By: Michael Giacchino Average Rating: Binding: Audio CD Format: Enhanced, Soundtrack Label: Walt Disney Records Number of Discs: 1 Release Date: November 02, 2004
Amazon.com: Pixar Studios continues its string of computer animation successes with this satirical tale of a family of superheroes (picture a flabby, suburbanized Fantastic Four) forced out of retirement by -- what else? -- an evil genius and his plot for world domination. Director Brad Bird, whose Iron Giant was one of the 90's most sublime, if underappreciated animated triumphs, decided he wanted his Incredibles score to be a throwback to the spy-action genre of the mid-60's. Enter Michael Giacchino, the young composer who'd previously conjured a marvelously eclectic range of musical styles in service of TV's Alias. In his feature film debut, Giacchino (with a key assist from veteran arranger Jack Hayes) ups the ante of Bird's back-to-the-future spy-score gambit with an orchestral jazz soundtrack powered by the brash rhythms of television's MannixMan From U.N.C.L.E. beneath a veneer of melodic intrigue and detached elegance that recalls the prime of John Barry's BJames Bond oeuvre. More importantly, the young composer serves it all up with a sense of assured retro-cool and a distinct lack of irony that makes it all the more inviting. --Jerry McCulley
Genuinely Incredible The Incredibles was a fantastic movie in so many ways, but especially because of how it really captured the essence of old comic book and film super heroes. One reason it was so successful in achieving this was because of Michael Giacchino's score. Not only does the music fit the movie outrageously well, it also acts as a wonderful listening experience on its own. I have 200+ soundtracks in my collection and always turn back to The Incredibles. The Incredits is especially good because of its use of all the themes and get-you-butt-moving rhythm. As a previous review mentioned, this music is better than the material that influenced it.
Dare I say "Incredible" soundtrack? (groan) Love this sound track. So much great classic/spy/action music. Very diverse sounds from the 60's-ish spy era. Unfortunately, the soundtrack does start to blur & get more dull after about the first 8 or 9 tracks.
Better than the music that influenced it! First, let me say that if you don't like this soundtrack there's something wrong with you.
On a more serious note, my wife and I were avid "The Incredibles" viewers when the movie initially came out on DVD. We would watch it at least four times a week - we're both 35 and have no children but we both just love everything about this movie!
I didn't think I paid much attention to the music until we took our neice and nephew to Disney World a few weeks ago. I was sitting on a bench and a small roving band came around and played the "Incredits" live and I thought to myself, "I just NEED to get that soundtrack!" By the way, the band was awesome.
When you listen to the soundtrack you can pick out the different influences, especially the John Barry influence. I found myself thinking things like, "Hey, that reminds me so much of 'Goldfinger'" and "I need to watch 'Moonraker' and listen to the music again!"
One "problem" I have is that I like to listen to music when I go to bed. The first time I popped the CD in and laid down I just couldn't sleep because the music was setting off dialog cues from the movie in my head. I never realized just how much the soundtrack had sunk into my subconscience while watching the movie all those times.
Bottom line: this is an awesome soundtrack. The composition is wonderful and the musicians do a great job. Get it!
Ferociously good writing music I've been doing a fair amount of medical writing lately, and in terms of research and distillation it requires long, long, *long* hours at the computer, kicking whole pods of dead whales down the beach. Apart from the strongest possible coffee this side of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, the only stimulus I can manage is music, and it has to be orchestral and evocatively thematic.
When my latest crop of grandchildren dragged me into the living room to watch *The Incredibles* (which I'd purchased for them on DVD) a year ago, I was caught not only by the characterizations and the plot line - wonderfully true to the sentiments of all those great First (DC) and Second World (Marvel) comics that ensured I'd be literate in spite of those damnfool *Dick and Jane* readers (how many kids learn to spell "invulnerability" before they first encounter "See Puff," anyway?) in the '50s - as well as the music.
Obviously, I can't watch the movie itself while I work, but Michael Giacchino's scoring is not only wonderfully evocative of the film's imagery and pacing but mellifluous in the extreme. My taste in jazz essentially begins with Vince Guaraldi and ends with Chuck Mangione - powerfully melodic composers and performers - and now I've got to work Michael Giacchino into the temporal spectrum, especially easy as his work for this film was deliberately devised to tease forth precisely that "retro" sort of appeal. He delivers an homage to the best of the film and television scoring experts of the late '50s and early '60s (my own personal golden age of comic book literacy, you'll note), and he does it with imagination, zest, and polished expertise.
Anyone who enjoyed Brad Bird's film and wants to see it again in his/her mind's eye, anyone who took delight in the background music that made such an impression in the early *James Bond* movies, anyone who needs to stay up all damned night wrestling with online research and the dreary task of churning out readable prose would do well to add this CD to that stack of jewel cases kept within arm's reach of the desk.
Incredible! Since last october I have seen the Incredibles' movie at least 2 times a week. That is because my little 2 year old doughter beg me to turn on the TV and put on the DVD each time I came back from work. So I decided to estimulate her about music. Now, each morning when I drive her to school we listen the cd and she tell me each scene of the movie according to the track we are listening.
By the other side I think the music's composer did great adding a touch of "big band" style to almost all of the tracks, specially the first and the final scores.
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