Has anyone seen The Incredibles?

[lochinvar]

I enjoyed The Incredibles, and would see it again. The CG was superb, and I especially liked the shameless send-up of the James Bond movies, complete with campy music score, and the blatent borrowing of the forest chase scene from Star Wars II.

The family dynamics were priceless, especially (WARNING! Spoiler alert!) the parents arguing in the van while going downtown to fight the robot.

However, I don't think I'll buy the CD. I get the feeling that the creators decided to draw a bunch of action sequences, then as an afterthought wrote some connective dialogue to patch them together. The number of quotable lines are notable by their paucity, as opposed to Pixar's other recent film Finding Nemo. Don't get me wrong--I like action sequences, but they just don't have the same staying power as witty dialogue.

I also thought the short sucked. What I like most about Pixar's other shorts is their lack of need for talking; the message is conveyed by image alone. This one was just too blatant an allegory for my taste, and for some reason they felt the audience was too obtuse to get the message so they spelled it out in unambiguous terms.

[achilleus]

I really liked The Incredibles. Remniscent of every comic book I've ever read. Especially, The Watchmen, a humorous take, but nonetheless...

My buddies and I cracked up about the cape, since it was merely what had happened, in a much grittier fashion, in The Watchmen.

[Black Jeebus]

And yet ANOTHER citation for RL's posts. Here's the site where he got this latest quote.
http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news1...credibles.html

I think maybe RL is really a bot that trolls the jesus sites seeking answers to the questions of fencing goodfellows. He certainly can't post a word of truth. Even trying to make up a grandson, Willy on this one!

Just cause I'm an idiot. That site is a joke right? I read the "Incredibles" article and then perused a few others. After all that I decided "ok now find the disclaimer that this is for entertainment purposes only..." There isn't one. This is a joke right?

[lochinvar]

Just cause I'm an idiot. That site is a joke right?

If by "joke" you mean that it isn't really a church and all the articles are fictional, the answer is Yes. Landover Baptist is not a real congregation, and the whole site is intended to be a send-up of certain types of fundamentalist Christians.

However, if by "joke" you mean "intended to be humorous", the answer is No. The site is farce, but the farce is savage and very much uses it's characterization of "Bible-believers" to try to make a serious point. I don't know if the author is anti-Christian in general or just anti-Fundamentalist or anti-Baptist, but it is unrelenting in its unsympathetic portrayal. By pushing the caricature to absurd--but logical, if not rational--lengths, he/they seek to engender repulsion in the reader towards the Bible and all things overtly Christian.

EDIT: Or perhaps just towards those who take the Bible as unquestioned, literal truth.

[jBirch]

I also thought the short sucked. What I like most about Pixar's other shorts is their lack of need for talking; the message is conveyed by image alone. This one was just too blatant an allegory for my taste, and for some reason they felt the audience was too obtuse to get the message so they spelled it out in unambiguous terms.

See, now the secret is to watch the short while you're baked...it is MUCH more interesting. It actually reminded me of the same kind of LSD oddity that The Muppets were famous for. I loved it.

[Westley]

See, now the secret is to watch the short while you're baked...it is MUCH more interesting. It actually reminded me of the same kind of LSD oddity that The Muppets were famous for. I loved it.

What short? I didn't see a short. Did they have it at the end like in Bug's Life?

[mrbiggs]

If by "joke" you mean that it isn't really a church and all the articles are fictional, the answer is Yes. Landover Baptist is not a real congregation, and the whole site is intended to be a send-up of certain types of fundamentalist Christians.

Oh, that's a real releif. Seriously. I thought that site was real, and I was very, very, very scared.

[strongbad94]

Hey,I do not want to be rude or anything but it seems to me like the incredibles suddenly turned into religion.To me that seems strange.

[Ms Epee]

undefinedAHAHAHA Wow Reverselunge i'm not trying to be offensive, but why are you and your grandson more concerned about what the incredibles costume looks like? I mean i am a Catholic and i don't think that a costume on a movie is going to influence whether your grandson is "God fearing". I mean (i'm not trying to be offensive again) but i heard plently of other people who weren't concerned about the "costume matter" and they are respectable people. By the way i believe that Jesus is our Lord and Savior, not a super hero. I don't think the "homosexuals" at Pixar meant for you to stare at the costumes the whole time, you know there is actually a story. Lastly President Bush is more concerned with important issues like, lets see, THE WAR ON TERROR! My goodness if you voted for President to clean up an innocent childerens movie i'm sorry. By the way America is a free country as much as you or I want it to be Jesus's country, it isn't.