November 11, 2004
The Incredibles
Actor . . . Role
Craig T. Nelson .... Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible
Holly Hunter .... Helen Parr/Elastigirl
Spencer Fox .... Dashiell 'Dash' Parr
Sarah Vowell .... Violet Parr
Eli Fucile and Maeve Andrews .... Jack Jack Parr
Samuel L. Jackson .... Lucius Best/Frozone
Jason Lee .... Buddy Pine/Syndrome
Wallace Shawn .... Gilbert Huph
Elizabeth Peņa .... Mirage
Brad Bird .... Edna 'E' Mode
Go see this movie.
Right now. Don't delay.
Seriously. You should see this movie on the big screen and see it at full price. You won't be disappointed.
No spoilers below.
I had heard good things about this movie but I wasn't really sure I wanted to go see it. I thought I might just wait until it came out on video. I'm glad I didn't.
The animation, naturally (it IS Pixar, after all), was AMAZING. There was one scene involving the son running on water that seriously just took my breath away, it was so beautiful. I think I was concentrating more on the environment more than the action.
Because this is an animated picture and there wasn't an attempt to make the characters look "too human", the animators could have totally let a lot of things go but they didn't. Even the characters' hair was great.
The voice talents were perfect. Each actor/actress really brought their character to life and they really fit their characters. And it was the little touches that made all the difference. Like the fact that both the mother and daughter characters have a bit of a lisp (I wonder if that was deliberate on the part of the actress who played the daughter because Holly Hunter (who voiced the mother) has a bit of a lisp in her accent in real life). I kept waiting for the dad's boss (voiced by Wallace Shawn) to break out with "Inconceivable!" but he never did. But the person who stole the show for the brief time s/he was in the movie was Edna Mode (voiced by the director of the movie). All at once gruff, truthful, and hilariously happy, the character was just a hoot!
The plot was great. The movie did a really good job of showing how these "Supers" have the same problems that the normal people do. I can't say more than that without giving too much away.
And I hate to hype up a movie to such a degree that people will then have super high expectations of it, but this movie does deserve 5 halos.