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...Once Bird realized his troubles with duel identity resembled the problems of superheroes, the story for The Incredibles flowed easily. In honor of the projects’ personal genesis, the Incredibles’ baby is named after what he and his wife used to call their own baby...
...Bird laughs at the notion that The Incredibles is based on any source, exclaiming, “wherever I go people ask if The Incredibles in based on this or that…it is amazing to me how many different connections people find...
Perhaps the best aspect of The Incredibles is the clear love for cinema that everyone working on the film, Bird included, brings to the project. This joy for filmmaking is practically contagious; even though the narrative occasionally falters, it is always an enjoyable cinematic experience...
Directed by Brad Bird...
Writer-director Brad Bird (Iron Giant, The Simpsons), who serves triple duty as the voice of the temperamental superhero fashion designer Edna Mode, has created a film that skillfully blends the excitement of a superhero movie with a carefully-measured dose of family film sensitivity. Stereotypes of superhero movies abound—the thick-accented foreign goon (named Bomb Voyage), the high-speed chases between soaring skyscrapers, and Mr. Incredible parting his shirt to reveal his icon emblazoned upon his chest—which are tempered by a good-natured self mockery...