Review of Incredibles 2 (2018) by Jdx_Awesome — 18 Jun 2018

So, I was pretty excited going into this movie. I do really like the first movie, I think it’s easily in the top 5 for Pixar, but this movie was a little disappointing. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it, but it didn’t even come close to what the first movie was, but it was still a positive experience.

The main issue was the plot. It wasn’t awful, but it was highly predictable. I figured out who the villian was nearly the second the character was on screen. It was either that or she had a crush on Elastigirl.

Honestly hard to tell at first. I also thought her motivation was kind of stupid, and her plan was on the weak side for sure. Another big issue was that the main characters changed in personality a bit.

Like Bob a total jerk the whole time. He had to pretend to support his wife based on his own selfish needs, so I think that says enough. Also Dash just became a total brat. Everyone else was pretty much the same.

One somewhat minor complaint is that some of the line delivery felt kind of cheesy to me. Now for the positive. THE ANIMATION. Pixar proves time and time again that they are the absolute kings of theatrical animation, and this is one of their best looking movies yet.

But I do think the ‘The Good Dinosaur’, ‘Cars 3’, ‘Finding Dory’, and ‘Coco’ look better. The writing here is mostly great. I laughed at nearly every joke in the movie. I especially liked the scene with Jack Jack fighting the raccoon, I thought that was one of the best parts of the movie, if not, the best part.

I also want to applaud this movies for somewhat pushing the movie rating system by saying words like ‘hell’, ‘damn’, and ‘God’, having guns appear (shooting them as well), and showing characters drinking alcohol.

All of that, and they still got a a PG rating. I know that they’ve done this in other Pixar movies, like ‘Cars’ and ‘Ratatouille’, but it still surprises and impresses me that they can get away with something that other animation studios with younger demographics rarely ever try.

But I do have to go shout out ‘Shrek’. They do get away with a lot in that movie in very clever ways. Overall, this movie is a fun popcorn flick that’s weak plot doesn’t affect it too much, which is rare.

I would recommend this movie to fans of the first and anyone who enjoys Pixar movies in general.