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Rating: Proposing a sequel to a hugely successful film is never an easy feat. Even less so when we talk about a Pixar work and that little gem that was "The Incredibles": this explains the many years passed between the original work and the return of one of its most representative authors, Brad Bird, the creator of that masterpiece called "Ratatouille," full of poetry, soul, and inventiveness.
Successful operation? Looking at the astronomical earnings and the reviews on various specialized websites, it would seem everything went perfectly. An excellent "interlocking" start with the end of the first film, the superhero family aware of their great responsibility, an excellent premise for the new villain, astounding technical rendering for expressiveness and definition. Yet I felt something was missing.
With my five-year-old daughter next to me in the magical darkness of the cinema, it was often, too often, the adults who were laughing. Little the wonder of memorable scenic ideas, too much technology and action almost like a Marvel movie. Forgotten, if not even set aside, was the childlike spirit of the first film. A well-oiled mechanism, almost perfect yet, in my opinion, a work that forgets that it is primarily a film for children, but just an animated action. And that entertains and fills the eyes of those who are rational and seek technological visual awe, without a story that moves and makes one laugh/cry, but still uses the heart. Definitely better in this sense the short "Bao" as a prologue to the main film.
I'm sorry to end up being critical of a film that ultimately wins with numbers and has seen an unprecedented production and promotional effort in its field, but after my first viewing of "The Incredibles 2," I have no desire to see it again, when almost every Pixar film has always "counted" for at least three viewings by me and my family. Instead, go rediscover Arlo in "The Good Dinosaur," Pixar's biggest financial failure but so full of "incredible" emotion.
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