Have I mentioned "The Incredibles" lives up to it's title? (some spoilers)

[jeriendhal]

Since buying the DVD, I've watched this sucker three times now, and its status as Best Superhero Movie EVAR status has yet to be broken.

And yet...



Okay, this is quibbling, but I wasn't entirely happy with the final fight in the end with the Omnidroid. I loved it for the thrill of watching Bob's family and Frozone work together to defeat the thing, but I wasn't satisfied that the biggest fight in the movie was... well... against a faceless robot. Ideally, the Big Fight should have been with Syndrome, since after all he's the antagonist who screwed over Bob and tried to kill his family in a bit of childish revenge over a slight that happened when he was ten years old. Yeah, he got what was coming to him in the end [1], but in the end he wasn't defeated by Bob, he got the sh*t kicked out of him by Jack-Jack. The coup de grace with Bob chucking the sports car at the Manta Jet was more of an afterthought.

Unfortunately I'm not sure that a straight fight with Syndrome would have worked either though. The writers went to quite a bit of trouble to show that Syndrome did indeed read the Evil Overlord Handbook (though he missed the bits about keeping his high-level female minions from being attracted to the Hero). Combined with the overwhelming power of his Zero-Point paralysis ray, and it's quite possible that there would have been no way for the Incredibles to stop him without Bob physically grabbing the SOB and snapping his neck. Which would have been basically unacceptable if the filmmakers wanted to keep a relatively upbeat ending to the movie.


[1] Perhaps. We didn't see him get sucked into the jet intake, and he might have had time to activate a zero-point field around himself to keep from getting ground into villianburger. Syndrome strikes me as being paranoid enough to have that option availible.

Comments

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

Told ya so. :)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well, I saw it twice in the theater too. I've just had a chance to think about it instead of sitting in my seat and thinking "Oh... wow..."

[edg.livejournal.com]

Er. Just a thought: if the post has spoilers in it, a lot of people would appreciate it if you put the text behind a cut.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Yknow, I saw The Incredibles on the plane over to Australia, and I didn't like it much. Certainly not as much as Monsters, Inc, for example. The Incredibles just seemed like... hrm... I just hated the portrayal of the family, I guess. It made me cringe the whole way through.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Ah, well. The mix of domestic drama (director Brad Bird laughingly refered to the scene where Helen and Bob argue as the "Ingmar Bergman portion of the film") with superheroics might not be to everyone's tastes, but I liked it.