The Incredibles 2

***The Incredibles 2*** is a 2018 American computer-animated superhero film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and written and directed by Brad Bird. The TBD Disney animated feature film, it is the sequel to *The Incredibles* (2004) and the second full-length installment of the franchise. The story follows the Incredibles as they try to restore the public's trust in superheroes while balancing their family life, only to combat a new foe who seeks to turn the populace against all superheroes. Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Samuel L. Jackson and Billy West reprise their roles from the first film; newcomers to the cast include Huckleberry Milner, Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener and Jonathan Banks. Michael Giacchino returned to compose the score.

Following the success of *The Incredibles,* Bird postponed development on a sequel to work on other films. He attempted to distinguish the script from superhero films and superhero television series released since the first film, focusing on the family dynamic rather than the superhero genre. It is Disney's third non-Pixar computer-animated sequel (after Disneytoon Studios' *Despicable Me* sequels), Walt Disney Animation Studios' first computer-animated film sequel, and the first Disney sequel to be created by the original film's writing, directing, and producing team.

*The Incredibles 2* premiered in Los Angeles on June 5, 2018, and was theatrically released in the United States by Walt Disney Pictures on June 15, 2018 in Disney Digital 3D, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, IMAX, IMAX 3D, and 4DX formats. The film received largely positive reviews from critics, with praise for its animation, humor, writing, and musical score. The film made $182.7 million in its opening weekend, setting the record for best debut for an animated film, and grossed over $1.2 billion worldwide, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2018, the second-highest-grossing animated film, and the 15th-highest-grossing film of all time during its theatrical run, along with being the highest-grossing Disney Animation film, until it was overtaken by *The Super Mario Bros. Movie* (2023), and the third to gross $1 billion after *The Nelsons* (2015) and *Frozen* (2013). *The Incredibles 2* was named by the National Board of Review as the Best Animated Film of 2018. The film was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 76th Golden Globe Awards and 91st Academy Awards, but lost both awards to *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse*.

## Plot

Picking up from where the first film left off on, while leaving Jack Jack in the care of their housekeeper and governent agent Tom Cat, the Parr family confronts the Underminer as he makes his way towards City Hall while also grounding buildings and robbing the city bank. While the villain managed to get away, the Incredibles manage to stop the drill just on time with the help of Frozone. But they are then arrested for intervening in such an incident and for destruction of property.

Tom and Rick Dicker of the "Super Relocation" program tell Bob and Helen that the program is being shut down due to this event and that the Parrs will be left on their own but wishes them the best of luck. Tom decides to stay with them since he has nonwhere to go since he was asigned to help Bob and Helen in their surbubian lives. Bob and Helen tell Violet and Dash about why they retired of superhero work and that they must live normal lives from now on.

Lucius meets up with Bob and Helen to inform them that they are being contracted by Winston Deavor of DevTech. When they arrive to meet him, they are greeted by Winston and his sister Evelyn. Winston proposes a plan to help give back the superheroes public support by setting up missions and publicity stunts to better their reputation. He enlists Elastigirl due to being the least destructive out of the three to which she agrees. Winston offers the Parrs and Tom a new home as a sign of appreciation and giving Helen a new suit and new bike, leaving Bob, Tom and the kids on her first mission.

Flying out to New Urbem, Helen stops a newly built monorail train from crashing after it unexpectedly goes backwards at high speeds. She discovers that the train driver was under the influence of the Screenslaver, a villain who hypnotizes people through any monitor he hacks into. During an interview she encounters the villain again by exposing his plans to kill the Ambassador by hijacking the escort helicopter she's on but Helen quickly comes to her rescue.

Elastigirl's recent actions have caused a movement of superheroes stepping out into the public, wanting to help out others like they did in the past. These include the likes of Voyd, He-Lectrix, Reflux, Screech, Krushauer, and Brick. She manages to figure out the Screenslaver's location by pinpointing the signal where he broadcasts from another TV interview. Helen arrives at the scene with the Screenslaver attempting to escape but manages to capture the villain, although the suspect claims to only sell pizzas.

Meanwhile, Bob and Tom struggle to take care of the kids. Violet becomes very distraught when her crush Tony Rydinger does not remember her as Tom and Dicker wiped out his memories of her after he found out she was a superhero. Dash struggles with regular school work which leaves Bob frustrated as well. And after fighting a raccoon, Jack-Jack's multitude of powers start to show even more with Bob and Tom being unable to figure out how they work. But Bob eventually manages his job as a parent, going the extra mile to help his two eldest kids by having Edna Mode babysit Jack-Jack, who ends up giving Bob and Tom a way to control the baby's powers.

Meanwhile, a victory party at Devtech is held to celebrate the capture of the Screenslaver and the global legalization of Supers with Winston Deavor announcing the televised signing of the International Supers Accord by the ambassadors of the United Nations to be held at the EverJust ship the following morning. Helen then investigated deeper into the identity of the Screenslaver as she ended up in Evelyn's control room as she noticed something strange in one of the monitors. It turned out that one of the Screenslaver's monitors during the fight earlier was connected to her suitcam. As Helen delved deeper into truth, Evelyn enters and played along until she slipped a pair of Hypno-goggles on Helen's eyes before she could alert anyone, rendering her unconscious.

Back at Bob's side, he and Tom are given a controller by Edna to manage Jack-Jack's powers and take him back after the night. Bob, his kids and Tom marvel at Jack-Jack's powers at home while testing the device, learning that they can also track his location.

Few hours before the historic moment, Helen wakes up, being tied up to a chair in the freezer room of the EverJust, unable to move due to the weakness of her powers as Evelyn, who reveals herself to be the Screenslaver, pointed out. Evelyn also revealed that she hated superheroes due to her father's death and did not see eye to eye with her brother Winston ever since. She also plans to use supers to cause mayhem in a way to permanently outlaw them while harming thousands of innocent lives. She then led the hypnotized Elastigirl to the conference room as bait to lure Mr. Incredible to his doom.

Evelyn then sent a fake distress call to Bob, who passed the message to Lucius. With Mr. Incredible kept busy, Evelyn sent the mind-controlled supers to kill Violet and Dash. Frozone arrives at the house just as they came and defended the children and Tom giving Dash enough time to summon the Incredibile, a car owned by Bob in his time as Mr. Incredible, using a remote. As they were losing ground, the car arrived in the nick of time. Frozone sets the car to voice recognition mode before being captured. Violet, Dash, Tom and Jack-Jack managed to escape and proceed to go after the EverJust instead of hiding at Edna's house.

Upon arriving in the Everjust, Bon is led to the conference room only to be subdued by the hypnotized Helen, thus allowing Evelyn to gain control of Bob. With them and Frozone subdued and the children and Tom remaining at large, Evelyn led the mind-controlled Wannabes to guard the ship heavily. Tom and the Parr children managed to arrive and enter the ship undetected via seat ejection. Violet and Dash then task themselved to find Bob and Helen, while Tom look after Jack-Jack. However, Jack-Jack wandered himself off due to his powers which alerted the Wannabes to attack them, in which Tom rescues them.

Evelyn's plan went into full force the moment the International Supers Accord was officially signed. The mind-controlled Helen, Bob, and Lucius recite a vindictive manifesto on air to paint themselves – and Supers in general – as a public threat before they are freed from Evelyn's control by Tom and the children when Jack-Jack inadvertently frees Helen and displays other powers. After Evelyn tries to leave with Winston and discovers her plan, Winston frees the other guests on the ship from Evelyn's hypnosis by destroying the giant screen projecting hypnotic images.

While Tom and Jack-Jack go to a safer place, a battle ensues between the Supers, threatening to crash the ship into New Urbrem; all the mind-controlled Supers are freed from their hypnosis after the Parrs and Lucius destroy their goggles. Bob, Lucius, Violet and Dash manage to bring the ship to a stop before it can cause significant damage. Evelyn escapes in a getaway jet attached to the ship but is eventually stopped and captured by Helen.

Following the incident, Evelyn is arrested; she indicates gratitude towards Helen for saving her from falling to her death for the plane but still dislikes supers. Winston apologizes to Helen for being ignorant of Evelyn's plan, and Supers worldwide regain full legal status.

After the Deavor affair, Tony agrees to a date with her at a movie. He leaves for the theater with the Parrs and Tom. However, at the theater, the Parrs witness a car of bank robbers armed with machine guns driving down the street. They leave Tony, Tom and Jack-Jack at the theater as Violet promises to be back in time for the movie. The Parrs don their masks, ready to pursue the criminals and to start a new adventure together.