Ain’t It Cool News has the first review of Pixar’s 2004 offering The Incredibles! WARNING – Their review is filled with spoilers so do not read it if you don’t want to know! I will summarize below with no spoilers.

An AICN reader got to attend a general audience test screening of The Incredibles.

It was very, very rough cut; well over 90% of it was storyboards and rough animatics; there were only two brief shots that could have possibly been completed… The growth and unity of the family is every bit as touching as Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo… the action sequences really hold their own against any other superhero movie. The humor is more abundant that in recent Pixar attempts and more mature, but still suitable for the whole family… One problem I noticed, in the cut I saw anyway, was lack of development in a lot of the individual characters.  We know Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl pretty well early on, but the kids, the villain, the supporting characters we only understand through rather broad generalizations… Every Pixar film I see, I have to stop and consider afterwards whether or not it’s the best I’ve seen yet. The jury’s still out on this one, but I can tell you it was absolutely excellent… There were no best or worst scenes, it was executed beautifully.  I hope they don’t change anything in the final cut, side from actually animating it this time.