Jack-Jack Attack

Jack-Jack Attack is a short animated film set in the world of The Incredibles. The Parr family's youngest child, Jack-Jack, has shown no sign of the powers his parents and siblings possess, so no one thinks twice about leaving him with a babysitter, Kari McKeen, while the rest of the family is away. Kari settles in for an ordinary evening of puzzles and music, and the baby seems as helpless as any other. What she witnesses over the following hours suggests otherwise, and her attempts to look after him leave her increasingly convinced she is imagining things. The short is a side story that unfolds during the events of the earlier feature, explaining what happened at home while the superheroes were elsewhere.

Brad Bird wrote and directed the film, which followed The Incredibles in 2004 and preceded Ratatouille and Incredibles 2 in his filmography. Osnat Shurer produced it, and the voice cast includes Bret Parker as Kari, Bud Luckey as Agent Rick Dicker, Eli Fucile as Jack-Jack and Jason Lee as Syndrome. It runs five minutes and was released in 2005 by Pixar and Walt Disney Pictures.

Audience response has been consistently warm: on IMDb it holds a 7.5 rating from around 19,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 7.3 from roughly 1,000 votes. The two are close, indicating broad approval for this brief companion piece.