Jack Black Regrets Turning Down ‘The Incredibles’; Rejected Offer to Voice Syndrome After Asking the Director for Rewrites: ‘Why Was I Being So Difficult?’

Yeah, I’ve always felt he was mid but likable until that moment.

Why was he angry at Kilograms?

The reason he said that was because MAGAs are lunatics with guns and don't want his shows to to be shot up.

He was protecting his fans.

young nasty man

I heard Kyle quit the band.

He was also an original cast member on Mr. Show.

Dunno why he's getting so much hate here

I still liked him up until the point he suspended Tenacious D over Gass' birthday wish. They're a rock band, of course they're supposed to say and do controversial shit! Black backed out of it just to save his Hollywood prospects and I find that cold and calculating of him.

Wow. I’ve seen that movie 300+ times and never realized that was Lee.

The amount of pathetic virtue signalling from people who almost certainly liked x person before they fell out of grace is really gross.

He is cast for that and his name. Like most big hollywood actors/actresses, they are all type cast.

I almost always hate his films because he plays Jack Black. But I actually really, really liked his performance in Bernie. It's a great film based on actual events and absolutely worth going in blind. He plays a different role to his usual fare and made me wonder if he would go on to do more interesting stuff, but then nobody watched it and he went back to the same shit he always does.

It blows my mind that you would waste time seeing that Minecraft movie. The ads were torture…

He phoned it in in the Minecraft movie

... that's your metric?

To be fair, though, the Minecraft movie is better because Jack Black sucks in it

At least we'll always have School of Rock.

Was he De Gaulle or the Jackal?

IMO Its appeal is that its a solid 8 out of 10 across the board.

The story is deep enough for adults but structured well enough for kids. It doesnt pander to boys or girls. No cheesy soundtrack or "scrappy do" bullshit. No terrible voice acting choices (Jack Black probably would have done a great job as Syndrome.) Dad kicks ass, Mom kicks ass. Its somehow almost a parody of a superhero movie while being better than most of them at being one. Somehow theres way less cinematic cringe bullshit than any Marvel movie. Its not just good as a kids movie or as an animated movie. Its a straight up GOOD MOVIE that you can put on for a room with 4 generations in it and its unlikely anyone will hate it.

Its no best movie ever made but I have a 6yo and when I hear "Can we watch The Incredibles?" It's an automatic yes.

Yes, I think it is actually a superb movie for when it came out and still a pretty great one to this day.

Ifyou look at the character development throughout the movie for the main character and the story building, I think you’ll find it’s pretty robust for a family animated film. The animation style is relatively unique, noir inspired, great supporting characters, and the characters are mostly clever.

As a superhero movie I still think they use their powers together than anything shown in the MCU or DC counter parts. There is a lot of interplay of their abilities near the end of the movie.

But ya know it’s all up to preferences

It resonates really strongly with queer and neurodiverse white people because the Incredibles are a minority nuclear family. That's common in immigrant and black stories, but not in queer or ND stories. So people can see themselves in the characters and explore those issues, without the movie telling them they have to be isolated from their nuclear family.

"What if Dad was like me"

Not a horrible take.

It was well regarded being a mashup of being endearing, having cutting edge (at the time) CGI and pulling back the 4th wall on super heroes struggles and covering government suppression of the heroes.

It's certainly not the best ever made, not even the best animated.

The monicker of “best movie ever made” is incredibly subjective and thrown around a lot. But it is a solid movie and certainly one of my favourites from Pixar. My absolute favourite? I dunno, but top 5 definitely. Maybe in my top 3.

Pixar was on a roll when the movie was released. It was the follow up to finding Nemo and when Pixar was doing the Toy Story movies, pretty much anything Pixar got so much attention.

I agree with you, I found it to be pretty standard animated family freindly stuff.

As far as best move ever made.. It made 600 mill so I suspect Jack Black is regretting not getting that pay check.

It was the first CGI that had believable human characters. If you go back and look at the first toy story, the humans looked like creepy puppets.

So it was a big hit at the time because it was the fist time a movie had bridged the uncanny valley