I finally saw The Incredibles last night.
Wow.
I know that I'm not actually the last person (around here) to see it, because sadly one of my housemates hasn't, didn't realize it was at LSC this weekend, and will be out of town on Sunday. If you happen to be near Boston Sunday afternoon/evening, and haven't seen the movie, GO.
It's certainly one of the best movies I've seen recently, although I suppose I haven't really seen that many. Certainly better than National Treasure, it didn't have any plot holes immediately obvious to me, and the attention to detail was fantastic. I want to watch it again and see what I missed. I'm even tempted to do so on Sunday, but I doubt that I'll have time. Also, the good guys weren't annoying, and you cared what happened to them. The voice-acting was excellent, and the animation meshed with it beautifully. (I was slightly disappointed that Wallace Shawn's character didn't reappear as a bad guy, but you can't have everything. Maybe in the sequel.)
I'm now not so sure it would be as good a date movie as National Treasure would have been, because it was actually gripping enough that I would have been hard-pressed to pay the minimum necessary attention to my companion. I'm a sucker for things that reward attention, and this movie definitely does. (I suppose it depends on the companion; people also tend to be things that reward attention.)
Also, I don't think the phrase "Zero Point Energy" has ever made me giggle before.
I enjoyed the movie greatly, but can't resist Brinning it: the moral is that engineering smarts and attempting to bring power and convenience to the masses leads to instability, and that we should trust the jocks to save us.
No, no, no. The moral was that compassion and well, morals were more important than whether you had powers or not.