Tag: Sarah Vowell

  • Brad Bird’s The Incredibles 2 traps superheroes in motels and courtrooms

    Brad Bird’s The Incredibles 2 traps superheroes in motels and courtrooms

    Brad Bird’s The Incredibles 2 sure went down easy when I saw it in a theater a few months ago, but it suffers on rewatch on the small screen. And needless to say, it was shortly rendered wholly obsolete by the best animated superhero movie of all time, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. While the real […]

  • Brad Bird Steals His Own Movie in Pixar’s The Incredibles

    Brad Bird Steals His Own Movie in Pixar’s The Incredibles

    Like writer/director Brad Bird’s Ratatouille, The Incredibles is a virtually perfect movie. Bird’s astonishing one-two punch for Pixar builds on the animation studio’s reputation for deep emotional resonance already earned by Andrew Stanton’s Finding Nemo and later reconfirmed by Wall-E. But Bird’s films add a welcome maturity that proves the medium of animation can be, […]