Incredibles 2-disc Collector's Edition DVD

The Incredibles is an extraordinarily brave film that speaks frankly about the shape and the texture of the cancer of self-esteem metastasizing at the heart of these increasingly puzzling United States. Suggesting that not all men are created equal is something like attacking the fabric of the American dream, while going farther and suggesting that technology and its mass consumption is neither substitute nor salve to the howl of unfulfillable dreaming is close to Commie-talk. What Brad Bird has made, in fact, is an extremely wide-reaching and populist entertainment that serves as an extremely devastating and honest indictment of the roots of American arrogance and self-delusion, possibly ever in a "kid's" movie.

The great irony of the piece could emerge from how deaf and dumb most of the film's adult audience will be to the subversive elements within it. When Mr. Incredible wonders angrily why there's a graduation ceremony celebrating the commencement from third to fourth grade, one can feel entire schools of castratingly-democratic thought trembling. If the grown-ups don't get it, but the kids just might, then every great movement begins with one glorious bound, whether over tall buildings or otherwise.

The Incredibles is a film that dares to challenge the very fabric of the American dream, suggesting that not all men are created equal and that technology is no panacea for the unfulfillable dreams that haunt the American psyche. Brad Bird's creation is a wide-reaching and populist entertainment that serves as a devastating indictment of American arrogance and self-delusion, perhaps unparalleled in a "kid's" movie. The film's subversive elements may be lost on its adult audience, but the kids just might get it, setting the stage for a great movement to begin with one glorious bound.

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