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The Incredibles

Directed by
Brad Bird
Produced by
John Walker
Written by
Brad Bird
Starring
Craig T. NelsonHolly HunterSarah VowellSpencer FoxJason LeeBrad BirdSamuel L. JacksonElizabeth Peña
Music by
Michael Giacchino
Cinematography
Andrew JimenezPatrick LinJanet Lucroy
Editing by
Stephen Schaffer
Distributed by
Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)
November 5, 2004
Running time
115 minutes
Language
English (original)French
Budget
$92 million USD
Gross revenue
Domestic: $261,441,092Worldwide: $631,436,092
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The Incredibles is a 2004 Academy Award-winning animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, centering around a family of superheroes. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director of The Simpsons previously best known for directing the 1999 animated movie The Iron Giant. The Incredibles was originally developed as a traditionally-animated movie for Warner Bros., but after Warner shut down its animation division, Brad Bird moved to Pixar and took the story with him.
The Incredibles is Pixar's sixth feature film. It was presented by Walt Disney Pictures and released by Buena Vista Distribution in North America on November 5, 2004, and in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland on November 26 of the same year and in Japan, February 2, 2005. It is the first Pixar movie to be rated PG by the MPAA and the first to feature an entirely human cast of characters. It was released in a two-disc DVD in the U. S. on March 15, 2005. According to the Internet Movie Database, it was the highest-selling DVD of 2005, with 17.18 million copies sold.
Contents[hide]
1 Plot
2 Voice cast
3 Crew
4 Reaction
5 DVD extras
6 Merchandising
7 Bloopers
8 Video games
9 Trivia
9.1 Pixar insider references and jokes
9.2 Similarities/allusions to other works
10 Awards
11 Associated short films
12 Trailers
13 See also
14 Notes and references
15 External links
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Plot
Fifteen years after a series of lawsuits has forced superheroes, known as "Supers," into a government-sponsored witness protection program in exchange for a promise to stop all superhero work, Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) and Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) have married and settled in to relatively normal lives. Now known as Bob and Helen Parr, they have a house in the suburbs and are raising three kids, Violet (Sarah Vowell), Dashiell ("Dash") (Spencer Fox) and baby Jack-Jack (Eli Fucile). Violet and Dash each have superpowers like their parents, and while, in the beginning of the movie, it seems as if Jack-Jack is a normal baby, in the end of the movie it is revealed that he, too, has a superpower..
Bob is frustrated with the drudgery of his job as an insurance claims adjuster. He secretly helps clients to find loopholes to get their payments. He dreams of returning back to his glory days of superheroism, going so far as to moonlight as a crimefighter by listening to a police scanner with his friend Lucius - another former super called Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson). When Helen finds out, it causes an argument. Bob hates having to hide their gifts, and wants to return to the heroics of the old days, while Helen is concerned about keeping the family together and not having to start over again by going into hiding in a brand new location.
Eventually Mr. Huph, Bob's miserly boss, suspects Bob is helping clients and reprimands him. During the lecture, Bob notices a person being mugged in the street. Mr. Huph stops Bob from going to the victim's aid, threatening to fire him. Bob, in reply, throws his employer through several walls. Huph is hospitalized and Bob is fired. Mirage (Elizabeth Peña), a mysterious agent, contacts him and offers highly-paid work: subduing a renegade robot, the Omnidroid 9000, on an uncharted island. Bob takes the assignment, hiding both the loss of his job and the renewal of hero work from Helen. Bob defeats the Omnidroid, damaging his supersuit slightly from the battle, and becomes much happier. When he takes his suit to its designer, flamboyant Edna Mode (Brad Bird), for repair, she creates for him a brand-new suit. Unbeknownst to him, she also creates suits for his entire family.
Two months later, Mirage calls Bob with a new assignment. Helen overhears the call, but does not realize its full implications or content. When Bob returns to the island, he is ambushed and defeated by an improved version of the Omnidroid. He is held captive there by Syndrome (Jason Lee), once a young fan named "Buddy".
Despite his lack of superpowers, Buddy wanted to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick. Once, his efforts to convince Mr. Incredible led to the escape of a villain; that same evening, Mr. Incredible harshly rejected Buddy. Embittered by this, Buddy set out to make himself rich by inventing and selling weapons technology. He then invented the Omnidroid, a robot designed to kill supers. It learns from its mistakes; therefore Buddy used it to kill other supers to prepare it for Mr. Incredible.
Back at home, Helen notices that Bob's old super suit has recently been sewed by Edna. She goes to talk about it with Edna and learns that Edna has also created supersuits for Helen and the children. She also learns that Bob lost his job and has resumed super-hero work. Edna advises her to take control of the situation. Back on the island, Bob discovers that Syndrome has killed many of his superhero friends in the process of developing the Omnidroid, and is now planning on unleashing the robot into the city where it will cause mass destruction.
Using the homing device Edna built into his super suit, Helen ascertains Bob’s location and departs for the island on a jet plane, unknowingly accompanied by Violet and Dash (who have left Jack-Jack at home with a barely competent babysitter). Syndrome, meanwhile, tortures Bob for information and launches a missile attack against Helen's airplane. Helen and the kids manage to escape unharmed, though everyone on the island believes they are killed. Bob grabs Mirage and threatens to kill her unless Syndrome frees him; Syndrome refuses, but Bob's conscience prevents him killing Mirage. Meanwhile, Helen and the children swim to the island.
While Helen infiltrates Syndrome’s base, the Omnidroid is launched on a rocket towards its target, the city of Metroville. The children sleep in the jungle but are discovered and chased by Syndrome’s henchmen. In Syndrome’s base, a grateful Mirage secretly frees Bob just before Helen arrives to do the same thing. The two superheroes rush to find their children, who are fighting off the henchmen. A battle ensues, wherein the family co-operates to defeat their attackers. Syndrome captures the Incredibles using his zero-point energy fields. Syndrome then explains his plan: to save Metroville from his own Omnidroid and thereby become a hero. He then leaves the Incredibles in an energy prison. Violet’s force fields allow them to escape, however. With Mirage’s help they depart for the mainland after Syndrome.
In Metroville, Syndrome attempts to stop the Omnidroid's destructive rampage, but the robot figures out the nature of his remote control and knocks him unconscious. The Incredibles and Frozone fight the robot. Together, they are able to get the Omnidroid to disable itself. The town applauds them for their achievements; the possibility of superheroes coming out of hiding is mentioned. Syndrome wakes up to find that the Incredibles have stolen his glory.
The Incredibles return home to find that Syndrome is kidnapping Jack-Jack; as he attempts to fly up to his jet using his rocket boots, Jack-Jack suddenly reveals his super powers by transforming into fire, metal, and then an alien-like monster. Syndrome drops Jack-Jack, who is caught by Helen, and attempts to flee. Bob hurls the family car into the jet; Syndrome is knocked into the turbine and is killed when his cape is caught in the engine and pulls him in. Violet then protects the family from the raining flames and debris as the jet explodes, much to the amazement of their young neighbor.
Three months later, the family is much happier; even Bob is content with their civilian life. Dash is running in a track meet, promising to run no faster than the average human pace. He finishes in second place at the track meet. Violet, who formerly felt alienated to the point of using her hair to hide her face, is found with her hair pulled back and successfully asking her friend Tony for a date to the movies. As they walk out of the sports complex, The Underminer (John Ratzenberger) rises from the ground and declares "war on peace and happiness.” The family, including Jack-Jack, puts on superhero masks and prepares to fight.

Voice cast
Characters
Image
Voice actor
Mr. Incredible/Robert Parr

Craig T. Nelson
Elastigirl/Helen Parr

Holly Hunter
Violet Parr

Sarah Vowell
Dashiell Robert "Dash" Parr

Spencer Fox
Syndrome/Incrediboy/Buddy Pine

Jason Lee
Edna Mode

Brad Bird
Frozone/Lucius Best

Samuel L. Jackson
Mirage

Elizabeth Peña

[edit] Crew
Crew Position
Written and Directed by
Brad Bird
Produced by
John Walker
Executive Producer
John Lasseter
Associate Producer
Kori Rae
Music by
Michael Giacchino
Story Supervisor
Mark Andrews

Reaction
Critical response to The Incredibles was overwhelmingly positive, receiving a 97% "Certified Fresh" rating at Rotten Tomatoes.[1] Critic Roger Ebert awarded the film three-and-a-half stars out of four, writing that the film "alternates breakneck action with satire of suburban sitcom life" and is "another example of Pixar's mastery of popular animation." James Berardinelli shared an almost identical opinion; "The Incredibles is among the best of Pixar's digitally animated movies," he commented. He noted that the film "may be the most visually daunting animated film to reach the screen to-date" and that "it is markedly more mature in tone and approach than any previous digitally animated movie."[2]
Some negative criticism was directed towards the film's violence; indeed, the film is much more violent than any previous Pixar film. Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that "the Pixar whizzes do what they do excellently; you just wish they were doing something else."[3] Similarly, Jessica Winter of the Village Voice criticized the film for playing as a standard summer action film, despite being released in early November. Her review, titled as "Full Metal Racket," noted that "The Incredibles announces the studio's arrival in the vast yet overcrowded Hollywood lot of eardrum-bashing, metal-crunching action sludge."[4]
Following concerns that the film would receive underwhelming results,[5] the film grossed $70,467,623 in its opening weekend, the highest opening weekend gross for a Pixar film, just barely beating Finding Nemo's opening weekend take of $70,251,710.[6][7] The film ultimately grossed $261,441,092, the second-highest gross for a Pixar film (behind Finding Nemo) and the fifth-highest grossing film of 2004.[8] Worldwide, the film grossed $631,436,092, ranking fourth for the year.[9]

DVD extras
The Incredibles two-disc Collector's Edition DVD set was released on March 15, 2005. Two versions of the set are available: one widescreen and the other full screen (this is unlike releases for other Pixar films, which often contained both versions in one set). Like many other DVD releases, there are various extra features available on the two discs including:
Introduction, an introduction for the extras featuring Brad Bird
Deleted Scenes, the films deleted scenes plus an intro for all of them
Jack-Jack Attack, a Pixar short film made especially for the release of The Incredibles about what happened while Kari was babysitting Jack-Jack
The Making of The Incredibles, a documentary about making The Incredibles featuring about 30 of the crew members
More Making of The Incredibles, another longer documentary also about making The Incredibles
Incredi-Blunders, The Incredibles outtakes
Vowellet: An Essay by Sarah Vowell, a documentary about the life of Sarah Vowell, a writer who did the voice of Violet Parr
Character Interviews, actor and actresses interview the characters
Theatrical Trailer, The Incredibles film trailer
Mr. Incredible and Pals, a Mr. Incredible cartoon spoofing cheesy superhero cartoons from the 1960's, as well as Synchro-Vox cartoons like Clutch Cargo
Mr. Incredible and Pals With Commentary, the cartoon with the characters' commentary
NSA Files, info about the supers
Boundin', a Pixar short film directed by Bud Luckey
Boundin' With Commentary, Boundin' with commentary by Bud Luckey
Who Is Bud Luckey? a four-minute documentary about the making of Boundin'

Merchandising
Several companies released promotional products related to the movie. Dark Horse Comics released a limited series of comic books based on the movie. Kellogg's released an Incredibles-themed cereal, as well as promotional Pop Tarts and fruit snacks, all proclaiming an "Incrediberry Blast" of flavor. Furthermore, in the weeks before the movie's opening, there were also promotional tie-ins with SBC Communications (using Dash to promote the "blazing-fast speed" of its SBC Yahoo! DSL service) and McDonald's.
In Europe, Kinder chocolate eggs contained small plastic toy characters.
In Mexico, there has been a craze about the movie, literally hundreds of items are being sold there, with several of them being exclusive to Mexico. Already many stores around the country have been reporting being completely sold out of certain popular items.
In Belgium, car manufacturer Opel sold special The Incredibles editions of their cars.
In the United Kingdom, Telewest promoted blueyonder internet services with branding from the film, including television adverts starring characters from the film.
In all merchandising outside of the film itself, Elastigirl is referred to as Mrs. Incredible. This is due to a licensing agreement between Disney/Pixar and DC Comics, who has a character named Elasti-Girl (a member of the Doom Patrol). The DC Comics character is able to grow and shrink at will from microscopic size to thousands of feet tall.

Bloopers
When Mr. Incredible crashes into the building trying to save a man, his shadow disappears.
While the family eats dinner at the table, the food keeps changing position.
When Frozone rings the doorbell during the family argument Mr. Incredible puts the table down. In the next shot of the family, the light over the table is suddenly swinging - Helen stops it.
The part in Violet's hair switches sides several times. (This was a deliberate "mistake" by the filmmakers - hair was so difficult to animate, that to save time and expense, they switched the part in Violet's hair to show her face when needed.)

Video games
Main article: The Incredibles (video games)

Trivia
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This is the first Pixar movie to be rated PG in the US (Toy Story received a PG certificate in the UK) and the first Pixar film not to have lyrics to any of its scores (see below).
Production of The Incredibles began in March 2000.[1]
The score to the film was composed by Michael Giacchino. At Brad Bird's request, it is a stylistic tribute to the action scores of the 1960s, such as John Barry's scores for the James Bond franchise, which combined swinging big band and jazz lounge music with symphonic action scoring. In fact, the first teaser trailer uses the Propellerheads' remix of Barry's opening credits theme from the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. The score was recorded in analog. Giacchino elected to forgo the standard practice of recording each soundtrack element separately, recording the orchestra, brass, and percussion simultaneously in the same room.
Musical homages to James Bond movie scores by John Barry include:
The Incredibles main theme => On Her Majesty's Secret Service main title/theme
The incidental music when Mr. Incredible is sneaking into Syndrome's headquarters => the incidental music when James Bond is sneaking into Auric Goldfinger's Swiss industrial plant
The building music as Mr. Incredible discovers the Operation Kronos files => the "Space Capsule Capture" theme from You Only Live Twice

Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas in the movie
Veteran Disney animators Ollie Johnston and Frank Thomas have character and voice cameos at the conclusion of the final battle sequence. Brad Bird had them both appear in cameos previously in The Iron Giant. Unfortunately, Thomas did not live long enough to see the finished film.
The scene where Elastigirl warns her children that their opponents are a deadly threat who will not show mercy to anyone, regardless of age, was a deliberate attempt by Bird to subvert the typical atmosphere of minimized jeopardy in Saturday morning cartoons.
The Omnidroid's arms closely resemble those of Dr. Octopus.
Originally a character called Snug was designed to appear and be killed off in order to show that the villains were an actual threat. He was intended to be the pilot of the jet that Elastigirl takes to Syndrome's hideout; his background was that he flew superheroes who could not fly themselves to their destination, as well as being an old friend of Helen's. He was eventually cut from the movie when scenes involving fleshing him out to make his death a shock to the viewers took too much screentime. Helen replaced him as the pilot, but was not killed. Snug's only remaining "appearance" in the movie is when Helen calls him on the phone about borrowing the jet. The viewer only hears his voice and he is only referred to by name.
The name "Omnidroid" is owned by George Lucas, as seen at the end of the credits.
There are scenes that depict vanity on the parts of Bob and Helen. Bob's vanity plays a significant role in the movie as Bob's confidence goes up while he works with Mirage. The scene that shows vanity on Helen's part (examining her rump in a reflective surface) was in Brad Bird's original pitch: Bird himself has three sisters and he included the scene to reference the idea that women have a very critical eye on their bodies. Helen is no exception. According to Bird in the DVD Director's Commentary: "The men are just glad that the women are around."
The inspiration for The Incredibles came from Brad Bird's family. Like Bird's wife, Helen is flexible; like his sons, Dash is full of energy; and like Bird's sisters during their teen years, Violet absolutely wants to fit in. Bird's middle son, Jack, was the inspiration for Jack-Jack.
The family's last name, Parr, is a homonym for the golf term "par" (or "average"); Bob therefore literally goes from being "Incredible" to "average" when superheroes are banned.
In some translations, Syndrome claims to use anti-matter instead of zero-point energy. An example is the Polish version.
This film is number 46 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".
The character of Bomb Voyage was originally scheduled to be Bomb Perignon as a spoof on Dom Perignon Champagne, but permission was refused.
The Parrs' home in Metroville appears to be an Eichler Home. There are 900 of these in Terra Linda, California, near Pixar's former homes in San Rafael and Point Richmond, California. Joseph Eichler build roughly 11,000 of these homes in California between 1950 and 1974. Today, many architectural enthusiasts cherish renovated Eichler homes as the epitome of the 20th Century "California Modern" aesthetic.
Bob Parr's earlier car resembles various Fiat models from the late 60's and early 70's. Several jokes evolve around the low quality of the car, something which is often done with Fiat cars.
Dash's teacher "Berny Kropp" is a parody of Benny Krupp, who is a principal of fictional Jerome Horwitz Elementary School in the Captain Underpants books.
The superpowers of Elastigirl resemble those of Mr. Fantastic, while her daughter's are identical to those of the Invisible Woman. This has led to speculation to the effect that they are the descendants thereof. The name "Mr. Incredible" is themed similarly to the name "Mr. Fantastic".
During the scene where Elastigirl and Mr. Incredible stop the bus robber, a PEZ dispenser may be seen lying on the ground.

Pixar insider references and jokes
The opening high-speed police chase takes place on San Pablo Avenue, which passes near the studio's Emeryville headquarters. In fact, Mr. Incredible's GPS map shows the names of several streets near Pixar (including Park Avenue, Stanford Avenue, and Hollis Street), though the map itself is not accurate with many of the streets' names not correlating with the location of their real-life counterparts.
When Edna Mode is showing off the suits, Elastigirl tries out the tracking system, which points directly to Pixar's headquarters.
A blue Hudson Hornet can be seen parked in the background when Mr. Incredible tries to throw the Omnidroid's claw. An anthropomorphized version of the Hudson Hornet, also blue, appears as Doc Hudson in Cars.
An appearance of the CalArts Animation School inside joke A113 appears in the middle of the film, when Mirage tells Mr. Incredible to report to conference room A113. The same in-joke appears later as the number for the containment cell holding Mr. Incredible: Detention Block A1, Cell No. 13.
The storefront to the right of Lucius's car in the alley is the "Luxo Deli", a reference to "Luxo Jr.," the first Pixar short film. On the other side is "Andy's," a reference to Andy from Toy Story, Pixar's first full-length animated feature.
The fire trucks appear to be non-anthropomorphized versions of the character Red from the film Cars.
The Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story is seen on the freeway while they are driving when Bob says "I take seventh don't I" in the top left hand corner area; the truck also appears in two levels of the video game.
The TV and VCR in the principal's office used to show Dash's prank is actually the same used in Toy Story 2 to watch the Woody's Roundup TV show.
When Bomb Voyage walks through the wall, he looks like one of the pictures on Sulley's bedroom wall in Monsters, Inc., also his bags are identical to Al's bag in Toy Story 2.
The Parrs' house looks very similar to a silhouetted house across the road at Dinoco Gas station while Woody and Buzz Lightyear are squabbling in Toy Story.

Similarities/allusions to other works
As Mr. Incredible is struggling to remember Buddy's name, he calls him "Brody", possibly a tongue-in-cheek reference to Jason Lee's role in the Kevin Smith film, Mallrats.
The Parr family resides in Metroville. Metroville is a combination of the two most prominent cities within the Superman series: Metropolis and Smallville.
The name "Kronos" is a reference to an obscure 1950's giant robot movie of the same name. The massive energy eating robot in that film is also mirrored in the design of the Omnidroid, although whereas the Omnidroid is spherical, the original Kronos was box-like.
The line "This message will self destruct in 5 seconds", and the subsequent destruction is a homage to Mission Impossible.
The Kronos project is located on Nomanisan Island ("No Man Is An Island"), an allusion to John Donne's famous Meditation XVII.
The Incredibles suggest several similarities to the Marvel Comics superhero team The Fantastic Four both visually and in the nature of their abilities. On the DVD commentary, it was stated that Jack-Jack turning into an inferno was added so all the powers from the Fantastic Four were represented within the family.
Aside from the Fantastic Four, director Brad Bird stated that his biggest inspiration stylistically was that of Jim Steranko's Nick Fury comics, influencing the spy theme and much of the visual framing.
The end shot shows Bob Parr ripping his shirt revealing his Mr. Incredible suit in a homage to Richard Donner's Superman.
Another reference to Richard Donner's Superman is the speech Syndrome gives Mr. Incredible about how whole countries want respect and he uses the line that Lex Luthor also uses about "paying through the nose to get it" although they are talking about two different things; Luthor about real estate land and Syndrome about respect.
In a possible reference to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey (film): the red eye of the Omnidroid 9000 evokes the red camera lens eye of the HAL 9000 computer, while the elevators in Syndrome's headquarters resemble the Discovery's EVA space pods..
The Insuricare corporate logo, a hand reaching down over the globe, evokes the original theatrical release posters for The Day the Earth Stood Still and (to a lesser degree) The War of the Worlds.
Among many references to the James Bond movie franchise, the monorail cars around Syndrome's hideout (built around a volcano) resemble the cars in Blofeld's hideout (built in a fake volcano) in You Only Live Twice.
The licence plate number on the police car at the beginning of the film is KR 54, a reference to the television show Car 54, Where are You?
The character design of Rick Dicker has been called similar to that of Tommy Lee Jones. Also, Dicker's agents erase the memories of those who've seen superhero activity, just as Jones's agents erase the memories of those who've seen aliens in Men In Black. The name is also reminiscent of "Rick Deckard", the bounty hunter in Blade Runner.
The kid on the tricycle is an inside joke for John Lasseter who is (during production) waiting for something amazing to happen and later describes the events as "totally wicked".
The backdrop of the movie is similar to that of Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel, Watchmen, wherein costumed heroes are branded as vigilantes, and subsequent legislation is passed to make the practice illegal. Both works also include a mysterious plot to kill all superheroes. Even the references to superheroes' capes causing lethal accidents mirror a similar incident mentioned in Watchmen.
Elastigirl examines her posterior in the mirror and sighs, just as Tinkerbell did in the Disney movie Peter Pan.
Supersuit designer Edna Mode is considered to be an hommage to Edith Head, who designed costumes in Hollywood for 50 years.

Awards
The film won the Academy Award in 2005 for Best Animated Feature (the second Pixar Animation Studios feature film to do so) as well as Best Achievement in Sound Editing. It also received nominations for Best Original Screenplay (for writer/director Brad Bird) and Best Achievement in Sound, but did not win.
The film was awarded the 2005 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form.

Associated short films
The video/DVD release also features an additional short called Jack-Jack Attack, starring one of the film's characters Jack-Jack Parr. It depicts the off-screen details of Kari McKean's "very weird" night caring for the baby.

Trailers
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).