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Thursday, December 02, 2004

The Incredibles

I watched it twice. I'm such a sucker for Pixar animation. :)

Edna is hilarious! Finding Nemo is better, but The Incredibles is great too. Do you know that they had a Hair and Cloth simulation director just to take care of how the hair and cloth looks in the movie?

Needless to say, the hair and cloth rocks. Every single time. Even Jack Jack's. :)

And Jack Jack... How can a character who doesn't speak, isn't toilet-trained even, be so heart-tuggingly adorable? :)

Elasticgirl has the most creative superpower of them all - and good for plenty of laughs as well. I like it that superheros get chubby in the hips. I like the little kid on the bicycle who watches in the driveway, and the old sobbing lady at the insurance company, and Dash at the running event.

Not too sure about the "moral" of the story though. One of the maxims that they overthrow in this movie is that "if everyone is special, then no one is." It champions using your extraordinary gifts - but what if we find that we are really just simply too ordinary? Anyway.

The movie rocks. Better than Sharktale (I watched that too). Go watch it.

4 comments:

colinrt said...

Hi,

Wow! first time dropping by and suddenly, you've brightened up your blog tremendously... putting your new found knowledge to very good use indeed... impressive...

sorry for not dropping by sooner... have been bogged down by other things at work...

but yeah... i like this spanking new look...


ps. havent seen the incredibles yet but your description of it makes me wanna go catch it...

see ya later...

colinrt said...

PS: oh... and some of my colleagues said that edna was modelled after the fashion designer Anna Sui... dunno how true that is tho...

Anonymous said...

Hmm, haven't watched any movie for so long!! Am deprived of the cinema!! Argh!
I like Anna Sui. I think her products are hawt;)
And goo, I'm at my LJ now, if you wanna check it out.
Bye,Siren
http://www.livejournal.com/~pekkela

mis_nomer said...

Hi Colin - long time no see! hope the office christmas function is going well?

it is a slow tedious process trying to figure out how to personalise this site. like squeezing blood out of stone. and then midway, i came to the sad realisation that whatever i will come up with won't be as nice as one of the premade ones for lack of artistic skill. but i decided that lousy is still better than like-everyone-else.

Hi Siren - will check out your new spot. :) thanks for the link. will check out anna sui too. don't know much about her, but she sounds interesting.