That's remarkable. Has to be more than a coincidence.
The french speaking villian was called "Bomb Voyage'". I never noticed the Kerry look until you mentioned it.
Great, really fantastic movie. It's hard to believe this came out of Pixar (Steve Jobs appointed Al Gore to the board of Directors), and was produced by Disneyd; who backed (but refused to distribute) Farenheit 911.
I would encourage all Freepers to see this show. It's fun, it's funny, it has a great message on being the best you can be, and presents a great view of how a family should get along together. I will DEFINITELY buy this one on DVD.
And the pre-show is so gosh darn cute/funny, I garrantee that it will bring a smile to the most grumpy adult.
BTTT
Now that is funny.
Some might think I saw "too much that isn't there" in the film, but I think, at least on a subconcious level, the makers of The Incredibles used imagery and symbols that evoke the current WoT.
And in the end, not to give the movie away too much, the Good Guys win.
His mouth is shut.
Is he a swishing metrosexual girlie man gigolo in the movie? That would be the clincher.
Brad Bird, who has worked in a minor way on somewhat conservative shows such as King of the Hill, The Critic, The Simpsons, had his last directors gig five years ago in the excellent Iron Giant. In am a huge fan of that movie and can not understand why its brilliant director had not been given another film until now. While the book is very much the product of a liberal hand, the movie lavishes great loving attention on its visuals that include all kinds of weapons, rockets, and death rays that reached a gorgeous level of realism I have not seen in other animated films. The creative crew clearly had an affinity for this sort of military gadgetry in a way that reminds me much more of a Clancy than a Spielberg. The film's bad guy was a slick cowardly bureaucrat rather than the film's actual military figures who are far more favorably portrayed. The film also has a very strong pro-family and pro-character theme.
As noted by others, The Increadibles includes good-guy cameo's by a character who is something of a cross between Richard Nixon and Abe Vigoda (Fish, Sally Tessio in the Godfather). It also has another good-guy lookalike of George H.W. Bush in a very minor part. It has distinctively pro-life, pro-family and anti-trial lawyer, anti-PC themes. This is definitely a subversively conservative film. Pixar's frictions with the agressively liberal Disney may have helped to encourage Bird and others to have taken this film in a direction not seen since at that company Walt passed away.
To put icing on it, many liberals seem to instinctively be repelled by this film. For instance, here is the posting from IMDB.com of a rather snotty and self impressed gal who gives as her dateline: "college (a very good one)":
While I loved the humor and animation of the film, is it possible that I'm the only one who noted the hidden pro-America/war-on-terror messages within its plot? >
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Then we see ElastiGirl proclaim "I'm not going to settle down. And leave saving the world to men? Yeah right!" And then shortly after we see her as the domestic house wife, not only unemployed (unlike her husband), but even opposed to the idea of employment (or reliving the glory days).
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The villains of the film are described as abnormal and beyond the caliber of any evils the Supers have dealt with before. The mother even delivers the frightening line, "They won't hesitate to kill you" to her children. At one point the villain even mentions "selling [his] weapons to other countries." And creating a world in which no Supers (superpowers, anyone?) exist, and thus everyone is super (the commie!).
And according to the film's portrayal of what is obviously New York City, Samuel L. Jackson appears to be the only person of color who lives in Manhattan.
Overall, the film is an entertaining, funny, and an enjoyable adventure. And though some would discredit my observations as conspiracy theory or liberal spin, it is impossible for a intellectual to ignore the (intentional or unintentional) pro-America, pro-war-on-terror, anti-French, anti-gay, pro-WASP-nuclear-family bias that is subtly injected into this film.
This effete "intellectual"'s review would have been enough to make me want to see this film.
ROTF!!!! Good gad, he really does look like Lurch!