Incredibly, the Supers (as these superheroes have come to be known) have all retired, relocating in and around Emeryville, California, a few miles across the Bay from the metropolis of San Francisco. There, employed by the entity mysteriously dubbed "Pixar Animation Studios," they have banded together to fight for truth & justice and, incidentally, to craft finely made, computer-generated fables to the delight of young, old and those in between.
From their not-so-secret headquarters (a former canning factory), they carefully fashion these CG animations, like their latest (the deviously autobiographical The Incredibles), before sending them out into a world starved for good entertainment. Let's join them there — shall we? — in the giant atrium decorated with an oversized captive Omnidroid killer robot and other trophies of careers spent at heroics, not far from the communal eating place (from which savory scents waft).
They say if you lurk in that atrium long enough, all the heroes of Pixar will parade by. And it's true. Steve Jobs (the innovator who bit into a radioactive Apple, emerging as Mac-Man) is missing from this adventure's line-up, recovering his health in a secret den elsewhere. But the others all appear, as if by magic (or perhaps lured here by the immediate prospect of lunch).
There is Ed Catmull (the computer genius whose discoveries make this medium work, whom, if we must, let us call Pixar Wizard), Darla Anderson (the Super Producer of previous masterworks) and newbie Gary Rydstrom (the Soundmaster, recently recruited to the Pixar Legion from the Lucasfilm Empire, where his talents made Skywalker Sound a Force to be reckoned with).
Dropping by here, too, to say hello (and dine a la carte), are such heroes — whose exploits have been celebrated in past interviews — as Ralph (The Art Director) Eggleston, Pete (Tiki Man) Docter, Bob (Head of Story) Peterson, Lee (Troubleshooter) Unkrich, Andrew (Captain Nemo) Stanton and the team leader, the mild-mannered, bespectacled John Lasseter (Toy Storyteller). But we're not here to recall classic exploits ("For the Birds," Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo) or look ahead to tomorrow's adventures (Cars). No, this is the time of Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles.
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