brad bird's THE INCREDIBLES

brad bird writes with the conviction of the right in his latest screenplay THE INCREDIBLES...

this delightful, animated pixar flick explores roles within the family vs. within society, unashamedly revealing that mrs. incredible does not mind vacuuming the floors while mr. incredible looks for thrills of the past while "missing" the best parts of his family life... turns out mrs. incredible is the more talented of the two...

the screenwriter also pinpoints the frivolous, destructive lawsuits rampant in our society, the role of the government in protecting individuals often at great cost, the avarice of insurance agencies who look for profits at the expense of their clients and of weapons' developers who grow rich but "keep the best ones" for themselves, and finally the strong tendency toward mediocrity in our schools and jobs based on the false belief that everyone is ultimately the same... so that "everyone will become super so that no one will be" as the villain, SYNDROME states as a threat to the audience...

in the end, however, THE INCREDIBLES show that as a family, they are unique... and valuable to each other as well as to society at large...