The Incredible Incredibles (or not)

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The Incredibles is an incredible movie, but it is questionable for family fare. What do you think?
 
We loved that movie and I thought is is a great family movie, it is actually my 2 1/2 year olds favorite movie! She calls it “Supers!” I have seen other films that were marketed as family films but were anything but. The Incredibles was a great family movie and is on my top 10 list most definetly!

I am probably walking into a land mine here, but what did you find questionable about it?
 
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beckyann2597:
We loved that movie and I thought is is a great family movie, it is actually my 2 1/2 year olds favorite movie! She calls it “Supers!” I have seen other films that were marketed as family films but were anything but. The Incredibles was a great family movie and is on my top 10 list most definetly!

I am probably walking into a land mine here, but what did you find questionable about it?
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I think it is OK, but you have to admit that people getting sucked into jet engines (Syndrome and Stratogale) is not exactly mild.
 
Neither is coyotes repeatedly falling off cliffs, getting run over by trucks, or blown up by TNT, but most of us turned out ok. You want questionable? Try reading the original Grimm brother’s fairy tales. Or sing kid’s rhymes about putting poseys in your pockets to cover up the smell from the plauge. Life is rough, and we worry too much about sugar coating the unpleasent stuff. Not that we have to go too far in the other direction either.
 
But it wasn’t gory either. I remember watching looney tunes when I was little, and reading fairy tales where worse things happened. I actually don’t like the saccharin cartoons that come out (Care Bears, etc).

In the end, the bad guy gets it, and the family is intact. I love the family dynamic in that film. When Violet and Dash are in the cave in the island talking about what bad things could happen, and their parents divorcing would be worse than death?
 
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Neither is coyotes repeatedly falling off cliffs, getting run over by trucks, or blown up by TNT, but most of us turned out ok. You want questionable? Try reading the original Grimm brother’s fairy tales. Or sing kid’s rhymes about putting poseys in your pockets to cover up the smell from the plauge. Life is rough, and we worry too much about sugar coating the unpleasent stuff. Not that we have to go too far in the other direction either.
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HAHA! WE wer writing identical posts!
 
Ugh, Care Bears! I think you could get tooth decay from watching too much. My DD loves them. At least it isn’t as bad as Teletubbies. I could actually feel brain cells exploding from having to watch them. Again, Again!
 
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beckyann2597:
We loved that movie and I thought is is a great family movie, it is actually my 2 1/2 year olds favorite movie! She calls it “Supers!”
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That is aDORable!! 🙂

I loved the film, too, and thought there was a great message in their sticking together as a family to beat the “bad guys,” and I also loved the love shown between Mr. and Mrs. Incredible, who had a REAL relationship. Not to mention how “incredible” the story itself was.

Any lover of comic books and superheroes recognizes this as the type of thing that makes you go home and dust off those old boxes full of Spiderman and Batman comics and weep a sentimental tear.
 
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TAS2000:
Ugh, Care Bears! I think you could get tooth decay from watching too much. My DD loves them. At least it isn’t as bad as Teletubbies. I could actually feel brain cells exploding from having to watch them. Again, Again!
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My now 9 year old loved the Tubbies when she was 1 and 2. We just let her watch them because she adored Lala so, but we had to leave the room. At least none of mine started into Pokemon! Blech!

Hey Johnpaulover-- Do you have kids and if you do what do they watch?
 
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beckyann2597:
My now 9 year old loved the Tubbies when she was 1 and 2. We just let her watch them because she adored Lala so, but we had to leave the room. At least none of mine started into Pokemon! Blech!

Hey Johnpaulover-- Do you have kids and if you do what do they watch?
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No, I’m not married either. If I did have kids, I would say that at six years, they could watch it alone but other people dont think so, I just want to know what you think.
 
The Incredibles is an outstanding movie all around. It sets the standard superhero movies.

People responsible for the train wrecks that were Daredevil, Electra, the Blade sequels, The Fantastic Four, and The Punisher: Take note!

– Mark L. Chance.
 
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johnpaullover:
No, I’m not married either. If I did have kids, I would say that at six years, they could watch it alone but other people dont think so, I just want to know what you think.
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Wow. I can’t imagine what anyone would find objectionable. I agree with the other posters that in times past fairy tales were much more violent.If I am not mistaken the original stepsisters in Cinderella cut off their toes to fit their feet into the glass slippers. That was certainly gory.

I loved the Incredibles! Especially that the Mom was a stay at home mother with wide baby bearing hips.👍
 
By Steven D. Greydanus

The Incredibles is exhilarating entertainment with unexpected depths. It’s a bold, bright, funny and furious superhero cartoon that dares to take sly jabs at the culture of entitlement, from the shallow doctrine of self-esteem that affirms everybody, encouraging mediocrity and penalizing excellence, to the litigation culture that demands recompense for everyone if anything ever happens, to the detriment of the genuinely needy.

It’s saying too little to call The Incredibles one of the best superhero movies of all time. This is family entertainment of the highest order, ranking with the very best of Pixar’s impressive body of work. Walking out of the theater with my kids, I felt like that tyke on the trike: I’ve just seen something amazing, and I want to come back and see it again.

Intense action violence including a few offscreen deaths; brief appearance of romantic complications; a few instances of minor profanity.

**we just bought the DVD…the whole family LOVES it!!!
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I loved the Incredibles! Especially that the Mom was a stay at home mother with wide baby bearing hips.👍
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For me, the two best parts were these:
  1. When Mr. Incredible believes his family has been killed and he grabs Syndrome’s assistant and threatens to kill her if not released. Syndrome calls his bluff, and Mr. Incredible backs down. What strength of character! Not even in the pit of despair does he compromise his principles.
  2. At the movie’s end, Mr. Incredible orders his family to stay behind while he rushed off to battle the berserk robot. When confronted by Elastigirl, his wife, he confesses that he can’t stand the thought of losing his family. “I’m not that strong.” What an amazing line! Any husband/father who cannot understand that sentiment isn’t worth the title.
– Mark L. Chance.
 
One of my boys’ favorite things to do is shout “THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED!!”

One of my favorite lines is when Dash collapses in the limo and says, “I love my family”…

Great flick!
 
A friend pointed out to me that in the “cut scenes” section there is a whole part at a backyard barbeque where some “career women” from the neighborhood were basically slamming SAHM’s, and Helen goes off on them. It was pretty cool. I think they should have worked that into the movie. (BTW, I am a “career woman”, works full time out of the home. I think ANY parent, male or female who sacrifices to stay home and raise their kids TOTALLY ROCKS!)
 
Here is a secret on the dvd’s. If you put the 2nd dvd into your computer and look through the different menus, you will find the omnidrone occasionally makes an appearance in the upper right hand corner of the screen. If you click on it, you get EXTRA deleted scenes and extras! Our family favorite is the entire Incredibles! movie acted out with sock puppets! BRILLIANT!

I will post specifics later when I get a chance to look at it…for all y’all who are interested!
 
I agree, the incredibles is great - one of the only movies I can watch repeatedly (which is good because it’s one of the only ones I own 😛 ).
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beckyann2597:
Here is a secret on the dvd’s. If you put the 2nd dvd into your computer and look through the different menus, you will find the omnidrone occasionally makes an appearance in the upper right hand corner of the screen. If you click on it, you get EXTRA deleted scenes and extras! Our family favorite is the entire Incredibles! movie acted out with sock puppets! BRILLIANT!

I will post specifics later when I get a chance to look at it…for all y’all who are interested!
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I’ve done this - you get some great stuff. The idea is just to wait until you see the little icon then scroll over to it and hit enter. It takes a few minutes, but if the screen refreshes you’ll know it doesn’t have one. Also if right after you’ve viewed one you wait again sometimes you’ll get rewarded with a SECOND little easter egg (eegg).

Some Scenes I remember offhand - though not exactly the best ones:
Mr Incredible Dancing
Fighting for the tv remote (one of the doubles)
Some amusing “secondary options” for particular scenes
The director(?) getting hit with a large beach ball.
Commentary about a cameo in the movie.

Oh and you simply must watch Jack-Jack Attack (not an eegg) that is simply the best little mini I’ve ever seen 👍
 
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