The Incredibles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of The Incredibles or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Incredibles

[tom]

Considering that this movie contains many Bond references, most obviously the villian's base, and working with a secret identity, the choice of a very James Bond-esque soundtrack makes perfect sense. By further coincidence, portions of the score sound a lot like Casino Royale (2006)'s score, using a music motif very similar to Chris Cornell's "You Know My Name".

[norma]

Syndrome is easily considered one of the darkest and most evil villains in a film by Pixar alongside Hopper from A Bug's Life (1998).

[addison]

The stained glass window above the entrance to the church where Bob and Helen get married resembles the I on Mr. Incredible's original blue costume.

[miriam]

Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men (his team of nine supervising master animators from the classic era of animation), provide voices for their own caricatures near the end of the film. They also appeared in and provided the voices for the train engineers in The Iron Giant (1999), which was also directed by Brad Bird. This is not the first time Pixar Animation Studios has included references to famous animators in its films (see the trivia for Monsters, Inc. (2001)).

[beth]

Body Count: twenty-one.

[ella]

One of three films where Pixar's Joe Ranft voiced a character where he's simply listed under Additional Voices. The others being Toy Story (1995) and Monsters, Inc. (2001).

[norma]

The original title was "The Invincibles".

[tom]

One of the most difficult aspects to animate was Violet's long hair, something the crew only really cracked towards the end of the film's 3 year production.

[kenzi]

The third computer-animated film to be produced at 2.35:1 after A Bug's Life (1998) and The Polar Express (2004).

[frederick]

The license plate number for Mr. Incredible's sports car is "LR 0415". LR stands for "Lou Romano" and "0415" marks his birthday (April 15).

[lynn]

Lily Tomlin was considered for the part of Edna Mode, but turned it down when she heard Brad Bird's vocal performance, saying, "What do you need me for? You got it already."

[kenneth]

Originally was intended to release in 2006, releasing after Cars (2006). But because the film's production had been ahead of schedule, the release date was pushed forward to 2004, while Cars (2006)'s release date was moved from 2005 to 2006 additionally Finding Nemo's (2003) release date was pushed from 2004 to 2003 due to losing to Shark Tale (2004).

[linda]

A new set of outtakes return on the second disk on the Special Edition DVD. But the outtakes are mistakes made in animation by animators, rather than the traditional outtakes where the characters would mess up their lines, as if they were actual actors.

[ella]

There are strong similarities to another family of superheroes: Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four. Mr. Incredible (Bob Parr) has super-strength like the Thing (Ben Grimm); Elastigirl (Helen Parr) is able to stretch her body like Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards); Violet is able to turn invisible and project force-fields like the Invisible Woman (Susan Storm Richards); and baby Jack-Jack briefly shows an ability to turn himself into living flame like the Human Torch. Jack-Jack bears an even stronger resemblance to Reed and Susan Richards' son Franklin, a mutant with the power to alter reality. Like Bob and Helen Parr, Reed and Susan Richards are husband and wife, and have children with powers. Like Violet and impulsive Dash Parr, Susan and the impulsive Johnny Storm are elder sister and younger brother. The costumes of the Incredibles are red unitards with black collars, trunks, gloves, and boots with an "i" emblem in the chest area. The costumes of the Fantastic Four are blue unitards with black collars, belts, gloves, and boots with a "4" emblem in the chest area. Both sets of costumes are made to adapt to the wearer's specific powers and abilities. The supervillain that appears at the end of the movie calling himself the Underminer is a dead ringer for The Mole Man, a longtime foe of the Fantastic Four, and the image of the first Fantastic Four cover is briefly mimicked. In fact, makers of Fantastic Four (2005) were forced to make significant script changes and add more special effects because of similarities to the storyline of this movie.

[cassandra]

Syndrome says to Mr. Incredible: "Too late! Fifteen years too late". Incredibles 2 (2018) was released fourteen years after this movie.

[oscar]

Considering that Disney's later corporate acquisitions wouldn't bring Pixar Animation Studios and Marvel Studios together under the same corporate umbrella, for nearly another ten years, this movie contains some remarkable foreshadowing, by Pixar spoofing what its later corporate sibling Marvel was doing. The parallels with Marvel's Fantastic Four are one of the most obvious coincidences in hindsight.

[nora]

To record the Henry Mancini-and-John Barry-inspired jazz-orchestra score, Composer Michael Giacchino eschewed standard multi-track recording and returned to the analogue recording methods used for jazz-orchestra recordings in the 1960s. "We were just like, 'Forget that, let's throw everyone in the room, let's pretend we only have three microphones, and let's get it right. Let's just do it.'"

[russell]

Pixar were already interested in Brad Bird after seeing The Iron Giant (1999). He pitched The Incredibles (2004) to them and they were more than happy to bring him on board - as well as numerous technical staff from his previous film which had been a huge box office disappointment. Most of them (including Bird) had never worked with CGI animation before and found the process to be hugely liberating.

[clayton]

EASTER EGG: On the second of the 2-disc collectors edition DVD, wait on the Main Menu for the Omnidroid icon to appear on the upper-right of the screen. It disappears and reappears slowly. The Egg contains a collection of miscellaneous scenes from the movie: all of the buttons being pushed, and all of the explosions.