I can't abide Nicolas Cage. I don't think he has an ounce of charisma or stage presence. I could never understand why they keep making big budget movies with him. Then I found out his real name's Cuppola. Oh.
The Incredibles, however, deserves every dime of the zillions and zillions it's going to make.
Pixar has consistently made good movies, and as a result rewarded. Other than Toy Story 2, which I thought was their weakest and frankly should have gone direct to video instead of theaters.... and even it was a box office success, they haven't had a film yet that wasn't entertaining.
I'm not going to go some fluffed up, pcified remake of Alfie... I'm not going to go see you take a classic like the Manchurian candidate and turn it into an anti business PC crapfest. I even have less desire to see a remake of some 70s feminist made for TV release.... in fact I'm about as likely to see a remake of anything as I am of chopping off my own foot for fun.
Want to get me into the theater? Make good family movies... or make adult movies that don't center around violence, car chases, and/or gratuitous sex and nudity! Tackle hard issues if you want to make an adult targeted film... make one that makes people talk.. and not about the hooters on the lead or the explosions in the action.
There was a time hollywood could do that, not any more aparently.
It's not just his family connections (check your spelling, by the way :) ).
Cage is one hell of an actor. His performance in "Raising Arizona" was nothing short of brilliant.
But he was so great with Holly Hunter in "Raising Arizona!"
Mark