The Incredibles Critic Reviews
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Based upon 16 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Such smart, whiz-bang fun that you may not realize what it's about until you're safely home.Read the full review
Grown-ups are likely to be surprised by how smart the movie is, and how sneakily perceptive.Read the full review
Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful. Read the full review
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
Isn't just fine family entertainment, it's superior family entertainment. Read the full review
Bird has crafted a film -- one of the year's best -- that doesn't ring cartoonish, it rings true.Read the full review
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
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
Pixar again hitches top-notch storytelling to the very best in CG animation. Read the full review
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