#21. The Incredibles (2004)
(director: Brad Bird; starring Craig T. Nelson, Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson and Jason Lee)
Pixar’s stronghold on quality, innovative animation in the past fifteen years was perhaps highlighted by in my opinion, Brad Bird’s The Incredibles. Yes, the evolution into a typical superhero comic at the end may grow a tad tiresome, but even still, sequences like the 100 Mile Dash scene are too much fun, and the family drama-meets-superhero tropes-meet-social commentary in the first half is perhaps some of the richest cinematic storytelling, animation or otherwise, to be told in the past decade. And besides, no other Pixar film has ever gone without a final action sequence that’s mostly irrelevant to the characters they do such a fine job crafting in the movie preceding it, so being a superhero movie this action finale makes more sense than, say, Up’s. Besides, The Incredibles is just one of those movies you want to watch again and again (and sometimes again one too many times) because the characters, narrative and setting all come together so perfectly, as the credits roll everyone secretly wishes that they could live in the world of the Incredibles for a day as well.
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