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Incredibles, The
Buena Vista Pictures

Incredibles, The reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 90 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.7 out of 10
based on 41 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG for action violence

Starring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Spencer Fox, Sarah Vowell, Elizabeth Peña, John Ratzenberger, and Wallace Shawn

From the creators of "Toy Story," "Monsters, Inc." and "Finding Nemo," comes this hilarious action-packed animated adventure about superheroes. (Disney Enterprises, Inc./Pixar Animation Studios)


GENRE(S): Action  |  Adventure  |  Animation  |  Comedy  |  Family/Kids  
WRITTEN BY: Brad Bird  
DIRECTED BY: Brad Bird  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 15, 2005 
Video: March 15, 2005 
Theatrical: November 5, 2004 
RUNNING TIME: 115 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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100
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Pixar again hitches top-notch storytelling to the very best in CG animation.
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100
New York Magazine Ken Tucker
The sleek beauty, crafty wit, family warmth, and impeccable slapstick suffusing The Incredibles immediately vaults it to a new, higher level of entertainment.
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100
Variety Todd McCarthy
As deliriously smart escapist fare, The Incredibles is practically nonpareil.
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100
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.
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100
LA Weekly David Chute
The Incredibles creates so seamless a mood of exhilaration that we resent being pulled out of it.
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100
Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
A visually thrilling experience.
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100
Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
A movie with the sweet soul of "Toy Story" and the boisterous spirit of "Spy Kids."
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100
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Bird has created the unprecedented film that is not just a grand feature-length cartoon but a grand feature, period, a piece of animation that's involving across a spectrum of comedy, action, even drama.
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100
Washington Post Desson Thomson
It's easily the best and brightest family-friendly movie of the year.
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100
New York Post Lou Lumenick
A spectacularly rendered tale of a family of superheroes, takes the art form to a whole new level.
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100
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A work of huge, if unobtrusive, ambition -- a vision of modern life, appropriate for sophisticated adults as well as for kids, that is both satirical and, of all things, inspirational. It's a great film about the possibility of greatness.
100
Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
True-blue Incredibles is a super tribute to the power of family and the might of imagination.
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100
Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell
It's hilarious, thrilling and filled with "life-truth" -- but it also conceals its effort under a layer of great writing and subtle craftsmanship.
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100
Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
The Incredibles has that rare quality of feeling modern and classic at the same time.
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91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
In a movie era when brand names mean very little, it shows once again that Pixar is a stamp of quality.
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90
Washington Post Jennifer Frey
The movie is full of wonderful little touches: Syndrome, the bad guy, is drawn to remind viewers of "Heat Miser" from the classic Christmas cartoon "The Year Without a Santa Claus."
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90
Slate David Edelstein
For all its wizardry, The Incredibles isn't among my favorite animated movies. Weirdly enough, I think of it, instead, as one of my favorite live-action superhero pictures.
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90
Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
Yes, yes--The Incredibles is beautiful to look at, but even more lovely beneath the computer-generated surfaces.
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90
Time Richard Corliss
The Incredibles has those characters, that heart.
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90
Newsweek Jeff Giles
The vocal performances are a blast, Hunter's and Lee's in particular. The animation of the villain's tropical isle is stunning.
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90
Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
The smart dialogue doesn't hurt, of course, and perhaps the best work is done by Bird himself, who provides the voice of Edna "E" Mode, superhero fashion designer.
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89
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
An order-of-magnitude leap forward in animated storytelling.
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88
Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Among the handsome explosions, wacky effects, slapstick comedy and zooming action sequences of The Incredibles, writer-director Brad Bird is attempting to start a revolution.
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88
Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder
Delivers the perfect union - a vivid, sublime parody and valentine to the superhero genre.
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88
Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Bird has crafted a film -- one of the year's best -- that doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true.
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88
Premiere Aaron Hillis
Preaches post-9/11 family values to conservatives while appeasing liberals with ideas of tolerance and social activism.
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88
ReelViews James Berardinelli
Isn't just fine family entertainment, it's superior family entertainment.
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88
Boston Globe Ty Burr
Such smart, whiz-bang fun that you may not realize what it's about until you're safely home.
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88
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
Clever, buoyant and surprisingly human.
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88
Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Grown-ups are likely to be surprised by how smart the movie is, and how sneakily perceptive.
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80
The New York Times Dana Stevens
Because it is so visually splendid and ethically serious, the movie raises hopes it cannot quite satisfy. It comes tantalizingly close to greatness, but seems content, in the end, to fight mediocrity to a draw.
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80
The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
The action sequences are choreographed with the crackerjack timing expected from Pixar, but the film's funniest and most affecting moments exploit the tension between a special family and a world that insists on dulling them down.
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80
The New Yorker Anthony Lane
Imagine my relief when Bob, Helen, and the kids, for all the nicety of their emotions, turned out to be--if I can risk a word that may be taboo in Pixar land--cartoons. Long may it stay that way.
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80
Empire Colin Kennedy
Looks like 2004 has given birth to a new superhero franchise after all.
75
USA Today Claudia Puig
One of the year's most clever and visually arresting computer-animated films, enlivened by a well-developed and credible cast of characters who just happen to be superheroes.
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75
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Sharper and smarter than any animation since "Shrek 2," making it one of the season's supermovies.
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75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Leah McLaren
The smarter script and stronger range of performances than most high-budget blockbusters clogging theatres these days make you wonder why the live-action feature isn't already obsolete.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
The visual and emotional hues are darker [than previous Pixar films], and the focus rests more on middle age than coming of age. The adventures of a family of superheroes are likely to thrill and amuse children, but the film's more grown-up themes might go over their heads.
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70
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The result is truly a family film, not a kiddie time-waster that throws the occasional sop to adults; whether you like or love it is a function of how vividly the material reflects your own childhood fantasies.
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70
Village Voice Jessica Winter
Unfortunately, the delicious snatches of reflexive wit function as mere intermissions between the distended action sequences and Michael Bay–style megatonnage, which have earned Pixar its first ever PG rating.
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60
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The fun hardens into Fun after he's (Mr. Incredible) lured out of retirement and imprisoned in a remote island compound, though the sleek computer animation is spellbinding as usual.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 207 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Dre H. gave it a10:
Easily one of the best movies ever made, and probably one of the best CGI movies ever made, with special features to make it last.

Francisco M gave it a4:
Not original, not funny, but enjoyable.

anonymous gave it a10:
can I just say "best new animated film ever!!!" its a classic superhero movie I really don't see how anyone could watch this movie and not enjoy it

J H gave it a10:
Another great film by Brad Bird. This was a digital achievement for Pixar. It is one of the animated films along with Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Ratatouille, Totoro, and The Iron Giant that delivered a fantasy for fans that are a geek of heart.

Zee M gave it a10:
My Favorite Animation Movie Ever! From Start To Finish, It Was Completely INCREDIBLE!

Jack Balder gave it a9:
One of the best Pixar movies that is very enjoyable, funny, but not as good as "A Bug's life, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, or Monsters inc."

dave z gave it a10:
Great Fun!!! Surprisingly dramatic for an animated film with lots of comedy. A standard by which all future animated films will be compared. the dvd is better than the movie (I loved the extra interviews of superheroes not shown in the movie.) All emotions are evoked. Ratatouille cannot compare.

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