Most of the DBM guys I saw complaining about Incredibles weren’t even reviewers, they were at best entertainment commentators and frequently just regular columnists. The same crowd of idiots that just recently complained about the lack of “abortion talk” in Knocked Up. Incredibles is a really good movie, especially if you’re a fan of Golden or Silver Age comics which is where most of its aesthetic comes from.
Thanks for the info, I’ll check it out.
No Capes!
It's strange that you bring that up, because it brings me back to my note about Janeane Garofalo.
For years, I held a grudge against Holly Hunter (the voice of Mrs. Incredible) for her portrayal of Norma McCorvey (bka "Jane Roe") in a controversial TV-movie called Roe v. Wade. In an Entertainment Tonight interview about a potential boycott, she said something like "Having a baby just isn't an option for some people."
Fast forward to a few years ago: I was in a thrift store and saw some VHS videotapes from someone's personal collection on sale for $1 each. "What the heck," I thought, "If I don't like what's been recorded on them, I can always tape over it." One of the programs recorded was an HBO TV-movie called Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her, an anthology of female-centered stories. One of the stories featured Hunter as a single woman living alone but having an affair with a married man (played by the late Gregory Hines). She becomes pregnant, and she expects him to leave his wife for her and raise their child. He balks, and she calmly and coolly sets about getting an abortion. After the deadly deed is done, she walks away from the clinic (being unable to drive, of course) bearing no expression on her face at all. Then, she suddenly dropped to her knees in the middle of the sidewalk and sobbed uncontrollably.
I don't know what Hunter's personal views on abortion are, but after having played the now-repentant McCorvey as a heroine, it took some major guts to play a woman whose post-abortion regrets were immediate and severe.
Thankfully, I had no reservations about watching a movie starring Hunter when it came to her turn in The Incredibles.