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The Incredibles
Directed by	Brad Bird
Produced by	John Walker, John Lasseter
Written by	Brad Bird
Starring	Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Sarah Vowell, Elizabeth Peña, Spencer Fox, Brad Bird
Music by
Cinematography by	{{{cinematography}}}
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Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Released	November 5, 2004 (USA)
Running time	121 min.
Language	English
Budget	$92,000,000
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IMDb profile

The Incredibles is an Academy Award-winning Pixar Animation Studios animated feature film. Their sixth film had been "presented" by Walt Disney Pictures and released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 5, 2004, and in the United Kingdom and Ireland on November 26, 2004. It was released in a two-disc DVD (in both widescreen and full frame versions) in the U.S. on March 15, 2005.

It was written and developed by Brad Bird, former director of The Simpsons and best known for directing the animated movie The Iron Giant. The Incredibles was originally developed as a traditionally animated movie, but after Warner Bros. shut down its animation division, Brad Bird moved to Pixar and took the story with him.

Contents 1 Voice cast 2 Plot 3 Main characters 3.1 Mr. Incredible 3.2 Elastigirl 3.3 Dash 3.4 Violet 3.5 Jack-Jack 3.6 Frozone 3.7 Syndrome 3.8 Mirage 3.9 Edna 3.10 Rick Dicker 3.11 Kari 4 U.S. box office take 5 DVD extras 6 Merchandising 7 Video games 7.1 The Incredibles 7.2 The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer 8 Trivia 9 Awards 10 External links

Voice cast

See also: Voice actor

• Craig T. Nelson – Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible)
• Holly Hunter – Helen Parr (Elastigirl or Mrs. Incredible)
• Samuel L. Jackson – Lucius Best (Frozone)
• Sarah Vowell – Violet Parr
• Spencer Fox – Dashiell Parr (Dash)
• Jason Lee – Buddy Pine (Syndrome) (formerly Incrediboy)
• Elizabeth Peña – Mirage
• Brad Bird – Edna "E" Mode
• Wallace Shawn – Gilbert Huph
• John Ratzenberger – The Underminer
• Bret Parker – Kari (the Babysitter)

Plot

Fifteen years ago, the world's superheroes were overwhelmed by lawsuits over the damage and injuries that sometimes resulted from their rescues. In exchange for immunity from these suits, the "supers" retired from heroics, and the government relocated them with civilian identities. Now Bob Parr, formerly Mr. Incredible, lives a quiet suburban life with his wife Helen (formerly Elastigirl) and their three secretly super-powered children. Bored with this life of mediocrity, he occasionally sneaks out with his friend Lucius (formerly Frozone) to fight crime and protect the innocent.

Upon receiving a mysterious benefactor's invitation to be a hero again, Mr. Incredible leaps at the opportunity. However, the "benefactor" turns out to be a villain named Syndrome who carries a grudge: as a boy, he idolized the superhero, even going as far as inventing machines that would allow him to become "Incrediboy," but Mr. Incredible squelched that dream. Thereafter he dedicated his life to eliminating superheroes while he perfects a destructive robot that only he will be able to defeat with his inventions; he plans on unleashing it for a while then defeating it so that he will be seen as a hero.

It's up to the rest of the Parr family to save Mr. Incredible, and to stop the robot after Syndrome loses control of it.

Main characters

Mr. Incredible

Robert "Bob" Parr, "Mr. Incredible" (6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), 350 lb (159 kg)) The "hero's hero", Bob possesses tremendous strength and reasonable resistance to harm. Trapped in a dead-end job as an insurance adjuster, he reminisces about "the glory days" when he was celebrated for using his abilities to save people. His supersuit, designed by Edna Mode, shows no additional abilities other than having much the same toughness as his own skin.

Elastigirl

Helen Parr, "Elastigirl" (5 ft 8 in (1.73 m), 125 lb (57 kg)) Helen Parr can stretch any part of her body up to 100 ft and can be 1 mm thin. She can also reshape her body in a variety of ways shown in the movie including becoming a parachute or a rubber boat. She is a dedicated spouse and parent and is frustrated with her husband's continuing dreams of glory. Her indestructible Edna Mode supersuit can stretch as far as she can.

Dash

Dashiell "Dash" Robert Parr (4 ft 0 in (1.22 m), 65 lb (29 kg)) Dashiell aka Dash can run faster than the eye or any camera can see. Dash would like to go out for sports, but his mom Helen (aka Elastigirl) won't allow it because she thinks that he would show off his superspeed and blow the family's civilian cover. His supersuit is resistant to air friction and won't wear down when he runs in it.

Violet

Violet "Vi" Parr (5 ft 3 in (1.60 m), 90 lb (41 kg)) Stuck at the cross-roads between girl and woman, Violet desperately wants to be like everyone else, to blend in with normal people and not to stand out. Appropriately, her superpowers allow her to turn instantly invisible and to generate spherical force fields to protect herself (a similar power is used by the Invisible Woman, one of the members of the Fantastic Four). During the movie she and Dash combine their powers to create the Incrediball, where Violet generates her forcefield around herself and Dash runs super fast so that they both move at an incredible pace and block out anything attacking them. Her character development constitutes a major side-story in the movie, despite the fact that Violet herself isn't shown in very many scenes (due, some speculate, to the extreme complexity involved in animating her long, flowing hair). Violet's name alludes to "shrinking violet", which means a shy person (usually a girl) or as a reference to ultraviolet light, which is outside the visible spectrum. Edna Mode designs a supersuit that turns invisible when Violet does.

Jack-Jack

Jack-Jack Parr (2 ft 6 in (0.76 m), 25 lb (11 kg) Jack-Jack is the cute baby in the Parr family. The only thing the Parr family doesn't know is that Jack-Jack has his own powers, like shape-shifting, which is seen in The Incredibles movie at the end, plus Shadow powers (levitating, teleportation, laser beams and being able to pass through solid objects) and setting himself on fire, which are seen in 'Jack Jack Attack' on the DVD.

Frozone

Lucius Best, "Frozone" (6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 180 lb (82 kg)) A long-time friend of the family, Frozone has the power to emit ice or snow from his fingers, and has a number of gizmos that help him in skiing on snow and similar feats. He is limited by the amount of water in the air and the amount of water in his body. During the movie, it is suggested that he has adapted to civilian life much more easily than his long-time friend, Bob Parr, though he still possesses a command center of sorts, as well as his super suit and all of his old gadgets in working condition.

Syndrome

Buddy Pine, "Syndrome" This misguided villain was once Mr. Incredible's "greatest fan." In an attempt to earn his hero's respect, Buddy Pine tried to aid him in fighting crime as "Incrediboy", with gadgets he had invented in his spare time, as well as showing plenty of "gee-whiz" spunk. Instead of respecting him as the sidekick he wished to become, Mr. Incredible kicked him out on the curb—quite literally. Out of bitterness, he recreated himself as an evil genius that plotted revenge on his former idol. After his initial plans were foiled, Syndrome planned to abduct Jack-Jack and raise him as a sidekick, but failed. Syndrome's cape got caught in his jet's intake and sucked him in. If not for the engine's blades, the explosion immediately following seems to point towards the conclusion that he was killed.

He has no physical powers, but is incredibly intelligent, invented numerous weapons (including weapons exploiting zero-point energy, which today is only in the theoretical stage) and is very rich. Rich enough to own his own island, a mansion on the island, multiple rockets, and guards.

Mirage

Mirage is Syndrome's seductive right-hand woman, and possible accomplice in the murder of many "supers". Despite several hints at a more intimate relationship between Mirage and Buddy Pine (Syndrome), nothing is explicitly stated in the movie. Moreover, it is not known whether or not she herself is a "super", although she did say "we supers..." in the message she sent to Mr. Incredible. Though seemingly at ease with Syndrome's casual regard to murder, she nonetheless does have a "line" which she refuses to cross. This line is apparently children since in the movie, she doesn't show any objections to murder until she hears Helen (Elastigirl) screaming over the radio "There are children aboard!" as missiles are flying at Helen's jet. She appears to have extensive computer and espionage skills.

Edna

Edna "E" Mode (3 ft 8 in (1.12 m), "not telling dahling") An eccentric fashion designer who formerly designed the costumes for many members of the superhero community, saying that she "used to design for gods". To that end, not only does she take the aesthetics of the clothes into account, but also their practical uses such as protective qualities and accommodation to the powers of the wearer. Edna's no-nonsense personality and round glasses are a direct homage to Edith Head, the legendary Hollywood costume designer, perhaps with nods to Elsa Klensch and Anna Wintour. Edna Mode also appeared with Pierce Brosnan to present the Academy Award for Costume Design at the 77th Academy Awards. Edna "E" Mode is also a definite parody of the gadget designer branch in the James Bond movies, the "Q" branch.

The film's creators originally couldn't find an appropriate actress to voice Edna. Finally, when asking actress Lily Tomlin to voice Edna, Brad Bird provided an example of what she should sound like. Tomlin told Bird that he had nailed the voice well, and said that Brad should do the voice himself — which he did (with its unique German/Japanese accent).

Rick Dicker

Rick Dicker (voiced by Pixar animator Bud Luckey), a government agent who was once part of the NSA (National Supers Agency) and now oversees the Superhero Relocation Program; some feel he looks like Richard Nixon and sounds like Ronald Reagan.

Kari

Kari, Jack-Jack's babysitter while the Parrs are away. At first, she thinks she can handle Jack-Jack, but the animated short Jack-Jack Attack proves that the baby might be more trouble than she could ever imagine.

U.S. box office take

Its opening box office sales in the United States exceeded that of Pixar's previous animation films. At the time of its release, its opening-weekend attendance ranked fifth in 2004, behind Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Spider-Man 2 and The Passion of the Christ. It was ranked 14th among all opening-weekend results at that time.

All figures in United States dollars.

• Week 1: $70,467,623 (1st)
• Week 2: $50,251,359 (1st)
• Week 3: $26,523,852 (3rd)
• Week 4: $23,580,279 (2nd)
• Week 5: $9,015,796 (4th)
• Week 6: $5,036,631 (6th)
• Week 7: $3,120,541 (10th)
• Week 8: $2,417,039 (15th)

The movie grossed a total of roughly $259,000,000 in the United States, and $366,000,000 in foreign markets, making it the fifth- and fourth-highest-grossing movie, respectively, of 2004. It is Pixar's second-highest-grossing movie, after Finding Nemo, and the third-highest-grossing superhero movie, after Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2.

DVD extras

The Incredibles two-disc Collector's Edition DVD set was released on March 15, 2005. Two versions of the set are available: one widescreen and the other full screen (this is unlike releases for other Pixar films, which often contained both versions in one set). Like many other DVD releases, there are various extra features available on the two discs including:

• Commentary by Brad Bird and animators
• "Jack-Jack Attack" - An animated short that involves a subplot of the main film that explains how Jack-Jack develops his newfound powers and uses them on his babysitter, Kari. Jack-Jack Attack was originally intended to be integrated into the film footage, but was removed for pacing reasons.
• "Incredi-Blunders" - Animation bloopers and outtakes.
• Various deleted scenes.
• Making of "The Incredibles" featurette.
• A Pixar short film "Boundin'" (04:40) in which an avuncular Jackalope teaches a lamb how to live with himself. This short was played before "The Incredibles" in numerous theaters. The short was written and narrated by veteran animator, Bud Luckey and includes optional commentary.
• Top-secret NSA (National Supers Agency) files on all the Supers.
• "Mr. Incredible & Pals" cartoon which employs the use of Syncro-Vox, a cheap animation technique, and features an optional commentary supposedly by the "real" Frozone and Mr. Incredible.
• "Vowellet" - an essay by Sarah Vowell.
• Other hidden easter eggs.

Merchandising

Several companies released promotional products related to the movie. Dark Horse Comics released a limited series of comic books based on the movie. Kellogg's released an Incredibles-themed cereal, as well as promotional Pop Tarts and fruit snacks, all proclaiming an "Incrediberry Blast" of flavor. Furthermore, in the weeks before the movie's opening, there were also promotional tie-ins with SBC Communications and McDonald's.

In Europe, Kinder chocolate eggs contained small plastic toy characters.

In Mexico there has been a craze about the movie, literally hundreds of items are being sold there, with several of them being exclusive to Mexico. Already many stores around the country have been reporting being completely sold out of certain popular items.

In Belgium, car manufacturer Opel sold special 'The Incredibles' editions of their cars.

In the United Kingdom, Telewest promoted blueyonder internet services with branding from the film, including television adverts starring characters from the film.

In all merchandising outside of the film itself, Elastigirl is referred to as Mrs. Incredible. This is due to a licensing agreement between Disney/Pixar and DC Comics, who previously had a character named Elasti-Girl and owned the license to the name. DC Comics claimed the name because of a character named Elasti-Girl in the series Doom Patrol. She was able to grow and shrink at will from microscopic size to thousands of feet tall.

Video games

The Incredibles

The Incredibles also spawned a video game for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, PC and the Apple Macintosh. The game features 18 levels, and has five playable characters. They are:

• Mr Incredible: Used for most of the game, he spans 11 of the levels. While his techniques are the same, his clothes change:
  • Young Bob Parr (two levels)
  • "Keeping Identity Secret" Bob (one level; burning building)
  • Old Bob Parr (three levels; old blue suit)
  • Old Bob (four levels; new "i" suit)
• Elastigirl:
  • Young Helen Parr (one level; original suit)
  • Older Helen Parr (two levels; new "i" suit)
• Dash (two levels, both of which have a time limit). Two suits: secret identity and supersuit.
• Violet: Used once. She sneaks past guards invisibly; the supersuit is her only costume.
• Incredi-Ball: Dash and Violet together in a force field.

On the GBA version, Incredi-Ball is absent. However, the character of Frozone is playable.

The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer

Announced at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), there will be a sequel to the Incredibles video game, called Rise Of The Underminer. This game will take place after the first movie/game and the basis will be destroying the Underminer. From ign.com:

Following The Incredibles' defeat of Syndrome in the Walt Disney Pictures presentation of the Pixar Animation Studios film, a new threat emerges beneath the ground with a diabolical plot to pollute the major cities of the world and rule over humanity from below. Fans will be able to pick up from where the film left off and relive the glory days as Mr. Incredible and Frozone, superhero best friends who team up to tackle a new villain, The Underminer.

Trivia

• An appearance of the Cal-State Animation School inside joke A113 appears in the middle of the movie, when Mirage tells Mr. Incredible to report to conference room A113.
• The street names in the first chase scene, like San Pablo, Adeline, Stanford, Christie, and Powell, are the names of actual streets in Emeryville, California, the home of Pixar Studios' headquarters.
• According to one of the extra features on the DVD, other Superteams in this "universe" are Beta Force, the Phantasmics and the Thrilling Three.
• Apogee, Blazestone, Blitzerman, Downburst, Gamma Jack, Gazerbeam, Hypershock, Macroburst, The Phylange, Plasmabolt, Psycwave, Stormicide, Tradewind, Universal Man, and Vectress are supers that were killed by an Omnidroid.
• Dynaguy, Metaman, Splashdown, Stratogale, and Thunderhead are supers whose capes contributed to their deaths.
• When Jason Lee's character, young Buddy Pine, is introduced onscreen, Bob struggles to remember his name. He initially calls Buddy "Brodie," a hat-tip to Lee's role in Mallrats.
• Numerous super-hero characters and others (including Edna Mode, Dynaguy, and Thunderhead) can be seen briefly as guests during the wedding of Robert and Helen Parr.
• In the world of The Incredibles one might drink Blert Cola (displayed on a billboard as Mr. Incredible and Frozone drive to the fire.)
• This is the first Pixar movie to be rated PG.
• This is also the first Pixar movie in which multiple characters die.
• In the scene where Bob Parr accidentally breaks the car door and begins to mutter to himself, you can briefly hear him saying "Oh Geez." It was a phrase of frustration commonly used by Craig T. Nelson's character on the tv sitcom Coach.
• according to http://dvd.ign.com/articles/594/594806p2.html production of "The Incredibles" started in March of 2000
• The Incredibles appears to draw many story ideas from the graphic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

Awards

The film won the Oscar in 2005 for Best Animated Feature as well as Best Achievement in Sound Editing. It also received nominations for Best Original Screenplay (for writer/director Brad Bird) and Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, but did not win either.

External links

• Official Site
• Trailer from www.pixar.com
• The Incredibles at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Incredibles at the Internet Movie Database
• UpcomingPixar
• “The Incredibles” at ComingSoon
• Reviews of The Incredibles at Rotten Tomatoes
• Brad Bird interview at The Onion A.V. Club
• Brad Bird interview at MichaelBarrier.com
• Fanfic Page at FanFiction.Net
• Unofficial transcript of the movie
• IGN Interview with Brad Bird

Pixar
Feature Films
Toy Story (1995) -  A Bug's Life (1998) -  Toy Story 2 (1999) -  Monsters, Inc. (2001) -  Finding Nemo (2003) -  The Incredibles (2004) -  Cars (2006) -  Ratatouille (2007)
Short Films
Luxo Jr. (1986) -  Red's Dream (1987) -  Tin Toy (1988) -  Knick Knack (1989) -  Geri's Game (1997) -  For the Birds (2000) -  Mike's New Car (2002) -  Boundin' (2004) -  Jack-Jack Attack (2005) -  One Man Band (2005)
See Also
The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984)  -  Toy Story 3 (2007)

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