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Here is a review sent to aintitcool.com on the incredibles
"I'll keep the review spoiler free and short! I saw "The Incredibles" on Friday night at a college screening at Loews Kips Bay in NYC.
The movie was even better than I had hoped for. Definitley one of the best movies I've seen all year and the best superhero movie since Spider-Man 2...(two great superhero hero movies in one year...thats a first). This film was made by a geek (Brad Bird) for a geek!
I got that great, joyful feeling I had when i watched Max Fleischer's "Superman" cartoons...uncynical, unabashed fun. Every family member gets their amazing little moments...and the villain's diabolical plot is absurd and ingenius! Only a Geek could have come up with a plot so outrageous! And for a Pixar film whose main characters are human protagonists (first ever for Pixar), there's a lot more depth, humanity and interest than most live action films today.
Every time Sam "The Man" Jackson spoke it brought the house down.
There was a Q & A with Brad Bird after the screening. About the 2-D/3-D debate, he said that nobody at Pixar believes that 2-d is dead, and he thinks it's just a really ignorant belief that only 3-d movies are successful and wants to "fast forward" to a time where 2-d and 3-d animated films can be successful. He points out that "The Incredibles," when he pitched it, was originally concieved as a 2-d film.
One major change was that the main villain in this movie was originally just a side villain that got killed off in the beginning of the film...he was a real threat, more menacing than the villain that he originally had so they decided to use him instead. The film also originally started with the entire family as superheroes but Lassiter thought it would be better to hold back.
Bird said he had the PIxar people on their knees in terms of the difficult stuff he asked for (hair underwater, realistic cloth, etc). "Directing a film is like controlling an octopus...you have to be tender and nice to it," he explained.
The moderator asked if there was going to be a "franchise" for "Incredibles" and immediatley Bird verbally pounced on him, saying, "leave it alone," and is just annoyed that because a movie makes a load of cash that there has to be a sequel. But he said if they can come up with a story [with the same creative team] that's just as good/better than the original, they'd do "Incredibles 2"...he likened it as "Toy Story 2" was to "Toy Story 1." (Nobody dared to bring up Eisner's plans for Toy Story 3 and 4) He says there are no current plans to make a sequel.
All in all, Brad Bird is a very funny, outspoken guy (his voice broke into the Comic Book Dude from the Simpsons from time to time) and unbiased in terms of what media to use for animation (2-d or 3-d). "
"I'll keep the review spoiler free and short! I saw "The Incredibles" on Friday night at a college screening at Loews Kips Bay in NYC.
The movie was even better than I had hoped for. Definitley one of the best movies I've seen all year and the best superhero movie since Spider-Man 2...(two great superhero hero movies in one year...thats a first). This film was made by a geek (Brad Bird) for a geek!
I got that great, joyful feeling I had when i watched Max Fleischer's "Superman" cartoons...uncynical, unabashed fun. Every family member gets their amazing little moments...and the villain's diabolical plot is absurd and ingenius! Only a Geek could have come up with a plot so outrageous! And for a Pixar film whose main characters are human protagonists (first ever for Pixar), there's a lot more depth, humanity and interest than most live action films today.
Every time Sam "The Man" Jackson spoke it brought the house down.
There was a Q & A with Brad Bird after the screening. About the 2-D/3-D debate, he said that nobody at Pixar believes that 2-d is dead, and he thinks it's just a really ignorant belief that only 3-d movies are successful and wants to "fast forward" to a time where 2-d and 3-d animated films can be successful. He points out that "The Incredibles," when he pitched it, was originally concieved as a 2-d film.
One major change was that the main villain in this movie was originally just a side villain that got killed off in the beginning of the film...he was a real threat, more menacing than the villain that he originally had so they decided to use him instead. The film also originally started with the entire family as superheroes but Lassiter thought it would be better to hold back.
Bird said he had the PIxar people on their knees in terms of the difficult stuff he asked for (hair underwater, realistic cloth, etc). "Directing a film is like controlling an octopus...you have to be tender and nice to it," he explained.
The moderator asked if there was going to be a "franchise" for "Incredibles" and immediatley Bird verbally pounced on him, saying, "leave it alone," and is just annoyed that because a movie makes a load of cash that there has to be a sequel. But he said if they can come up with a story [with the same creative team] that's just as good/better than the original, they'd do "Incredibles 2"...he likened it as "Toy Story 2" was to "Toy Story 1." (Nobody dared to bring up Eisner's plans for Toy Story 3 and 4) He says there are no current plans to make a sequel.
All in all, Brad Bird is a very funny, outspoken guy (his voice broke into the Comic Book Dude from the Simpsons from time to time) and unbiased in terms of what media to use for animation (2-d or 3-d). "
