I finally saw the movie yesterday, and thought it was excellent; there also a lot of kids there, but, surprisingly,they were acceptably quite throughout the entire movie except that one little shit that kept yapping about a fucking toy. Fortunately his dad carried him out. Also, surprisingly, this has been the first superhero-ish movie in a while where I haven't gone for the bad guy, which is saying something considering that half of the main protagonists are children. Obviously, I enjoyed Dash and Violet and "Jack-Jack" (I'll just assume that that's a "baby talk" pseudonym for Jack) far too much for it to matter.
While I agree that it's seems like the non-family characters, such as Syndrome, Edna Mode (who was voiced by a guy. The producer I think), and Frozone (who kicked ass, as well as finally gave a suitable explanation--for the time being--for powers over ice), were slightly more impressive and/or likable than the family members. Still, Elastigirl by herself was awesome throughout at least half of the movie, (she has a really thick ass! Which is a good thing!) and I personally would like to see a future one with the children somewhat grown so that we could see what they could actually do with some training.
Yeah, I said before, I extremely liked Frozone, since it was nice to see that he was more than just the "token black guy". And judging by the positive, near-applause reaction with the use of powers at the end of the movie when trying to dodge the Omnidroid v. 10, he was extremely well liked overall. I guess it helps that Samuel L. Jackson is also in EVERYTHING, so people have had more than enough time to get use to the voice, even when it's not swearing.
I felt that this film felt more like a homage to a spy movie than anything else. If anything it probably homaged "Adventure movies" better than "Sky Captain and the World of Tommrow", because it was more subtle than incredibly blatent. A lot of James Bond type references, like the Bubble Transport cars of You Only Live Twice. The music was incredible totally referencing James Bond. And hell, when Dash was dashing through the jungle, it reminded me of Star Wars. As for the 3D...well Pixar outdid themselves again. They didn't make it real looking, they made it LOOK INCREDIBLE. Shit man, just looking at a folded up costume...it just looks INSANE on how cool it looked. The action....really top notch. I'm surprised how great it is. But seriously, with all things that happened, I discussed this with my friend....The Incredibles seemed like the GREATEST film candidate...to be an R-rated film. I mean there's so much stuff they can work with, I would love to see an R-Rated version of The Incredible be released!
Imagine: Sam Jackson...swearing! "Bust through that wall, mutha fucka!"
Edna with an even edgier, sharper wit. "Do you know where your husband is?.....perhaps...FUCKING A WHORE!"
Violet was implied to be almost goth like, why don't we have her actually be goth/emo and try to commit suicide by slitting her wrists? Instead...her forcefields get in the way...BECAUSE SHE'S COWARD..SHE CAN'T FUCKING DO IT.
That reminds me, this film didn't really shy away from the concept of death, which was cool. I thought it was a little weird when it showed the family just casually killing all those henchmen in those weird floating ship thingees. Yeah, they blew up in fireballs and such, but there were people flying those ships! Still, both parents and their kids in the audience didn't seem to mind and were cheering them on. I just know ONE over protective, loud mouth soccer mom is going to ruin this for everyone.
Anyhoo, enough yappin'. I strongly suggest you watch this movie.
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