That was totally wicked!

Caution: Very Minor Spoilers

I just saw The Incredibles again. It held up nicely to a second viewing, and will without a doubt be part of my movie collection when it releases on DVD. I also caught a joke this time that I missed last time. It's quite subtle, but I feel a need to talk about it here since it's a Kevin Smith joke:

At the start of the movie there is a young boy trying to tag along with Mr Incredbile. Mr Incredible is trying to remember his name and his first guess is Brodie, before getting it right with Bobby. Later in the movie Bobby is voiced by Jason Lee, who played a character named Brodie is his first real movie, Mallrats

I thought more about the short that runs before the movie, Boundin'. It didn't really hold up as well on a second viewing, and I realize better why I liked it so much. I'm so impressed by Pixar's ability to convey emotion in non-photorealistic characters. When the sheep gets shorn and dropped back into the frame I felt it. I felt real empathy for a computer animated sheep that had been on screen for about 15 seconds total. That takes talent.

My last observation is several times in the movie I completely forgot I was watching animation. The best examples were some of the rocket scenes as the rocket is getting ready to launch. Some of those looked real enough I could have been fooled into thinking they were live action - thankfully they weren't though; this movie would never have worked as well as it did in live action.

And oh yeah, it's still gorgeous.

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