Rated: PG
Director: Brad Bird
While Marvel and DC consistently try to one-up each other with special effects, explosions, and dissolving superheroes, Pixar snuck in and created as close to perfect a superhero film as mere mortals are likely to get. Incredibles 2, coming along fourteen years after its predecessor, starts off with a bang as Bob and Helen Parr - aka Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl - manage, along with their three children, to defeat the Underminer ... but are then are arrested for doing so, as superheroes are still illegal. Enter the brother/sister team of Winston and Evelyn Deavor, richer-than-rich siblings behind the multi-billion dollar company Devtech who are determined to rebuild the public brand of superheroes, with the ultimate goal of making them legal again. When the siblings choose Helen to work with over Bob (Elastigirl, who tends to save people without destroying public or personal property, has the better image), Mr. Incredible suddenly finds himself the stay-at-home dad - just in time for the baby, Jack-Jack, to start developing (and showing off) a variety of potentially destructive powers of his own. But sinister plots abound, and when a new supervillain - Screenslaver - threatens to not only destroy the world but all the superheroes, it will take the entire Parr family to don the red suits one more time and - along with Frozone and a slew of new heroes of wannabes and veterans - give their everything to save the world from a menace hidden under their very noses. Though I guessed the Big Reveal early on, everything about Incredibles 2 - the story, humor, fight scenes, visuals, social messages, family dynamic - it all worked for me, without a sour note in the entire film. Exhilarating, thrilling and funny as heck right up until the end, it was my favorite film of 2019 - and will remain a favorite film of mine for a long, long time. 9.5/10 stars
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