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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1845637" data-attributes="member: 5171">(pardon the cut-and-paste from my buddies' messageboard)Hey guys,I play Mutants & Masterminds, a superhero RPG based around the system that runs D&D, and I frequent the M&M boards. While I'm there, I hear a lot about folks who want to play "A guy who takes away other people's powers" or a grim, gritty, bloody ghost who eats people up from the inside, and he's the hero. While those are legitimate styles, of course, and far be it from me to judge... I feel like they've lost the essence of what made them fall in love with superheroes in the first place. They're so busy working out their revenge fantasies and being grim and brooding that they forget the joy.The Incredibles does not forget the joy.Damn, I love this movie. I want this movie to be nominated for Best Picture. It tells a great superhero story, a great midlife crisis story, and a great family coming together story, and it does all three, and never drops the ball. I take Pixar's visual effects for granted, but man, their storytelling ability always surprises me. With League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I felt like somebody loved the source material but didn't have the resources or ability to do it justice -- and the result was this sometimes cute, often embarrassing, occasionally massively mockable result. With The Incredibles, they had the ability and the resources to do it justice, and they smacked it out of the park.Without going into spoilers, take a look at the last big weapon Mr. Incredible uses to beat the bad guy in the climax. How perfect is that? The kids will never notice that anything deep is going on, but every adult in the audience is going to get that. Damn, that was awesome. It's been awhile since I heard applause at the end of a movie.Oh, side note -- one SFGate critique said that Elastigirl was the let-down, because she was initially trying to keep the family dull and non-superheroic, while dad was off superheroing on the side. I was ready for that, but I didn't see it -- and neither did my wife. I think the reviewer profoundly missed the point -- that a woman with three kids and house payments and a husband at work all day is going to have to do what she does, and that to have had her be perfect while Mr. Incredible goes through his mistakes would have done her a disservice. She gets to grow just as much as Mr. Incredible does -- and when she kicks it into high gear, she is awesome to watch. She's not the stereotype of the always-right mom -- she's an actual character, on equal footing with Mr. Incredible. I think the reviewer missed that.I could blab about the kids, but suffice it to say: also well done. Lots of little touches that showed that while many hands were working on it, everyone was on-board with the message. I don't know if they did a retreat. I don't know how they kept that kind of focus. But damn, they did it, and they did it big. I'm getting the DVD.Go see it.</blockquote>

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