A Pixar computer cartoon about a married-with-children team of superheroes in enforced retirement under the Superhero Relocation Program. The tweaking of superheroes has long since progressed beyond a mere trend into a full-blown state of cultural decadence, but there's no particular reason to hold it against this little tag-along. The …
Writer-director Brad Bird picks up right where he left off 14 years ago in terms of both narrative and theme. Narrative: the arrival of The Underminer to ruin the peace and happiness of the Parrs, a family of superheroes that has finally gained those things after years of unhealthy repression. …
A Pixar computer cartoon about a married-with-children team of superheroes in enforced retirement under the Superhero Relocation Program. The tweaking of superheroes has long since progressed beyond a mere trend into a full-blown state of cultural decadence, but there's no particular reason to hold it against this little tag-along. The …
Writer-director Brad Bird picks up right where he left off 14 years ago in terms of both narrative and theme. Narrative: the arrival of The Underminer to ruin the peace and happiness of the Parrs, a family of superheroes that has finally gained those things after years of unhealthy repression. …
Writer-director Brad Bird picks up right where he left off 14 years ago in terms of both narrative and theme. Narrative: the arrival of The Underminer to ruin the peace and happiness of the Parrs, a family of superheroes that has finally gained those things after years of unhealthy repression. …
Writer-director Brad Bird picks up right where he left off 14 years ago in terms of both narrative and theme. Narrative: the arrival of The Underminer to ruin the peace and happiness of the Parrs, a family of superheroes that has finally gained those things after years of unhealthy repression. …
Animated sci-fi fable, set in the Fifties and drawn in a retro comic-book style, though the anti-violence message (specifically anti-nuke message) is hardly dated at all. The saccharine relationship between an overimaginative boy and a humongous metal-eating robot from outer space is in the Spielberg vein (specifically E.T. vein); as …
Animated sci-fi fable, set in the Fifties and drawn in a retro comic-book style, though the anti-violence message (specifically anti-nuke message) is hardly dated at all. The saccharine relationship between an overimaginative boy and a humongous metal-eating robot from outer space is in the Spielberg vein (specifically E.T. vein); as …
Brad Bird's directorial debut gets a loving update. Two new scenes!
Tom Cruise returns, and reliably so, to his role as gadget-happy superspy Ethan Hunt, but the real star is director Brad Bird, trying his hand at live action after a successful stint in the animated world. Happily, he brings the best parts of his cartoony past with him, creating wild …
Brad Bird’s resolutely buoyant Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol repositioned a series of otherwise contrived money-spinning sequels on top of the summer tentpole, making it easy for an inevitable predecessor to sock out of the park. It’s back to business as usual when Cruise Factory gag-writer-turned-contract-director Christopher McQuarrie (Valkyrie, Jack …
Disney computer-animated celebration of "differentness," in specific a Gallic rodent who cultivates fine taste, reads books, likes to cook, walks funny, and runs afoul of his garbage-wallowing kin. (Do ask, do tell!) Among the humans, there's some deft caricature of French facial types, a bit rodenty themselves -- especially the …
Hey kids! The world is in trouble! You know what it needs? Optimists! Hopers! Dreamers! Fixers! And most of all, Specials! You know, the genius inventors (identifiable by their DNA and can-do spirit) who could solve everything if the rest of us would just get out of the way and …