But still, why do people dislike it? From clips that I've seen, it looks to be a pretty interesting movie. I'm sure I'll get ripped on for saying this, but I actually want to see the film.

Effects are good and surprisingly nice for what they did with the budget.
But sucks in every other aspect.

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The Incredibles

Oh man, the days when Pixar wasn't... eh, rubbish, shall we say. It's still one of my favourites from them. Surprisingly, I find this funnier every time I watch it.

I think I have a copy of that somewhere, I must read it.

A Clockwork Orange
Wow. Just wow. Amazing.

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Family Plot

My second 'Hitchcock' outing (the first being 'The Birds', which is my favourite so far). A gripping sequence with a car going down a mountain road without breaks, but a sidekick woman who is not actually sidekick. I wouldn't mind this, but we're supposed to like her. How can we when she's a phony and a liar?

That is my only complaint.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

My third 'Hitchcock' outing. Better than 'Family Plot', but not as good as 'The Birds'. The ending is too abrupt, but that's my only complaint. Over-wise, a great climactic sequence in The Royal Albert Hall, and a good plot (for the time, anyway).

For some reason, I hate how my box-set doesn't organise the movies in chronological order. I guess its sorting them so that all the horror isn't together - but I'm not exactly going to watch all 14 in a row....

9

I want to like it, and I did find it entertaining in some ways. The visual style - whilst not necessarily original - is memorable and interesting. But the writing is pretty awful. The pacing is all over the place: a normal movie would build up the journey to the evil lair throughout the movie - but with this they go to the evil lair a few minutes after we see it.

We do get character development: but the people who do get development DIE!!

The Music is Danny Elfmans most bland and uninspiring. No, I'm not jumping on the Night Owl wagon (although I have 'The Assassination of Jesse James' on my birthday wish-list), but its just a random mess of chords. I would just ignore this, since the soundtrack never really stands out for me (unless its really awesome/emotional like Star Wars, Conan, Lord of the Rings, The Dollars Trilogy, Shawshank Redemption, etc) but I was expecting something to fit better with the whole atmosphere: and it didn't.

And the ending is totally not worth it. I really want to like it, since it is actually a heart-warming and emotional moment. But if you stop and think, its a huge let down. Basically, there are nine characters. Only FOUR survive, TWO of which have hardly any character development. The rest die by having their souls sucked out (yeah, in A FREAKING KIDS MOVIE!!). Its built up that their souls are stored in a device - so therefore surely the soul can be transferred back to the body? At least, that's what the movie seems to be building up to. But nope - they just come out in ghost form, stand and smile, then go up in the sky to be 'at peace'. Which basically means all the good characters with great development died whilst the boring ones we dont care about live to die another day.

Its a nice moment, but if you stop and think...its a terrible ending. Nothing was gained, all human life is gone, the world has gone to crap, its not like some post-apocalyptic movies where its about a spiritual discovery - the movie tries to do that, but fails because it ignores all the build-up, and its writing sucks! And it hastily tries to hint that new life will form, but its reasoning is stupid and shoe-horned.

So, the writing is bad, the music is pretty bad, and I wouldn't show it to my kids because its so darn depressing. Pretty much everyone dies. Why did this get away with a PG-13 rating? Censors seem to ignore the emotional impact. Sure, it would get an R rating if everyone got brutally dis-em-bowled, but likeable characters with good development getting killed by the masses? PG-13: The kids can survive the psychological torment that will distress them for the rest of their lives!

WHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT???!!!! Anyway, I love The Incredibles too, fantastic soundtrack.

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It was rated PG-13. That's like, the beginning of teenage years. If it was rated G, then there would be an interesting issue. Not meant for 'kids' aged 1-10 obviously. Anyway, I don't see how this is worse than the other movies kids see today. It seemed like a fitting PG-13 movie. Reminds me of Samurai Jack's tone, which was a quite serious cartoon.

I agree with you about the writing however. I found the original 9-minute short film really enjoyable. I doubt it'd work well if they made the feature film have no dialogue like the original short, unfortunately. People would be bored out of their minds. I found the newly created monsters in the feature film really awesome and creepy, also.

I'm biased against 'A Bugs Life' because its the first movie I ever saw in the cinema and I know the script almost off by heart ("If I hadn't sworn to mother on her deathbed that I wouldn't kill you...I'd KILL you!!"). Sure, it doesn't reach the emotional depth of many other Pixar movies and the story itself (aside from being in bug-land....wherever the hell that is) is pretty cliché - actually quite similar to 'Rango' in how an accidental hero who is living a lie earns a reputation he doesn't deserve, then is rejected when this lie is discovered, and then returns to redeem himself - but...I'm biased because I watched the movie so many times as a kid: and when I recently watched it again for the first time in years, I found it hilarious!

I also kinda like 'Monsters Inc.' I dont know why, I just find it funny. On the other hand, I didn't like 'Finding Nemo'. The music and atmosphere are amazing, but the jokes are few and far between (the only really funny moment was the bit with the Sharks). I like 'The Incredibles' much more than when I first saw it, and I agree that its the only Pixar film at the moment where a sequel may work (I'm trying not to judge 'Cars 2'...but I have my doubts). 'Cars' is still a watch-able movie, but is Pixar's worst and definitely does not need a sequel.

Didn't like 'Ratatouille'. Maybe its just because I'm getting older and my suspension of disbelief is fading as I become more educated and logical (sorta). I really liked the Critic character, but everyone else just faded. Wasn't bad, but I quickly forgot about it - and I always miss it out when talking about Pixar. I sorta like 'Wall.E' but I thought it was un-necessarily emotional. How many times did we think Wall.e had been hurt/killed? Was it necessary? Its like a slasher movie, only if the killer and all the victims were Wall.e. He keeps making us scared about him by pretending to die or be hurt, then faking us out. And, I HATE the ending. I dont know why, but I'm always so touchy about endings...

Have not seen 'Up'. It looks just like Wall.E only with an old man. I know its probably not, but I have other movies I would rather watch.

The only Pixar film that I think was begging for a sequel was actually 'Toy Story 2' - the way it closed with the inevitability of Andy growing up opened up the franchise way more than closing it. And I love 'Toy Story 2': its my favourite Pixar movie. I love how it builds on the story so well, and the jokes are all brilliant. Its in my opinion one of the best movie sequels of all time.

Woah, I went on much longer than I expected....sorry....

I'm in complete agreement. The Incredibles 2 is the only animated film I can think of that not only deserves, but would have a good sequel.