Incredibles DVD - Opinions?

[Psychic Warrior]

Got the Incredibles DVD last night and looked over some of the extra features. here are some pros and cons

Pros

Jack Jack Attack animated short - what happened with the babysitter while the family was away? This short film shows all! Very funny!

Boundin' - the animated short that was shon in the theaters is here too!

The movie itself - excellent quality in both sound and picture - top marks for this!

'Top Secret' files on all of the superheroes of Mr Incredibles day. Entertaining.

Cons

'Deleted Scenes' - these are not what i expected. These are merely 'storyboarded' ideas that Brad Bird talks about - no animation - just still pictures with a voice over. Very dissappointing.

'Incredi-blunders - very short (about a minute and a half of footage) little of it finished (if these are just things the animators put together to be 'outtakes' from the movie - why wouldn't they be finished). The half-assed implementation of this is annoying.


That's all i've seen so far. Anyone have thoughts/additional material to review?

 

[reveal]

I haven't watched the extras but I did watch the movie. It was awesome!

 

[John Crichton]

Just bought it yesterday, at Disney World no less. Heh, felt weird. Since I'm on vacation I'll have to watch it on my laptop. But there are people here who want to watch it with me so I may hold off which is tough because I'm dying to see it for the first time. I love Pixar films.

 

[DMH]

'Deleted Scenes' - these are not what i expected. These are merely 'storyboarded' ideas that Brad Bird talks about - no animation - just still pictures with a voice over. Very dissappointing.

They do have the deleted scenes (even if the animation quality isn't there), you just have to wait for the commentary to end. The alternate intro starts almost exactly on minute 3 and lasts about 10 minutes. The others are much shorter and I have no idea when they start.

All in all, I like the scenes (except the dream), they give some "what might be's" for the movie.

 

[Dimwhit]

Loved the DVD. Jack Jack's new short was awesome.

 

[dravot]

Animation is expensive. They killed those scenes before they were ever animated (which, I understand is typical for animated films), so all you'll get is the storyboarded version. Quite frankly, it's not that big of a deal, and is still pretty interesting.

The LoTR DVDs also had some storyboard info which was very cool.

 

[Henry]

Yeah, in a 3D CGI film, I imagine you'd RARELY have actual completed scenes dumped, because of all the prelim work that goes in before they begin to nail down the textures, motions, etc. They already know how long a scene will run anyway before the movie is even finished, so they dumped what they didn't want long before the finishing touches.

I rented and watched it again last night. Fun, fun movie. I loved it.

I wonder if Klaus got to see it in-theater. That movie is MUCH more fun watching with an audience on big-screen.

 

[reveal]

I just remembered I did have one complaint about the DVD. I have a 16x9 tv. Finding Nemo took up the whole screen and looked beautiful. Incredibles looked fantastic but it had the black bars at the top and bottom.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

The Top Secret section where you can listen to the other supers being interviewed is HILARIOUS.

Especially reading some of the bios...one of them is weakened by squirrels. And the amount of them killed by suit malfunctions is amazing...

 

[DMH]

I just remembered I did have one complaint about the DVD. I have a 16x9 tv. Finding Nemo took up the whole screen and looked beautiful. Incredibles looked fantastic but it had the black bars at the top and bottom.

It is called widescreen. When you see a full screen movie, remember than upto half of the picture is missing because of how they have to edit it to fit in your TV.

If you have Atlantis, which has both versions, watch some of each and see what I am talking about.