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…

The closest comparison I have for Incredibles 2 is Toy Story 3. They both pick up a franchise after over a decade between releases and re-ignite the flame present in all of our hearts, that special place where nostalgia is born. I liked this film, but not as much as I wanted too. 14 years between movies one would have expected the passage of time to occur (see Toy Story 3) but we are robbed of that feeling. There was a video game that picked up after the end of the first movie where you played as Mr. Incredible and Frozone and fought the Underminer. That sewed up the loose ends left by the first movie and left the audience…

As I mentioned in my previous review, I'm in the middle of moving (well more towards the beginning than the ending), but I've already boxed up all of my movies so when we show the house people can't look at/steal movies in my collection (the cult/horror section might even drive potential buyers away). Anyway, the wife wanted to watch Incredibles 2, but I really wanted to rewatch The Incredibles first as it has been 15 years since I've seen it. However, I wasn't digging through the mess to find the original, so I went into the sequel fairly blind as I didn't remember much of anything from the first film.

Incredibles 2 is solid, but didn't blow me away. Animated…