Get ready to laugh until your sides hurt and reminisce on superhero antics with Natey and Katy as we break out of our Easter eggs to bring you a lively discussion on Pixar's 'The Incredibles'. We're throwing it back to 2004, when capes were a fashion hazard and family dynamics took a super-powered twist. This episode isn't just a stroll down memory lane; it's a full-on sprint with Frozone's ice sled!
Katy, with her knack for spotting scene-stealers, zeroes in on the sassy and unforgettable Edna Mode, while we all unpack the film's blend of kid-friendly slapstick and adult-aimed witticisms. The Incredibles isn't just about the laughs; it navigates darker undertones and matures themes with a dexterity that has us marveling at how it caters to every age group. Strap on your superhero boots and join in as we explore the action, the humor, and the heart that makes this movie a family favorite that still packs a super punch.
Get ready to laugh until your sides hurt and reminisce on superhero antics with Natey and Katy as we break out of our Easter eggs to bring you a lively discussion on Pixar's 'The Incredibles'. We're throwing it back to 2004, when capes were a fashion hazard and family dynamics took a super-powered twist. This episode isn't just a stroll down memory lane; it's a full-on sprint with Frozone's ice sled!
Katy, with her knack for spotting scene-stealers, zeroes in on the sassy and unforgettable Edna Mode, while we all unpack the film's blend of kid-friendly slapstick and adult-aimed witticisms. The Incredibles isn't just about the laughs; it navigates darker undertones and matures themes with a dexterity that has us marveling at how it caters to every age group. Strap on your superhero boots and join in as we explore the action, the humor, and the heart that makes this movie a family favorite that still packs a super punch.
One's a movie buff, one watches movies, just enough Together. Fun will be had by all. This is Nadie and Katie at the Movies.
Speaker 2:Hello everyone and welcome to another brand new episode of Nady and Katie at the Movies. I'm your host, nathan aka Nady, of course, and with me on today's episode is my good friend Katie. Hi Katie, how are you?
Speaker 3:I'm doing incredible, Nathan. Thanks for asking.
Speaker 2:That's great. Well, I'm doing so great because I'm finally on spring break, just finished celebrating our lord's resurrection on easter sunday and now I'm celebrating being off from work for an entire week.
Speaker 3:Yes, that is incredible, nathan, and.
Speaker 2:That is incredible. You know what else is incredible? Something else, I mean something else I'm sure is incredible, but we're talking about today is the Disney superhero hit the Incredibles. Before we talk about that, we got to talk about the synopsis.
Speaker 1:While trying to lead a quiet suburban life, a family of undercover superheroes are forced into action to save the world.
Speaker 2:The Incredibles- stars Craig T Nelson, samueluel l jackson, holly hunter and jason lee. So the incredibles came out in 2004 and it did lead to a sequel, which I guess we can mention a little bit, and, like I said last episode that katie and I were discussing another movie together, this is one of those movies that we have seen before, but it had been a while. I don't think I had seen the Incredibles for quite some time, since I saw the sequel. So, katie, go ahead, tell me what you thought of the Incredibles before I tell you my likes and dislikes.
Speaker 3:Okay, I will. And to defend us for doing the Incredibles, because we get some choice. We're not doing all 250. I will say Nathan and I were talking earlier and the next few movies we're doing are all rated R, like rated R, rated R. So let's get some G movies in there, the Incredibles. Speaking of being rated R, this is a pretty dark movie. That's probably a dislike, so we'll go to that later. But one of my likes would be kind of like our last episode with To Be or Not To Be.
Speaker 3:It was funny. I forgot how many quotable lines were in this and that was kind of the nice thing about watching it again. Edna as a character is just I die. I die Everything. She said every single thing and you almost have to go back and look at the quotes just to laugh again because she's talking so fast and you're missing. There's just clever joke after clever funny thing. I don't know if she stole the show. I think she maybe stole the show. For me Edna's the best part, but it was just funny. I liked something that was funny.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it is a funny movie. It's definitely has some kid humor jokes in there. Um, and, like you said, edna edna mode is probably one of the funnier characters in the movie and so that's probably one of my likes as well is the jokes and you make a good.
Speaker 3:You make a good point too that pixar a lot of times is able to do those adult and kid humor. So like scott and I when we were watching, are laughing. But then my son is laughing at just really silly things with the kid and dash and the baby, like we're laughing at different points but everybody's laughing yeah, and I think one of my other likes about this movie is it does do superhero action pretty well.
Speaker 2:I mean it, you know it has. It has mr incredible fighting a giant robot fighting drones. You got airplane explosions which I don't know if that's part of kind of like the dark parts of the movie a little bit, which kind of I guess will lead into my one dislike. And that is all I put was kids with a question mark because it's one.
Speaker 2:Those disney movies where they start going in a direction where I know you mentioned before. You know some some of the some disney movies do a good job at balancing adult humor with kid humor that families can watch together. I don't know if the incredibles is one of those movies that kind of like when I was talking about, when we talked about the sound of music that I tried to watch that with my kids and I captured a really sweet moment of us watching it and then right after that they walked away. That was kind of the same way with the Incredibles, like I turned it on and my daughter said the first thing she said was I don't want to watch this. He literally said that and the movie had just started, so she probably wanted to watch something that she usually wants to watch, anyway, but it's not one of those movies and I'm like I don't think there's enough kid stuff in it to hold a kid's attention.
Speaker 3:Yeah yeah, I think you're right. I do think you're right, but I'll get I'll get to that in my dislikes, because actually I have quite a few, um. Other things I did like, though, were, same as you, action-packed. I felt like it was wicked awesome action. I feel like it was a creative storyline, like. I loved the storyline. It wasn't extremely predictable, I mean, yeah you, you assume all the family's gonna come back together, but I liked the villain. I liked the supporting characters. I think my biggest like about the plot was just every. I appreciated that it's a family of four, or sorry, family of five mom, dad and three kids, and I love that everybody played a role. That it was not just Mr Incredible is the main character, the mom and the dad and the kids. Everybody had to play their part to save the day collectively, and so I had to. Of those avengers vibes for me, um, and I like that. I like that. That felt very family friendly. But anything else that you liked about it, I mean, did you like it more? Watching it a second time?
Speaker 2:I mean I guess I just felt the same way that I thought about it before. I mean it was. It is a fun movie, it's not I wouldn't rate it up with like one of the classic disney movies. It's fun, it's fine, you know it's yeah, I mean, I will say I will say it.
Speaker 2:It's one of those movies that they took forever to make a sequel. And when they made the sequel, I don't think the sequel was that good and I think one of the reasons and I know this isn't us reviewing the sequel, but I think one of the reasons I didn't like the sequel is because they I think they went a little bit more adult with it, with, like, the language and and some of the plot is. It was just I don't know. I don't know what they thought they were going to do with the the incredibles, but again, this isn't about the sequel. So what? What are your dislikes?
Speaker 3:I think you mentioned a lot of your likes, but you said you had a lot of dislikes, so I'm interested to hear what those are now, now that you say out loud, I guess I do probably just have it's almost like all encompassed into one dislike, which is what you mentioned already. Basically, we watched this with my three-year-old son because he wanted to watch a movie. I thought, hey, double dip, we'll watch a movie and get some podcast content we're watching, and he was scared like a lot of the movie. There are some very scary parts in this movie. The robot's very scary and kind of creepy.
Speaker 3:There's a scene where Mr Incredible's getting attacked by these big blurb ball things and the editing like the cuts of that shot.
Speaker 3:It's like very startling. Um, the the kids are going to be in a fiery plane crash and it's just like like the implication that these kids are just going to fall to their death and it's very scary and very high, intense, like anxiety inducing. I didn't like how scary it was, which is also kind of tied to. It was also pretty violent for a disney movie, like again, the explosions. At one point the mom says she's like well, you know the they're not gonna care that your kids, they're gonna kill you, and I'm like whoa, like the word kill I feel like I just don't hear in Disney movies a lot. And there's another kind of quip where you know my favorite character, edna, is talking about why she won't put a cape on Mr Incredible and she goes through this long list of like people who die because they had a cape and it's like showing the clip. So it like shows a superhero woman like start going towards a plane engine, and so it's like no, it doesn't show her chopped up.
Speaker 2:it's like the implication is this getting chopped up to pieces, like well, when you see the person, you see the person's reaction in the window of the airplane to it happening.
Speaker 3:So it's like I mean, to me that's something bad probably happened to her um, going more.
Speaker 3:See through, continuing on my violent thing. It's also very early on in the movie we have suicide mentioned. Like that's a huge adult content. Like this man's trying to jump off of a building and commit suicide. Mr incredible saves him. And then the guy's mad because he's like you stopped me from killing myself, you know which? It's like doubly dark. It's like they couldn't even try to like salvage it by saying, oh, thank you for saving me. He's like no, I wanted to kill myself and I don't regret it. Like what?
Speaker 2:that's so dark. This isn't going to attract a kid at all. There's, it's, it's. We mentioned how action-packed it is and I guess that's what's supposed to be attracting the kids. But storyline-wise it's kind of boring. There's a lot of talking in between the action moments. There's a lot of talking, which is funny because they kind of pick fun of when villains start monologuing and that distracts them from doing what they're going to be doing to the superheroes. But there is a lot of talking in this movie and that's another reason why I don't think it's necessarily geared towards kids yeah, yeah, no, I think you're right and it's again.
Speaker 3:Even the talking is not inappropriate. But it's also adult content, like they're going through. I mean this is a very sad thing. This is a man who's clearly unhappy. I mean this probably speaks to maybe what some parents are feeling, like the dad's miserable at his job and he hates his life, he's not supporting his wife, doesn't feel supported at home. Like these are like very deep, heavy, dramatic stories, situations. We're talking about um, and I think that kind of also goes to like I didn't like even not not the morals of it, but like I don't need to watch bickering between, like the mom and the dad bicker a lot and I didn't like that. Like I almost didn't want ben to be watching it because I was like I don't appreciate, I don't want him thinking that um, and then also even like the implied infidelity right, that like she thinks he's cheating on her. Like these are just adult content, adult content and, like you said, this is just not I guess that'd be my biggest. It seemed like a kid's movie. It's not.
Speaker 2:It's not at all a kid's movie and just if you're listening to this, I don't want you to get us confused with another podcast which I do recommend. It's called is this for kids, where they they talk about movies and they figure out if they're for kids or not. I do recommend that podcast, but that's basically what this episode ended up being is is the incredibles for kids? And I don't think it is. I think there are moments where you could watch it with the family. So I guess, if I was to say it, you know, try to find fun clips of the movie to watch, but you don't necessarily have to watch the entire movie. So if we have nothing else to say, I think we we did a pretty good deep dive on a Disney movie which was fun. So let's go ahead and rate this thing. Katie, what would you rate the Incredibles?
Speaker 3:Although I laughed, laughed, I found myself as a parent just cringing. But gosh, edna is just hysterical, I mean, I think I I quote her more than I realized in my daily life.
Speaker 2:For her alone, I will give this movie a 4 yeah, I'm going to give it a 4.5 because I like action and there is a lot of action in the movie and, yes, the the humor is is good. There's, there is good humor in it, but, yeah, it's not one of those that you're like hey kids, what disney disney movie do you want to watch?
Speaker 3:no, I can see, I can see it being like maybe a middle school, like middle school maybe could be the sweet spot of like they can kind of handle it. But yeah, incredible. Let's move on to other dark things, wasn't I just talking about?
Speaker 2:let's move on to a rated R movie which, if you want to know what it is, take a listen oh man, way to hear this.
Speaker 1:You guys want to go see a dead body. Jesus, this is really a good time. You've earned something on your neck. Bleach it. Oh my God, I want to see a dead kid. Maybe it shouldn't be a party. I'm never going to get out of this town. I'm like Sick, mighty Moscow. Beat up Superman.
Speaker 2:Kill you, I swear to God. So, darling, darling, stand by me, that's right, we're gonna be watching. Stand Me, which stars a slightly chunkier Jerry O'Connell. That's like the biggest thing that most people point out about this movie. I don't know if you know who Jerry O'Connell is, but he, he's the, he's the heavier set child in this movie and now he's like this buff guy and so people are like, oh my gosh, anyway, rabbit trail.
Speaker 2:Wait is the is the song related to the movie I don't believe so and I'm pretty sure stand by me is a stephen king novel, but we'll talk more about it next episode. So, katie, how would you like to end this incredible episode?
Speaker 3:where is my super suit?
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