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"

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.

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.

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