Incredibles 2 (2018)

I wasn't expecting much from "Incredibles 2" and I didn't get the surprise I was hoping for (so... maybe, I was actually expecting :) ). In brief, it's too Pixar for my taste = too nice, too predictable. I don't remember where the first "Incredibles" left us, but the second starts in the context where super-heroes are illegal, and the Incredible family must keep away from using their super-powers to make justice. Stuff that's not very convenient, but we have Winston Deavor, a prosperous business man with nice childhood memories of super-heroes, who, together with his sister, Evelyn, seems decided to start a rehabilitation and re-legalizing campaign. And like that Ms Incredible gets a new suit, all the material support and the counseling she needs to open the path for a successful lobby to solve the matter. All this while Mr. Incredible is left at home to take care of the children, stuff that apparently exceeds his super-powers.

Unfortunately all this plot has an outcome that's as predictable as unlikely it sounds - stuff that's totally contradictory, and which theoretically should've make it unpredictable, but somehow it is. It's so obvious from the start that the evil character is part of the Deavor family, such that the only unknown left is who of them is it, or maybe both? This stuff makes it totally awkward to see such support given to Ms. Incredible, when the final purpose is totally opposite to what she's helped for... And even stranger is that the attempt to bring down all super-heroes effectively starts only when Ms. Incredible discovers that the help received does not come without an interest. Which discovery was not supposed to happen... But if it wouldn't have happened, there wouldn't have been any anti-hero attack... so I don't know anymore where was the evil interest. Really, at some point the logic of the negative character gets so mind boggling, that it seems more plausible that we have an evil schizo in this role and not an evil genius, as it should look like. Anyway, long story short: the best part of the movie is by far the youngest member of the Incredible family, Jack Jack - I won't say why because I already gave too much. In any case, the script is so poor that even the most promising character is not sufficiently used in the story...

Rating: 3 out of 5