The Incredibles 2
(2018)Sequel to Disney/Pixar's 2004 box office crushing CGI action-adventure. Oscar-winning writer-director Brad Bird returns, alongside fellow Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter (voicing Elastigirl). Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for Jack-Jack while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world.... More
It's a tough transition for everyone, made tougher by the fact that the family is still unaware of baby Jack-Jack’s emerging superpowers. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson) must find a way to work together again.Hide
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Directed by Brad Bird ('Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol', 'Ratatouille', 'The Incredibles')
Starring Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner, Samuel L. Jackson, Brad Bird, Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener, Jonathan Banks, Sophia Bush, Isabella Rossellini
Written by Brad Bird
Studio Disney/Pixar
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The Incredibles 2
BY JackWallace superstar
Does Incredibles 2 live up to its title? Not quite. That said, it's far from a disappointment and one of the year's most entertaining movies. Like every other Disney Pixar film in recent years, the animation is top-tier. The action sequences are exciting, crafted better than most live-action blockbusters. Fantastic voice performances from Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter as Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl.
Brad Bird's script is smart and mature. The family interactions were really well-handled. While Elastigirl is out saving the city, Bob is the stay-home dad, dealing with Violet's teenage angst, helping Dash complete his confusing maths homework, and taking care of Jack-Jack, the most dangerous and destructive member of the Parr family.
A lesser writer might have taken a sillier approach to Bob's struggle and played this aspect of the plot entirely for laughs. Bird does a great job at balancing the comedy and drama. I loved Jack-Jack. He has some of the best moments in the movie, but I didn't like Dash and particularly Violet as much. Their characters were brattier than they were in the original.
My biggest complaint with Incredibles 2 is the villain, Screenslaver, a non-character that has a very weak set-up. Syndrome was a great, fleshed-out machiavellian villain. A character that poked fun at the "toxic fanboy". He wasn't a powerful force that snaps his fingers and wipes out half the universe's population. Syndrome was just a fraud that would get his ass handed to him if it wasn't for his tech. His motivation made more sense to me than Screenslaver's did.
Not a perfect movie like the first Incredibles (I wasn't expecting it to be) but still a satisfying follow-up. I had more fun watching this than almost every other superhero movie that's come out this year (Infinity War is still the best).Hide
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Incredibles 2 certainly proves worth the wait, even if it hits the target but not the bull's eye in quite the way the first one did. Full Review
Though it would be unrealistic to expect "Incredibles 2" to have quite the genre-busting surprise of the original, it is as good as it can be without that shock of the new - delivering comedy, adventure and all too human moments with a generous hand. Full Review
What was organic, and even obsessive, in the first outing comes off as pat and elaborate formula here. Full Review
Brad Bird's The Incredibles 2 is, much like its predecessor, delightful as an animated feature but really, really delightful as a superhero picture. Full Review
...while briskly and breezily enjoyable, The Incredibles 2 lacks the poppy freshness of its predecessor. Full Review
This follow-up is every bit the start-to-finish sensation as the original, and Brad Bird's subversive spirit is alive and thriving. Like its Oscar-winning predecessor, The Incredibles 2 doesn't ring cartoonish. It rings true. Full Review
Bird seizes on a key insight: healthy families can reconstitute themselves and come out better for it. Healthy sequels can, too. Full Review
This is the most bountiful visual feast seen yet in a year full of bountiful big-screen feasts. Full Review
BY Aaron Yap Flicks Writer
If Incredibles 2 hadn’t been 14 years late in the making, and there wasn’t a superhero movie coming out every other month, it’d could easily have been The Road Warrior of the Pixar stable. I’d be lying if genre fatigue hasn’t scrubbed a little freshness off the franchise.... More
Having said that, this sequel, even when it somehow begins to unfavourably echo Speed 2: Cruise Control towards the end, is muscular, breathtakingly kinetic and visually smashing, boosted by an eye-popping richness in colour and texture that could only come from years of refined digital craft. Despite reservations, I walked out of the theatre feeling like I’d just watched the year’s most exhilarating action movie.
Where the strikingly prescient The Incredibles took on the toxic fanboy, Incredibles 2 is very much of the Now, its slightly distended narrative preoccupied with gender politics, globalism and consumerism. In a switching of roles, Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) parks his breadwinner duties to play an increasingly harried Mr. Mom, while fan favourite Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) is thrust into the spotlight, becoming the face of a movement to overturn the outlawed, disreputable status of superheroes.
There are definitely beats that slip into naggingly stock zone—the spectre of Carpenter’s They Live looms unusually large over the villain’s masterplan. But Incredibles 2 hits enough exuberant peaks to overlook those quibbles. Anything involving Elastigirl on a bike and Jack-Jack discovering the destructive range of his polymorphic powers is dynamite, but I’m comfortable saying all of Brad Bird’s dexterous action sequences blow his live-action peers out of the water.Hide
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