Rob Mahoney

I know it has a narrative, but first of all, that wasn't a diss to kids.

That was saying that that's what it was made for.

Now, if the kids reject it, then the kids reject it.

But the reality of it is like a lot of these movies that we're talking about, Mario does something different here.

The trick of an animated movie now is that the movie itself has to figure out how to appeal to children and then some adults.

And the way that they normally do this is to give kids all the stuff that kids need in a movie, which is also a good story.

I'm not saying it's not.

But then also give adults something that they can latch on to.

So any movie that's about—any kids movie or animated movie that's about the search for destiny—

which The Incredibles is essentially about somebody knowing who they are and then having to re-figure it out when family and all that stuff takes over.

It's really a movie for adults.

There's really things in The Incredibles that kids can't even really understand.

This movie tries to do that for the adult stuff strictly through nostalgia.

strictly through your relationship with the Mario Brothers game.

They're not trying to tell any story about Mario's existential dread.

The father and son stuff is played a little bit, but it's like, hey, remember the water world that you played in 1991?

Look, here it is on screen.

And I'm going to be honest with you.

I thought it was cool.

Some of that stuff works.