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'Jack-Jack Attacks' is exactly what we were expecting from 'Walt Disney' and 'Pixar', a cute animation with an adorable story-line. Originally, this scene was meant to be included in the film, 'Incredibles', but was ultimately cut before the film's release to be included in the DVD edition. The short film is targeted at quite a broad audience, much like the 'Incredibles'. The short is based around the baby-sitter, "Kari. Like Carrie, except with a K instead of a C, and then an A, and then one R instead of 2 and an I instead of an IE", whilst she baby-sits little Jack-Jack, who lives in a family of superheroes with no powers, or so they think.

'Jack-Jack Attacks' is written with a quirky story-line and adorable animations, the relationships created with its characters are able to be enjoyed by a wide variety of audiences. Every viewer is able to appreciate the sticky situation that the Parker family have put Kari in, baby-sitting a child that is constantly showing off his, not so child- friendly, super-powers. Kari's original personality makes her a delight to watch, furiously attempting to remain in control of a situation that has gone off the rails. Some of the humour within the film is targeting an audience above the children who we would assume it would have been for, such as the reason why the 'sitter' couldn't have gone walking around with 'b-s' on his costume.

This short-film was just as we had all expected, humorous and a little quirky. It really made me want to see the 'Incredibles' again. Congratulations Pixar and Walt Disney, for another amazing short, well scripted and animated. Although it has been taken from the "Incredibles" it can still be understood as a stand-alone. With its seamless jokes and delightful plot-line, I would give it a rating of 9/10.

A somewhat awkward yet overly-confident teen babysitter brushes a mother off when caring for a seemingly harmless infant – who in fact harbors incredible superpowers. The short film 'Jack-Jack Attack,' an extension on what could've occurred in the Walt Disney animation 'The Incredibles,' follows this babysitter, Kari, as she struggles to control Jack-Jack, the cheeky juvenile as he experiments with his gifts. To poor Kari's dismay, Jack-Jack's mother cannot be contacted; she is left at the mercy of the child. Kari lands herself in an FBI interrogation room to face the music after the night's events and an unexpected visitor.

This short-film evidently features on 'The Incredibles' film disk, and hence is intended for the same audience. However, the plot is thoroughly engaging for an audience of all ages and gender – the idea of a helpless babysitter at the mercy of an infant may be cliché, but when the child takes on dazzling abnormal abilities, the mix becomes more intriguing. Aside from this, the animation in the short film is of high quality, clearly depicting humanoid emotions through the eyes and facial features. The main characters are constructed quite believably; the confident babysitter rapidly deteriorating in energy and patience, a sheen of sweat developing over her forehead, cheeks and eyes growing sunken and red-rimmed; the child Jack-Jack, bright-eyed as he giggles and gurgles through the night, finding this game with his babysitter splendid. It's fair to say 'Jack-Jack Attack' is a highly amusing, humorous short film suitable for everyone.

'Jack-Jack Attack' is a marvellous short extension on the animation 'The Incredibles'. Winning traits of the short film are an engaging and humorous plot, a high quality animation and intriguing and believable characters. 'Jack-Jack Attack' is a brilliantly constructed, laugh-out- loud short film thoroughly enjoyable by a wide audience – light-hearted, comical entertainment.

Jack-Jack Attack is a short-film from The Incredible film in 2004 released by Pixar Animation Studios. This short film begins the family babysitter, Kari McKeen, who is being interrogated by the government agent Rick Dicker about what occurred during a babysitting gig with Jack-Jack the Baby of The Incredibles family. It all starts with Kari reporting to Mrs Incredible via phone that she can handle anything Jack-Jack does… or can she? With Jack-Jack disappearing to another room every time Kari turns her back she can't have a time to rest.

As a 13 year old high school student, I feel as though Pixar has fulfilled the need for comedy in this animation with amusement for all ages from 4-70. The voice roles fit the characters perfectly especially for Kari and Jack-Jack as Kari has a perfect lisp for the role of 'braces' and Jack-Jack has the cute baby noise that everybody loves. The story-line behind the film is used effectively as it is a typical babysitting job gone wrong. After the viewing of this film it creates an urge for the viewing of the original Incredibles movie. Pixar uses beautiful animations to surprise everyone and to keep the Pixar Animation feeling we all know and love. Through this Pixar have worked long and hard on this short-film and it has all paid off effectively.

Pixar is world renowned in there Animation reputation with their beautiful creation of films including Cars, Finding Nemo, Toy Story and of course the film of the moment The Incredibles. With the use of upper-class displays of capturing the moment from the Pixar team and beautiful animations for everyone of all ages to enjoy, Pixar have done well to create a short-film for the film, 'The Incredibles'. The special effects have been used effectively in the short film 'Jack-Jack Attack' which is why I give it a rating of 8/10.

Jack-Jack attack is a Disney animated short, aimed at children at the age of 5-12 years old. It is an animated clip, which involves a teenager babysitting a very elusive baby with super-powers. Characters in the film include Jack-Jack, Jack-Jacks babysitter, Syndrome and a few more. The short clip begins with the babysitter being interrogated by an unknown man. She seems very fidgety and spastic. She talks of the various events which occurred during her babysitting period. Jack-Jack is believed to have no powers like his siblings and parents, but this is obviously not true as he shows the ability to pass through walls and turn into fireballs. All in all, Jack-Jack attack brings excitement and tension, and it would be extremely hard to, due to the short period it is shot. It is a great clip to watch after watching The Incredibles, as it provides more background on what happened to Jack-Jack while the family were saving the family.

This Pixar short is basically the "missing imagery" needed to fill in the blanks of the moments in the movie where the babysitter discovers Jack-Jack's powers. It's humorous and all, but its lack of fully rounded plot makes it only extra bonus material for The Incredibles.

Is this a problem? Well one of the strengths about the whole situation is that when watching The Incredibles, the audience doesn't know what Kari is experiencing with the baby. His surprise powers at the end with Syndrome are thus even funnier, and then after the movie is over it makes for interesting discussion on "What DID happen with Kari, then?" The imagination runs wild...

But instead of leaving it to the imagination, we just get this... so yeah, that's kind of disappointing overall. It's a well-done animation, it just is unnecessary and kind of ruins the opportunity the movie had.

Oh well, it provides a good excuse to charge over 20 bucks on the Incredibles DVD for all the "extra bonus features of happiness", so what can I say? --PolarisDiB

*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.

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.

Jack-Jack Attacks is a short film from 2005 Walt Disney, Pixar film 'The Incredibles' which is an animated, adventure movie that is aimed at younger children but all ages, even adults could enjoy this film. Jack-Jack Attack was originally part of the movie but was removed as it was unnecessary.

Kari, a confused, young, babysitter is placed in a dark room with an FBI agent and asked about the situation. Whilst the Incredibles are out Kari is put in charge of the baby Jack-Jack who secretly has superpowers that allow him to ignite, fly through walls and laser objects with his eyes. As his super powers get out of control the doorbell rings. Desperate to get rid of the baby Kari hands the baby over to the 'replacement' which actually turns out to be the evil character 'Syndrone' .

This short yet adorable and humorous is a perfect addition to 'The Incredibles' with the funniest characters and emotions. Overall, I could recommend this short film to everyone as its humour can be enjoyed by everyone.

Jack- Jack Attacks short film from 'The Incredibles' is designed for children of the age of about of 5-12 years old. It is an animated clip, which involves a teenager trying to babysit a hyperactive baby with super-powers. This baby burst into flames, flew through walls and gained incredible strength. The baby-sitter was just trying to teach the baby (Jack- Jack) with flash-cards, but the baby kept disappearing. When someone showed up at the door, she was keen to get rid of the baby. So, without knowing she handed the baby off into the hands of a villain. She questioned why there was a 'S' on his shirt, but he just made an excuse. She was then interrogated by a man about this situation because she gave this baby to Syndrome without knowing he was a highly- dangerous villain.

Obviously this short film is fictional and designed for children of a young age. However, this short film is created extremely well; it is something that adults may also find interesting and funny to watch with their children. This film being animated extenuates facial features on certain characters to make them almost look silly which is a good thing because it's funny. This scene was cut out of the actual movie 'The Incredibles' because the movie was too long and possibly this scene was deemed as unnecessary. Personally I believe that this clip should be added in because it is hilarious.

This film was awarded many awards in the fictional- comedy section. Clearly this film being fictional and animated, offers creativity and humorous situations which cannot be created with animations and a fictional story line. However, I am not in the targeted age group, so I would not watch this film. I would definitely recommend this film to children in the targeted age group. This film being fictional, offers creativity and hilarious situations.

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.

"Jack-Jack Attack" is a 5-minute animated short film and spin-off from Brad Bird's "The Incredibles". I have not seen that one yet, so I cannot talk about any more references. Anyway, Bird is also writer and director for this short film here before he moved on to "Ratatouille" and live action. Early on, we see a babysitter who is interrogated about last night when she had to babysit the Indredibles' youngest. As she tells the officer, we see what happened the night before. It seems she is in for a not too stressful evening and plans on playing some games with the kid to see how talented it is with sticks and stones. But things turn for the (sitter's) worse pretty quickly as the little rascals begins to flash through the house, starts to shoot laser from its eyes and even becomes a fire-baby at one point. In the last shot, the girl gets erased her memory about the incident, probably so that the baby's (or even the entire Incredibles's) super powers stay a secret. The characters and whole animation looks very Pixar. The officer could also have stepped out of the movie "Up" the way he looked. The girl was fun to watch as she stepped into insanity the longer the evening went, but the baby was not too interesting. This Pixar short did not get nominated for an Academy Award and I can see why. Most of their other works are better.

Everybody expects quality work from Pixar and Brad Bird and that's exactly what they get from The Incredibles. Now everything that the movie stood for is continued in the hilarious short Jack-Jack Attack.

Bringing back all of the original voice and art talent from The Incredibles, writer/director Brad Bird puts together a brilliant comedy sketch based on ideas from his original concept of the movie. Bird gives new life to two of the movies most animated minor characters Karrie McKeon and Jack-Jack Parr setting them both up for the adventure of their lives. The short is full of action and nonstop hysterics that run hand in hand with the movie. Viewers find out exactly what happens while the family is away from the home and get more than a little bit of insight into Kari's quirkiness as well as Jack-Jack's cuteness.

While the clip is geared more towards kids than the movie was, Jack-Jack Attack will find a place in the heart of every adult. I challenge any one person out there to say they did not like it. When it's over your only complaints will be that it wasn't longer and you didn't see it sooner. My one warning is to be sure you watch the movie The Incredibles first at the risk of spoilers being revealed in Jack-Jack Attack. Kudos to Bird and company on more, good quality family entertainment.

The short film titled Jack-Jack Attack is centred around the baby of the Parrs family, Jack-Jack, and all the chaos and havoc he causes while being babysat. While this scene was originally meant to be included in its feature length component, The Incredibles, this hilarious and exciting plot along with its amazing graphics and life-like execution, Jack-Jack Attack has the ability to stand out on it's own.

His awkward but confident babysitter, Kari, starts the situation on a high note, brushing off his mother and taking things into her own, educated hands. While Kari breaks out the flash cards and the brain stimulating play toys, Jack-Jack experiments with his unique gift whilst turning Kari's night up-side down.

Kari has many failed attempts at trying to contact Jack-Jack's mother and is left to control the situation herself. Still not understanding why Jack-Jack harbours superpowers, Kari's up-beat attitude and patience wears thin. Jack-Jack single handedly destroys the house by igniting himself on fire, passing through walls and vanishing and reappearing in different spots around the house before Kari's very eyes.

The animation is hilarious and succeeds in finding the balance between exciting and predictable. This film brings back memories and makes you want to see The Incredibles again. I congratulate Pixar and Walt Disney on another amazing short film and give it a well deserved 9/10.