The Incredibles

The Incredibles (2004)

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Corrected entry: When Mirage is explaining the Omnidroid 9000 to Mr. Incredible, the keyboard in front of the holographic monitor is slightly out of whack. The row of QWERTY keys is too far to the right, with Q being between 2 and S. This is probably OK for cartoon characters to hunt and peck, but a real touch-typist would have a very difficult time with this arrangement. (00:35:00)

Correction: Who says Syndrome's keyboard can't have the keys in unusual positions? Also, Mirage has probably used it long enough to be used to the key placement.

Corrected entry: When the family are in the caravan (with Helen on the top) and Bob opens the window, you quickly see the caravan from the bottom. In that shot, Helen's head is slightly overhanging the top, so you can see it, however, in all shots from the top, Helen's head is about a metre away from the front of the caravan, and she couldn't have stretched, because there is no time between shots. (01:35:55)

Correction: The shot is more a head on shot than from the bottom. While we do see Helen's head on top of the RV, it is not "overhanging" the front and since we see it from the front, we have no way of knowing just how far it is from the front edge.

Corrected entry: Interesting sideline, Edna Mode, the "costume designer for the supers" is patterned after Edith Head, the costume designer of the stars for hundreds of movies. She died a couple of decades ago, but this is a homage, right down to the hair style; height; and round hornrimmed glasses,to a very well known designer, who even used some of the lines given to Edna in the movie.

Correction: This is not so, according to Brad Bird: 'Well, we certainly looked at Edith Head. But there are actually a lot of female fashion designers, if you research it, that have giant glasses. But also, Patricia Highsmith was an influence... and Linda Hunt. When you're designing a character, you're just saying - who is that? We have drawings and you can see them in 'the art of...' book where she's taller and fatter and older and younger and thin. We tried a lot of stuff and we kept saying no, no, more like this, but I like the nose on this one, and maybe the pageboy cut, maybe glasses should be bigger. Okay, make 'em bigger. . . and you end up with something that reminds you of Edith Head and you of Linda Hunt.'

STP

Corrected entry: If Syndrome knew so much about Mr. Incredible (where he lived, what his true identity was, etc.), as well as finding out about Jack-Jack, how could he not know about the fact that Elastigirl married Mr. Incredible and had two other children?

Correction: Syndrome hadn't found Elastigirl, so she must have kept her identity better hidden. There's nothing to say that he knew exactly where Mr. Incredible lived, just where he could easily be found, so his family could easily have remained a secret (recall he is first contacted via his office). Syndrome is "defeated" by the Incredibles later on giving him more incentive to get revenge, and presumably the first thing he did was to find out where they lived, which led him to Jack-Jack.

Corrected entry: When Mrs. Incredible and the kids are shot down, they are shown in the water and her hair is a mess. But soon after they arrive on shore, her hair is as perfect as it was before being shot down.

Correction: Elastigirl can stretch and form her body as she wishes, in the blink of an eye. It is not unlikely that this applies to her hair as well.

Twotall

Corrected entry: When Mr. Incredible is trying to find Syndrome's computer mainframe, he runs through the lava walls and starts sweating profusely. However, Mirage walked through the same walls earlier without sweating at all.

Correction: He's not sweating because the walls are hot, he's sweating because he's running hard to prevent the walls closing in on him. Mirage didn't have to run.

Moose

Corrected entry: When Mr. Incredible slams the car door and breaks the driver's window, it is seen to shatter and fall out of the door as regular window glass would. But automobile window glass is manufactured so that it does not separate into pieces even when shattered.

Correction: You're thinking of the windshield, which is usually a laminated glass preventing it from falling apatr and providing better safety. The side windows, on the other hand are not always made that way. I know for a fact that my brother once accidentally shattered the car door window in our old car and it most definitely fell to pieces. It's tempered so that it doesn't make the dangerous edges that other glasses do, but it falls apart to make it easier for rescue workers to get inside the car after an accident if the door won't open.

Garlonuss

Corrected entry: When Helen is in the plane with Dash and Violet going to save Bob, homing missiles come towards them. Helen presses the button to tell the kids to put their seat belts on. A few seconds later they're bouncing around in their seats shouting.

Correction: Dash and Violet don't get their seat belts on in time. If you look, you'll see that Dash stood still while Violet jumped in the seat, and fished around for the belt. In the next shot, Elastigirl starts using evasive maneuvers in the plane.

Corrected entry: When Bob (Mr. Incredible) walks down the aisle to Helen (Elastigirl) when they get married, there is no one sitting watching them getting married. When they finally get married, there is a crowd of people clapping their hands.

Correction: There are people/superheros sitting to the left of Helen as Bob walks down the aisle. You can barely make out the silhouette of the person closest to Helen plus other random shapes of people - they are mostly blackened out.

Corrected entry: When Bob's at the office with a client when his wife calls, the clock at home (that she looks at) says about 3:30. Soon after, when he stands up to 'check for anybody listening', the clock on the far office wall shows about after 10:00. (00:11:50 - 00:12:30)

Correction: The kitchen clock is a wind-up and will display an inaccurate time due to non-winding or faulty mechanism. The office clock will display an inaccurate time due to a faulty mechanism or interruption of its power source. Either way, the times displayed on the individual clocks cannot be compared to one another.

Super Grover

Corrected entry: When The Incredibles fight the giant robot in the city, after they crash that van and roll a number of times before coming to a stop, they can see the robot walking towards their left on the road ahead of them. They get out of the van, Bob talks with Helen for some time, then the robot emerges from behind them and crushes their van. Seeing the robot's size and its speed, it couldn't possibly go around the entire block in so little time. The building it went around can be seen when the robot walks towards them, and it is huge, making the trip around it really long.

Correction: There was plenty of time for a robot that size to walk around a single building. And it wasn't one of those "huge" buildings that take up a whole city block, so it could easily slip around to the other side, especially since it was designed to be able to outsmart and beat any hero.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: In the scene after Helen and the children have reached land after swimming in the water, Helen's hair is sudden much longer than her natural short hair style.

Correction: Helen's hairdo has fair bit of volume to it. The water is weighing it down. It's not longer, it's just not fluffy anymore.

Phixius

Corrected entry: In the scene where Bob and Frozone get caught in the jewelry store a police officer sees them and comes in, but the police car he is in is on the left and he comes in from the right.

Correction: You can see through the window when the Supers are arguing that the cop sweeps from left to right before he enters, which is how he enters from the right.

Bishop73

Corrected entry: Violet's hair part changes from one side to the other throughout the film.

Correction: Violet uses her hair to hide her face, because she is shy. If she decides to change it during the movie, it is no mistake. She also has plenty of opportunities to do so. In the end, she has even got over her shyness and wears her hair back.

Twotall

Corrected entry: Nothing was explained where super-villains go when the superheroes were retired. Presumably the government could not just herd them up with the heroes - if it could, the government have just used the same technique to arrest them all for being villains. It is a very bad plot hole because, if there had been other villains around, Syndrome could have fought them to gain recognition as a hero rather than devising his evil plot.

Moose

Correction: Realize first that it's been about 20 years, counting the trials, since the superheroes have been allowed to save people. So, guys like Bomb Voyage may have retired for various reasons (no challenge anymore, too old, etc.). Also, some of them are dead, again for various reasons (showdowns with the government, rogue heroes that didn't listen to the government, etc.). Also, we don't know that Syndrome tested his Omnidroids exclusively on heroes; he may have "hired" a few villains for the project. Finally, guys like the Underminer and anyone else that would emerge were probably too young to become villains when all of the trouble started at the beginning of the film.

This seems all strangely convenient. Superheroes pop up, super villains do too. Then super heroes disappear and the super villains disappear too? I don't think so.

lionhead

Correction: Or they are confronted by superheroes at the very instant they appear, the way the Omnidroid was (technically) confronted by Frozone?

dizzyd

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Continuity mistake: When Mr. Incredible lands on the island, he gets stuck in his capsule, eventually smashing it to get out. He starts stretching, bending backwards. The angle lowers to show that Mr. Incredible's suit is now a two-piece, revealing his fat stomach. During the rest of the movie, the suit is a one-piece, so this wouldn't be possible. (00:35:15)

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Edna Mode: This is a hobo suit, darling, you can't be seen in it, I won't allow it! Years ago maybe, but now? Pheh!
Bob Parr: What do you mean? You designed it!
Edna Mode: I never look back, darling, it distracts from the now.

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Trivia: The scene where Frozone, voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, has a cop pointing a gun at him, where he wants to "get a drink of water", is very similar to the scene he plays in Die Hard with a Vengeance, where he is in the same situation in the subway platform, needing to answer a pay phone.

blz

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Question: Can someone please explain to me what Violet says when she frees them from the prison? No matter how many times I see this movie, I still don't get it.

Brad

Chosen answer: She says "Well, I think Dad has made excellent progress today, but I think it's time we wind down now". It's a joke, pretending to be winding down a counselling session, based on the fact that her father has been baring his soul a bit while imprisoned.

Tailkinker

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