It was such a wicked, loving deconstruction of a stereotype. I also loved You caught me monologing!

We had a little mini-TWoPcon over here, and one of the girls remarked that Tim Minear was probably her favorite writer, ever. And then we babbled about how much we loved "Out of Gas" and "Karma Chameleon." She suggested Tim should get a reality show where he takes over other people's Friday night death slot shows. So Tim, if you pass by, you got fans.

I wanted to see The Incredibles already, but now I want to see it even more for the Firefly whitefont. Damn you all.

I also loved You caught me monologing!

I loved that bit. As far as the violence level goes, it seems to be about the same as in any of the Star Wars films, and most of the kids have probably seen them already. Also, I think animators can probably get away with a bit more than they could if they were making a live action picture.

DX ... it's not so much the violence but the fact the character is apparently killed . I mean, how many times has Daffy Duck taken a shotgun blast to the face and hardly anyone bats an eyelid. However, if one of those blasts actually blew his head apart and killed him, then their would be a hell of an uproar.

I understand that, but it was still played for laughs, which makes a difference, at least to me. And again, it wasn't a whole lot different than the violence in Return of the Jedi.

DX, yeah, I see your point. But also, in the theater I was in the little kid sitting next to Lori (probably 3 or so) started crying when the Jason Lee voiced character snatched Jack-Jack and was going to kidnap him. The boy we were with (7 years old) also got cringey at some of the violence.

I think people assume that animated movies will be not as violent as live action ones, and most of the pixar films previously have not been as violent as this.

Yeah, Kat. This is the first one to get a PG.

Huh, Debetesse, I hadn't realized that was the rating. For me, no issue with the violence at all (in fact, I'm so hard hearted that it made me laugh long and hard).

I would just be hesitant to take young kids.

Funny but weird to see in an animated movie aimed at kids.

I took my 4 year old daughter to see it last night. She's a huge Pixar fan and a huge superheroes fan (just like her daddy) and this was her second movie-going experience (her first one was Finding Nemo and we had to leave for a potty emergency halfway through.) Anyway, I was a little distressed by the cape death montage (even though I found it uproariously funny) but I don't fault Pixar because there was a PG on it, and I had heard there was a certain level of superhero violence. I don't think she really understood what was happening. She did ask me to take her home during the scenes where Elastigirl is sneaking into the fortress, but I managed to convince her to stay on and she got really pumped soon afterwards when Dash and Violet are evading those copter-thingies (and blowing them up ewok-style too - I didn't see the drivers parachuting out or anything.)

The most important thing was we had some great daddy/daughter time and we chatted all the way home about the cool characters and funny scenes.

Aw. And, interestingly, I had some good discussion time with my six y.o. niece today who had seen it, too. She didn't seem bothered by the cape scenes either, though she regularly watches some stuff that just makes me wince when I think about it, so...

I found the movie just hilarious in parts, but I found myslef thinking that, for many kids, long stretches of it were probably just boring. Particularly the scenes of Mr. I on the day job at the beginning.