As a self professed comic book geek, my review of this film was always going to be biased in it's favour, but I can gladly say that anyone would enjoy this film!! And if you have ever loved comics or ever watched and liked the Fantastic Four then you WILL like the Incredibles!

The film is about family of super heroes that are trying to act normal and blend into society because being a superhero has now been outlawed.
Mr Incredible was the top dog during the era of heroes and he was in the mode of Superman ala saving cats and foiling robbers.
But it all came to a screeching halt when super heroes became the target of nuisance suits from people they saved.
It was a dark era for the heroes and they all faded out of sight and tried to rejoin society as card carrying citizen.

This transition is not going so well for some of them.

Bob Parr is married and settled down now, but his wife is also an ex-superhero and as is to be expected their kids have inherited superpowers.
One day Bob gets a call from a mysterious benefactor who needs the assistance of Mr Incredible . So begins a chain of events that drags the whole family into a Superhero mission.

This film has great action, great drama, great script and also great humour. The funniest bits belong to the character called Edna Mod who is supposedly based on someone called Edith Head, well whoever she was she must have been a character because Edna Mode was a hoot to watch!!

This film will work for almost any age and will appeal to all sorts of people.

As a comic geek I managed to pick up numerous nods to comics as well as a lot of nods to the Bond movies.

The Incredibles family itself is surely a nod to the Fantastic Four as the first family of Super heroes! Most of the powers are even the same, and the ending of the film is a blatant copy from an issue of the FF.

In the FF we had a Mr Fantastic who could stretch, in this movie we have a Mr Incredible married to someone who could stretch. We also had in the FF, a super strong member, an Invisible member as we do with the Incredibles. The only departure is the fact that in the Incredibles they do not have any blonde haired hotheaded person with flame powers instead they have a blonde haired hotheaded person with Speed powers!
Even the last kid who seems powerless is obviously a clone of Franklin Richards the son of Mr Fantastic and Invisible Girl.
I liked Frozone who seemed to be a nod to Iceman of the X-Men.

The idea of heroes being sued and hence being driven away is surely a reference to the 1950's when comics fell out of favour with the establishment and was blamed for al societies ill's!

The villain in this movie Syndrome while he did not stand out to me as based on any particular comic character, I would say he is more of a mix of all the Bond villains and maybe Dr. Doom rolled into one!

I could go on and on about how the Son Dash is a tribute to the Flash and other Speedsters, or how there was a moment signifying the grim and gritty era of comics or how Edna Mode's monologue on capes is to me a dig at DC.

But suffice to say I loved this movie and will be getting the DVD as soon as it comes out.

I give this an Incredible 8/10

Shazam!