Good outsells bad
First Things has praise for “The Incredibles”.
Incredible as it might seem, the Disney studios are to be congratulated for their moral rectitude. Allow me to explain. Having finally succumbed to renting the DVD of the animated feature film The Incredibles, I was stunned at how good it was. I don’t mean good in the technical or artistic sense, though it is certainly good in both senses. I mean it was good in the good old-fashioned sense of being morally healthy and unabashedly critical of bad or evil behavior.
Yes, The Incredibles is a very good movie. It’s perhaps not surprising but still enlightening to realize how some of Disney’s best-selling films have a fundamental conservative orientation. Disney, one of the most liberal of major corporate organizations, nevertheless realizes that their core audience is more traditional and conservative than they are.