Lost Vision

Rating: 7/10 (14 June 2018)

Great visual animation does not make up for the cringey dialogue and uncompelling story. The characters that you fell in love with in the original act so different in this movie and sometimes contradictory to their character. Most of the scenes don't move the story and the ones that do have laughably unsmooth exposition. Most of the scenes are bits to try to get the audience to laugh which would be fine if they were true to the characters and there was a compelling story that they fit in. The villain does not work at all; dumb motive, dumb plan. They definitely had potential but for me it was not executed well and it wrapped up terribly. Granted, there are some cool showcases of powers that were creative and new which is where I thought this movie shined. And I also thought all the scenes with Edna were great and I felt like I was watching an Incredibles movie. It doesn't forgive the faults. One thing I was really excited for was the score from Michael Giacchino; In the original, he flexed such an impressive ability to compose emotions and motion while also fitting the score together, perfectly, with the pacing of each scene. In this one, the score doesn't get time to shine and is less noticeable. It's partly due to amount of dialogue in this movie. It came to a point where I felt relieved when there wasn't and I could just watch the action and listen to score. Overall, this feels like another cheap-shot try-hard sequel. They make incompetent references to the first movie. Everything seems forced and unnecessary. I found myself bored at points during this movie which really disheartened me. See it for the action, Edna, jack-jack's cuteness, and small gags that mirror regular family life and feuds but don't expect a compelling story, dynamic dialogue or interesting characters. I feel like an old man who doesn't understand the world anymore because I know a lot of people will like this movie. Maybe because the original was so magical, this one could never live up to my expectations. But to me, it didn't get close.