Jack-Jack Attack (2005)

It is a performances centric movie

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Jack-Jack Attack, a film originated from "The Incredibles" in 2005, is a childish but funny film that can make all ages laugh. Jack-Jack, the baby of The Incredible family, is left at home with a baby sitter and at this point, it is discovered that Jack-Jack has powers. While the sitter, Kari, is trying to give the baby some intellectual learning, Jack- Jack beings disappearing, traveling through walls, flying and coming alight. After being exhausted, Kari unknowingly gives the baby over to the villain of The Incredibles story, Syndrome, and this leads her to the FBI interrogation room. I am always impressed by Pixar's Short Films and continue to be amazed with what they can do. This short filmed really got me laughing and the graphics in this was spectacular and seamless. We obviously knew it was fake, but it gave me the sense of it actually happening. I really loved this and it is one of my favorite of all the short films! If you love The Incredible, this film will defiantly not disappoint.

The short film by Pixar and Walt Disney 'Jack-Jack Attack' is an extremely entertaining extra from the movie 'The Incredibles'. The story is about Kari, an enthusiastic babysitter, who babysits a hyperactive baby with superpowers, called Jack-Jack.Kari the babysitter has no idea what she's in for when she agrees to babysit young Jack-Jack. At the beginning, Jack-Jack appears to be just an average kid, but when Kari starts attempting to show the baby flash- cards, he disappears. This leads to Kari chasing Jack-Jack around the house, trying to catch him. While she's chasing him, his other super- powers are also revealed- he can burst into flames and shoot electricity from his hands. In the end, the babysitter is exhausted, and just watches Jack-Jack, with a fire extinguisher in her hands.Jack-Jack Attack is fictional, and aimed at young children, although parents would probably enjoy it too, as it is very well made and funny. The use of well-made animations, funny and mostly believable characters and an interesting plot create possibly one of Pixar's best short films. All in all, the short film was in my opinion very good, and made me want to see 'The Incredibles' again.

A comedy based short, Brad Bird uses amazing animation techniques to show expression an emotion through the characters, so you can genuinely feel pity for Kari and her stressful job as a babysitter. Bret Parker, who voiced young Kari, did an incredible job with the expression in her voice, to show distress and discomfort, along with playfulness and joy. The same goes for Bud Luckey, who voices Detective Rick Dicker, used technique in his voice to show authority, yet little emotion. Still, even with little to no emotion in his voice, Bud Luckey did an extreme job voicing Detective Rick Dicker. I enjoy the way that this film exert shows how any ordinary human being handles the extreme responsibility of taking care of someone who, unwillingly and unknowingly, has complete control over you. This is seen in the short in the way that during the beginning of the exert, Kari being completely ignorant and oblivious to the fact that Jack-Jack has supernatural powers. As the short progresses, Kari gradually begins to be aware of Jack-Jack extraordinary abilities, and her way of dealing with it is incredibly interesting.Brad Bird showed us how an average person deals with being in a situation where they have to be incredibly careful of their actions, in this case, being that Jack-Jack is only a toddler and Kari's job as a baby-sitter means she holds the incredible responsibility of taking only the most extreme care of him. It also shows that even in situations like these, there are still scenarios where one, or all of the people involved can be put in incredible danger, but the scenarios still must be treated with the utmost safety and concern.Altogether, I thoroughly enjoyed the four minute Pixar short, and thought it was amusing to watch, as well as interesting enough to keep the viewer pleased and entertained throughout.

*This Review May Contain Spoilers* Based on the background scenes of the film 'The Incredibles', Disney Pixar has created a short film called 'Jack-Jack Attacks'. This short film has a wide and open range of ages that it is aimed towards a wide range of ages, but I would say that it is mostly aimed towards the ages between 4-14 years old who are interested in comedy animation short films/ full films. It is the background story of a teen-aged girl who has offered to babysit Mr and Mrs Parkers 2 year old son, Jack-Jack. This short film begins with a calm environment where it seemed like any normal kind of babysitting, but slowly the girl become more anxious about how baby Jack-jack can move around the room so quickly. This film reaches its peak when Jack-Jack discovers his unknown powers.This short film is obviously aimed towards a younger and less mature age of children who are interested in a funny, fantasy, action packed animation short film. They have used an non-descriptive variety language that is used to help these young children in understanding the meaning and story line of the short film. They have done this effectively, helping the target audience – younger children - to understand what was happening. This comedy clip has been given many awards that have advertised it much more. The quality of the actual cartoon and animation its self was extremely good. This made it easier and clearer for the audience to see what was happening all throughout the short film.   This short film, Jack-Jack Attacks, has a very high quality story line and title that catches many young children's attention and makes attracts them into wanting to watch this short film. Its use of highs and lows of intensity are extremely positive and well done. – Warning, Spoiler -In saying this, near the ending of this short film, the evil super hero, Syndrome, appears at the door with an enormous white 'S' attached to his black fantasy superhero costume. The young female babysitter became very curious about what his sign, 'S', represented The young female baby sitter showed her emotions in becoming nervous and so made the comment, "it means baby sitter, yeah". This part of the short story was good in that it made the audience think about what was happening and what the outcome will be.