m50d's Journal: Not impressed

Finally got to see The Incredibles today. I'm very disappointed. I was hoping to see computer animation mature to the point where a computer animated movie is no longer just about the computer animation, but also about being another movie. That sort of happened with Final Fantasy, and with luck will happen completely with Advent's Children. It sort of happened with The Incredibles, in that it was just another action movie. Unfortunately it was one that sucked. It reminded me in a bad way of Spy Kids, in that the villan used every cliche in the book. Although there was some awareness of this ("You've got me monologing"), it wasn't enough to offset the complete lack of innovation. The whole "we're a team as a family" thing was very Thunderbirds (the movie, not the series which absolutely RULED), and made it seem like a naff kids' movie. The plot, although mildly amusing, was even more nonsense than usual action-movie fare, and utterly predictable, and the characters, with the possible exception of violet (although why wasn't she hotter?) were just unlikeable. All in all I'm very let down.