u/Decemberskel

When people use "it's anime"/"too anime" as an insult they normally mean one or both of these two things

1. A personal distaste for popular aesthetic styles and design trends in japanese media

2. A distaste for various story tropes in japanese media that can vary from things like screaming and punching each other or sexualization of women

sometimes it is a case where a person is citing point one as an indication that point two will obviously be present.

I think in general this is bad for actual discussion and critique, because you are not actually vocalizing what you dislike about something you are using a loadbearing word to do the argument for you. You don't go "well it has a popular artstyle so I think that means it'll sexualize young girls" and realize that maybe you are taking a logical leap, or maybe not but at least you'd still be more honest with you and your possible audience about it.

This line from Syndrome is probably the most well-known from the Incredibles when looking at it with a critical lens. Many people who analyze the Incredibles as having an Ayn Randian message essentially use this line as the load-bearing proof to it.

Let's analyze what Syndrome is doing. He is manufacturing a dangerous event via his giant robot so he can swoop in and become a hero. There is nothing that would have prevented him from not doing all this and simply trying to help people with his inventions.

This is not "Oh syndrome is evening the playing field between normal people and supers" this is "Syndrome only cares about getting his and the only reason he would give his inventions away is when he is done with them" (which funnily enough makes him the most ayn randian character in the movie)

Incedibles as a movie is really not that interested in Supers vs normals as an overarching message. It is far more interested in the family dynamics of the Parr family and how superpowers and being ex-superheroes complicates that.