An empty cashgrab that offers nothing.

Rating: 4/10 (3 July 2018)

I watched the first movie around 10 years ago. It was a very good movie: The animation was incredible for the time, the story was pretty deep and complex, the universe was explained, the action was amazing and the characters were defined. It was a very good experience and I actually recomend it.
The second one is... just that. The second one. Let's put the good first, because I know your finger is already twitching in the "this is not useful" button: The animation is flawless. It is extremely detailed, even physically acurate. And the action scenes are good: Whole action with no thinking required. The music and sound design are solid, if not simplistic until the credits roll and you actually hear the theme song for Frozone (You rule man).
Speaking of thinking... The plot is really bad. Painfully lazy. It goes into Nazis at the center of the earth territory. It is so painfully predictable that you only require 15 minutes to predict the (not at all surprising) villain, its completely flawed logic and reasoning and even the final sequence. Also its plan is so incredibly dumb it falls into irony when it fails because of how much effort it used on making it fail: It helps the good guys, it gives them the means to defeating it and even gives them enough time for them to save the world. It was pointless.
The humor is "Jack jack is a baby doing baby things but with superpowers. Laugh." It fails unless you have the brain capacity of a 6 years old. Or you have a very simple sense of humor, and I mean simple. As in "somebody got hurt or almost. Laugh." Also called the "early youtube syndrome".
Also they tried to develop a baby as a character... why?. You have a teenager that has teenager problems, with no development on her character. Or an arc. Violet is actually better defined in the first film! She was a shy teenager, learning how to interact, learning to love her family, learning to control herself and to be responsible. Here she is just there... being the deus ex machina. Dash is just there too, not being even a good deus ex machina, unless activating remotely a car and causing property damage counts as it. Mr Incredible is just being there, not learning anything and failing to evolve, only lies at himself and others to cover up his errors and to learn nothing. I can't reinforce that point enough: he learns nothing.
Elastigirl is just an independent woman that needs no man... wait a minute... no no no no... don't you dare... Yes, you did. You broke your own movie universe disney. You did it. You transformed a fully alive family where everyone had an arc, everyone was learning and everyone can progress and everyone is learning into a joke where only the mother and the baby are important. Good job.
The morale is... pffft... keep dreaming. The first one teached you that everyone in your family is important even if you can't always tolerate each other. This one teaches nothing. It is completely devoid of meaning.
Pointless.
Also important: The first film actually has a heart: It makes you feel emotions, excitement, the characters actually try to resolve problems, they can interact with a natural pace. You are actually afraid for their lives when necesary. It actually warms your heart. This one can't. It is just pointless joke after pointless scene about pointlessness.
In short: An empty premise kills a 14 years old masterpiece. Stay with the original.This is only a full-action animated soul-less cashgrab.