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100A visually thrilling experience.
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88Grown-ups are likely to be surprised by how smart the movie is, and how sneakily perceptive.
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89An order-of-magnitude leap forward in animated storytelling.
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80The 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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100Pixar again hitches top-notch storytelling to the very best in CG animation.
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100A spectacularly rendered tale of a family of superheroes, takes the art form to a whole new level.
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100A movie with the sweet soul of "Toy Story" and the boisterous spirit of "Spy Kids."
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100True-blue Incredibles is a super tribute to the power of family and the might of imagination.
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88Bird has crafted a film -- one of the year's best -- that doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true.
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88Delivers the perfect union - a vivid, sublime parody and valentine to the superhero genre.
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88Clever, buoyant and surprisingly human.
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88Such smart, whiz-bang fun that you may not realize what it's about until you're safely home.
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88Isn't just fine family entertainment, it's superior family entertainment.
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88Preaches post-9/11 family values to conservatives while appeasing liberals with ideas of tolerance and social activism.
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88Among 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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75Sharper and smarter than any animation since "Shrek 2," making it one of the season's supermovies.
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75The 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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75One 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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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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90The 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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70The 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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100Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.
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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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91In a movie era when brand names mean very little, it shows once again that Pixar is a stamp of quality.
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100The Incredibles has that rare quality of feeling modern and classic at the same time.
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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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100The Incredibles creates so seamless a mood of exhilaration that we resent being pulled out of it.
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100Bird 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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100As deliriously smart escapist fare, The Incredibles is practically nonpareil.
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100It's easily the best and brightest family-friendly movie of the year.
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90Yes, yes--The Incredibles is beautiful to look at, but even more lovely beneath the computer-generated surfaces.
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90The 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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90For 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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90The Incredibles has those characters, that heart.
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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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80Because 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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80Imagine 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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70Unfortunately, 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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60The 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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80Looks like 2004 has given birth to a new superhero franchise after all.
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100A 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.