The Incredibles' are Pixar's sixth animated feature length movie and the 3rd film to garner the company an Oscar win. In total the animated studio has collected 10 academy awards for feature length movies, Finding Nemo was their first. This film received 4 nominations and took home 2, best animated feature film, and best sound editing. Pixar was originally owned by Lucas Films but sold off to Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) to cover the massive loss Lucas films endured with Howard the Duck (1986), while investing heavily and amassing debt to create his Skywalker ranch. Ironically enough 20 years later Pixar would slowly return home in 2006, for a deal believed to be a 7.4 billion dollar purchase. As Disney purchased the company and shortly thereafter its founder Lucas films in 2012 for an estimated 4 billion dollars.
The Incredibles was the first superhero themed animated movie to win an Oscar, the genre would not be recognized for a full decade until Big Hero 6, and again 4 years later with Spiderman: into the spider-verse winning the Oscar gold in 2019. These films captures the imagination with visual effects and and unprecedented imagination and it took almost as long to make as to win. Jason Lee who was the voice the for Buddy/Syndrome spent only 4 days in a sound booth . While Craig T. Nelson who was the voice of Bob/ Mr. Incredible took nearly 2 years to complete. It seems that the approach with Pixar is that the story is more important than the animation, but being an multiple academy award wining and leading animation studio in the entire world, animation is what they are the very best at.
The film's story is the bedlam of the animation. Usually delving deep, telling an emotional story of the family dynamic with the dilemma of a family coping in suburban life. Running the risk of being uprooted from witness relocation as their past lives calls back hauntingly. Inside Out and UP also gave a real life emotional story to connect with its audience, as the Incredibles gave you the everyday husband and wife / nuclear family going through past regret and family struggles as their kids go through their own coming of age moments.
The Incredibles is many regards is an awakening for each character beyond it being a superhero film, but when it becomes just a superhero film the movie goes full out to tell an amazing story with an orchestrated explosive score to accompany the action. An example to best illustrate this remark was when the son Dash discovers he can run on water and with unbridled passion. Its race through a wild jungle and a discovery of levels of excitement.
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