Oh boy, this is an atom bomb waiting to go off. This review is gonna injure many fans of this movie. I can’t dismantle it. How do you do it?

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Now, to the review of this film. Let me start by asking you: What pisses you the most about Hollywood film? I can give you a list here:

• Preaching.
• Not delivering what it promised
• More preaching
• Performances that should have best kept behind the camera
• Etc, etc

The Incredibles is guilty of the above crime. I bet most of you enjoyed the film. Check MRQE and you will find that 99.99% of the critics loved it. So, what is my complaint?

Remember the trailer; Mr. Incredible trying to put his belt on, only to have the effort thwarted by his giant middle-age belly? It was not in the film, nope (or is it only in Malaysia, or worse still, in Selayang GSC?). Mr. Incredible gets in shape and actually does superhero job, successfully too, until he gets caught, and his superhero family, who were supposed to have suppressed their power, comes back to save him.

Superhero with conscience. Superhero tying to fit in the society. Superhero with day to day woes. Superhero preaching family values. Blah, blah, blah. With great powers come great responsibilities. Haven’t we heard all these before? It worked great with Superman (1978) and the Spiderman and X-Men. Well, expect a rethread here.

The superheroes here are either homage or rip-off caricatures of those guys from DC and Marvel comics. The CG looks good, but I was wondering, why not make it into live-action?

Maybe it’s my lack of humour - I sometimes laugh at Woody Allen movies, as well as Mel Brooks’ – but I laughed very little here. Okay, there were some good scenes during the first half an hour. The idea of the superheroes getting sued was indeed funny. I was wondering how funny the court scenes would be like. But you don’t get that. The superheroes gets witness protection program and lives a normal life, family and all, until they get ‘pulled back in’.

There was one good action scene, towards the end, with the boy. Well done. But then, it look like packaged for PS2. And of course, the whole plasticky look of the characters. How many want to bet that it isn't for merchandising, huh?

Still, what is my complaint? As I mentioned earlier, preaching, not delivering the promises (the trailer scene is probably the funniest), more preaching, and (lack of good) performances. Of the latter, the performances were indeed behind camera. The voice talents are mediocre. Even Samuel L. Jackson (as Superhero buddy Frozone) sounded so subdued in a role where he could have gone over the top.

I blame the trailer for my disappointment. It was so good, that the rest of the movie sucked so badly…to me, at least. But I am not going to be cruel. I will watch this film again, when it is out on disc. Maybe I can appreciate it better later.

Otherwise, have fun. I am sure you will have fun. What? It’s no more playing out there? Oh hell, wait for the discs then.