Pixar must have run out of ideas after Coco when all they have are sequels to The Incredibles and Toy Story.

Rating: 3/10 (16 January 2019)

It's one of those sequels which insults everything that makes the first film great, like The Hunchback of Notre Dame or Mulan. Pixar's first bad sequel to a good movie since Cars 2. I love The Incredibles nearly as much as I love Toy Story, for about the same reasons everyone else does, so I don't feel the need to write more reviews for them. The Incredibles 2 removes any hope that superheroes would be legalized at the end of the first The Incredibles because the writers at Pixar aren't creative enough to give The Incredibles a new story with legalized superheroes, and all of the main characters are simplified, except for Frozone and Jack-Jack. Dash's only goal is to get his math homework done, which many of us want to do, but not something worth watching in a superhero film, and Violet went awry when she found out Mr. Incredible got Rick Dicker to make Tony Rydinger forget her existence, and not just forget seeing her in a superhero costume. At least it didn't ruin Syndrome, like how The Hunchback of Notre Dame II didn't ruin Frollo since this antagonist died in the first film.
I've always been offended by double standard where it is okay/funny for Helen to hypocritically become what she did not want Bob to do in the first film and Bob to mess up with dealing with the kids, but it's not acceptable the other way. A good story about female empowerment would not be afraid to give a female protagonist flaws. If you were worried about Vanellope going Turbo in Ralph Breaks the Internet, I would at least give that credit for having Ralph call her out on it when she got mad at him for ruining Slaughter Race for her, and Bob/Mr. Incredible would be right to be mad at Helen/Elastigirl for doing what he did after she told him to not do it. I guess it doesn't really help that there was no personal conflict between the second film's female protagonist and antagonist-Elastigirl vs. Evelyn-like the first film's male protagonist and antagonist-Mr. Incredible vs. Syndrome. But wait, there's more!
The Incredibles was a deconstruction of superheroes and how people in the real world would get mad at them for destroying things in the process of stopping bad guys, the dangers of capes, and villains who give heroes time to foil them by monologue, even having a scene where Elastigirl tells Violet and Dash that the bad guys they are facing are not like cartoon bad guys from Saturday morning cartoons. The Incredibles 2 becomes the genre of silly Saturday morning cartoons with none of the clever satire that the first Incredibles had. Many of the new superheroes in this movie, like Screech and Reflux, don't look like they could pretend to be normal and live a normal life without superpowers for 15 years when superheroes were illegal. Last but not least, Jack-Jack, who had but a few superpowers back in the first movie, now has any superpower that the story needs him to have. I'm glad to see superheroes be legalized at the end of this movie, but the Underminer is completely dropped from the story after the first 10 minutes, which I'm sure everybody who watched the first Incredibles came to the second Incredibles to see, and I'm a bit worried that when The Incredibles 3 continues from The Incredibles 2's cliffhanger where Violet gave Tony money to buy tickets for her and him, they will find another way to outlaw superheroes again.