“Politicians,” someone laments, “don’t understand people who do something good because it’s right.” Soon after the movie takes off, the Incredibles learn that the government has shut down the secret program under which they’ve lived and worked, leaving them stuck in a motel with no prospects. The story is often the least of it, though it has its moments, including some awkward asides on free enterprise (good), government (not so much), women working outside the home (right on) and feminism (it’s complicated). Bird, who wrote and directed, clearly had a lot that he wanted to cram into this sequel, which runs two fast hours. Here, you can almost count the stubble on Bob’s unshaven face and trace the swirls in the billowing, churning dust clouds that form after an explosion. It’s still a fantasy 1962 or thereabouts as the boxy cars, clothing and midcentury modern flourishes suggest, but advances in computer animation make everything - from downy hair to brick buildings - look far sharper and more fine-grained. Bird is extraordinarily good at destruction, which is very much in evidence in the virtuosic, often delightful “Incredibles 2,” which picks up narratively where the last movie left off. Few can rearrange the world as artfully and as enjoyably as the Incredibles, except of course their creator Brad Bird.Īnd, like his superheroes, Mr. Insurance was part of the normalizing disguise that Bob and the Family Parr wore to hide the brilliant gifts that are at once their calling and their art (and sometimes their burden). That was 14 years ago in “The Incredibles,” the movie that introduced the superhero clan whose members have unique abilities. Under the name Bob Parr, he used to work in insurance - that is until he angrily tossed his boss through a couple of walls. The cops have a point, of course, but there’s no fun in insurance, which Mr. Indignant, declaring that they didn’t start the fight, which is an amusingly self-serving way to jump-start a sequel. They left a swath of destruction in their wake, and besides the bank was insured. Nelson) and his wife and partner in heroics, Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), for meddling. There, a few cops berate the superhero Mr. Soon after the slamming opener of “Incredibles 2” - with its flying rubble, fleeing people and bloviating bank robber - the scene shifts to a police-station interrogation room.
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