Metacritic reviews

Pixar again hitches top-notch storytelling to the very best in CG animation.

The sleek beauty, crafty wit, family warmth, and impeccable slapstick suffusing The Incredibles immediately vaults it to a new, higher level of entertainment.

As deliriously smart escapist fare, The Incredibles is practically nonpareil.

Dazzlingly beautiful, funny, and meaningful.

The Incredibles creates so seamless a mood of exhilaration that we resent being pulled out of it.

The Incredibles has those characters, that heart.

The vocal performances are a blast, Hunter's and Lee's in particular. The animation of the villain's tropical isle is stunning.

Yes, yes--The Incredibles is beautiful to look at, but even more lovely beneath the computer-generated surfaces.

The action sequences are choreographed with the crackerjack timing expected from Pixar, but the film's funniest and most affecting moments exploit the tension between a special family and a world that insists on dulling them down.

Unfortunately, the delicious snatches of reflexive wit function as mere intermissions between the distended action sequences and Michael Bay–style megatonnage, which have earned Pixar its first ever PG rating.