So average it becomes disappointing

Rating: 5/10 (29 July 2018)

It goes without saying the original Incredibles is fantastic. It's a stylish, well paced, smart, and funny family movie that has respect for its audience. It also has a tone to it that's extremely unique to the genre that really invests and intrigues.
Incredibles 2, however, goes with a more traditional animated kids movie tone. In that sense, the movie works fine, but that's just the issue. The movie doesn't give the watcher anything cool or unique. It's just a really well animated movie, with pretty lackluster comedy and characters.
The visuals are by far the highlight. The movie looks great and the visual humor, for me, is the only comedy that works. Some character designs and facial expressions are extremely funny to look at. The choreography in the action scenes are also fantastic. The fast paced and stylish action is pretty great in most scenes.
This only goes so far, however. The sometimes cringe worthy dialogue, the bland story, the obvious twist (in my opinion), it just seems so wasteful. The writing is basically interchangeable with pretty much any other Pixar, Dreamworks, or Blue Sky movie, which Is really sad, because of the originals sharp and smart dialogue.
It's comprable to Kubo and The Two Strings, except that movie looks much better and is occasionally really sweet and heartfelt.
In my mind, it's somewhat sad that the movie is getting the acclaim it's getting. I'd rather see a movie that tries something new and falls flat than another text book animated kids movie. I still had an enjoyable time and the movie has a place due to the audience it clearly has, but it's showing Pixar that they can get away with lazy writing and lack of their so missed style.