That was incredible... and guest.

I find it really difficult to blog about movies, books, and tv shows, because I always worry that I'm going to spoil stuff for people who read these blogs. Usually, this isn't much of a problem because I purposely try my very best to live well behind the times. In my opinion, it's a good strategy. Be it movies, games, technology, books, etc, I try to read/view/enjoy long after everyone else is done with them because it saves me money. But since I haven't seen them yet, it's new to me. I can enjoy every bit of everything my friends have already enjoyed at a fraction of the cost. Of course, there are some obvious downsides such as the time I went to a video rental store with a friend and we tried to pick out a movie. The big problem was that he had seen just about everything in the store already. I had seen less than 10% of that. I could basically walk up and grab anything I thoguht was interesting and just rent it. The problem was that each time I picked something up, he said he had already seen it.

The thing is, I occasionally do see something new for some reason or other. That's when I worry that I'll blab about something I shouldn't have. In this case though, the vast majority of people I know have seen The Incredibles already. I guess the only reason I worry is because I wouldn't normally see it for maybe another year or so.

So for the rest of this post, note that there will be spoilers, so read at your own risk.

I really felt Pixar and Disney did a great job once again. Although the animation was great and the plot was neat, I have to say I was really imperssed by all the characters and how true-to-life some of them were. Granted, Elastigirl did become a very sterotypical mom, and Mr. Incredible did become the sterotypical middle class father, I really liked the kids. I'm certain that I've been in a situation where if the given object of my affection turned to look at me, I'd quickly look away so as not to creep her out. Imagine if I could just turn invisible instead. Or when I knew that I was the best at something but it was because I had some sort of unfair advantage (note: this doesn't happen often), I hated to have to hold back and not try.

What I really have to commend them for is showing that the characters didn't just defeat evil because they had powers. They actually used their powers creatively! I mean the power boat that wasn't really a power boat was a great idea. Admittedly, it was something that most people would have thought of, but in many other shows, the main characters fail to make creative use of their powers. For example, take the Generation One Transformers. Skywarp could teleport. Unfreakingbelievable. Did he use this power to his advantage? Sort of. Not really. If I were Skywarp, I'd teleport into autobot headquarters, blast away, and teleport out. I'm sure there are more creative uses that I can't imagine at the moment, but they definitely did not make full use of their abilities.

My favorite character has definitely got to be Frozone. He was so hilarious. The opening interview with him was great, and the scene where he "just needs his drink of water" was awesome too. It's too bad they didn't have more of him, but I guess he must have spent most of the movie being told how lucky he was to be with his wife... by his wife. My favorite line (other than the one being referred to by the title of this post) was definitely "I'm your wife! I'm the greatest good you're ever gonna get!".

If you haven't seen this movie, I highly recommend it. If you're an evil bad guy and you haven't seen this movie, you probably should or you might run the risk of monologuing. After all, they're super heroes... what could happen?