{"id":136769,"date":"2018-06-15T22:17:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T04:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136769"},"modified":"2018-06-16T00:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T06:57:00","slug":"no-spoiler-movie-review-incredibles-2-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/no-spoiler-movie-review-incredibles-2-2018.html","title":{"rendered":"No-Spoiler Movie Review: “Incredibles 2” (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our family is big fans of the original Incredibles<\/i> movie. After a 14-year wait, can even Brad Bird and Pixar give us something that could live up to expectations?<\/p>\n

In short? It was worth the wait.<\/p>\n

1. The movie, plot-wise, manages to echo the original’s themes (family, family roles, supers in society) in a way that expands on them, not repeating them.<\/p>\n

2. The artwork \/ animation is also clearly an evolution from the original — nothing radical, but with a lovely increase in detail and texture. This is a successor, but with 14 years of improvement in CG animation.<\/p>\n

3. As with the art, the story, too, is more finely textured than the original. It’s a more complicated tale, with many more characters to work with. And yet it still works, and remains understandable. The complexity doesn’t lose the core of the story — this very special family and their friends and their dreams of both normalcy and greatness.<\/p>\n

I’m very impressed, because there are so many ways this could have gone wrong — a repeat of the original, or shooting off in an odd or different direction, or (the fatal flaw of so many sequels) an exaggeration of the “best” parts of the original (cranking those elements up to 11, and discarding the rest).<\/p>\n

Bird and Pixar have managed to avoid all of that. This could have actually worked as the first<\/i> movie in a series. Good stuff.<\/p>\n

4. As I mentioned, there is a raft of new characters, and we get just enough detail from enough of them to make them feel fleshed out. That, too, is a delicate balancing act, and one that works.<\/p>\n

5. The movie is much more real-world in its setting than the original’s focus on Nomanisan Island. And it’s beautifully done, with a dazzling modern take on Mid-Century Modern style.<\/p>\n

6. In some very real ways, Frozone is the most demonstrably bad-ass character in the movie. At the same time, I am very<\/i> ready to meet his wife, Honey.<\/p>\n

7. There is some remarkable heroism<\/i> in this movie. There’s one that comes up late in the film that I won’t detail, but that was noteworthy in its difference from the original.<\/p>\n

8. There are some media properties used as background — again, some fine representations of mid-century aesthetic — that I very<\/i> much appreciate.<\/p>\n

9. We saw the movie in 3-D. I was intentional about this, because I thought that the style would make good use of that third dimension, and it did. I’m sure it’s also fine in 2-D, but 3-D was quite nice.<\/p>\n

10. There is no end-of-titles tag scene, but not only are the credits nicely enhanced all through, but there are some musical elements late in the credits that are definitely<\/i> worth sitting there for.<\/p>\n

Excellent movie. Very glad we went.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Okay, the elephant in the room: Did I like it better than the original?<\/p>\n

Nope. But I like it nearly as much, and I could see resetting that conclusion upward in a few years, after I’ve had a chance to see it several more time.<\/p>\n

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