too little... too late...

Rating: 5/10 (5 July 2018)

I gave the original 11/10 as it was essentially the Fantastic Four, X-Men, Justice League and Avengers before their time. But this sequel was too little and too late. It doesn't make sense to make a movie 14 years later take place 1 minute after the original?
But instead of following from the momentum of the first, which essentially had the entire family united as ONE, it just went back to scratch, broke the group straight apart and reversed the gender roles of a single parent crime fighter.
Super disappointing story combined with slightly strange voices from Holly Hunter and Violet (which just didn't sound right).
I kept waiting for it to 'happen' but never did. Mr. Incredible and Dash were pushed into a baby sitting back seat role, Violet had her character arc completely reset back to the start of the original and the SJW, feminism messages of making it essentially a 'Mrs Incredible' movie just doesn't work... it would be like making Fantastic Four and only focusing on the Invisible Woman, it's a four person team, it wouldn't hurt to have them actually BE in the same scene at the same time???
Supporting cast was great in this one though- Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener, Sophia Bush, Phil LaMarr and Isabella Rossellini are some of my favorite actors with voices that steal the show.
I give this one 5/10 and won't bother going to see another on the big screen, not now that live action super hero movies have caught up to the original, and in the case of Marvel, are now far exceeding it.