When is incredibles set

In his mind, the date seen on the paper was a fun little easter egg and isn't necessarily canon, so viewers would better off disregarding this detail entirely.

So while both of The Incredibles movies technically take place in , that date isn't necessarily set in stone. A part-time hobby soon blossomed into a career when he discovered he really loved writing about movies, TV and video games — he even arguably had a little bit of talent for it. He has written words for Den of Geek, Collider, The Irish Times and Screen Rant over the years, and can discuss anything from the MCU - where Hawkeye is clearly the best character - to the most obscure cult b-movie gem, and his hot takes often require heat resistant gloves to handle.

By Padraig Cotter Published May 23, Share Share Tweet Email 0. Related Topics SR Originals the incredibles 2 the incredibles. There are certainly stylistic clues throughout the films that this is the case — just look at the cars, clothing, and housing styles and it becomes easy to picture Don Draper heading to work at Sterling Cooper in this world.

But in addition to the visual cues that place the films in the decade, The Incredibles actually has bonafide proof that the film takes place in the s. As pointed out by Buzzfeed's Andrew Ziegler, a newspaper read by Mr. Incredible in the first film is dated , placing the story within that year. But that wasn't really the filmmakers' intention. I just wanted it to feel like the '60s. What people in the '60s thought was coming. So really, it seems as if the date on the newspaper was intended as more of an Easter egg than anything else, and Bird was hoping that no one would notice it and date the movie.

So while the movie technically does take place in the '60s thanks to that pesky newspaper, the idea was originally to have a world designed after the future envisioned by the s. Think slick technology from the nuclear and jet ages but with a style still in line with the era that gave us The Beatles.

How can anybody resist the pull of Tom Hardy doing comedy? This movie knows exactly what it's trying to be, and what it's trying to be is dumb and fun and nothing else. And it is extremely fun. Its time travel logic is a bit iffy, but "Days of Future Past" is still tremendously entertaining because, while epic, it's not overly serious. As "Back to the Future" taught us long ago, you can get away with a lot of logical leaps if you strike the right tone.

Who knows what was going on in this movie, but it was almost OK anyway. In the angsty and angry times we live in, "Deadpool" is perfect. Aggressively violent and flippantly meanspirited, it's the exact emotional release we needed. The main series "X-Men" movies have never achieved any sort of greatness, but at least "Dark Phoenix" ends the whole thing with one of the best efforts of the bunch.

And that sequence on the train in the third act is easily the best action sequence of these movies. Dude goes all the way out in this. The first "X-Men" movie that could be described as "fun.

There's some amount of "bit off more than they could chew" with this one because there is so much stuff we've never heard of that needs explaining -- the classic origin story problem. But the action is unbelievable, and probably the best and most interesting we've seen in the MCU in that regard. If they can hold on to director Destin Daniel Cretton I bet the second movie, unburdened from those standard first movie issues, is gonna rip.

Not quite the best "Spider-Man" movie, but still an absolute delight, with a cast full of scene stealers. Michael Keaton as the Vulture makes for one of the best Marvel villains ever. While you may get whiplash from the "Deadpool" sequel's occasional very serious and emo scenes, the rest of the movie is thoroughly delightful, somehow managing to be even funnier -- and more hilariously violent -- than the original.

And it's a very good one, with a cast that's perfectly suited for it. It's ever so slightly frustrating that this one doesn't fully integrate into the "Infinity War" situation, but even so it's thoroughly a delight. Evangeline Lilly is so good at the Wasp that I'm retroactively irritated that she didn't don the suit in the previous "Ant-Man" movie.

If it weren't hamstrung with all the requisite elements of an origin story, "Doctor Strange" might have been the best Marvel movie ever.

That's the power of the astonishing visual imagination on display here. People love to talk about the nebulous concept of capturing some long lost childlike sense of wonder though the magic of cinema -- "Doctor Strange" is one of the only movies I've watched as an adult that really accomplishes that. This is a movie that fully understands its main character and taps into what made him such a captivating figure for so long.

Yeah, Peter Parker's a superhero, but he's also a college kid working a minimum wage job to make rent while also taking university physics classes. Peter buckles under the pressure, something we can all relate to. As far as I'm concerned this is the "Iron Man" movie.

Somehow, Shane Black was able to infiltrate the MCU and make a legitimate Shane Black movie with all the wit and raw humanity you'd expect from him. It carries exactly the sort of authorial identity we should want all these movies to have. A thorough delight. This might be the most fun we had at the movies in all of , and so we can't help but love it. Multiply the two previous best Marvel movies by one another and you get "Civil War.

And as an action film it's easily the best of the superhero genre. You could certainly make the argument that "Infinity War" does not really hold up on as a complete movie on its own, because it kinda begins with the second act. But I don't care. The culmination of this ten-year shared universe experiment should stand on the shoulders of the movies that came before it. The fact that it packs such a profound emotional punch, however, is what really makes it work.

Natasha's long-overdue solo is held back a little by some fully unnecessary trademark Marvel CGI nonsense, but otherwise this film has a vibe that is fully it's own thing. It does away with the Marvel house style, aside from in two big action sequences, in favor of a low-key indie look that feels so much more intimate than any previous MCU flick.