The Incredibles

The Incredibles is a 2004 American computer-animated action-comedy superhero film about a family of superheroes who are forced to hide their powers. It is Pixar's sixth animated feature film. It was written and directed by Brad Bird, a former director and executive consultant of The Simpsons, and was produced by Pixarand distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.

The starring voices are Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr; Holly Hunteras his wife Helen Parr; Sarah Vowell as their teenage daughter Violet; Spencer Fox as their young son Dash; Jason Lee as the supervillain Syndrome; Samuel L. Jackson as Frozone; and Elizabeth Peña as Syndrome's beautiful assistant, Mirage. Bob's yearning to help people draws the entire Parr family into a battle with the villain Syndrome and his killer robot the Omnidroid.

The film won the 2004 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature, along with two 2004 Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature and Best Sound Editing. It also received nominations for two other Academy Awards, won the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film, and became the first entirely animated film to won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. It was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 2004 Golden Globes. The Incredibles also marked Pixar's first film to be rated PG, due to its action violence.

A sequel to The Incredibles entitled, The Incredibles 2 is currently in production as of March 2014.

Plot
"Supers", humans gifted with superpowers, were once seen as heroes, but collateral damage from their various good deeds led the government to quietly create and initiate a Supers Relocation Program, forcing the Supers to fit in among the civilians and not use their superpowers in exchange for anonymity. Bob and Helen Parr, who are supers And formerly known to the world as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl (Bob having unparelleled strength and Helen able to stretch such a long distance to reach places nobody else could), have married and raised three children, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack, in the suburbs of Metroville; Violet and Dash have innate superpowers (Violet being able to create force fields and turn invisible, and Dash able to run at exceptionally high speeds), but the toddler Jack-Jack has yet to show any. Bob, stuck in a white-collar job at an insurance agency, berated unfairly daily by his boss Mr Huph, reminisces of his former days as Mr. Incredible, and sneaks out on Wednesday nights with his Super friend, Lucius Best, aka Frozone (having the ability to freeze the moisture in the air), to fight street crime.

One day, Bob loses his temper with his boss, revealing his super strength and losing his job. While trying to figure out what to tell Helen, he finds a message from a woman named Mirage, who asks for Mr. Incredible's help to stop a rogue robot on a distant island for an incredible reward. Bob, claiming that he is going on a business trip to Helen, takes up Mirage's offer, and travels to the island of Nomanisan in a jet with Mirage.. She explains to him that the robot is called an Omnidroid, a top secret prototype battle robot, able to solve any problem it's confronted with. The only unfortunate problem was its intelligence reached a point where it wondered why it was taking orders, and now it is wreaking havoc in the dense jungle. Bob is then fast dropped into Nomanisan, explores around and then encounters the Omnidroid and successfully defeat by tricking it into ripping out its own power source. On his return to Metroville, Bob spends his days working out, improving his family relationships with Helen and the kids, and getting back into shape. He takes his super suit, torn in the battle with Omnidroid, to Edna Mode, the fashion designer to the Supers, and asks her to repair it. She does so, and also insists on creating a new, better super suit for him. She refuses his request to add a cape, though, highlighting how the accessory doomed several other Supers in the past by getting caught on a variety of things.

Mirage soon contacts Bob with another job on the island. On arriving, he finds an upgraded Omnidroid who starts to attack him. While trapped by the robot, he meets its creator, the technology-savvy supervillainSyndrome. Bob recognizes him as a young fan, Buddy Pine, an enthusiastic and eccentric young inventor who wanted to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick 15 years prior to the present day, but Mr. Incredible embarrases him when sending him back to his home. Syndrome vowed revenge for this shunning, and sets the Omnidroid to kill Bob. Bob manages to fake his death and hide from the robot, discovering the body of a former Super and friend, Gazerbeam. During this moment he discovers that Gazerbeam, in the final moments of his life, had used his powers to inscribe the word "KRONOS" into the cave wall in front of him. His curiosity aroused, Bob breaks into Syndrome's base and finds a computer, outlining Syndrome's past work to identify the civilian identities of former Supers and secretly luring them to their deaths by fighting the Omnidroid, improving it in every way after every fatal battle. Although Lucius has been identified as Frozone, Bob is relieved to discover that Helen, and by extension their children, are not yet identified in Syndrome's database. He then types in Kronos and this reveals that it is in fact a codename for a master plan whereby the most powerful Omnidroid Syndrome he has would be unleashed upon every city in the world.

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. Helen triggers Bob's, identifying the remote island but inadvertently revealing Bob's presence to Syndrome and causing him to be captured. Helen borrows a private jet from an old friend and travels to the island, disappointed to learn that Violet and Dash have stowed away while leaving Jack-Jack at home with a babysitter. As they near the island, Syndrome gives an order to terminate them, but Helen and the children safely make it ashore.

Helen, Violet and Dash take shelter during that night in a cave and Helen (after giving them masks to prtoect their identity and making them promise to use their powers if threatened), runs off to Syndrome's lair. She sneaks in and after prowling around (one point being that she found a massive rocket) rescues Bob from his cell. Violet and Dash meanwhile then find out that the cave they are in is in fact an exhaust tunnel for the rocket launch and have to spend the night in the jungle. The next morning they encounter a talking bird, which is fact a robotic alarm, this attracts the attention of the guards and they pursue them on high-speed Velocipods. Violet and Dash manage to defeat all of them (combining Violet's powerful force field with Dash's super speed), and they soon reunite with Bob and Helen. However after facing off with several guards, they are soon captured by Syndrome, identifying all the Parrs as Supers. With the Parrs contained, Syndrome explains that he will launch the perfected Omnidroid to Metroville, sending the city into chaos, upon which he will appear and using a control band, "subdue" the robot and become the city's hero. Then once Syndrome has become an old retiree, he plans to sell his advanced inventions to everybody, making them Super and thereby making the term obselete. He launches the Omnidroid on a rocket and follows in his aircraft. After his departure, Violet discovers that her force field can 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 starts a path of destruction, and Syndrome enacts his plan, first saving a woman and her baby froma 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 people's cheers. However the Omnidroid is still a learning robot: it identifies where the external control source is, observes the control band and fires it off Syndrome's arm, hen shoots at Syndrome's in-built rocket boosters, sending the villain flying into a building and knocking him unconscious while the robot continues to wreck the city. The Parrs and Frozone, who starts seeing the ensuing attack work together to destroy it: the robot attempts to flatten Violet and Dash but Bob just manages to save them, though being thrown into a building afterwards. He then charges back and tackles the Omnidroid with Frozone helping as well. He then finds Syndrome's wrist band, realizing that it controls the robot, and (after being clawed in by the robot but being released upon pressing a random button) throws it to Dash, who races to get it with the Omnidroid firing at him and trapping him amongst burning cars. Helen 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. The remote is then knocked away; Bob runs to get it only to be trapped in the Omnidroid's fired pincer. Violet then recovers it whilst invisible and after much confusion, Bob soon realizes from remembering his battle with the first robot that the only thing that can penetrate it is itself. He directs Helen to use the right controls and releases the powered-up pincer, which surges through and comes out the Omnidroid with its power source. It falls mundanly into the river and finally explodes, and the city welcomes the Parrs and Frozone as heroes. As they are driven back to their home, Helen anxiously calls the babysitter and learns that Syndrome, having regained consciousness has abducted Jack-Jack.

Arriving at home, Syndrome is taking the toddler to his ship, planning to raise the boy to fight against the Supers in the future. As Bob and Helen launch a rescue attempt, Jack-Jack reveals his powers of transformation, forcing Syndrome to drop him into Helen's waiting arms. Syndrome tries to escape but his cape gets caught in the suction of his aircraft's engine, killing him. The ruined plane crashes into the Parr's home, but Violet is able to protect the family from harm. Some time later, the Parrs have re-adjusted to normal life, but when a new villain, the Underminer, appears, the Parrs, including Jack Jack, don their masks, ready to battle the new foe.

Cast

 * Craig T. Nelson as Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible, possessing super-strength and near invulnerability
 * Holly Hunter as Helen Parr/Elastigirl/Mrs. Incredible, able to stretch her body like rubber
 * Spencer Fox as Dash Parr, gifted with incredible speed
 * Sarah Vowell as Violet Parr, who possesses the ability to turn invisible and create a force field around herself
 * Jason Lee as Buddy Pine/Incrediboy/Syndrome, who has no super powers of his own but uses advanced technology to give himself equivalent abilities. He is the main antagonist of the film
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Lucius Best/Frozone, Bob's best friend, who has the ability to form ice from the humidity in the air
 * Eli Fucile and Maeve Andrews as Jack-Jack Parr, the Parrs' infant third child, who initially shows no powers but eventually reveals himself to have a wide range of abilities
 * Elizabeth Peña as Mirage, Syndrome's agent who lures Supers to the island but later helps the Parrs
 * Brad Bird as Edna Mode, the fashion designer for the Supers
 * Bud Luckey as Rick Dicker, the government agent overseeing the relocation program
 * Wallace Shawn as Gilbert Huph, Bob's boss at his white-collar insurance job
 * John Ratzenberger as The Underminer, a new villain that appears at the end of the film
 * Dominique Louis as Bomb Voyage, a villain from the past that used Buddy's interference in Mr. Incredible's heroism to escape
 * Michael Bird as Tony Rydinger, a popular boy at Violet's school who develops a crush on Violet
 * Jean Sincere as Mrs. Hogenson, an elderly woman who seeks help from Mr. Incredible for an insurance claim
 * Kimberly Adair Clark as Honey, Frozone's wife
 * Bret Parker as Kari McKeen, Jack-Jack's babysitter
 * Lou Romano as Bernie Kropp, Dash's teacher
 * Wayne Canney as John Walker, the principal of Dash's school

Additional voices

 * Mark Andrews - Jet's Automated Captain, Snug
 * Ollie Johnston - Old Man #2
 * A.J. Riebli
 * Nicholas Bird - Rusty McAllister
 * Brad Lewis
 * Katherine Ringgold - Goverment Public Speaker
 * Louis Braga III - Oliver Sansweet's Lawyer, Mugger
 * Ted Mathot
 * Stephen Schaffer
 * Mary Elizabeth Clark - Woman on Street
 * Jazzy Mahannah - Citzen Mother
 * Bob Scott
 * Pete Docter - Robotic Security Bird
 * Randy Nelson
 * Peter Sohn - Trucker
 * Louis Gonzales
 * Bob Peterson - Police Officer #1
 * Andrew Stanton - Police Officer #2, Minister
 * Elizabeth Greenberg - Citzen #1
 * Jeff Pidgeon - Guard #1
 * Frank Thomas - Old Man #1
 * Juliet Greenberg - Citzen #2
 * Juliet Pokorny
 * Pamela Gay Walker - Squeaker's Owner, Work Announcer
 * Bill Guardino
 * Joe Ranft - Crowd Member, Oliver Sansweet
 * Patrick Walker - Police Officer #3, Edna Mode's Security Guard
 * Dennis "DJ" Jennings
 * Lori Richardson - Interviewer
 * Deirde Warin

Trivia

 * Syndrome's design is based of purge from space channel 5 part 2 which was released 4 years before the incredibles
 * In Japan, the film was simply called "Mr. インクレディブル" (meaning "Mr. Incredible").
 * Near the end of the film, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, the last 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 cerebral haemorrhage. Four years later on April 14, 2008, Johnston passed away at the age of 96 from natural causes. The two had also appeared in The Iron Giant as train engineers.
 * The Incredibles family have a few similarities to the Fantastic Four:
 * Mr. Incredible has super strength like The Thing
 * Elastigirl can stretch herself like Mr. Fantastic
 * Violet can turn herself invisible and make force fields like the Invisible Woman
 * Jack-Jack can set himself on fire like the Human Torch
 * The sequence where, after breaking through an apartment wall into a jewelry store, Frozone is kept at gunpoint by a nervous rookie cop ("I'm just getting a drink"). This 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 is the first Pixar movie 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 is the only major Pixar movie where the Pizza Planet delivery truck from Toy Story doesn't make an appearance. It does however appear in The Incredibles game in the Late To School level multiple times as you run past 4-way intersections, and in the final level.
 * This is the first Pixar movie to receive a PG rating, with the second being Up, the third being Brave and the fourth being Inside Out. However, it is rated U by the BBFC in the United Kingdom.
 * In one scene, you 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 in 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 is the first Pixar film whose home release has the widescreen and 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 is also the last Pixar film to be released on VHS (if you don't count the extremely rare Cars VHS).
 * This is 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 Mr. Incredible experiences his penthouse and is one of the codes on the computers.
 * It is because the former literally refers to death. Whereas Dash's latter dialogue meant that he, his mother, and his sister were still in danger despite surviving the crash.
 * Jennifer Tilly, who voiced Celia Mae in Monsters, Inc. was married to one of the creators of “The Simpsons,” and Tilly raved about a script written by one of “The Simpsons” writers, Brad Bird. That movie would eventually become The Incredibles.

Goofs

 * While Bob argues with Mr. Huph about the Walker policy after the 15-years-ago prologue, Bob's little bucket of pencils falls on its side. Then he puts it back up placed on the left side of his right hand (near the middle of the desk). When Mr. Huph leaves, it is inexplicably placed on the right side of Bob's right hand (at the desk's edge) and thus causing it to fall off the edge when Bob sits.
 * After being in a long traffic, Bob was about to park on the driveway. You can see there was nothing there. When he parked the car and got out, he slipped on a skateboard coming out of nowhere.
 * When Lucius is putting aftershave on in front of the mirror in his apartment, he hears Omnidroid v.10 outside and runs to the window. He leaves the bottle of aftershave on the desk with the lid off. He returns to open the drawer, and the lid is back on.
 * While the family eats dinner at the table, the food keeps changing position. The commentators of the DVD discuss this during the featured scene.
 * After the dinner table scene, Bob leaves to go out with Frozone. Then Helen turns to talk to Dash. In the first shot, all the broccoli pieces sit around the steak on Dash's plate. Then the shot changes, and a broccoli piece is suddenly sitting atop the piece of steak.
 * When Helen and Violet are talking at the dinner table, Violet's fork changes position a few times between shots.
 * After Bob gets back home from "re-living the glory days", you can see a barbecue in the backyard on the concrete deck. But when the camera shows an aerial view of the house at the end of the scene, the barbecue is on the grass.
 * Violet's part changes sides a few times throughout the film. It is usually on the left side of her head, but it is on the right at the end of the dinner table scene (after Bob has left with Lucius) and when Helen first discovers her and Dash on the plane. This was likely done on purpose because the camera in both of those scenes is focused on the right side of her face, so her face would not have been visible if her part was on the proper side. Also, hair was so difficult to animate. To save time and expense, they switched the part in Violet's hair to show her face when needed.
 * Violet's invisibility powers seem to be limited on her own body. (That was shown in the first scene with her at her school and where she secretly listened to the controversial of her parents, where only her head and hands were invisible but not her clothes.) While her Edna Mode-made supersuit is able to become invisible along with her body, her hairband is not part of the suit. It should therefore still be visible, but it isn't.
 * When Mr. Incredible crashes into the building trying to save a man, his shadow disappears.
 * When Helen Parr is talking on the phone to Edna Mode, the phone and phone cord have no shadows even though Helen's shadow appears on the wall behind her.
 * When Syndrome reminds Mr. Incredible about his line "I work alone," he is not holding Bomb Voyage in the flashback scene as he did in the original scene (this could, however, be explained as Syndrome's distorted perspective of the event).
 * When Frozone is taking a drink when the police are at gunpoint, he leaves the water jug on and no water comes out.
 * Although the Omnidroid 08 had the "8" on its shell, Mirage referred to it as "9000".
 * The Omnidroid v.X3's computer graphic in the Operation Kronos database is a repeat of the v.X1's.
 * Syndrome dies in the plane accident. However, he appears alive and well in Disney Infinity.
 * It is likely that The Incredibles Play Set is set in an alternate universe where Syndrome survived the explosion, especially that the makers of the game said that in Syndrome releases some Omnidroids into Metroville for try again kidnaps Jack-Jack. It could also be that there was a clone of Syndrome.