The Incredibles

Like 48 percent of Americans, and 29 percent of people in Wyoming, I’ve been a bit distraught lately. Where, we wonder, looking to the skies, are the heroes who will save us from tyranny and crime? Well, according to The Incredibles, they were killed off by lawyers. Is this a movie about the big Bush campaign issue of tort reform? Sort of. It’s also about the power of the nuclear family, especially when that nuclear family is nuclear powered. Most of all, it’s a whiz-bang animated action film that really captures something about what makes superheroes so much fun. It does that by ripping off The Fantastic Four and The X-Men (the comics, not the movies), but it at least has the good taste to pay homage to Stan Lee and Mort Weisinger. Mostly fun, kinda shallow, and a little slow in the middle, Incredibles is about as good as family films get these days. The bar is set low, but Incredibles makes a superleap well above it.