As good as the original

Rating: 10/10 (27 July 2018)

I gotta say, back in the day I wasn't a big fan of The Incredibles. Maybe I was just too young to care about anything that wasn't a funny one-liner or an epic action set piece, and now, it's really weird to think of a time I didn't like the first film, because seeing it as a grown-up makes me reflect about the things that happen in it. Just because Syndrome is the villain doesn't mean he is straight up evil, it's not all black or white, but rather shades of grey. I think that that's what it means to grow up, bacause as a kid you would think of your friends as goods and your enemies as bad, but as you grow up you start to think about the motivations behind those two, and that's what captivated me about the first film. I really love that movie, it's not Pixar's best effort but it really has a place in my heart next to Toy story, Toy story 3, Inside Out, Up and the sequel to The Incredibles, and the latter is the one I'm gonna talk about today.
Hitting theaters 14 years after the first film and getting huge praise by critics and audiences around the world and breaking tons of records at the box office, the sequel to The Incredibles is real fun, packed with laugh-out-loud moments as well as thrilling action scenes, Incredibles 2 has almost everything for everyone, but -as in most Pixar films- the heart of the film is at its core. Mainly because it's about a family, one that is not perfect but rather incredible, since all of this characters are fully fleshed out and you really care about them, and that is mainly thanks to the first film. There are some flaws in this film too, it's not perfect by any means, for example the villain in this movie is not in the same level as Syndrome, and though his motivation was a little less impactful as the villain in this film, the execution of the villain was better portrayed in the first installment. In this one right off the bat you can tell who he / she is, the motivation is there but the execution is kind of all over the place, a little bit nonsensical to tell the truth but it's something you can let pass and that's what I did, because the rest was so much fun and entertaining that just a little plothole here and there is nothing you can't overlook. But that's not my only problem with this film, the other one is the intelligence of this film, don't get me wrong, this film is terrifically written but the shades of grey that were presented to everything the heroes did were replaced with good and bad, and the truth is nobody is a 100% good or a 100% bad, people are mostly in the middle, just like grey, and even though the villain had the motivation to do this, it's mainly vengeance the thing he / she is looking to achieve.
But now with the good stuff, this film has some of the best action you'll see all tear long, maybe Mission Imposible Fallout tops it but whenever there's a fight scene you just look at the screen, marveled at what Brad Bird and the people at Pixar could achieve. The animation is stellar, too, some of the environments looked photorealistic, for example the ocean or the streets. I mean, someone would think that at some point Pixar will reach maximum level of detail in their works but every year they just get better and better. Another thing I'd lile to point out is that the relationship between the family members is just so real, the script is written in such a way that you stop and think for a minute if it's a real conversation or not. But the best things about the film are Jack Jack, Violet, Elastigirl and Edna Mode, I mean they steal every scene they are in. In the first film Violet just seemed like a bland character to me, but now she has way more things to do and more layers that make her into a fully fleshed out character. Another thing that is exceptional is the comedy, not only the jokes or the lines charcters have to say, but the slapstick that reminds us of Tom amd Jerry and other cartoons like that.
All in all, this film is so good that I might watch it again tomorrow. If you have kids and you wanna take them to the movies, scratch that, if you are an adult and wanna go to the movies, Incredibles 2 might be the best pick, between that and Mission: Impossible Fallout.
Thanks for reading,
My rating is: 9.7/10 - A or A+ - 97% - 5/5 stars