So, in the interst of time, here are several things you didn't know about the Incredibles.
Showtime.
When the Incredibles came out in 2004, it was seen as yet another successful movie in the Pixar tradition, but at the time, the Incredibles was actually the least Pixar movie that Pixar had ever Pixared.
Ha, never heard that one before.
Besides being their first movie to star human protagonists, and the first to earn a PG rating for violence, the major difference was Brad Bird who wrote and directed The Incredibles unassisted, making him Pixar's first outside director and author.
Bird also assembled a creative team that had only previously worked in 2D animation and none of the original Pixar founders were involved, as in previous productions, but The Incredibles still features many of the classic Pixar hallmarks, which leads us to our first segue.
(Noise) Besides breaking a few conventions set by the previous five features, The Incredibles still delivers the traditional Pixar Easter eggs.
It is a reference to a classroom at the California Institute of the Arts where alumni John Lassiter and Brad Bird attended, but the first instance of it as an easter egg was in the Brad Bird project Family dog, which was an animated episode of Amazing Stories back in 1987.
It has since been included in every Bradburg project, including the episodes of The Simpsons he directed, Iron Giant, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and of course, The Incredibles.
But it's also popped up in dozens of other movies, TV shows, and video games, including The Brave Little Toaster, Bobby's World, Dr. Who, Fallout 4, The Avengers, and Spiderman: Homecoming.
Whoa.
Has that been here this whole time?
That's awesome.
And though there hasn't been a confirmed connection between A113 and THX 1138, which appears in dozens of other popular culture properties, I'm not ruling out some kind of Illuminati shenanigans, which is, boom, a bonus conspiracy theory thing.
(Sound) With Pixar cranking out hits, and bringing in the bucks, they pretty much had their pick of celebrity voice talent.
So it might surprise you to know that, with the exception of the main cast, almost every other character is voiced by a Pixar staff member, or their family.
Starting with the obvious, there's Brad Bird, who started to do the voice of Edna Mode just to have a scratch vocal track, but ended up being the voice in the final film when they couldn't find anyone else to do that weird accent.
You push too hard, darling, but I accept. Also Bird's oldest son lends his voice to heartthrob Tony Rydinger, while Bird's other son does the boy on the tricycle.
Jack-Jack's babysitter is done by animator Bret Parker.
Producer, John Walker did the voice of the reverend, and Bud Luckey, the director of the short, Boundin', which preceded the theatrical release of The Incredibles, does the voice of government agent, Rick Dicker, and Lou Romano, who voiced teacher Bernie Kropp and later Linguini in Ratatouille, almost predicts his own future with this line.
The family themselves are closely modeled after Marvel's The Fantastic 4, right down to the powers and even costuming, but the similarities became a bit of a problem for the 2005 production of the Fantastic 4 movie when the third act of The Incredibles was almost identical to theirs, except better.
The studio reportedly threw another 20 million into the special effects to try and make Mr. Fantastic stretches convincingly as Elastigirl and I think it was worth it.
Don't you?
Over the course of its four year production, The Incredibles faced many obstacles in bringing the very detailed and very specific vision of Brad Bird to life, but the biggest obstacle to production was probably Brad Bird himself.
I am the least whimsical guy!
He became notorious for not making compromises to the story or design despite the limitations of the animation technology at the time.
It's not something you think about, but Violet's long straight hair was a nightmare to create in 3D animation.
But instead of changing the look of the hair, like giving her pigtails, as they did with Boo in Monsters, Inc., Bird insisted they spend the months it would take to reprogram the hair simulator until it looked just right.
He also refused to change camera angles that would allow for easier animation, and wouldn't reuse locations, which necessitated creating four times more sets than any other Pixar movie before it, and since the character design for the megalomaniacal Syndrome was actually modelled after Brad Bird, I think it's pretty safe to assume the crew had their opinions about his methods.
Well, that's going to do it for me.