Word: superheroics
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Animation is merely a medium,” says writer-director Bird. “The Incredibles may be animated but that’s not its genre. It is an action movie, a superhero saga, a family drama. It’s a film...
...glory days, Bob Parr (Craig T. Nelson) was known to the world as Mr. Incredible, a superhero capable of foiling a bank robbery, stopping a runaway locomotive and coaxing a kitten down from a tree all on the way to his wedding...
...Beauty and the Beast fame, has the chops (and the eyebrows and the jawbones) to deliver Hellboy’s throwaway one-liners and punches with the appropriate devil-may-care élan: he’s Dirty Harry with a penchant for beer and pancakes, a superhero-everyman less detached than Batman and much cooler than Spiderman...
...Nazis and Rasputin—stay with me here—invited him over from Hell through an inter-dimensional portal, before he was raised by the U.S. government), he makes Superman look like Al Gore. If that makes the tempestuous and down-to-earth Hellboy a more popular superhero version of our president, well, some may not argue with that. (Just as an FBI agent wonders if “we should go back and request a special permit, type 2—,” Hellboy punches through the brick wall. BRRRAM! “You guys comin?...
...animated, which causes the skin to move, which in turn gives the humans a much more solid presence. The Pixar team also worked hard to make the fabrics realistic (it took three months to nail one brief scene of Bob sticking his finger through a hole in his superhero costume). Another challenge was making the hair look natural. Violet's long, floppy mane kept flying off her head every time she shook it. When producer John Walker pressed the lead simulator to diagnose the problem, he was told, "Dammit, long hair is still theoretical...