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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Utmost Nim: [QB] Saw it this evening, was completely blown away, and the rest of the audience with me (especially the girls liked it, to my surprise). It got totally trashed by two (normally) popular movie critics here in Stockholm, but both of them are feminist liberal women who hate the concept of the nuclear family and one of them even commented on Syndrome the bad guy's building of WMD devices as "a stupid and insensitive move in these times we live in". Talk about having a garden rake up her ass. I'm going to try and quantify why I think it was good, so it actually means anything and is not an OMG LOL-class review. First off, effects. The shiny (almost shimmering) suits that resembled Superman's nylon, the hairdos (especially the daughter's) and the general detail of environments, realistic gyrodynamics and inertia, the best I've ever seen, on the microlevel. Secondly, good actors. Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter and Sam Jackson are actors I really like and Hunter was the best. But I must say that I even liked the two kids a lot, I got no feeling of wanting to groan (Jar Jar syndrome) at any point. Especially the boy was so natural, unaffected and dynamic. Come to think of it, he felt like a really good Calvin (from Calvin and Hobbes). Thirdly, the general facial/body animations (emoting), also the best I've ever seen in a CGI-cartoon. When Elastigirl saw a hi-speed tram approaching, she started rustling her feet and shoulders like a goalie countering a ball or a cat preparing to pounce. "ok-ok-ok-ok-GO!!". All the little details added to the realism as well, small eyebrow quirks, sublime mouth muscle movements. When other animators have done it before it has easily gotten crude and exaggerated, I never felt that here. Some closeup-scenes even surpassed Gollum in realistic facial expressions, I must say. Then there's the drama. Helen warning her children that they might die, Bob in anguish after the plane explosion, all very risky maneuvers on the writers' and director's part. Funny enough, I've seen several superhero-movies these last 5 years that didn't get close to this drama quality, and they were live actors! Some people claim that "The Incredibles" is a ripoff and plagiarism on the Fantastic Four and that Marvel should sue. Um, it's a parody on superheroes! Homage, tribute, nods! Anything getting through to you? No? Actually, I think I won't enjoy "Fantastic Four" nearly as much as I did this movie, given how "Daredevil", "Hulk" and "Spiderman 2" felt to me. Those movies had some moments of heavy groaning. I really appreciated the timing and delivery of the humor throughout the whole movie. The strongest impression I got was "This director knows what he's doing with what he's got!". The dinner-table fight and the sidewalk kid on the tricycle, just spot on. Also, and this is very rare for me, I found Helen/Elastigirl really attractive and a believable character. Sensible, strong and intelligent, but not above snappiness under stress (missile chase) or anguish (realizing her husband may be lying to her or cheating on her but being hesitant to confront him yet, hoping she's wrong). She might be the most human cartoon character I've ever seen, and the most feminine. It might just be me but seeing a headstrong but self-scrutinizing female lead that doesn't cross the line into bitchville, that's rare and very very sexy. Some would probably say that this review and my praise is over the top and highflying for a "simple cartoon movie", and I say that's bullshit and I don't care and also I rule. Even if the movie is largely tongue-in-cheek and the general premise and aforementioned nuclear family angle is saccarine-decent, this film evoked a range and depth of reactions in me that Tobey Macguire/Eric Bana could just forget about coming close to. (Blackhouse Down and Ciderhawk Rulez may be good, but Hulk and Spiddy-II put these two gentlemen into corned beef). Ta ta! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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