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The Incredibles is an Academy Award-winning Pixar Animation Studios animated feature film. It was written and developed by Brad Bird, former director of The Simpsons and best known for directing the animated movie The Iron Giant
. The Incredibles was originally developed as a traditionally animated movie, but after Warner Bros shut down its animation division, Brad Bird moved to Pixar and took the story with him.

The Incredibles is Pixar's sixth film. It was "presented" by Walt Disney Pictures and released by Buena Vista Distribution in the United States on November 5, 2004, and in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland on November 26, 2004. It was released in a two-disc DVD (in both widescreen and full frame versions) in the U.S. on March 15, 2005. According to the Internet Movie Database, it was the highest-selling DVD of 2005 with 17.38 million copies sold.

Plot

Fifteen years ago, the "Glory Days" were interrupted when the world's superheroes were overwhelmed by lawsuits over the damage and injuries that sometimes resulted from their actions. In exchange for immunity from the suits, the "supers" retired from heroics, and the government relocated them with civilian identities. Now Bob Parr, formerly Mr. Incredible, lives a quiet suburban life with his wife Helen (formerly Elastigirl) and their two super-powered children. Bored with this life of mediocrity, he occasionally sneaks out with his friend Lucius Best (formerly Frozone) to fight crime and protect the innocent.

Upon receiving a mysterious benefactor's invitation to be a hero again, Mr. Incredible leaps at the opportunity. However, the "benefactor" turns out to be a villain named Syndrome who carries a grudge: as a boy, he had idolized the superhero, even going as far as inventing machines that would allow him to become "Incrediboy", but Mr. Incredible squelched that dream in an attempt to protect him. Thereafter he dedicated his life to eliminating superheroes while he perfects a destructive robot that only he will be able to defeat with his inventions; he plans on unleashing it on the people of Metroville for a while before defeating it so that he will be seen as a hero.

It's up to the rest of the Parr family to save Mr. Incredible and to stop the robot after Syndrome loses control of it.

Operation Kronos

"Operation Kronos" was the code name of Syndrome's plan. It consisted of four phases:

Phase 1: A newly constructed Omnidroid 9000 10.0 is placed on a rocket.

Phase 2: The rocket is aimed at Metroville and launched. When the rocket is close enough to Metroville, most of the rocket breaks away, leaving only the Omnidroid and some aerodynamic, stablization frame-work. The Omnidroid and frame-work land in central Metroville (presumably, the 'financial district'.)

Phase 3: The frame splits apart, freeing the Omnidroid, and the Omnidroid is activated. The Omnidroid razes some buildings and "throws a few screaming people."

Final Phase: When all hope is lost, Syndrome shows up to save the day. Once Syndrome has "beaten it" with his remote, he becomes a hero.

What Went Wrong

Phase 1, 2, and 3 went perfectly (in fact, Dash and Violet were nearly burned alive in one of the exhaust caves during lift-off). However, in the final phase, while in battle, the Omnidroid's learning capability proved to be Syndrome's undoing - it realized that Syndrome used a remote to control it. The Omnidroid knocked the remote control off of his wrist, then knocked the powerless Syndome unconscious. The Incredibles, who had just freed themselves from one of Syndrome's prison chambers, arrived and with the help of Frozone, saved the day, ruining Operation Kronos.

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Main characters

Mr. Incredible

Robert "Bob" Parr, "Mr. Incredible" (6 ft 6 in (2 m), 350 lb (159 kg)). The "hero's hero", Bob possesses tremendous strength and heightened resistance to harm. He also has a sixth sense that enables him to sense imminent danger. He's the strongest of the supers. Trapped in a dead-end job as an insurance adjuster, he reminisces about "the glory days" when he was celebrated for using his abilities to save people. His supersuit, designed by Edna Mode, shows no additional abilities other than having much the same toughness as his own skin. It's safe to say that his strength and invulnerability are similar to those of Superman or the Thing from the Fantastic Four, while his danger sense is reminiscent of Spider-Man's "Spider-Sense". There's also some Batman and James Bond thrown in as well, as Mr. Incredible rode a high-tech car, the Incredibile.

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