>>101311804I enjoyed that Incredibles 2 felt more adult than other disney movies (main focus was still on the parents' lives, more swearing, more blatant alcohol drinking, that conversation between Helen and the sister about the difference between a salesman and a creator, etc)
But I was dissapointed that it lost a lot of the (relative for a family movie) edge that the first movie had. Incredibles 1 had Bob dealing with the impotency and anger he felt at being superhuman yet stuck in a cubicle selling insurance, Helen has to deal with her frustration that Bob keeps moonlighting as a hero and getting them constnatly relocated, along with the subplot of her thinking he's having an affair, the kids have to deal with the fact they have super powers in a world where using said super powers is illegal. Plus all the fucking people that died, heroes and villains alike.
In contrast, 2's plotlines were Bob has to raise the kids instead of being a hero and has trouble with it for a while, Violet has boy problems, Dash has math problems, and Helen's plotline was pretty straightforward superheroing stuff. And not a single character died outside the father in the flashback.
It was a very enjoyable movie, don't get me wrong. The action sequences were all pretty exciting, that cage match fight was really cool, and it did make me laugh more than once. But it just didn't feel as powerful as 1 did.
Apparently Brad Bird himself called it basically a popcorn movie. I'm a little sad that's all he aspired to after making the first one.
