The original Incredibles is one of my favorite family animated films so I was looking forward to this. I didn't hate it. In fact there are a few things I like about it. The animation is great as usual, the choreography during the action sequences was fun and frenetic, there are a couple of funny jokes and I like that they managed to balance everyone's screen time so you got to see just enough of each character.
The issue when making a sequel is that it should not only stand on its own as a good film, but it should feel like a necessary extension of the original. This film does nothing to justify its own existence and it felt…

In a film that isn’t particularly full of bold choices, “Incredibles 2” starts with a doozy: It picks up right where the first one left off, seeming to ignore the fact that a lot has happened in the 14 years since Brad Bird first joined forces with Pixar. The world is no longer the same place that it was in 2004, and the state of its superhero movies is similarly unrecognizable from what it was back then. Faster than a speeding bullet, the genre has become a major engine of the modern Hollywood machine, and the idea of a world without superheroes is now as unfathomable to us as it always was to Mr. Incredible, himself.

A clever pastiche that…

Brad Bird is the best action director currently working. And the only person who should be doing superhero stuff right now, sorry. As much as I really enjoy Marvel movies, this movie made me realize what I’ve been missing from (what feels like) an eternity of superhero films– there’s a real sense of tension and heart in the things they do, even when you know everything’s going to work out because it’s a movie.

Everybody’s powers are so specific that the fight scenes seem choreographed like puzzle pieces fitting into slots, and not just various strong people punching each other or gaining new powers from their suits whenever it’s convenient. Even the new people introduced are given proper introductions as…

PHONING IT IN: THE MOVIE

Incredibles 2 highlights literally everything wrong with Pixar sequels: if you’re going to revive an old classic, almost everyone, critics and fans alike, are going to assume it’s a cash grab. And let’s be honest, you’re Pixar, so of course it is. But my god, at least pretend like you’re doing it for the fans! I was a very big fan of the first film growing up but that’s the thing, I’ve grown up. Pixar apparently made this film for those who grew up loving this film. Surely it occurred to SOMEONE, ANYONE in the writing room that maybe some sort of nuance to the writing and I don’t know, a bit of originality might…

I remember the joy I felt dressing up as Mr Incredible in elementary school. From a super young age, something about The Incredibles was different and truly stuck out of the crowd of “usual-ness.” Whenever I would think about this, Michael Giaccino’s score would kick into my subconscious, and that was all I needed. 

Now, The Incredibles is my favorite Pixar movie,  and just overall film, literally at how it maturely handles family, supers, etc..., like it’s all been said in an uncountable amount of think-pieces, reflection-pieces, whatever, that the expectations for this sequel are just unrealistic. 

I don’t want to say I was scared, I mean the first-film will always exist, but I was really really really trying to…