In the video essay above, ScreenCrush’s Ryan Arey argues he’s not, and that maybe Syndrome was right all along and Mr. Incredible was the true bad guy of The Incredibles.
On our new list ranking every Pixar film to date, it came in at number seven, only behind heavy hitters like Toy Story, Inside Out, and WALL-E.
But maybe it’s because we have watched it so many times and thought about it so often, that we’ve started to question its narrative.
The film is about a heroic family of “supers” who do battle with a villain named Syndrome (voiced by Jason Lee), who resents their powers and wishes that everyone in the world could be super.