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The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated comedy superhero adventure film, directed, written by Brad Bird, released by Walt Disney Pictures, and the 6th film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was released on November 5, 2004. The story follows a family of superheroes living a quiet suburban life, forced to hide their powers due to public concern about the damage Supers cause. Bird, who was Pixar's first outside director, developed the film as an extension of 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after the box office disappointment of his first feature, The Iron Giant (1999), and carried over much of its staff to develop The Incredibles. The animation team was tasked with animating an all-human cast, which required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing, and realistic skin and hair. Michael Giacchino composed the film's orchestral score.

Plot[]

Set in a world where "Supers", certain people gifted with superhuman powers and abilities, are commonplace, the film opens up with three superheroes, Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone, being interviewed. They talk about the subject of what being a superhero means to them, such as the importance of having a secret identity, the burden of always being vigilant to protect the world from one threat after another, and the importance of superhero individuality.

The curtain officially rolls up to unveil police in hot pursuit of armed and deadly criminals. Meanwhile, Bob Parr is on the road in the area on his way to an event when he intercepts the police transmission and switches his car, the Incredibile, to battle mode, and himself to Mr. Incredible, a superhero with unparalleled super strength and durability. While racing to merge with the police pursuit, he pulls over to help an old lady get her cat, Squeaker, out of the tree. He effortlessly lifts the tree clean out of the ground and tries carefully shaking the cat off the branch. The cat is holding on for dear life when Mr. Incredible sees the police pursuit rounding the block and realizes he must rescue the cat before he loses the bandits. With time running out, he vigorously shakes the tree until Squeaker lands in the old lady's arms and he stops the bandits by smashing the tree onto their car just in time. Mr. Incredible puts the tree back in the ground just as it was and he is hailed as a hero by the police for another job well done. Just then, another police report from his car sends him on his way to hunt down a tour bus robbery, and in his car's shotgun seat waiting for him is Buddy Pine, an enthusiastic and eccentric young inventor and obsessive fanboy who wants to join Mr. Incredible as his sidekick, Incredi-Boy. Fed up with his constant antics, Mr. Incredible simply gets rid of him with the seat's ejector function and ditches him as he drives off for his next mission.

Upon confronting the tour bus robber on a rooftop, Elastigirl, a superhero with a rubber-like elastic body, shows up and knocks him out before he can. After romantic, playful banter, Elastigirl leaves to prepare for a previous engagement. Mr. Incredible secures the robber when Frozone, his closest friend and a cryokinetic who can create ice from the moisture in the air, reminds him to get ready for a previous engagement of his own, which he claims to still have time to spare.

Mr. Incredible then sees a man jump from the top of a skyscraper in a suicide attempt, and catches him, with both crashing through a window into the building. Mr. Incredible drags the man to safety as he hears ominous beeping coming from the hallway. When he gets closer to investigate, the wall explodes, and from the smoke emerges Bomb Voyage, a French supervillain who specializes in explosive devices, walking out with two duffel bags loaded with cash. Buddy then shows up out of nowhere, standing dramatically in the shattered window where Mr. Incredible entered the building. He explains he travels fast with rocket boots of his own invention and Mr. Incredible orders him to go home. Buddy explains that Mr. Incredible's philosophy of being true to oneself leaves out the core factor of what part of oneself is the one to commit to. To that end, he insists he is meant to be Incredi-Boy, Mr. Incredible's sidekick. Mr. Incredible insists that Buddy is taking his antics to a weird level as he ropes in Bomb Voyage from making his getaway. Buddy claims Incredble's reluctance is due to his lack of powers, to which he proves are superfluous when one is capable of inventing their own powers, such as flight made possibly with the intelligence needed to craft real working rocket boots. Incredible remains unconvinced, stating that he works alone, and Bomb Voyage denounces his uniform as "Totally Ridiculous" (in French). Desperate to prove his worth, he rushes to get the police. Using Buddy as his scapegoat, Bomb Voyage sneaks one of his powerful mini charges onto to his cape and rigs it to blow. Mr. Incredible has no choice but to release Bomb Voyage and go after Buddy before it goes off. Hanging on for dear life as they rocket through downtown, Incredible is just barely able to remove the bomb from buddy's cape and they both land on the Metroville Monorail. The timer then runs out and the charge detonates, blowing up a dangerously substancial portion of the track as a train is approaching. Mr. Incredible succeeds in stopping the train just in time before it crashes and hands Buddy to the police for compromising his mission and ensuring Bomb Voyage's escape. The cops ask for his help in going after him, but Mr. Incredible looks at his watch and realizes he is running late for the very event Frozone reminded him of earlier. He blasts off in the incredibile and arrives at the church, revealing his previous engagement to be the wedding of him and Elastigirl, AKA Helen Truax. When he arrives, Helen tells him that if this union is going to work, he has to be more than Mr. Incredible, and they seal the deal. Bob is prepared, stating "We're Superheroes. What could happen?"

An old news reel then reveals the turn of events that effectively make supers disappear. Firstly, Mr. Incredible was sued by the man that attempted suicide and the victims of the train accident. Despite Mr. Incredible saving their lives in both instances, his losses in court by the hands of the ungrateful citicens costs the government millions. That day changes the lives of superheroes altogether when people start to think that superheroes do more harm than good. After dozens of lawsuits all over the world against Supers that proved to be an unbearable financial burden, the federal government passed the Super Relocation Act and quietly initiated the Superhero Relocation Program. Hense forth, Supers are granted amnesty from responsibility for past actions and the chance to blend in with normal civilians in exchange for, by law, promising to never use their superpowers again.

Fifteen years later, Bob and Helen Parr (formerly known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl) are a normal suburban family and have three children. Violet, the eldest, is able to manifest near-impenetrable purple force fields and turn completely invisible; Dash, the middle child, is a breakneck speedster; and Jack-Jack, the infant, oddly shows no sign of powers. Bob dislikes the mundanity of suburbia and his white-collar job in the claims department at a corrupt insurance company called Insuricare. His mean boss, Gilbert Huph, berates him for helping customers get access to their insurance money. Though, unbeknownst to him, he helps customers find loopholes in their insurance contracts so they get their payments.

Meanwhile, Dash has been shown to feel the same when he gets sent to the Principle's office for the third time for secretly using his powers to pull pranks on his teacher. The principal can't tie any of the teacher's evidence to Dash and he gets off Scott-free. His biggest problem is that Helen won't let him join any sports because he's too much of a showoff and his competitive spirit will give him all the temptation he would need to endanger their cover. At dinner, Helen tells Bob about Dash's trip to the principal's office and all Bob can do is excitedly ask how fast he was going if he was able to get away with the thumbtack prank even after getting caught on tape. He leaves to get a new dinner plate when he accidentally saws Dash's plate in half and embeds the knife in the table trying to help Dash cut his steak and Dash then teases Violet about her middle school crush, Tony Rydinger, which starts a fight between them. When Bob tries to "intervein", all the fighting is broken up the arrival of Lucius Best, Frozone's civilian identity. Bob leaves with Lucius, as they do every Wednesday night. Helen tries to reprimand Dash for pulling pranks on this teacher, but is cut off by Violet, who rages out over the fact that there's no such thing as normal in their family. Unlike Bob or Dash, Violet actually wants to be normal instead of perpetually living a lie, saying Jack-Jack is lucky for being the only 'normal' family member.

In their car in an alley in the dead of night, Bob and Lucius secretly relive their 'glory days' by moonlighting as vigilantes as they do every Wednesday, but tell their wives they are out bowling. Unbeknownst to the two of them, a mysterious white-haired woman is spying on them. Lucious expresses his reluctance to continue their moonlighting on account of the risks that come with it. While listening to the police scanner, they intercept a report of a fire nearby and proceed to the rescue while the mysterious woman trails behind them.

Inside the burning building, they gather up all the unconscious people, but their escape proves somewhat of a conundrum. Lucious's cryokinesis is useless due to his low natural hydration combined with the lack of moisture in the air. Bob is not fairing any better because smashing through walls will bring the already unstable building down on their heads. Luckily, a path opens up and the two of them race to their escape with all the people still alive. Bob smashes through the brick wall and the whole building comes crashing down just like he said it would if he did. Everybody is safe, but they disastrously wind up in a jewelry store next door and are cornered by an officer due to their disguises making them look like bandits. With both of them held at gunpoint, Lucius just barely manages to take a sip from a water cooler, which gives him enough of a cryokinetic recharge to petrify the cop and cover their getaway. The rest of the cops arrive on the scene when they hear a gunshot, but all they find are the civilians and a cop-sicle.

The two of them escape into the alley undetected, and Lucious finally renounces their vigilante moonlighting, saying that this was what he meant by the risks that come with it, this time being way too close for comfort. They drive off into the night, the only person seeing them flee being the mysterious woman from before. She reports in that Frozone, who she was spying on, was with Mr. Incredible, who her boss is looking for.

When Bob gets home late, he finds Helen waiting for him and questions exactly where he was all night. When she finds rubble on him, Bob tries to cover the thing up by saying it was a "workout", which Helen hates because of how risky that is to their civilian cover. However, Bob accidentally reveals that he knocked down a burning building, which he heard about because he was listening to a police scanner 'again'. A full-blown argument erupts, with Helen saying that regardless of Bob's stunt being a public service, it's unacceptable to uproot their family in his vain attempts relive the glory days. Bob sticks with his belief that reliving the glory days is better than acting like the never happened. That's when Helen has to call him out for living in the past and not with current events, such as Dash's 4th-Grade Graduation, which Bob finds mediocre for it, in essence, not being an actual graduation. A full-blown argument erupts between them with Bob telling Helen if this is about Dash, he should be allowed to reach his full potential and go out for sports while Helen, knowing Bob is just trying to let his legacy live on in his son, tells him it's not about him. Suddenly, they cease and desist when they realize the kids have been secretly listening. Bob and Helen find them and assure them that everything is fine, telling them to head off to bed.

The next day, Bob is at work when he is called into Mr. Huph's office. When he leaves his cubical, the mysterious woman shows up once more with a package to deliver. Huph explains that he knows about Bob's underhanded tactics which reduce profits for Insuricare. Bob tries to rationalize his actions by saying the whole point of their company is to help people, but Mr. Huph says the only people they need to concern themselves with are their stockholders. Due to the low profits, Huph is preparing to deliver letters to the employees, saying that all expenses for necessary equipment will fall on them, such as office supplies, electricity, and parking. During their conversation, Bob notices a mugging going on outside, but is in no position to go help due to Mr. Huph threatening to fire him. Bob angrily watches the mugger getting away scot-free and Mr. Huff's smug remark causes Bob to lose his temper. He grabs Mr. Huph by the neck and throws him through several walls, injuring him, exposing his super strength and costing him his job.

As Mr. Huph recovers at the hospital, Bob meets with an old friend, the laid-back, yet gruff, NSA Agent Rick Dicker, who operates the Super Relocation Program. Dicker is frustrated because this is not the first incident of Bob's poor use of his powers, which have blown his cover multiple times. Every time, Dicker has had to come to his rescue by relocating his family, erase everybody's memory of the incident, and repair whatever damage has been done, which is all very expensive and gets harder every time. He tells Bob he cannot keep covering for him at this rate and tells him that regardless of his former status, he has a job to do, and Bob is on his own from now on. Before he leaves, he offers to relocate Bob and his family again for old time's sake, but Bob declines since he can't do this to his family again after just getting settled into their current home, and bids Rick farewell.

After returning home, Bob empties his briefcase and finds the package from the mysterious woman spying on him and Lucius last night. It is an electronic tablet that recognizes him as Mr. Incredible and plays a recorded message when it detects scans the room for security reasons. The mysterious woman explains that she and the people she works with know of his secret identity and vow to non-disclosure. She introduces herself as Mirage and explains herself to be a representative of a top-secret government organization that specializes in the research and development of experimental technology. She explains that they have need of Mr. Incredible's "unique abilities" because recently, in their remote testing facility, their latest creation, "The Omnidroid", has broken out of their control and is now rampaging through the island of Nomanisan. Bob's mission, should he choose to accept, is to hunt it down and neutralize it before it causes incalculable damage to itself and millions of dollars' worth of equipment and research. If he does accept, his payment will be the triple of his anual salary. Mirage finishes the mission briefing and inspires him to come out of hiding by giving him the choice to either do great things or continue listening to police scanners. After reminiscing about the glory days, the tablet prints out a phone number and self-destructs, triggering the house's fire sprinklers. After cleaning up the house, Bob covers up the opportunity with Helen as a business trip, and he calls Mirage to accept.

Bob travels to the island of Nomanisan in a jet with Mirage. She explains to him that the robot is called the Omnidroid v.8, a top-secret prototype battle robot driven by an Artificial Intelligence enabling it to solve any problem it is confronted with. Unfortunately, it's ever-expanding AI proved to be their own undoing when its intelligence reached a point where it was capable of wondering why it had to take orders. It gained sentience and now it is wreaking havoc in the dense jungle and all personal had to be evacuated from the island for their own safety. Mirage explains that his entry point will be an airdrop from 5,000 feet due to any other means being subject to intercept by the Omnidroid's defenses, and that while its cloaking devices make it difficult to track, she's able to direct him to the southern half of the island. She also points out the obvious fact that the Omnidroid represents a substantial investment. Mr. Incredible's mission is to hunt down the Omnidroid and neutralize it without destroying it beyond salvation. Before he departs, Mirage warns him that the Omnidroid's unparalleled problem-solving capabilities make it exceptionally dangerous in combat because it's capable of learning from every moment it spends fighting its opponent, which only increases its knowledge on how to achieve victory.

Upon landing on the island, Mr. Incredible begins his search for the robot through the jungle. When he reaches the deepest darkest reaches of the jungle, he notices trees with slash marks in them and a giant X-shaped footprint on the ground. Suddenly, the Omnidroid emerges through the trees right behind him and cutthroat battle ensues. Incredible dodges the robot's attacks and sends it flying with one earth-shattering punch. However, it just picks itself up without so much as a scratch and charges right for him. Incredible tries jumping over it again, but it calculates his arc plot faster than the speed of light with its AI and beats him back. It then tries running him down in its retracted sphere form and Incredible winds up chased over a cliff into a volcanic crater. The Omnidroid tries forcing him over the edge into the molten lava, but Incredible is able to use its own pushing force to send it tumbling into the lava. He assumes victory, hurting his back in the process, but it digs itself out the solid rock behind him, completely unscathed by the lava. Seeing no other way to fight it in his present condition, he tries to escape on a floating rock, but the Omnidroid catches him and tries to tear him in half. But all it does is realign his back and he is back in fighting shape. He tears off one of its claws and finally gains the upper hand when he hides in its blind spot directly beneath it. He then tears out one of its optical clusters and climbs inside of it from below. In trying to attack Mr. Incredible, it repeatedly and relentlessly skewers itself with its own claws. Mr. Incredible pops right out the top and tricks it into ripping out its own power core, defeating it for good. After the battle, a surveillance drone disguised as an island parrot reveals that Mirage and her mysterious boss have been watching. He tells her to sound the all clear and invite Mr. Incredible to dinner.

Having accepted the "invitation", Mr. Incredible arrives at the meeting point; An enormous ambient room with towering Easter Island heads, a zen fountain-like wall of genuine volcano lava, floor-to-ceiling windows with a penthouse-like view of the ocean, and the dinner table fully set up. When he finds the room empty, he sees the wall of lava parting it's flow, revealing a secret door from which Mirage emerges from. There Incredible sees her talking to her mysterious boss, who tells her to keep up the facade to make him feel welcome. Mr. Incredible then allows Mirage to find him, making it look like he only just arrived. They get settled in and Mirage tells him that their "host" won't be joining them, stating that he prefers a certain degree of anonymity, something Incredible of all people understands. He asks why any wealthy person in their right mind would settle down on a volcanic island, and Mirage explains that he's "attracted to power." More relevantly, volcanic soil in among the most fertile on Earth and that the entire dinner table was harvested from it. All Mr. Incredible can say in that case is "Everything is delicious."

Upon returning home, Bob finds the action and higher pay rejuvenating. He improves his relationship with his family and begins rigorous training to lose weight while awaiting more work from Mirage for the next two months. Discovering a tear in his supersuit, he visits his old friend, superhero costume designer Edna Mode, who, to this day, now designs for supermodels. However, instead of fixing the suit, Edna decides to make him a brand-new suit before his next assignment. They discuss design ideas and Edna categorically rules out the possibility of a cape, denouncing them as a design flaw that has been the fatal undoing of many Supers. Examples include Thunderhead, (snagged on a missile), Stratogale, (caught in a jet turbine), Meta-Man (express elevator accident), Dynaguy (snagged on takeoff), and Splashdown (sucked into a vortex). She gets right to work and send him on his way while begrudgingly agreeing to fix the old suit for sentimental reasons.

Back home, Helen eavesdrops on a secret call for him when Mirage summons him for a new assignment. Suspecting there may be someone else eyeing for her husband, Helen confronts Bob about who the call was from and nervously wishes him love and luck on his "business trip". After donning his new supersuit and getting settled into his new hotel room on Nomanisan, Mirage instructs him to meet in the conference room by 2 pm. Back home, while vacuuming in Bob's private office, she notices the sewn-up tear where Edna fixed the old suit. Knowing Edna is the only person Bob would trust to fix a supersuit, she calls her up, and Edna tells her to visit.

Back on the island, Mr. Incredible makes his way into the conference room, but it's completely empty. He waits for people to arrive only to discover it was a trap and is ambushed by the upgraded Omnidroid v.9. This bigger and more powerful model makes quick work of Mr. Incredible and has him trapped. He then meets its creator, the technology-savvy supervillain, Syndrome, who announces that it's finally perfected now that it's capable of defeating Mr. Incredible. He explains that he had to put it through the test with many supers to get it worthy to fight Mr. Incredible, but that clearly didn't prove to be enough seeing as how he was able to defeat the previous model. He says the modifications proved difficult to make, but they were worth it for Mr. Incredible because "he is his biggest fan." Mr. Incredible then recognizes him as Buddy Pine, who wanted to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick 15 years prior but was rejected at every opportunity. Syndrome vowed revenge for this shunning and became a billionaire weapons designer who has finally perfected a weapon that only he can defeat. While monologuing, Mr. Incredible throws a log at him. However, Syndrome dodges it just in time and traps Mr. Incredible using his zero-point energy (finger-mounted laser-induced containment field generator). 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 hill. Incredible escapes by jumping over the waterfall and into the river below. To finish him off, Syndrome drops a charge that detonates the second it makes contact with the river floor and Incredible saves himself when he takes refuge in an underwater cave. In there, he discovers the skeletal remains of former Super and friend Gazerbeam. Seeing through the corpse's eyes, he discovers that Gazerbeam used his powers to inscribe a dying message into the cave wall: "KRONOS". When a probe emerges scanning for Mr. Incredible, he hides behind Gazerbeam's corpse to trick it into believing he was killed in the explosion. It returns to Syndrome and he proudly believes he succeeded in vanquishing one of the most powerful superheroes ever.

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. However, when she questions whatever reason she could have for making them, Edna makes her question whether or not she really knows what Bob has been up to. Helen calls Insuricare and they reveal he has been unemployed for 2 months. Edna, knowing that Helen does not know where Bob is, offers her a chance to find his exact location. Helen activates the tracking device built into her husband's suit so she can find him. Just as he was about to leave the computer room and set about stopping Operation Kronos, Mr. Incredible hears his suit make a beeping noise, leading to his capture by being surrounded by big blobs of black goo trapping him.

Determined to discover Syndrome's plans, Mr. Incredible breaks back into his facilities, avoids being seen by anyone, 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 the 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' 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.

Helen borrows a private plane to head for Nomanisan island, but Violet and Dash have stowed away wearing their own suits, leaving Jack-Jack with a babysitter, Kari McKeen. Syndrome interrogates Mr. Incredible about the transmission from a plane requesting permission to land, but to no avail, since he had no idea about his suit's homing device. When the transmission reveals it to be Helen's plane, Syndrome sends missiles toward their way. Helen uses her exceptional piloting skills to evade the missiles for a while, but due to Violet not being able to produce a force field large enough to shield the plane, the plane is shot down, with Elastigirl grabbing her kids so they can safely land on the water. Mirage reports that the target was destroyed and its passengers presumed dead. Enraged by the presumed death of his family, Mr. Incredible tries to force Syndrome into releasing him by threatening to kill Mirage. However, Syndrome smugly calls his bluff and leaves him crestfallen at the apparent loss of his family.

Helen and Dash use their powers to help themselves and Violet get to the island. They take refuge in a nearby cave and Elastigirl prepares to head out to look for her husband. Before she departs, she tells Dash and Violet to use their powers to escape the bad guys and she apologizes to Violet for what happened on the plane. Meanwhile, Mirage tells Syndrome that valuing life is not weakness, and angrily tells him to gamble his own life next time, before storming off, leaving him mystified. Elastigirl sneaks in and after prowling around, finding a rocket on her way to finding Mr. Incredible. Back in the cave, Violet practices with her force bubbles while Dash walks through the cave. Dash discovers that the inside of the cave ends with a huge metal tunnel. Syndrome initiates the launch command and the rocket blasts off, with the Omnidroid v.10 onboard. The cave Dash and Violet are in is revealed to be an exhaust vent for the rocket's lift-off. Dash uses his super speed to get himself and Violet out just in time and witness the rocket launching from the volcano in the center of the island. Back inside the fortress, Elastigirl locates the control center for the containment unit's cellblock matrix and finds out exactly where Mr. Incredible is. All the while, the rocket reaches optimum position, and the glider carrying the Omnidroid is released and sent toward the city.

The next morning, Dash and Violet are in the jungle, waking up to a talking parrot, only to reveal itself as the same security drone from Mr. Incredible's previous battle with the first omnidroid prototype, and it signals a security alert. Meanwhile, Mirage arrives after having her change of heart, releases Mr. Incredible, and informs him of his family's survival. At the same time, Elastigirl arrives and races off with him to find their children. Dash and Violet are spotted and chased by a number of Syndrome's guards, but fend them off with their powers. While Violet uses her invisibility to hold her ground, Dash races the Velocipods through the jungle, while in the process discovering his super speed comes with the benefit of being able to run on water. Violet hides in a pond to escape capture, but is found by a guard by throwing dirt in the water. Dash stops the guard from shooting Violet, then she returns the favor with a large force field. Dash runs inside the force field, mowing down any guard in their way.

After reuniting with their parents, the entire family engages in a showdown with the guards. However, Syndrome captures them, and imprisons them. He reveals his overall plan for the Incredibles. He intends to save Metroville from his own Omnidroid and thereby become a hero. He intends to sell his gadgets to the world once his career is finished, making everyone 'super' and the possession of superpowers no longer unique, meaning that 'no one will be super'. He departs for Metroville, leaving the Incredibles imprisoned on Nomanisan Island. After his departure, Mr. Incredible vents his grief about being the cause of all of this, claiming that he's been so afraid of being undervalued, he undervalued his own family. Violet meanwhile uses her force field to 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 whilst pressing a button to detach one of the robot's arms, much to the public's delight. However the Omnidroid, being a learning robot, identifies Syndrome's remote as being its control source, and fires it off his arm, then shoots at his in-built rocket boosters, sending the villain flying into a building and knocking him unconscious while the robot continues to wreck the city.

Back in Metroville, Lucius searches for his suit that was hidden by his wife, Honey, while the Omnidroid continues its rampage. The Incredibles arrive in Metroville, but Mr. Incredible orders everyone to stay behind while he handles the monster. After a brief argument, Mr. Incredible reveals that he doesn't want anybody getting hurt, or worse during the fight, considering he already thought he lost his family once. However, danger finds them anyway when the Omnidroid sees them and tries to flatten them. Violet's shield protects them until the Omnidroid sits on the shield, rendering her unconscious. Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl get them out of the way and team up with Lucius, now in his Frozone suit, to fight the Omnidroid.

The battle is indecisive until Mr. Incredible comes across the remote that was supposedly destroyed in the battle. Bob recovers the remove and throws it to Dash, who races to get it with the Omnidroid firing at him and trapping him amongst burning cars. Elastigirl slingshots a manhole cover and destroys the laser, whilst 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. Violet obtains the remote while invisible and everyone tries to figure out how to operate it. Remembering his battle with the Omnidroid v.8 back on the island, Mr. Incredible concludes that the only thing that could penetrate it is itself. The claw launched at him before is exactly what they need to bring the robot down for good. He directs Elastigirl to use the right controls and releases the powered-up claw, which pierces the Omnidroid and its power source. It falls mundanely into the river and explodes, and the city lauds the Incredibles and Frozone as heroes. Syndrome awakens, only to discover his plan foiled, and is very angry that the five Supers are being celebrated.

In a limousine on their way home, Dicker is proud of the Incredibles for defeating Syndrome. Syndrome's assets are frozen and a warrant is issued for his arrest, while everything regarding collateral damage will be handled personally. During the ride home, Elastigirl is listening to messages left by Kari, Jack Jack's babysitter, who appears to be very stressed. Things go from bad to worse when she mentions a replacement, which Elastigirl did not call. Upon returning home, the Incredibles find Syndrome with Jack Jack, who he plans to kidnap and raise as his own sidekick to exact revenge on the family. As Syndrome is flown to his manta jet, Jack Jack's superpowers manifest and he escapes from Syndrome mid-air. Jack-Jack falls but is saved by Elastigirl. When Syndrome announces that he will be back, Mr. Incredible decides to throw his sports car at the manta jet and Syndrome is pushed backward by the resulting explosion. Syndrome is killed when his cape gets him sucked into the jet turbine and the manta jet explodes as a result. The Parrs' house is destroyed by the jet when it plummets to the ground but, they are happy that they survived it, courtesy of Violet's force field.

Three months later, the Parrs are watching Dash racing at a track meet. Violet arranges a movie date with Tony and Dash finishes second to avoid detection as a Super. They witness the arrival of a new villain named the Underminer. The Incredibles put on their superhero masks, ready to face a new threat.

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Release[]

The film premiered on October 27, 2004, at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, where most Disney/Pixar films premiere. The film was also shown on October 27, 2004, at the BFI London Film Festival and had its general release in the United States on November 5, 2004. The film performed highly at the box office, grossing $631 million worldwide during its original theatrical run. The Incredibles was met with high critical acclaim, garnering high marks from professional critics and audiences, and provoking commentary on its themes. Many critics called it the best film of 2004, receiving the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, along with two Academy Awards. It became the first entirely animated film to win the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. It was released on DVD on March 15, 2005, and Blu-Ray on April 12, 2011.

Reception[]

The film received universal acclaim, with a 97% approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 8.3/10, based on 233 reviews. 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." 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.

Trivia[]

  • The Incredibles was the first Pixar movie where the music was not composed by a member of the Newman family, instead of being the first Pixar film composed by Michael Giacchino.
  • Syndrome's design is based on Purge from Space Channel 5: Part 2, released 4 years before The Incredibles.
  • 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 haemorrhage. 4 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, being Mr. Incredible to The Thing, Elastigirl to Mr. Fantastic, Violet to the Invisible Woman, Dash to the Human Torch with his movement power and the same youthful recklessness, and Jack-Jack has a wide variety of shapeshifting powers like the young son of Mister Fantastic and the Invisible Woman: Franklin Richards.
  • This film marks the first Pixar film to be rated PG by the MPAA, unlike the company's previous films which were rated G.
  • The sequence where Frozone is kept at gunpoint by a nervous rookie cop 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.
  • This film marks the first Pixar film 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 film where the Pizza Planet delivery truck from Toy Story does not make an appearance. However, it appears in The Incredibles game in the Late To School level multiple times as the player runs past 4-way intersections, and in the final level.
  • The deleted scenes reveal what Bob meant by "workouts" and why Helen was so against them: Secretly wrecking sites scheduled for demolition with brute strength, and they're such a risk because they're out in the open and someone could see him.
  • 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 it's 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.\
  • In one scene, one 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 the Disney Channel, Dash's lines, "We're dead! We're dead! and we survived but we're dead!", was cut.
  • 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!".
  • This movie (and its sequel, Incredibles 2) is set in 1962, making it the only known year that any Pixar movies are set during.
  • 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), it is later heard again when the family take out some of Syndrome's henchmen.

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