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It's just like a live-action Incredibles, only remade as an Chinese sitcom...
Funimation / 100 Minutes / 2011 / Unrated / Street Date: November 6, 2012
The tendency to refer to Incredibly Ever After as a live-action Incredibles is significant (and not just because of the movie's very title). This jokey tale of a husband and wife attempting to recalibrate their lives by balancing the reliability of domesticity and the thrill of superhero crime-fighting owes quite a bit to Brad Bird's accomplished Pixar hit - hell, there are even moments in this movie where it seems more animated than live action.
Pop Incredibly Ever After into your player and you'll witness the quiet home life of the Flints, a well-mannered couple who have legitimate day jobs, but both act as bigger-than-life action heroes after hours (they go by Gazer Warrior and Aroma Woman). They start the film resigned to a life of normalcy, but once evil forces force them to rejoin the cause, they bounce to action - and their relationship shifts as a result, of course.
Incredibly Ever After is diverting enough, I suppose, but it so steadfastly adheres to its story arc that the entire thing plays out as being painfully predictable. There are goofy nuggets within the film's scope that will absolutely appeal to the Mighty Morphin crowd, but taken as a whole, the thing never fully gels. Maybe if they'd brought Brad Bird in to do a story rewrite....