What You Probably Didn't Know About The Incredibles (2004)

Welcome everyone to another entry in the What You Probably Didn't Know segment. With us being so close to the release of the Incredibles 2 it only made sense for me to do this. So enough of this let's get started.

1. In order to give Dash a realistic way of him running out of breath, Brad Bird made Spencer Fox run laps around the studio.

2. DC Comics objected to the name Elastigirl because they already had a character named Elasti-girl. A compromise was reached where outside of the film (promotional material) Elastigirl would be named Mrs. Incredible.

3. In the beginning of the film if you look closely when the robber is going through a woman's purse, you can see a Mr. Incredible Pez dispenser.

4. Syndrome's zero-point energy beam is based on an actual physics concept, the zero-point field, demonstrated in 1948 via the Casimir Effect and essential to Stephen Hawking's theory of black holes eventually evaporate. Harnessing the zero-point field would be quite a feat, as it would yield a virtually infinite source of energy.

5. When Edna gives Helen the homing device, the GPS zooms into the San Francisco area, where the Pixar Animation Studios is located (Emeryville, California).

6. This is the first Disney/Pixar film to receive a PG rating, since it contains a bit more violence compared to the other previous Pixar films.

7. The stained glass window above the entrance of the church resembles the I on Mr. Incredible's blue suit.

8. When Mr. Incredible is looking all over at his hero pictures, if you pay attention closely you can see Rock Em Sock Em Robots on his desk. And you'll see the same robots from Toy Story 2 (1999).

9. This is the second Pixar film to show blood. The first was Finding Nemo (2003).

10. When Edna is showing the suits for the family to Helen she stated that Jack-Jack doesn't have any superpowers. This would implie that Dash and Violet were showing signs of their powers during their infancy.

11. Syndrome's computer room Kronos bears a resembles to The X-Men's computer room Cerebro.

12. The whole movie features 35 explosions, 189 buttons pressed, and approximately 640 gunshots.

13. When Mr. Incredible first meets Buddy aka Incrediboy his mask has blue marker around his eyes. This is a nod to the technique for all of the Batman films were they would put black makeup around the actor's eyes so they can be visible against the black mask.

14. The line "You sly dog! You had me monologuing! was voted #15 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by Premiere in 2007.

15. The Incredibles is the only Pixar film not to feature an appearance from The Pizza Planet Truck. While making the film Brad Bird, who at the time was not familiar with the tradition of Pixar's easter eggs (since he hasn't worked on any of their films prior to The Incredibles), hadn't been thinking of the truck and was unsure if the animators had snuck it into the film (thought he was able to know some other stuff like teasing Pixar's next project, and having John Ratzenberger voice a character). Many people had claimed to have seen the truck, but screen caps only show blurry "Rorschach test" images, and nothing that can be clearly identified as the Pizza Planet truck. Lee Unkrich would later go on to dismiss what people believed to have spotted and confirmed the truck doesn't show up.

16. Brad Bird originally conceived the film as a conventional cel-animated movie when he pitched it. The cel-animated sequences during the end credits are a representation of his original idea.

17. As with other Pixar productions, the original trailer for the film featured animation not shown in the final product of the movie but specially for the teaser. The trailer was directed by Brad Bird eighteen months before The Incredibles was finally released.

18. John Lasseter tried to coax Brad Bird to come join him in 1995 when Pixar was working on A Bug's Life (1998). Brad declined. When he later left 20th Century Fox, Lasseter asked again but Brad turned him down again as he had a contract with Warner Bros. to make The Iron Giant (1999). However, when Warner Bros. failed to properly promote the film, Bird finally agreed to join Pixar. Lasseter had only one request to his friend: "Make the film you've been dying to make". As Brad had been sitting on the idea of making a cartoon about a superhero family for over a decade, "The Incredibles" was the natural choice.

Well that's going to do it for me. Tune in next week for my review of the first Incredibles movie.

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