Well, by now I assume that everyone has either seen The Incredibles, or doesn’t plan to do it at all. So, in order to prove why I believe this was the BEST movie in a long, long time (not to mention just to burn off my Incredibles obsession) I’m going to do a VERY in-depth review now. That means I’m GOING TO REVEAL EVERYTHING ABOUT THE STORY, so if you haven’t seen it yet STOP READING NOW! On the other hand, if you saw it but want to make sure you saw or understood everything in the story, then go ahead and read.
To begin with, I’ll proceed witha FULL narration of virtually all of the movie’s events (except the small insignificant ones… which were actually the funniest.)
STORY:
The movie takes place on an Earth were super heroes are real. The story begins 15 years ago, on the night that the superstrong hero Mister Incredible married his girlfriend, the stretchable Elastigirl. On that night he committed two mistakes (besides getting married, I mean 
) that would come back to haunt him: he rejected a boy named Buddy who wanted to be his sidekick, and he saved the life of a man who tried to commit suicide. The man then sued him for wounds supposedly sustained during the rescue- and apparently won the case! This started a wave of similar lawsuits against the other “Supers.” The public climate got so bad, the government offered to cover for the heroes- if they agreed to retire. Which they all did.
Fifteen years later, Incredible (whose real name is Bob Parr) and his wife (Helen) were living in the suburbs along their three children: teenage daughter Violet (who also had superpowers: Invisibility, and Force Fields); her preteen brother, the superfast Dash, and a baby called Jack-Jack, who had demonstrated no powers yet. Most of them were having problems adapting to normal life.
Bob hated his job as an insurance claims adjuster (meaning he was supposed to try to KEEP people from claiming their insurance) and missed his heroic adventures. Violet hated that she and her family were not ‘normal’ and was terribly shy; Dash was not allowed to practice sports and took his frustrations out by misbehaving at school; and Helen was frustrated by being unable to get everyone else to act like a family.
Unknown to his family, Bob was doing some secret crimefighting with his friend, the ice-creating ex-hero Frozone, under the pretense of weekly night bowling. Unknown to the two of them, a silver-haired woman was following them around.
Helen finds out when Bob comes home too late one night (after saving some people from a burning building) and they had a loud argument about the risks of that, plus their other problems. They don’t realize they’re being watched by Dash and Violet until it’s too late, causing the kids to worry about them.
The next day (presumably) Bob loses his job when he can’t stop himself from punching his odious Boss thru a wall (after he prevented Bob from helping a man who was being mugged) necessitating intervention by his old government contact to keep his secret ID from being revealed. He didn’t notice the mystery woman leave a package in his office. When he gets home and opens it, it projects a recorded message where Mirage (the woman) claiming to work for a secret agency, offers to employ him. Thinking this is his chance to regain his former glory (and unable to admit to Helen that he’s been fired, after she wrongly assumes he’s been promoted!) Bob accepts the mission. He leaves home under the pretense of going on a business trip.
He gets flown to a place called Nomanisan Island (get it? 
) and told to help capture a rogue robot called the “Omnidroid.” Mirage warns him that the robot is programmed to learn as he fights. Despite that, Incredible manages to trick the robot into breaking itself up. Bob then agrees to continue working for his mysterious benefactor, despite his not revealing himself (Mirage handles things for him.)
In the coming days, Bob, much happier with his life, exercises to lose weight, buys a new car, and goes to his old friend, ex superhero costume designer Edna Mode so she can repair his costume, damaged in the battle with the Omnidroid. She agrees, but also insists on making him a new costume- but without a cape, which she explains are EXTREMELY dangerous to wear.
When Bob gets summoned back to Nomanisan, he again pretends it’s a business trip, but Helen is getting suspicious (except she thinks he’s having an affair.) When she notices that Bob’s old costume has been sewn up, she decides to call Edna about it, and she invites Helen over.
Meanwhile, Bob, in his new costume, arrives in Nomanisan, only to be attacked by the Omnidroid, and his employer reveals himself: it’s Buddy, now an adult, and a costumed villain calling himself Syndrome. He explains that this was all a revenge plot of his, and that Incredible was meant to be killed by the Omnidroid; this new version is more powerful, and Syndrome controls it with his bracelet. Unable to deal with both the robot and Syndrome’s paralyzing beam, Bob tries to escape into the island’s lagoon, but Syndrome drops a bomb into it. Bob escapes into an underwater cave, where he encounters the skeletal remains of a fellow superhero, Gazerbeam. He also discovers that Gazerbeam wrote the word “Kronos” on the wall of the cave before dying. A moment later, a flying device enters the cave and scans it, but Bob fools it by hiding behind Gazerbeam’s corpse. Syndrome now believes Incredible is dead.
Meanwhile, Helen visits Edna, who shows her costumes made for her and her children, all adapted to allow them to use their powers, as well as tracking devices. Edna then realizes that Helen doesn’t know that Bob was active as a hero again. Helen then calls Bob’s company, trying to talk to him, and finds out he was fired.
Meanwhile, Bob succeeds in sneaking into Syndrome’s base (built into a volcano) and reaches Syndrome’s computer word, where, using the password Gazerbeam wrote, he accesses his computer. There he finds out that Syndrome has apparently succeeded in secretly killing all the other superheroes (using a variety of Omnidroids); Bob’s family (and Frozone) are the last left. At that precise moment, Edna convinces Helen to use the tracking device in Bob’s suit to find him. Unfortunately, this activates the computer room’s alarms, and Bob is captured by its defense system.
Convinced by Edna to find and face Bob, Helen calls a friend who owes her a favor so he can lend her a private jet so she can travel to the island. But Dash finds their costumes, and her refusal to explain them (or where or why she’s going) baffles the kids. Naturally, they put them on and sneak on board, unnoticed until they’re near the island. Helen gets angry at them for leaving Jack-Jack, but they explain that left him with a teenage babysitter.
Meanwhile, Bob is being held by “energy chains” and is tortured by Syndrome, who demands to know who he contacted, not believing when the hero tells him he doesn’t know. When Helen tries to make contact with the island’s airport, Syndrome sends missiles to destroy the plane.
Helen manages to avoid some of the missiles, and tries to get Violet to surround the plane in a force field, but she had never created one so big before and fails; Helen tries to contact her attackers and get them to call off the attack by revealing there are children on board, but Syndrome refuses, and Bob panics when he realizes it’s his family in the plane. He pleads with Syndrome to spare them, but only makes the fiend all the happier to shoot them down. Eventually the plane is hit by some missiles, but Helen and the kids survive (see Comments as to how) and then land in the ocean after Helen stretches herself into the form of a parachute.
Syndrome mocks Incredible’s shocked horror at the belief that his family has been killed; carelessly standing too close to Bob, the enraged hero tries to grab him, but Mirage pushes the villain aside and is caught instead. Bob demands to be set free or he’ll kill her, but Syndrome calls his bluff, and then mocks him again for not being ‘strong enough’ to kill. He and Mirage then leave the chained, crying hero alone, but the whole incident has obviously affected her…
Meanwhile, Helen, who had shaped her body into rubber raft, arrived at the island with the kids, powered by Dash’s super-fast swimming. They find a cave to hide in, and Helen tells the children to stay hidden while she goes looking for Bob, and to use their powers if they’re discovered. Vi tries to apologize for failing to protect the plane, but Helen tells her that she trusts in her abilities. Then she leaves.
Elastigirl manages to sneak into the base, and figures out where Bob is being held. Before she finds him, however, a rocket hidden in the volcano takes off, which forces Dash and Violet to leave their cave (since in reality it was part of the rocket’s exhaust system.) Meanwhile, we see that Mirage is furious with Syndrome over his treatment of Incredible, and having chanced that he wouldn’t kill her.
The two siblings sleep in the jungle, but are discovered the next morning by a bird (which in reality was a robot-camera.) Mirage then sets Incredible free, and reveals to him that his children are still alive. Grateful, Bob hugs her- just as Helen finds them! Coming to the wrong conclusion, Elastigirl punches Mirage out, and almost refuses to listen to Bob, until Mirage explains that the children have been found out and that they’re being followed by Syndrome’s private army. The two of them rush to the rescue- still arguing.
When the kids are found by the soldiers, Vi turns invisible and Dash runs away at top speed, chased by velocipods (flying disks with buzzsaw edges, piloted by armed soldiers.) His pursuers end up killing themselves as they crash into trees and mountains trying to catch up to him. He then returns in time to save Vi from a soldier, only to in turn be saved by Vi from him, when she discovers she can create a Force Sphere with herself floating in the center! Using it as a sort of “hamster ball” Dash runs inside causing the sphere to roll away at high speed, even destroying some velocipods along the way- and finally crashing INTO their parents!! Reunited, the family works together to defeat more velocipods- until Syndrome shows up and captures them all with his paralyzing “Zero Point Energy” beam.
Back in the holding room, The Incredibles are all held by the energy chains while Syndrome explains his Master Plan: the rocket will deliver his greatest creation, the gigantic Omnidroid-Mark X (via a giant glider) to the heroes’ home city (Metroville) where it will run amock, making it look like an alien invasion. Syndrome will then show up to save the day, and thus gain a reputation as a new superhero! Bob is outraged that after having murdered so many real heroes, Syndrome wants to play one, but he explains that he’ll continue only until he gets bored, then he’ll just sell his technology, so that everyone becomes “equally special.” He then leaves the room, and the island.
Bob breaks down and apologizes to his family, admitting that this was all his fault for not appreciating what he had- and not noticing that Vi had already freed herself! (using her force field to disrupt the ‘chains’.) She then sets everyone free.
The group finds out that the Omnidroid is already terrorizing Metroville, but have no way to get there, until they find a rocket, which, while they can’t pilot, they can set to land on the same coordinates as the first one (as Vi pointed out.) Thought Syndrome had changed the computer’s password, Mirage helped them bypass that.
After thrashing the army, the Omnidroid was momentarily stopped by Syndrome (using his remote control bracelet) and lost one of its arms. But, distracted by posing before the public, Syndrome failed to notice that the robot had detected the source of his power over it- and blasted the bracelet off him, then knocked the false hero out, and then continued to ravage the city. Frozone tried to go to help, but his wife had hidden his costume!!
Meanwhile, The Incredibles arrive on the city in a winnebago that they stole from some of Syndrome’s men and then stashed in a second giant glider (held in place by Elastigirl’s body!!!) After a VERY rough landing (and some arguments as to HOW to get to the part of town the robot was attacking 
) Bob tried to insist that he would tackle the menace alone, which gets Helen mad at him- until he reveals he just couldn’t take the risk of losing them again. Helen convinces him to let her help- just as the Omnidroid finds them!
With Frozone’s help (apparently having finally found his costume) the Incredibles try to fight the Omnidroid, but it resists their attacks (thought Elastigirl managed to destroy its ray gun with a manhole cover). Bob finds Syndrome’s control bracelet in the ground, and the battle turns into a deadly game of keep-away as the heroes pass the bracelet around while trying to find a button that will stop it. Eventually they discover one that causes it its severed rocket-claw to launch, and they set up the robot to shoot itself with it- which it does, causing it to explode! Syndrome wakes up in time to see the heroes being cheered on by the crowd, much to his chagrin.
A while later, The Incredibles are being brought home in a limo by Bob’s government contact, who explains that Syndrome’s assets had been frozen, preventing him from using his riches for evil again. Bob asks him if this means that they can be superheroes again, but he explains that was up to The Government.
Helen checks out her phone messages from her cell phones, and discovers that something strange was going on with Jack Jack and his babysitter! But just as they are getting home, they also get a message where she explains that she has already handed the baby to the replacement babysitter they had sent.
Except they had sent no such person over! Fearing the worst, they run inside-
-To find Syndrome holding the baby!! Before they can act, he paralyzes them again, then gloats that he’ll train the baby to be HIS sidekick! When he tries to escape (by flying up to his manta-ray shaped ship, which was floating over the house) Jack Jack suddenly starts changing into a variety of forms, surprising the villain and causing him to drop the baby!! Jack is saved by Elastigirl, whom Incredible has thrown up, as she catches him in midair and turned into a parachute.
Syndrome vows he will try again, and gets a car (the same one Bob had bought with his money) thrown on his face for his trouble. Although the car misses him, it damages his ship… and causes him to stumble into one of its turbines, which catches his CAPE and yanks him inside, presumably shredding him to bits. The plane then explodes, then falls on the Parr’s home, destroying it… but the heroes survived thanks to Violet’s force field.
Three months later, the Parrs are all present at a race in which Dash has been allowed to participate! They have all apparently learned from their experience, and even Vi is confident enough to agree on a date with the boy she liked. After Dash wins second place (following his family’s instructions) the family walks outside the track field… only to witness a giant drill burst out of the ground, piloted by a mole-man creature who identifies himself as “The Underminer” and declares war on humanity- not realizing that he has a whole family of Supers getting ready to kick his ass! ^ ^
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