2018.
==Plot==
Superhero Bob Parr (also known as Mr. Incredible), who is preparing for his wedding with Helen Truaxx (also known as Elastigirl), stops a civilian's attempt suicide by tackling them through a skyscraper window. Bob discovers supervillain Bomb Voyage robbing the building, but is interrupted by Buddy Pine, a devoted fanboy who wants to be Bob's sidekick. Bob refuses, and Bomb Voyage clips a bomb onto Buddy's cape. Bob manages to get the bomb off, but it destroys part of an el-train track, forcing him to abruptly stop an oncoming train. After his wedding with Helen, Bob is sued for collateral damage by the suicidal civilian and the injured train passengers. Similar lawsuits create a negative public attitude towards superheroes, so the government initiates the Superhero Relocation Program, banning all "Supers" from using their powers in public and forcing them into hiding.
15 years later, Bob and Helen raise three children, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack, in the suburbs of Metroville. Since Bob and Helen have superpowers, Violet and Dash also have innate superpowers; Violet being able to create force fields and turn invisible, and Dash able to run at a very fast speed, but the baby Jack-Jack has not yet to show any. Bob, stuck in a white-collar job at an insurance agency, secretly helping those denied coverage, first seen helping an elderly woman by directing her to a better insurance agency, though is berated unfairly daily by his boss Mr. Huph, misses his former days as Mr. Incredible, and sneaks out on Wednesday nights with his Superfriend, Lucius Best, aka Frozone (having the ability to freeze the moisture in the air), to fight street crime.
One day, Bob loses his temper with Mr. Huph, who refuses to let him foil a mugging, and hurls him through five walls and into a locker, exposing his super strength and losing his job as a result. Returning home whilst trying to figure out what to tell Helen, he finds a message from a woman named Mirage, who asks for Mr. Incredible's help to stop a rogue robot on a distant island for an incredible reward. Bob, claiming that he is going on a business trip to Helen, takes up Mirage's offer, and travels to the island of Nomanisan in a jet with Mirage. She explains to him that the robot is called an Omnidroid, a top-secret prototype battle robot, able to solve any problem it is confronted with. The only unfortunate problem was its intelligence reached a point where it wondered why it was taking orders, and now it is wreaking havoc in the dense jungle.
Bob is then airdropped into Nomanisan, explores around, and then encounters the Omnidroid. After a fight, Bob emerges victorious by tricking it into ripping out its own power source. On his return to Metroville, Bob spends his days working out, improving his family relationships with Helen and the kids, and getting back into shape. He takes his super suit, torn in the battle with the Omnidroid, to Edna Mode, the fashion designer to the Supers, and asks her to repair it. She does so, and also insists on creating a new, better supersuit for him. She refuses his request to add a cape, though, highlighting how the accessory doomed several other Supers in the past by getting caught on a variety of things, such as the fin of a missile, a jet turbine, and a vortex.
Mirage soon contacts Bob with another job on the island. On arriving, he finds an upgraded Omnidroid who starts to attack him. While trapped by the robot, he meets its creator, the technology-savvy supervillain Syndrome, whom Bob recognize him as Buddy. Syndrome eventually want to vow revenge for the entire supers, and as he brags about how he has won, Bob throws a log at him. Syndrome dodges the log and immobilizes Bob with his zero-point energy ray. After using the zero-point energy ray to throw Mr. Incredible around in order to show his power over the superhero, Syndrome accidentally throws him over a waterfall and into a river. Syndrome sends a bomb to kill Mr. Incredible and sends a probe to ensure that Mr. Incredible has been killed.
Bob manages to avoid the explosion and, discovering the bones of former Super and friend Gazerbeam, fake his death by hiding from the probe behind them. In the process, he discovers that Gazerbeam used his powers to inscribe a dying message into the cave wall: "KRONOS". Determined to discover Syndrome's plans, Bob breaks back into his facilities, finds a computer, and, using "Kronos" as the password, discovers a plan to systematically eliminate Supers. Each super thus far was pitted against increasingly advanced models of Omnidroid, and if not terminated by one model, they would be terminated by the next or by Syndrome himself. He also discovers that, although Lucius/Frozone's location is known, Helen's is not. As he browses the database further, he discovers that Operation Kronos' final stage is to unleash an Omnidroid on Metroville via rocket deployment.
Meanwhile, Helen has become suspicious of Bob having an affair. After discovering Bob's repaired suit, she talks to Edna and learns she created suits for the entire Parr family, each outfitted with a tracking device. Helen triggers Bob's, identifying the remote island but inadvertently revealing Bob's presence to Syndrome and causing him to be captured. Helen borrows a private jet from an old friend and travels to the island, disappointed to learn that Violet and Dash have stowed away while leaving Jack-Jack at home with a babysitter. As they near the island, Syndrome gives an order to terminate them by hitting the plane with missiles. Helen uses her superpower to save her children from the exploding jet, and they safely make it ashore.
Helen, Violet, and Dash take shelter during that night in a cave, and Helen (after giving them masks to protect their identity and making them promise to use their powers if threatened), runs off to Syndrome's lair. She sneaks in and, after creeping around (one point being that she found a massive rocket), rescues Mr. Incredible from his cell. Violet and Dash, meanwhile, then find out that the cave they are in is, in fact, an exhaust tunnel for the rocket launch and have to spend the night in the jungle.
The next morning they encounter a talking bird, which is, in fact, a robotic alarm, this attracts the attention of the guards, and they pursue them on high-speed Velocipods. Violet and Dash manage to defeat all of them (combining Violet's powerful force field with Dash's super-speed), and they soon reunite with their parents. The family works together to face off against and defeat several guards chasing Dash and Violet. They are soon captured by Syndrome, who immobilizes Bob and Helen with one zero-point energy ray and simultaneously immobilizes Violet and Dash with another. Syndrome sees that the family is wearing matching super suits and is then surprised to find that Bob had married to Helen and had kids with her, remarking that he had hit the jackpot by capturing a whole family of Supers.
Upon imprisoning the whole family in his containment unit in order to keep them from interfering with his plan, Syndrome explains that he has launched the perfected Omnidroid to Metroville, which has sent the city into chaos, upon which he will appear and using a control band, "subdue" the robot and become the city's hero. Then once Syndrome has become an old retiree, he plans to sell his advanced inventions to everybody, making them Super and thereby making the term obsolete. He departs in his aircraft to stop the Omnidroid. After his departure, Violet discovers that her force field can sever her magnetic bonds and frees the rest of the family, and with Mirage's help, they board a second rocket bound for the city.
In Metroville, the Omnidroid has started a path of destruction, and Syndrome enacts his plan, first saving a woman and her baby from a petrol tanker tossed by the Omnidroid, then faking a punch while pressing a button to detach one of the robot's arms, much to the people's cheers. However, the Omnidroid is still a learning robot: it identifies where the external control source is, observes the control band and fires it off Syndrome's arm, then shoots at Syndrome's in-built rocket boosters, sending the villain flying into a building and knocking him unconscious while the robot continues to wreck the city.
The Incredibles arrive in the city and after a crash landing, Bob goes to stop the city alone, but his family helps as they are in this together. Soon, Helen and Bob fight them together and Frozone, who start seeing the ensuing attack, work together to destroy it: the robot attempts to flatten Violet and Dash, but Bob just manages to save them, though he is thrown into a building afterward. He then charges back and tackles the Omnidroid, with Frozone helping as well. He then finds Syndrome's wristband, realizing that it controls the robot, and (after being clawed in by the robot but being released upon pressing a random button) throws it to Dash, who races to get it with the Omnidroid firing at him and trapping him amongst burning cars. Helen slingshots a manhole cover and destroys the laser, while Frozone rescues Dash. The robot then vaults itself into the air and nearly crushes Frozone and Dash, but he manages to freeze the air around them and cushions their fall. The remote is then knocked away; Bob runs to get it, only to be trapped in the Omnidroid's fired pincer. Violet then recovers it while invisible, and after much confusion, Bob soon realizes from remembering his battle with the first robot that the only thing that can penetrate it is itself. He directs Helen to use the right controls and releases the powered-up pincer, which surges through and comes out of the Omnidroid with its power source. It falls mundanely into the river and explodes, which causes the city to welcome the Incredibles and Frozone as heroes. As they are driven back to their home, Helen anxiously calls the babysitter and learns that something bad is happening.
Arriving at home, Syndrome, having regained consciousness, immobilizes the Incredibles with his zero-point energy ray, explaining that he plans on kidnapping Jack-Jack and raising him as his sidekick out of revenge for Mr. Incredible ruining his plans. As Bob and Helen launch a rescue attempt, Jack-Jack reveals his powers of transformation, forcing Syndrome to drop him into Helen's waiting arms. Bob hurls his sports car at Syndrome, causing him to fall in the aircraft turbine, where his cape gets caught in the engine, killing him. The ruined plane crashes into the Parrs' home, but Violet is able to protect the family from harm.
Three months later, the Parrs have re-adjusted to normal life, but when a new villain, the Underminer, appears, the Incredibles, including Jack-Jack, don their masks and suit up, ready to battle the new foe.
==Cast==
*Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible
*Holly Hunter as Helen Parr/Elastigirl
*Spencer Fox as Dash Parr
*Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr
*Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best/Frozone
*Jason Lee as Buddy Pine/Incrediboy/Syndrome
*Eli Fucile and Maeve Andrews as Jack-Jack Parr
*Elizabeth Peña as Mirage
*Brad Bird as Edna Mode
*Bud Luckey as Rick Dicker
*Wallace Shawn as Gilbert Huph
*John Ratzenberger as The Underminer
*Teddy Newton as Newsreel Narrator, Tablet, Jet's Automated Captain, Blue Bird Robot
*Dominique Louis as Bomb Voyage
*Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger
*Jean Sincere as Mrs. Hogenson
*Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey Best
*Bret Parker as Kari McKeen
*Lou Romano as Bernie Kropp
*Wayne Canney as John Walker
===Additional voices===
*Mark Andrews
*Nicholas Bird as Rusty
*Louis Braga II
*Mary Elizabeth Clark
*Pete Docter
*Louis Gonzales
*Elizabeth Greenberg
*Juliet Greenberg
*Billy Guardino
*Dennis "DJ" Jennings
*Ollie Johnston as Ollie
*Brad Lewis
*Ted Mathot
*Jazzy Mahannah
*Randy Nelson
*Patrick Pinney as Oliver Sansweet
*Bob Peterson as Oliver Sansweet's Lawyer
*Jeff Pidgeon
*Juliet Pokorny
*Joe Ranft
*Lori Richardson
*A.J. Riebli
*Katherine Ringgold as Mother with Stroller
*Stephen Schaffer
*Bob Scott
*Peter Sohn as Mugger
*Andrew Stanton
*Frank Thomas as Frank
*John Walker as Preist (uncredited)
*Pamela Gaye Walker
*Patrick Walker
*Deirdre Warin as Squeaker's Owner
*Philip Wong (uncredited)
==Production==
===Writing===
The Incredibles as a concept dates back to 1993 when Bird sketched the family during a period in which he tried to break into film. Personal issues had percolated into the story as they weighed on him in life. During this time, Bird had inked a production deal with Warner Bros. Animation and was in the process of directing his first feature, The Iron Giant. Bird, who was then in his late thirties, began to wonder, with a measure of fear, about the conflict between career and family responsibilities.
Approaching middle age and having high aspirations for his film-making, he pondered whether these aspirations were attainable only at the price of his family life. He felt that he would completely fail at one if he focused too much on the other. He stated, "Consciously, this was just a funny movie about superheroes. But I think that what was going on in my life definitely filtered into the movie." After the box office failure of The Iron Giant, Bird was heartsick and gravitated toward his superhero story.
He imagined it as an homage to the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and he initially tried to develop it as a traditionally animated film. When The Iron Giant became a box office bomb (due to poor marketing on behalf of Warner Bros.), he reconnected with an old friend from college John Lasseter at Pixar in March 2000 and pitched his story idea to him. Bird and Lasseter knew each other from their college years at CalArts in the 1970s. Lasseter was sold on the idea and convinced Bird to come to Pixar, where the film would be done in computer animation. The studio announced a multi-film contract with Bird on May 4, 2000.
This broke Pixar's mold of having directors who had risen through the ranks, and Bird became the first outside director to be hired. In addition, it would be the company's first film in which all characters are human. Bird was a departure from other Pixar directors in many more ways, bringing an auteur approach not found in their earlier productions. Where Pixar films typically had two or three directors and a battalion of screenwriters, The Incredibles was written and directed solely by Brad Bird.
Bird came to Pixar with the lineup of the story's family members worked out:
*A mom and dad, both suffering through the dad's midlife crisis
*A shy teenage girl
*A cocky ten-year-old boy
*A baby
Bird had based their powers on family archetypes. After several failed attempts to cast Edna Mode, Bird took on her voice role himself. It was an extension of the Pixar custom of tapping in-house staff whose voices came across particularly well on scratch dialogue tracks. During production, Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli visited Pixar and saw the film's story reels. When Bird asked if the reels made any sense or if they were just "American nonsense," Miyazaki replied, through an interpreter, "I think it's a very adventurous thing you are trying to do in an American film."
===Animation===
 Upon Pixar's acceptance of the project, Brad Bird was asked to bring in his own team for the production. He brought up a core group of people he worked with on The Iron Giant. Because of this, many 2-D artists had to make the shift to 3-D, including Bird himself. Bird found working with CG "wonderfully malleable" in a way that traditional animation is not, calling the camera's ability to easily switch angles in a given scene "marvelously adaptable." He found working in computer animation difficult in a different way than working traditionally, finding the software sophisticated and not particularly friendly.
Bird wrote the script without knowing the limitations or concerns that went hand-in-hand with the medium of computer animation. As a result, this was to be the most complex film for Pixar yet. The film's characters were designed by Tony Fucile and Teddy Newton, whom Bird had brought with him from Warner Bros. Like most computer-animated films, The Incredibles had a year-long period of building the film from the inside out: modeling the exterior and understanding controls that work face and body — the articulation of the character — before animation could even begin. Bird and Fucile tried to emphasize the graphic quality of good 2-D animation to the Pixar team, who'd only worked primarily in CG. Bird attempted to incorporate teaching from Disney's Nine Old Men that the crew at Pixar had "never really emphasized."
For the technical crew members, the film's human characters posed a difficult set of challenges. Bird's story was filled with elements that were difficult to animate with CGI at the time. Humans are widely considered to be the most difficult thing to execute in animation. Pixar animators filmed themselves walking in order to better grasp proper human motion. Creating an all-human cast required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing and realistic skin and hair. Although the technical team had some experience with hair and cloth in Monsters, Inc. (2001), the amount of hair and cloth required for The Incredibles had never been done by Pixar until this point.
Moreover, Bird would tolerate no compromises for the sake of technical simplicity. Where the technical team on Monsters, Inc. had persuaded director Pete Docter to accept pigtails on Boo to make her hair easier to animate, the character of Violet had to have long hair that obscured her face; it was integral to her character. Violet's long hair was extremely difficult to achieve and for the longest time during production, it was not possible. In addition, animators had to adapt to having hair underwater and blowing through the wind. Disney was initially reluctant to make the film because of these issues, feeling a live-action film would be preferable, though Lasseter vetoed this.
The Incredibles not only dealt with the trouble of animating CG humans but also many other complications. The story was bigger than any prior story at the studio, was longer in running time, and had four times the number of locations. Supervising technical director Rick Sayre noted that the hardest thing about the film was that there was "no hardest thing," alluding to the amount of new technical challenges: fire, water, air, smoke, steam, and explosions were all added to the new difficulty of working with humans.
The film's organizational structure could not be mapped out like previous Pixar features, and it became a running joke to the team. Sayre said the team adopted "Alpha Omega", where one team was concerned with building modeling, shading, and layout and another that dealt with final camera, lighting, and effects. Another team dubbed the character team, digitally sculpted, rigged, and shaded the characters, and a simulation team was responsible for developing simulation technology for hair and clothing. There were 781 visual effects shots in the film, and they were quite often the gag, such as the shattering when Bob angrily shuts the car door. In addition, the effects team improved upon the modeling of clouds, being able to model them for the first time with volumetric rendering.
The characters' skin gained a new level of realism from a technology to produce what is known as "subsurface scattering." The challenges did not stop with modeling humans. Bird decided that in a shot near the film's end, baby Jack-Jack would undergo a series of transformations, and in one of the five planned, he would turn himself into a kind of goo. Technical directors believed it would take upwards of two months to work out the goo effect, and production was at a point where two months of their time was indescribably precious. They petitioned the film's producer John Walker for help. Bird, who had brought Walker over from Warner Bros., took great exception to the idea that Jack-Jack could undergo a mere four transformations and that the film could do without the goo-baby. They argued over the issue in several invective-laced meetings for two months until Bird finally gave in. Bird also insisted that the storyboards define the blocking of characters' movements, lighting, and camera moves, which had previously been left to other departments rather than storyboarded.
The film's orchestral score was released on November 2, 2004, three days before the film opened in theaters. It won numerous awards for best score, including Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, BMI Film & TV Award, ASCAP Film and Television Music Award, Annie Award, Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award, and Online Film Critics Society Award and was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Satellite Award and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award.
==Release==
The film opened on November 5, 2004, as Pixar's first film to be rated PG (for "action violence") with the other PG-rated Pixar films being Up, Brave, Inside Out, Turning Red, and several subsequent films. While Pixar celebrated another triumph with The Incredibles, Steve Jobs was embroiled in a public feud with the head of its distribution partner The Walt Disney Company. This would eventually lead to the ousting of Michael Eisner and Disney's acquisition of Pixar the following year.
In March 2014, Disney CEO and chairman Bob Iger announced that the film will be reformatted and re-released in 3D.
===International premieres===
*November 26, 2004 (United Kingdom)
*December 4, 2004 (Japan)
===Home media===
 The film's 2-disc Collector's Edition DVD set was released on March 15, 2005. The DVD release also includes Jack-Jack Attack and Mr. Incredible and Pals, two Pixar short films made especially for the release of The Incredibles, and Boundin', a Pixar short film which premiered with The Incredibles in theaters. Mr. Incredible and Pals was not animated; it only had pictures with moving mouths. It featured Mr. Incredible, Frozone, and a rabbit called Mr. Skipperdoo solving a crime committed by Lady Lightbug: an insect type villain who stole a section of the bridge from the city. Another version of the short had commentary from Lucius and Bob. During the short, Bob was saying how it was a good cartoon for kids while Lucius was complaining about how the cartoon made his skin white instead of black.
The Incredibles was the highest-selling DVD of 2005, with 17.38 million copies sold. The film was also released on UMD for the Sony PSP. It was released on Blu-ray in North America on April 12, 2011. There was also a VHS release to the film on March 15, 2005, notably the last Disney/Pixar film to be widely issued in VHS format (not counting Pixar's later film Cars; whose VHS release was extremely rare).
The 2-disc collector's edition of The Incredibles also included many other special features, such as Incredi-Blunders, which were bloopers from certain scenes of the movie, and Top Secret NSA files of the Supers.
==Reception==
===Critical response===
The film received universal acclaim, with a 97% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 8.4/10, based on 250 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Bringing loads of wit and tons of fun to the animated superhero genre, The Incredibles easily lives up to its name." Rotten Tomatoes rates the film as the fifteenth highest-rated animated film of all time. Metacritic, another review aggregator, indicates the film received "universal acclaim", with a 90 out of 100 rating.
==Sequel==
In 2004, when Disney owned sequel rights, they announced plans to make sequels for The Incredibles and Finding Nemo without Pixar involvement. Those plans were subsequently scrapped. When Disney acquired Pixar in 2006, the expectation was that Pixar would create more sequels and bankable franchises. Director Brad Bird stated in 2007 that he's open to the idea of an Incredibles 2 if he comes up with an idea superior to the original film. Bird says, "I have pieces that I think are good, but I don't have them all together."
On April 26, 2011, John Lasseter confirmed there's actually no work on a sequel to The Incredibles. As he said: "We love The Incredibles. We love those characters and love that world too, but there's nothing in the works right now."
In November 2011, Brad Bird stated: "To say that I've had trouble [coming up with a story] is to say that [a sequel] has been my pursuit. I haven't really been pursuing that. I've told them that I'm not really friendly to have someone else take away my child. I would like to think that I have several good ideas that could be incorporated into a next Incredibles, but I don't have a whole movie yet, and the last thing I want to do is do it just because it would open big or something like that. I want to do it because I have something that will be as good or better than the original. Toy Story 2 was, to me, a perfect sequel, because it absolutely respected the first film but found new places to go without selling out its characters. So if I could come up with an idea that is to Incredibles that Toy Story 2 is to Toy Story, I would do it in a second."
On May 16, 2013, Brad Bird said: "I have been thinking about it. People think that I have not been, but I have. Because I love those characters and love that world. I am stroking my chin and scratching my head. I have many, many elements that I think would work really well in another [Incredibles] film, and if I can get 'em to click all together, I would probably wanna do that. I like the idea of moving a little more quickly in films. I'm looking for ways to accelerate the pace a little bit and figure out a way to keep creative control over these movies to a level where I'm comfortable with the end result but also speed them up a bit and make more of them. I have many different films I wanna make. It's like a big airplane hangar and I have different projects on the floor; half-assembled in my brain. I'm interested in all of them. You kind of have to move on the ones people are willing to pay for and the ones you're most excited about."
At the Disney shareholders meeting in March of 2014, Disney CEO and chairman Bob Iger confirmed that Pixar is in pre-production on a third Cars film and another The Incredibles film, with Bird returning as writer. Later that month, Samuel L. Jackson told Digital Spy that he would likely reprise his role as Frozone in the sequel. In April 2015, Bird revealed to NPR that he has begun writing the screenplay for the sequel.
The film was originally scheduled for a theatrical release on June 21, 2019, but was later published forward to June 15, 2018, and the 2019 release date was filled by Toy Story 4.
==Videos==
One Pixar tradition is to create trailers for their films that do not contain footage from the released film. Trailers for this film include:
*An out-of-shape Mr. Incredible struggles to get his belt on (hence, none of the Incredible Family members wear a belt in the film, and instead sport elastic waist straps).
Teaser 2 - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Trailer 1 - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Trailer 2 - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Edna Mode's E-volution - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Character Design - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Building Humans - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Story - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Animation - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Set Design - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Lighting - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Extras - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Sound - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
Music - The Incredibles - Disney•Pixar-2
The Incredibles Bob Parr Mr. Incredible Interview
The Incredibles Helen Parr Mrs. Incredible Interview
The Incredibles Edna Mode Interview
The Incredibles Frozone Interview
Mr. Incredible Dancing
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*The Incredibles was the first Pixar movie where the music wasn't composed by a member of the Newman family. Instead, it was the first Pixar film to be composed by Michael Giacchino, who would later go on to compose other Pixar films as well, such as Up, Ratatouille, Cars 2, and Inside Out.
*Syndrome's design is based off Purge from Space Channel 5: Part 2 which was released four years before The Incredibles.
*In Japan, the film was simply called Mr. インクレディブル (Misutā Inkurediburu, meaning "Mr. Incredible").
*Near the end of the film, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the final of the legendary group of Disney animators called the "Nine Old Men", make an appearance after the Omnidroid v.10 is destroyed. On September 8, 2004, the day that Brad Bird and producer John Walker recorded the commentary for the DVD, Thomas passed away at the age of 92 from a cerebral hemorrhage. More than three and a half years later on April 14, 2008, Johnston passed away at the age of 95 from natural causes.
*The Incredibles have a few similarities to the Fantastic Four:
**Mr. Incredible has super strength like The Thing.
**Elastigirl can stretch herself like Mister Fantastic.
**Violet can turn herself invisible and make force fields like the Invisible Woman.
**Dash has a movement power and has the same youthful recklessness of the Human Torch.
**Jack-Jack has a wide variety of powers like the young son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman: Franklin Richards.
*The sequence where, after breaking through an apartment wall into a jewelry store, Frozone is kept at gunpoint by a nervous rookie cop ("I'm just getting a drink") is a direct homage/parody of a similar sequence in Die Hard with a Vengeance. In both films, the threatened character is played by Samuel L. Jackson. Even the police officer's facial design is recognizably similar.
*Brad Bird first conceived the idea for the film in the early 1990s, during his struggles with working and being a father.
*This film marks the first Pixar movie to center on mostly all-human characters. This may have been the result of Pixar eventually developing technology to get around the infamous "uncanny valley" when it comes to animating humans, compared to the humans seen in the Toy Story films.
*This film marks the only major Pixar movie where the Pizza Planet delivery truck from Toy Story doesn't make an appearance. It does, however, appear in The Incredibles game in the Late To School level multiple times as you run past 4-way intersections, and in the final level.
*This film marks the final Pixar film to be released in November, until The Good Dinosaur in 2015, the Pixar films that followed were commonly given a summer release because of Steve Jobs' plan, from a marketing point of view, of having any future Pixar film to be summer releases, with the home video sales taking place during the Holiday shopping season, hence why Cars, the first of this tradition, was moved from November of 2005 to June of 2006.
*This film marks the first Pixar movie to receive a PG rating by the MPAA (however, it is rated U by the BBFC in the United Kingdom, while its sequel was PG), with the second being Up, the third being Brave, the fourth being Inside Out, the fifth being The Good Dinosaur, the sixth being Finding Dory, and the seventh being the sequel. The reason for this rating is that it has more violence than the G rated Pixar films that came before it.
**Just like Atlantis: The Lost Empire, this movie earned a PG rating for "action violence".
*In one scene, you can see a sign for the Luxo Deli, and a restaurant called Andy's. The Luxo Deli is a reference to Luxo, Jr. (the first short film Pixar produced), and Andy's is a reference to Andy from Toy Story.
*When Mr. Incredible is fighting crime at the beginning of the movie, the streets on his GPS are the streets near the Pixar Animation Studios building.
*In the Disney movie, Mars Needs Moms, Milo has a poster of Mr. Incredible over his bed.
*When the family was in the limo with Rick Dicker, Elastigirl was on the phone listening to Kari's messages she made in Jack-Jack Attack.
*This film marks the first Pixar film whose home release has the widescreen and the fullscreen version released separately (Finding Nemo had its widescreen and fullscreen releases on separate DVDs, but within the same case). Eventually, only the widescreen version remains still sold.
*This film marks the final Pixar film to use the credit of International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE).
*This film marks the first Pixar film to use the THQ 2000 logo until Up.
*This film also marks the final Pixar film to be released on VHS (if you don't count the extremely rare Cars VHS).
*This film marks the only Pixar film which lacked a voice of Joe Ranft, back when he was still alive.
*When the film was aired on Disney Channel, Dash's lines, "We're dead! We're dead!" and "We survived, but we're dead!", were cut.
*Most likely, The Incredibles takes place in 1962 according to a newspaper Bob reads. The prologue of the film is also set in 1947.
*A113 appears twice, Mirage mentions it to Mr. Incredible before he experiences his penthouse and is one of the codes on the computers.
*The film's teaser trailer and selected posters show that Mr. Incredible (aka Bob Parr) was to remain overweight for the entire film, but the idea was eventually dropped as the final version shows him overweight only for most of the first hour and more muscular for the rest of the film.
*The movie's closing shot pays homage to famous DC Comics superhero Superman, with Bob opening his shirt revealing his super suit under it in a similar way to how Superman does multiple times.
*The Incredibles can be seen, playing in the theater, in the WandaVision episode, "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!"
*The Wilhelm scream can be heard twice in this film. It is first heard when Mr. Incredible prevents Oliver Sansweet's suicide (multiple variations are used in the scene), and later when the family take out some of Syndrome's henchmen.
*Doc Hudson from Cars can be seen during one of the scenes, despite the character not making his official debut until 2 years later, but the Cars film was in development. Given that The Incredibles takes place in the 1960's, there have been theories that this is the same character from the 2006 film, that it is showing Doc Hudson's life after his crash in 1954, before he decided to reside in Radiator Springs.
*This is the first Pixar film to have full-fledged firearms, not counting those from the first Toy Story film (as it only has toy guns and blasters), A Bug's Life (since it only has an improvised cannon), and Toy Story 2 (where it only has fictionally in-universe and toy blasters).
==Goofs==
*While Bob argues with Mr. Huph about the Walker policy after the 15-years-ago prologue, Bob's little bucket of pencils falls on its side. Then he puts it back up placed on the left side of his right hand (near the middle of the desk). When Mr. Huph leaves, it is inexplicably placed on the right side of Bob's right hand (at the desk's edge) and thus causing it to fall off the edge when Bob sits.
*After being in a long traffic, Bob was about to park on the driveway. You can see there was nothing there. When he parked the car and got out, he slipped on a skateboard coming out of nowhere.
*When Lucius is putting aftershave on in front of the mirror in his apartment, he hears Omnidroid v.10 outside and runs to the window. He leaves the bottle of aftershave on the desk with the lid off. He returns to open the drawer, and the lid is back on.
*While the family eats dinner at the table, the food keeps changing position. The commentators of the DVD discuss this during the featured scene.
*After the dinner table scene, Bob leaves to go out with Frozone. Then Helen turns to talk to Dash. In the first shot, all the broccoli pieces sit around the steak on Dash's plate. Then the shot changes and a broccoli piece is suddenly sitting atop the piece of steak.
*When Helen and Violet are talking at the dinner table, Violet's fork changes position a few times between shots.
*After Bob gets back home from "re-living the glory days", you can see a barbecue in the backyard on the concrete deck. But when the camera shows an aerial view of the house at the end of the scene, the barbecue is on the grass.
*Violet's part changes sides a few times throughout the film. It is usually on the left side of her head, but it is on the right at the end of the dinner table scene (after Bob has left with Lucius) and when she and Dash secretly listen to Helen and Bob's argument, and also when Helen first discovers her and Dash on the plane. This was likely done on purpose because the camera in both of those scenes is focused on the right side of her face, so her face would not have been visible if her part was on the proper side. Also, the hair was so difficult to animate. To save time and expense, they switched the part in Violet's hair to show her face when needed.
*Violet's invisibility powers seem to be limited to her own body. (That was shown in the first scene with her at her school and where she secretly listened to the conversation of her parents, where only her head and hands were invisible but not her clothes.) However, her different colored headbands become invisible along with herself. Unless her orange headband was part of the suit (due to the fact that it was most likely in with Violet or in Helen's bag on the plane), her headbands should therefore still be visible, but they aren't.
*When Mr. Incredible crashes into the building trying to save a man, his shadow disappears.
*When Helen Parr is talking on the phone to Edna Mode, the phone and phone cord have no shadows even though Helen's shadow appears on the wall behind her.
*When Syndrome reminds Mr. Incredible about his line, "I work alone," he isn't holding Bomb Voyage in the flashback scene as he did in the original scene (this could, however, be explained as Syndrome's distorted perspective of the event).
*When Frozone is taking a drink when the police are at gunpoint, he leaves the water jug on and no water comes out.
*When Bob is reminiscing about the glory days a newspaper is dated as September 16, 2002, setting the film at earliest in 2017, despite an earlier newspaper with news about the disappearance of Gazerbeam, a more current event, dated as May 16, 1962.
**Adding further confusion to this is that Thunderhead's death was stated by Edna to have been November 15th, 1958, rendering the possibility of the film being in 1962 even more unlikely due to his death being included in the NSA files from when the Superhero Restriction Act went into effect.
*Although the Omnidroid v.8 is the eighth Omnidroid made and had "08" on its shell, Mirage refers to it as "9000" at one point.
*The Omnidroid v.X3's computer graphic in the Operation Kronos database is a repeat of the v.X1's.
*Syndrome dies in the plane accident. However, he appears alive and well in Disney INFINITY.
**It is likely that the Incredibles playset is set in an alternate universe where Syndrome survived the explosion, especially that the makers of the game said that in the playset Syndrome releases some Omnidroids into Metroville to try and kidnap Jack-Jack again. It could also be that there was a clone of Syndrome.
*When the illustrations of Mr. Incredible's El Train accident trial are shown, Peter Sohn's signature is shown at the bottom right.
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