The Incredibles Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Ty BurrAdd Critic to Favorites

Such smart, whiz-bang fun that you may not realize what it's about until you're safely home.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

Grown-ups are likely to be surprised by how smart the movie is, and how sneakily perceptive.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful. Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites

Bird has created the unprecedented film that is not just a grand feature-length cartoon but a grand feature, period, a piece of animation that's involving across a spectrum of comedy, action, even drama.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Isn't just fine family entertainment, it's superior family entertainment. Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Bird has crafted a film -- one of the year's best -- that doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Carla MeyerAdd Critic to Favorites

The visual and emotional hues are darker [than previous Pixar films], and the focus rests more on middle age than coming of age. The adventures of a family of superheroes are likely to thrill and amuse children, but the film's more grown-up themes might go over their heads.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

For all its wizardry, The Incredibles isn't among my favorite animated movies. Weirdly enough, I think of it, instead, as one of my favorite live-action superhero pictures. Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites

Pixar again hitches top-notch storytelling to the very best in CG animation. Read the full review

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

Because it is so visually splendid and ethically serious, the movie raises hopes it cannot quite satisfy. It comes tantalizingly close to greatness, but seems content, in the end, to fight mediocrity to a draw. Read the full review

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