Oh boy, oh boy!

Excuse me while I gad about like a gradeschooler, but there's only a few more days until The Incredibles opens. I'm expecting the usual Pixar quality, but with the dramatic weight that director Brad Bird will most likely bring. I am, as a rule, a sucker for animation, but this movie in particular seems built to my specifications. It's puported to be Pixar's darkest movie yet (or most mature, if you consider the mid-life crisis aspects), with a PG rating and a nearly two-hour running time. Plus, y'know, superheroes.

I honestly can't remember the last time I was truly excited about a movie coming out. I guess it was Kill Bill Vol. 2, which was too damn long ago. I just hope Incredibles is good. The last movie I enjoyed unequivocably was Shaun of the Dead, and before that... um, it might be Kill Bill again. When was my love of movies throttled out of me?

To be fair, I also very much want to see I Heart Huckabees and Sideways, since both David O. Russel and Alexander Payne each have yet to make a bad film, but neither of those movies fills me with the anticipation that I have for The Incredibles. Because I like the pretty cartoons.