Incredibles, The

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Pixar again hitches top-notch storytelling to the very best in CG animation.

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.

Variety Todd McCarthy

As deliriously smart escapist fare, The Incredibles is practically nonpareil.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.

LA Weekly David Chute

The Incredibles creates so seamless a mood of exhilaration that we resent being pulled out of it.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

A visually thrilling experience.

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

A movie with the sweet soul of "Toy Story" and the boisterous spirit of "Spy Kids."

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.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

It's easily the best and brightest family-friendly movie of the year.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

A spectacularly rendered tale of a family of superheroes, takes the art form to a whole new level.

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.

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

True-blue Incredibles is a super tribute to the power of family and the might of imagination.

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.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

The Incredibles has that rare quality of feeling modern and classic at the same time.

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.

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."

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.

Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky

Yes, yes--The Incredibles is beautiful to look at, but even more lovely beneath the computer-generated surfaces.

Time Richard Corliss

The Incredibles has those characters, that heart.

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.

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.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

An order-of-magnitude leap forward in animated storytelling.

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.

Chicago Tribune Robert K. Elder

Delivers the perfect union - a vivid, sublime parody and valentine to the superhero genre.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Bird has crafted a film -- one of the year's best -- that doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true.

Premiere Aaron Hillis

Preaches post-9/11 family values to conservatives while appeasing liberals with ideas of tolerance and social activism.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Isn't just fine family entertainment, it's superior family entertainment.

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Such smart, whiz-bang fun that you may not realize what it's about until you're safely home.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Clever, buoyant and surprisingly human.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Grown-ups are likely to be surprised by how smart the movie is, and how sneakily perceptive.

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.

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.

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.

Empire Colin Kennedy

Looks like 2004 has given birth to a new superhero franchise after all.

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.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Sharper and smarter than any animation since "Shrek 2," making it one of the season's supermovies.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.