The Incredibles (2004)

Directed by

Brad Bird

Written by

Brad Bird

Genre

comedy film, action film, superhero film, family film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 19,029 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former superhero couple are forced into hiding and must live like ordinary people. When the husband is lured back into action, the whole family has to use their powers to stop a dangerous enemy.

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What happens

The Incredibles is a 2004 American animated superhero film written and directed by Brad Bird. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, it stars the voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox, Jason Lee, Samuel L. Jackson, and Elizabeth Peña. Set in a retro-futuristic version of the 1960s, the film follows Bob (Nelson) and Helen Parr (Hunter), a superhero couple respectively known as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl, who hide their powers in accordance with a government mandate that outlawed superheroes, and attempt to live a quiet suburban life with their three children. However, Bob's desire to help people draws the entire family into a confrontation with a vengeful fan-turned-foe. Bird, who was Pixar's first outside director, developed the film as an extension of the 1960s comic books and spy films from his boyhood and personal family life. He pitched the film to Pixar after Warner Bros.' box office disappointment of his first feature, The Iron Giant (1999), and carried over much of its staff to develop The Incredibles. The animation team was tasked with animating an all-human cast, which required creating new technology to animate detailed human anatomy, clothing, and realistic skin and hair. Michael Giacchino composed the film's orchestral score. The Incredibles debuted at the El Capitan Theatre on October 24, 2004, and was released in theaters in the United States on November 5. It earned $632 million worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2004. The Incredibles received widespread acclaim from critics, with praise for its animation, screenplay, voice acting, action sequences, sound design, humor, and music. The film won Best Animated Feature and Best Sound Editing at the 77th Academy Awards, with two additional nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Sound Mixing, as well as the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. It was the first entirely animated film to win the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. A sequel, Incredibles 2, was released in June 2018, while a third film is scheduled to release in 2028. In January 2026, The Incredibles was announced as one of the 25 films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress among the 2025 inductees for being considered, "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" becoming the third feature film from Pixar to be inducted (after WALL-E and Toy Story). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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