| Jack-Jack Attack | |
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| Directed by | Brad Bird |
| Written by | Brad Bird |
| Story by | Mark Andrews Rob Gibbs Teddy Newton Bosco Ng |
| Produced by | Osnat Shurer |
| Starring | Bret Parker Bud Luckey Eli Fucile Jason Lee |
| Edited by | Stephen Schaffer |
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| Distributed by | Walt Disney Home Entertainment |
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Running time | 4 minutes, 44 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Jack-Jack Attack is a 2005 American animated short film written and directed byBrad Bird and produced byPixar Animation Studios. It is tied into and included on theDVD release ofThe Incredibles.[1]
The idea for this short came from an idea for a scene originally considered for inclusion inThe Incredibles; it was cut from the feature and subsequently expanded into this short. The short revolves around the situations betweenJack-Jack and hisbabysitterKari McKeen (who was hired by Violet and Dash to watch Jack-Jack) during the events of the main film.
Rick Dicker, a government agent assigned to aid "supers" in maintaining their anonymity, interviewsKari McKeen about the events unfolded while she was babysittingJack-Jack Parr, the youngest of a family of supers and son ofBob Parr, alias Mr. Incredible, andHelen Parr, alias Elastigirl.[a]
Kari begins by recalling that she received a call from Helen, who expresses reluctance about allowing Kari to babysit. Kari attempts to reassure her that she is more than capable of taking care of Jack-Jack, but the conversation is cut off by Helen's jet being fired upon. Thinking nothing is wrong, and that they were simply cut-off, Kari turns her attention to Jack-Jack. She asks him if he is ready for some "neurological stimulation" and plays the third movement, the Rondo alla turca, of Mozart'sPiano Sonata No. 11 for him, which results in Jack-Jack having an epiphany about his latent superpowers.
When Kari's back is turned, Jack-Jack disappears then reappears in the kitchen drinking a baby bottle. Finding this odd, Kari tries to call Helen again. While she is leaving a message, Jack-Jack floats onto the ceiling and spills milk onto Kari's face. Kari puts him in his playpen, flipped upside-down so that he doesn't float away, and tries calling Helen again. Jack-Jack escapes the playpen and appears on a high bookshelf. Just as he falls, Kari dives in and tries to catch him, but fails when Jack-Jack passes through the floor into the laundry room. Running down to find him, Kari sees Jack-Jack passing through the walls and floating around, babbling happily, before she finally catches him.
Kari takes Jack-Jack back upstairs to the playroom, ties him to a barbell and tries to show himflashcards to calm him down. This works well until she shows him a card of a campfire, at which point he suddenly burst into flames. Horrified, Kari picks up Jack-Jack with the pair of fireplace tongs and rushes into the bathroom, where she douses him in the bathtub filled with water.
The next day, an exhausted Kari is teetering on the verge of madness, but has since learned to anticipate and counter the spontaneous outbursts of Jack-Jack's newly emerged powers. There is a knock at the door; Kari answers it and meetsSyndrome, who asks if this is the Parrs' residence. Kari thinks he is the new babysitter come to relieve her, but wonders what the "S" on his costume stands for. Syndrome claims that it stands for "Sitter" because if he calls himself "Babysitter", his uniform will have to say "BS" on it, something that would make it impossible for parents to take him seriously as a result.
Back at the interrogation, Dicker is incredulous that Kari believed Syndrome and left the baby in his care, to which Kari defensively shouts that she was not in a sound state of mind at the time and the baby was not acting normal. Dicker then asks Kari if she had told anyone else about the incident, to which she replies that she told her parents, who did not believe her and thought she was joking. As Kari expresses her wish to forget the whole event, Dicker promises that she will, and activates a device that erases her memory of the events.
Composed by:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The short was included in theDVD release ofThe Incredibles in 2005 andPixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 in 2007.
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