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The Incredibles: Directed by Brad Bird. With Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee. While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world.
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- Animation, Action, Adventure
- Brad Bird
- 2004-11-28
As a claims adjuster at possibly the world’s worst insurance company, Insuricare, the former Mr. Incredible’s heroics are limited to helping people navigate the intricacies of the appeals system. Bob’s unhappiness has taken a toll and he and his family have become disconnected.
The Incredibles is a 2004 American animated superhero film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. Written and directed by Brad Bird, it stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, and Elizabeth Peña.
Nov 5, 2004 · Purchase The Incredibles on digital and stream instantly or download offline. From the creative minds behind the Toy Story films and Ratatouille comes this hilarious, action-packed animated adventure about a seemingly ordinary family with an incredible secret.
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The Incredibles centers on a family of retired superheroes and features Bob Parr, the father of the family, being pulled out of retirement to take down a new evil villain, Buddy Pine.
The film is set in a 1960s-esque alternate universe where superheroes, also known to the public community as Supers, are renowned and commended for their heroic deeds worldwide, allowing them the luxuries of a Golden Age. One particular superhero who truly lives in this age is the super-strong Mr. Incredible, engaged to the amazingly flexible and d...
Craig T. Nelson: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible)Holly Hunter: Helen Parr (Elastigirl)Spencer Fox: Dash Parr (The Dash)Sarah Vowell: Violet ParrWriting
The Incredibles as a concept dates back to 1993, when Pixar presented the Black Friday reel of Toy Story that caused production to shut down, and 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,...
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 diff...
Music
1. See also: The Incredibles Soundtrack The Incredibles is the first Pixar film to be scored by Michael Giacchino. Brad Bird was looking for a specific sound as inspired by the film's design — the future as seen from the 1960s. John Barry was the first choice to do the film's score, with a trailer of the film given a rerecording of Barry's theme to On Her Majesty's Secret Service. However, Barry did not wish to duplicate the sound of some of his earlier soundtracks; the assignment was instead...
Several film reviewers drew precise parallels between the film and certain superhero comic books, like Powers, Watchmen and Fantastic Four. Indeed, the producers of the 2005 adaptation of the Fantastic Four were forced to make significant script changes and add more special effects because of similarities to The Incredibles. Bird was not surprised ...
The film opened on November 5, 2004 as Pixar's first film to be rated PG (for "action violence"). Its theatrical release was accompanied with a Pixar short film Boundin'. 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...
Critical Response
The film received universal acclaim, with a 97% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes which, as of August 2013, made the movie the fifteenth most highly rated animated film of all time. The site's consensus reads: "Even though The Incredibles is more violent than previous Pixar offerings, it still a witty and fun-filled adventure that almost lives up to its name."Metacritic, another review aggregator, indicates the film "universal acclaim" with a 90 out of 100 rating. Critic Roger Ebert awarded...
Box Office
Despite concerns that the film would receive underwhelming results, the films domestic gross was $70,467,623 in its opening weekend from 7,600 screens at 3,933 theaters, averaging $17,917 per theater or $9,272 per screen, the highest opening weekend gross for a Pixar film (the record was later broken in 2010 by Toy Story 3, with $110,307,189), the highest November opening weekend for a Disney film (the record was broken in 2013 by Thor: The Dark World with $85.7 million), the highest-opening...
Awards
1. See also: The Incredibles Awards The film won the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature, beating two DreamWorks films named Shrek 2 and Shark Tale, as well as Best Sound Editing at the 77th Academy Awards. It also received nominations for Best Original Screenplay (for writer/director Brad Bird) and Best Sound Mixing (Randy Thom, Gary Rizzo, and Doc Kane). It was Pixar's first feature film to win multiple Oscars, followed in 2010 by Up. Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal called T...
This film was rated PG (for action violence), the first for an animated Pixar film. The second PG rated film was Up. However, in the United Kingdom, it was rated U.
Theatrical and home video releases include Boundin', released in 2003, a year before this movie was released. A short film, Jack-Jack Attack, was released exclusively on home video.
Several companies released promotional products related to the film. Dark Horse Comics released a limited series of comic books based on the film. Kellogg's released an Incredibles-themed cereal, as well as promotional Pop-Tarts and fruit snacks, all proclaiming an "Incrediberry Blast" of flavor. Pringles included potato chips featuring the superhe...
Disney. Save the day.Tagline 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...
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