Review of Incredibles 2 (2018) by Gexis — 17 Jul 2018

I see people criticizing The Incredibles 2 for it's apparent “foul language” and for how “it's not suitable for smaller children.” In the first movie we literally see a man jump from a 10+ story, city building with the intent of taking his own life, for some reason that's better for your children than them hearing some characters using words like “damn” and “hell” in commonly used phrases; or the parents becoming so called “zombies” for a short time.

Are you kidding me? That is the most absurd criticism I ever heard and really goes to show how much people are sheltering their children nowadays.

I wouldn't even say this movie was “darker” than the first movie. If you go back and look at the fist films plot, it's about how superheros can't do what is morally right because of corporate heads who only care about money. This is dark in of itself. The start of this movie was almost the same as the first. Superheros who cant do their jobs get a random invitation to do superhero stuff again. This time, instead of Mr. Incredible doing all the superhero stuff Elastigirl gets the spotlight, while Mr. Incredible is at home babysitting the kids. The villain in this film is much weaker than Syndrome from the first movie. Syndrome had a pretty okay reason for wanting to do the bad stuff he did. Unlike the villain in this movie, who just came off very petty and pathetic.

Even the new superheros who were introduced didn't not play a well enough role in the movie. We barely saw them, let alone saw their powers used in a well enough fashion for them to be considered cool superhero characters like they should be.

I'd honestly say the best parts in this movie were when Mr. Incredible was trying to be the best dad he could be, by trying to fix his daughters relationship and taking care of Jack Jack.

The animation, colours, and everything visually was far, far superior of course but, unfortunately that was the only thing better about this than the first. That being said, was this a bad movie? No. Was it entertaining? Yes. I'm simply comparing it to the crazy standards the first movie was able to set and I don't think this movie was original enough or innovative enough to exceed those standards.